Capturing the strategic Donbas city of Lysychansk today, the Russian Federation gets closer to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim to the peoples republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to make excuses while his sovereign state has been partitioned, land-locking Kiev, taking the entire Black Sea coast and all its ports. President Joe Biden, 79, made a colossal political calculation believing his own nonsense that he, with Ukraine’s help, could vanquish the Russian army. Well, since Biden told the world in Warsaw, Poland March 26 that Putin should not remain in power, Biden pushed Zelensky to take on the Russian Federation. When Putin offered to end the conflict March 16, he said he had only a few conditions, including Kiev recognizing the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk and Russia sovereignty over Crimea.
Zelensky, flush with billions in U.S. cash and unlimited weapons, grossly miscalculated, telling Putin March 16 that Ukraine would fight for every inch of Ukrainian territory. Well, before the Feb. 24 invasion, Zelensky had no control of Donetsk and Luhansk, certainly not Crimea. So, under Biden’s orders, Zelensky has cost Ukraine over 25% of Ukraine’s sovereign territory, but, more importantly, letting Putin destroy Ukraine’s infrastructure, driving some 15 million residents into exile. When you look back at it, what cosmic temerity of Biden and Zelensky taking on the Russian Federation. It didn’t take long for the Kremlin to figure out, the Ukraine War morphed into a U.S. proxy war, using Ukrainian troops, against the Russian Federation. Biden said July 1 in Madrid, that the American public must sacrifice more, get used to high gas prices for the foreseeable future.
Biden’s asinine plan was outlined April 26 in Ramstein, Germany by 69-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austion, telling the world—and the Kremlin—that the aim of the war was to degrade the Russian army to the point it could no longer wage war. Well, if that’s not a declaration of war against Moscow, then what is? Zelensky lost Sievierdonetsk last week, a city Zelensky said Ukraine must hold. But in a week’s time, Zelensky has lost more sovereign territory, it what’s turned into Kremlin rout. Once Biden let the Kremlin know he aimed at getting rid of Putin, the war started in earnest, with the Russian Army focusing on completing the takeover of the Black Sea coast and all Ukraine’s ports. Zelensky and Biden never talk about Ukraine’s losses, worried that the European Union [EU] and NATO would push Ukraine to the peace table, knowing the undeniable losses.
Members of the U.S.. Congress, on both sides of the aisle, oddly agree with Biden’s suicide mission in Ukraine. Like Syria, the last proxy war Biden and his boss former President Barack Obama attempted at a cost of billions and 500,000 lives in Syria, the Ukraine War is another total failure for the U.S. But worst than the loss of prestige for the Pentagon, the war wreaked untold misery to Ukraine for no reason. Biden didn’t have to supply Ukraine with unlimited lethal weapons and cash with which to battle the Russian Federation. Biden’s now painted himself in a corner for the remainder of his term, pouring endless amounts of cash into Ukraine, including paying all government salaries, including Zelensky’s. You’d think watching Lysychansk fall today, members of the EU and U.S. should tell Biden that the conflict must move to the peace table. There’s no saving face for Ukraine or the U.S.
Putin isn’t going to give back the lost territory anytime soon. Zelensky would be forced into the realization that he has zero leverage in any peace talks, realizing that he’s lost the war badly. Zelensky make excuse-after-excuse about why the Russian army has seized so much strategic Ukraine territory. Zelensky’s 40-year-old Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba keeps harping on Putin’s alleged terminal illness or the fact that all Ukraine needs is more deadly weapons to defend its territory. In reality, Putin has an answer for every new weapon or missile defense system provided by Norway or the Pentagon. ”We cannot give you the final judgment. Lysychansk is still being fought for,” Zelensky said July 2. Zelensky never admits when Ukraine loses territory, worried that world powers, including the U.S. and EU, would pressure him to quit fighting and negotiate and end at the peace table in Istanbul.
Zelensky knows that his head is on the chopping block for losing so much sovereign territory to the Russian Federation. Instead of using some common sense, Zelensky listened to Biden, whose Defense and Statement have much to loose heading into the November Midterm elections. Biden’s approval ratings can’t get much worse, but day-to-day they continue to plunge, now at 38.4% aggregate. U.S. and EU leaders are starting to figure out that Biden’s Ukraine war has driven the worst inflation in 40 years, all because of boycotting Russia oil and expect the Western Alliance to suffer with U.S. consumers. Biden thought he could slap Putin with crippling economic sanctions but found out that the BRICS economic bloc, including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have no problem buying discounted Russian oil. Putin survived Biden’s crippling sanctions and now sells more oil and natural gas than ever.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
