President Joe Biden, 79, thinks there are no repercussions to supplying Ukraine unlimited cash-and-weapons. Keeping the pressure on Russia to get out of Ukraine, Biden thinks he’s giving Ukraine the best way to end the war. But one slight mishap, one slight miscalculation , one misstep now could result in a wider conflict, drawing the U.S .and NATO into a ground and air war against the Russian Federation. Biden hasn’t considered he could set the world ablaze, especially if China decides to send troop to Ukraine to help the Russian military. “The supply of military products by the U.S. and its allies no only entails protracted bloodshed and new casualties but also increases the danger of a direct military clash between Russia and Western countries,” said Russia’s Amb. to the U.S. Anatoly Anatov. “We perceive this as an immediate threat to the strategic interest o of our country.”
Biden thinks it’s OK to back Ukraine’s war against the Russian Federation, supplying unlimited cash-and-arms to a back-up Ukrainian government, to escalate the war until the Russian Federation pulls its troops out of Ukraine. But Putin has made clear that whatever territories Russia seizes in Ukraine, it won’t give them up easily because they held the territories before the war began Feb. 24. Putin gave Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky an ultimatum from Day 1, recognize the independence of Donetsk, Luhansk and Russian sovereignty over Crimea or prepare to lose more Ukrainian territory. Whether admitted to by the West, Zelensky has lost 25% of Ukraine’s sovereign territory to the Kremlin in the last seven months. Now Zelensky fights desperately with U.S. and NATO weapons to reclaim the lost territory that has Kiev land-locked, cut off from the Black Sea coast.
No one in Washington and Brussels have considered the consequences of supplying Ukraine unlimited cash-and-arms. Brussels, while backing sanctions and arms shipments to Kiev, haven’t thought what happens if Moscow attacks U.S. or EU bases or weapons’ depots. Washington and Brussels haven’t really considered the unthinkable of sending troops to Ukraine to battle the Russian Federation. If that happens, how’s the U.N. going to stop a war on the European Continent, designed to stop Putin from occupying Ukraine? Once the U.S. and EU has skin in the game, sending troops to the Ukraine theater would be a whole new ballgame. Zelensky has asked for U.S. and NATO troops from Day I, including a no-fly-zone which would inevitably lead to armed conflict. Zelensky’s recent request for expedited NATO membership suggests he wants U.S. and NATO troops in Ukraine.
Washington and Brussels haven’t thought what happens in the U.S. and EU if there’s a full-scale mobilization of troops to battle the Russian Federation, with possible involvement of China, India and other BRICS block countries, possibly Brazil and South Africa. What’s the U.S. and EU position then, when they’re now signed up for a protracted war with Moscow and its allies over Ukraine? Biden has never explained why the U.S. has so much skin in the game already, but refused, from Day 1, to supply Ukraine U.S. or NATO troops or a no-fly-zone. Biden said recently that he would not hesitate to supply U.S. troops if one NATO country were attacked by Russia. Yet when it comes to Ukraine, Washington and Brussels have refused to supply troops because Ukraine is not part of NATO. NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday that there must by 100% consensus for Ukraine membership.
Why the reluctance from Biden and NATO to commmit troops and a no-fly-zone to Ukraine if they really consider Putin a menace to the Trans-Atlantic Alliance? Biden has said that Ukraine’s perfectly in line with NATO’s values yet he and Stoltenberg refuse of send any U.S. and NATO troops to Ukraine. “The U.S. continues to pump more weapons into Ukraine, facilitating the direct participation of its fighters and advisers in the conflict,” said Konstantin Voronstov, head or Russia’s U.N. Disarmament Commission. “Not only does this prolong the fighting, but it also brings the situation closer to a dangerous line of direct military clash between Russia and NATO,” Kosntatin Voronstov said. If Brussels and Washingtion really understood the consequences, would they continue arming Ukraine?
Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine against the Russian Federation could have far-reaching consequences for the EU and NATO. Do NATO countries really want to join Ukraine’s fight against the Kremlin, including drafting and sending troops to battle in the Ukraine theater? Putin has hinted at the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons should the battlefield in Ukraine change, threatening Russian national security. U.S. press likes to cover Russian conscripts evading the draft, fleeing to neighboring countries. What does Washington and Brussels think would happen if they decide to send U.S. and EU citizens into harm’s way? No one really understands why the Ukraine War has become so essential to the U.S and EU. Biden said the if we don’t stop Putin now, he could move on other EU countries in the future. Well, with NATO’s Article 5, it’s doubtful Putin would take on the Trans-Atlantic Alliance.
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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.
