Once 79-year-old President Joe Biden said Oct. 6 that the U.S. is closest to “Aramageddon” since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the world has begun to take notice of the real risks of the Ukraine War. Biden’s Armageddon remarks remind the public that he’s recklessly conducting a proxy war against the Russian Federation that could easily morph into WW III or worse yet nuclear war. Yesterday’s Russian bombing of Kiev in response to the Ukrainian bombing to the Kerch Bridge has been called “barbaric” by Kiev, knowing there would be consequences to bombing the bridge. War is dirty business on both sides, with a few peacemakers, like Turkey 69-year-old President Recp Tayyip Erdogan calling in the loudest possible way for ceasefire and peace talks. Biden and Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky reject peace talks, hoping to remove Russian troops from Ukraine.
Former President Donald Trump, at a rally in Mesa, Az., Oct. 9 called Biden’s Armageddon comments reckless, saying the if he were still president there would not have been a Ukraine War. Trump had a strong working relationship with 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin, something criticized for political purposes by Democrats and the press. Today, the U.S. has almost no diplomatic relations with Moscow, one quick step away from a complete break in diplomatic relations. Biden turned the Feb. 24 Ukraine invasion into a persona vendetta against Putin, saying March 26 in Warsaw, Poland that Putin should no longer remain president. White House officials walked back Biden’s remarks but they were confirmed a month later when 69-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said April 26 in Ramstein, Germany the U.S. aimed to destroy the Russian military.
Trump raises some real prospects of WW III based on Biden’s remarks about “Armageddon.” Biden continues to feed Ukraine unlimited cash-and-weapons, pushing the conflict to the brink of WW III or nuclear war. Biden and Zelensky think if they can get more Ukrainian land back from Russia, they’ll have more leverage at the peace table. But Biden doesn’t see the potential for miscalculation the longer the war goes on. EU officials condemned Russia’s missile strike on Kiev and other Ukrainian cities after Ukraine’s bombing of the Kerch bridge. But Erdogan knows that the longer the conflict goes on the more like some major mishap takes place. Putin and Erodgan want to take the conflict off the battlefield and start ceasefire and peace talks. Zelensky said last week he wanted Putin removed from office before any peace talks could start, something so arrogant it defies all logic.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he had not yet received confirmation of any peace talks from Istanbul but was open to the prospects of settling the dispute off the battlefield. Biden will have to agree to peace talks letting Zelensky know that the war cannot continue unabated with U.S. funding. Biden has not had that talk with Zelensky, largely because of what Trump said Oct. 9 in Meza, Az.. that the White House continues to do and say all the wrong things to Putin. Time has long expired for the vicious Democrat and media attacks against Trump’s foreign policy. When is the Democrat-controlled media going to admit that Biden has turned U.S. foreign policy on its head, leaving U.S. national security in the worst place since WW II. There’s no longer any dispute, taking Biden at his own words, that the world under Biden’s leadership is closer to Armageddon than ever.
Biden is so entrenched in his proxy war with Russia that it’s going to be hard for the White House to admit it made a terrible mistake. Saying he wanted Putin removed from power March 26 was another one of Biden’s reckless gaffes. Erdogan recognizes just how close the world is to WW III, doing everything possible to bring the conflict to the bargaining table. Zelensky worries that he’ll lose face in any negotiations because Russia occupies so much land in sovereign Ukrainian territory. Whatever direction the negotiations goes, Zelensky certainly has the U.S. and EU driving a hard bargain with the Kremlin. Zelensky told 51-year-old billionaire entrepreneur Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to “F-Off” for suggesting that ceding some territory to Moscow would help end the seven-month old conflict. Musk said what many other foreign policy experts said that Ukraine would have to make concessions.
If the U.S. and Ukraine want Moscow to stop missile strikes in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities, they need to show a willingness to end the conflict. Ukraine continues to sustain massive damage to its infrastructure. Instead of boasting about some minor Russian defeats on the battlefield, Zelensky should face the music that Ukraine’s dilapidated infrastructure could get a lot worse, including Putin taking out Kiev’s electrical grid, leaving the city black. Zelensky has pushed the war to the point that he’s lost so much sovereign territory it could take years, if ever, to get it back from the Kremlin. Biden hasn’t helped Zelensky see the reality of the Ukraine War that it could go on indefinitely, threatening the world with a nuclear mishap. Give Erdogan some credit for recognizing the stalemate, but, more importantly, the risk of miscalculation that set the world ablaze.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and globl news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
