Sending more lethal weapons to Ukraine, including French made combat tanks and U.S. Bradley Fighting vehicles, 55-year-old Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that the new weapons would prolong Ukraine’s suffering. President Joe Biden, 80, actually believes his 11-month old proxy war would vanquish the Russian army and topple the government of 70-year-old President Vladimir Putin. Unlike former President Donald Trump, Biden doesn’t know the difference between banana republics in the Caribbean and Latin America and the Russian Federation. What kind of delusion is Biden under to think pouring more weapons in Ukraine would result in a Russian defeat? Biden and Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky share the same misguided fantasy that they can beat the Russian military. Biden and Zelensky have convinced the Western Alliance to join their madness.
When backers of the Ukraine War talk about who’s at fault, they blame Putin for invading Ukraine. But any cursory check of the reality on the ground was that Putin had troops for at least eight years in Donetsk, Luhansk and the Crimean Peninsula. No Western nation backing Biden’s proxy war using Ukrainian troops considers the history of how this whole mess started. On Feb. 22, 2014, Putin hosted the Sochi Winter Olympics, watching a CIA-backed, pro-Western coup topple the Kremlin-backed Kiev government of Viktor Yanukovych. Putin enjoyed friendly ties with the Yanukovych government hosting his warm water naval base in Sevastopol, Crimea. So when Yanukovych was chased out of Kiev, Putin acted promptly March 1, 2014 to seize the Crimean Peninsula to save his naval base. No Western power or press wants to admit the antecedents to the Ukraine War.
Under the Obama administration, with Biden as Vice President, they began to arm Ukraine during the leadership of 57-year-old chocolate baron Petro Poroshenko. Poroshenko hoped with U.S. arms flowing into Ukraine he could retake the Crimean Peninsula. When that never happened, Poroshenko spent Ukraine’s national wealth fighting a bloody war in the Donbas region with Russian-backed troops from the Russian-speaking Peoples Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Eight years of civil war resulting in over 14,000 deaths, accomplishing nothing for Poroshenko. Poroshenko lost his job, leading to a 40-year-old actor/comedian named Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky promised he would evict Russian forces from Ukraine, refusing to compromise with the Kremlin or the Russian-speaking regions of Donbas. When former President Doanld Trump left office in 2021, Zelensky had the perfect partner with Biden.
Unlike Trump that got along with Putin, Biden had a score to settle with Putin after beaten badly by the Kremlin in the Syrian War. Obama and Biden spent billions in a proxy war with Turkey to topple the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. Obama and Biden demonized al-Assad, justifying their proxy war that killed at least 500,000, driving another 15 millions Syrians in exile. Obama and Biden were convinced they’d topple al-Assad pouring billions into Syria rebel groups with ties to al-Qaeda and ISIS, both enemies of the United States. Putin decided to save al-Assad in 2015, scuttling Obama and Biden’s proxy war, leaving Biden with a vendetta against Putin. Biden talks about how Western democracies must stand with Ukraine, one of the most corrupt former Soviet satellites in Europe. Biden had his own son, Hunter, making millions at a corrupt Ukrainian natural gas company.
Trump understood the value of maintaining practical; and cooperative relationships with American’s adversaries, Russia and China, as did every other U.S. president since WW II. Yet Biden came to office with an anti-Putin chip on his shoulder picking immediate fights with Russia and China. Decades of cooperative, pragmatic relations with Russia and China were trashed in Biden’s first months in office. Backed by the U.S. press, Biden got the U.S. into the Ukraine War by ignoring attempts at diplomacy by Putin for month before the Feb. 24 invasion. Putin asked Biden on numerous occasions to sit down and work out new security arrangements in Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe. Biden told Putin his ideas were all “non-starters,” pushing Putin to invade Ukraine with a “special military operation” designed to de-militarize Ukraine from U.S. and NATO arms.
Biden’s biggest blunder was ending decades of cooperative ties to the Kremlin, opting instead to arm Ukraine, thinking he would weaken the Russian military and topple the Putin government. What U.S. president in their right mind would go to war against the Kremlin, all to back a corrupt, impoverished former Soviet satellite, promising to preserve democracy in Europe? When you listen to Zelensky speak to a joint session of the U.S. Congress Dec. 21, 2022, he told elected officials that giving Ukraine billions in aid is not charity but an “investment” in preserving democracy in Europe. Yet Democrats and Republicans applauded Zelensky’s claptrap, not realizing its utter rubbish. NATO, not Ukraine, assures the preservation of democracy in Europe. Zelsnky pressed NATO for “fast-track” membership and got nothing. Biden can’t see how his proxy war with the Kremlin has damaged U.S. national security.
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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.
