Russian President Vladimir Putin, 70, told defense-system workers in St. Petersburg that Russia will win the battle in Ukraine to protect Russian speakers living in Donetsk, Luhank and Crimea. Putin listened to 80-year-old President Joe Biden talk about increasing Ukraine’s war budget, sending more lethal weapons to Ukraine. Ukraine’s 44-year-old former actor/comedian President Volodymyr Zelensky asks the U.S. and NATO for more weapons, promising the world that he’ll defeat the Russian Federation, expelling all Russian troops from Ukraine. Zelensky has moved the goalposts now that his government and war is funded by the United States. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitri Peskov now refers to the Ukraine war as the U.S. proxy war against the Russian Federation, echoing the views of Biden who said March 26, 2022 that Putin should no longer stay in power.
U.S. and NATO countries call the war in Ukraine an “unprovoked” imperial-style land grab when Putin made clear for months before the war he needed security guarantees from Biden about the amount of U.S. and NATO arms flowing into Ukraine. So, when the Western press says the invasion was “unprovoked,” it’s certainly not the way Putin looks at it. Putin announced yesterday that he intends to build the Russian military out to 1.5 million from its current 1.15 million mark. Putin says more security outposts are needed now the Sweden and Norway have joined the NATO alliance. Increasing military preparedness, Putin said the Russia formidable military industrial complex would make up an losses of heavy equipment lost during the 11-month-old Ukraine War. If you listen to Zelensky and Biden, you’d think that there’s no end insight to more U.S. and NATO cash and weapons.
U.S., EU and NATO officials should heed the message of Putin that says Russia will do what’s necessary to beat back the current U.S.-NATO proxy war against the Kremlin. “In terms of achieving the end result and the victory that is inevitable, there are several things . . . It is the unity and cohesion of the Russian and multinational Russian people, the courage and heroism our our fighters . . . and of course the work of the military-industrial complex and factories like your and people like you,” Putin said. Putin’s message is clear to Washington and Kiev: The war will go on a long as it takes to achieve victory. What’s Washington and Kiev going to do other than continue to re-supply the Ukraine military so the war has no end. Putin wants Washington and Kiev to know he has no plans to surrender. All the talk from Kiev and Washington is about supplying more lethal weapons.
Nearly one year into the war, it’s clear that the war is at loggerheads, unless Biden and the EU are willing to commit to a no-fly-zone or troops to battle the Russian Federation. Kremlin officials already see the war as one between Washington and Kremlin, not Kiev and the Kremlin. Kremlin officials have raised the stakes, concluding that, as Peskov says, the aim of the U.S. proxy war is to break up the Russian Federation. Putin now signals to Washington and Brussels that the Kremlin sees the Ukraine War as an existential threat to the Russian Federation. Whatever Washington and Kiev say about imperial land grabs, Putin sees his duty to protect Russian speaking population in Donetsk and Luhansk. White House and Kiev accused Russia of ethnic cleansing in Ukraine, trying to erase the Ukrainian people. “Victory is assured . I have no doubt about it,” Putin said.
Washington, Brussels and Kiev must not look at the war as one on cutting losses, not trying to topple the Russian Federation. What kind of miscalculation did Biden make thinking he could knock off the Kremlin, like a banana republic? No president in U.S. history has ever made such as costly mistake. Zelensky would take the U.S. down with Ukraine, all because of Biden’s longstanding vendetta with Putin. Putin spoiled Obama and Biden’s plans to topple Syrian President Bashar-al Assad . Obmaa and Biden spent billions funding rebel and terrorist groups to topple al-Assad for eight years. When Putin joined the fight to defend al-Assas in 2015, Obama and Biden’s proxy war imploded. Yet Biden learned nothing from Syria, instead waging proxy war g against the Russian Federation under the fig leaf of protecting democracy. How dangerous has Biden been to U.S. national security?
Republicans and Democrats now squabble about raising the debt ceiling now at over $31.6 trillion, all because Biden has wasted over $50 billion on an un-winable war in Ukraine. “What we’re doing today, including with our special operation, is an attempt to end this war and protect our people who live on these territories,” Putin said, letting Washington, Brussels and Kiev know that he’s no going anywhere in Ukraine. With Zelensky willing to drag down the U.S. and EU, the time has come to tell Zelensky that he’s going be on his own in the not-too-distant future. Once Zelensky gets the message that Ukraine will have to foot the bill f or the Ukraine War, it’s going to be a wake-up call in Kiev. Zelensky can’t afford to pay civil servants let alone a costly war. Biden must come to the conclusion, like many others, that the Ukraine War cannot be won on the battlefield.
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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.
