Former President Donald Trump, 76, expressed his disgust with 80-year-old President Joe Biden’s Ukraine proxy war, feeding Ukraine over $50 billion, now supplying Kiev with Abrams M1 tanks. Instead of working with Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky to resolve the conflict with 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin, Biden decided to join a proxy war against the Kremlin. Biden unilaterally destroyed decades of pragmatic and cooperative relations with the Kremlin, working on mutually beneficial global issues to make the world a safer place. Joining Ukraine’s War against the Kremlin, Biden has damaged U.S. national security, ending diplomatic relations with Russia to adopt Ukraine as a puppet state on the Russian border. Biden has done more harm to U.S. foreign policy than any president in U.S. history, raising the prospects of nuclear war.
Trump called sending “top-of-the-line” tanks to Ukraine a “crazy war,” seeing no benefit to the United States. Biden insists, like Zelensky, that he’s defending European democracy by taking a stand against the Kremlin. ‘FIRST COME THE TANKS, THEM COME THE NUKES,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Get this crazy war ended, NOW. So easy to do,” Trump said, bucking the U.S. press that 100% backs Biden’s proxy war to topple the Russian Federation. How ironic that Trump is the true anti-war candidate, not the U.S. media that ignores the risks of WW III and possible nuclear war. To Democrats and the press, battling the Russian Federation goes with the Washington hatred of Putin’s Russian Federation. Forget about the risks to the European Continent or civilization as we know it. Only the blind obsession of helping Ukraine expel Russian troops from its territory has caused the conflict.
Calling Ukraine a “corrupt slush fund,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) echoed Trump’s views, seeing Biden’s proxy war as a threat to U.S. national security. “We must stop funding Ukraine,” Greene said. “This war needs to end,” Greene said, showing deep divisions in the Republican Party. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), 68, led a Democrat delegation to Kiev, with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehead (D-R.I.) to lobby Germany and the White House to approve Leopard 2 and M1 tanks. If you ask Graham, he’s drunk the Cool-Aid that the Ukraine War is to prevent Putin to seizing more European countires, or, as Graham likes to say, changing the European map. Graham has zero evidence to accuse Putin of trying to take over former Soviet satellites in Europe. Washington and the U.S. press has demonized Putin much like they did Trump.
Anyone who disagrees with the Ukraine War, like Trump, is accused by the White House and press of colluding with Russia. Imagine that, no one can disagree with the prevailing madness that backs a dangerous proxy war, not only draining the U.S. Treasury, endangering U.S. national security, but, more importantly, can’t produce anything but carnage and destruction. Where’s the evidence that supplying Kiev sophisticated tanks will do anything other than create more mayhem, drag the war out indefinitely. Putin has plenty of anti-tank weapons to start chipping away at Kiev’s new tank arsenal. U.S. press is so devious suggesting that anyone that wants the war to end does the bidding of Putin. How convenient to call any debate over the costly and destructive war “music to Putin’s ears.” What kind of madness exists in the U.S. press pushing a dangerous proxy war with Russia.
Giving 31 Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine won’t hasten the peace process to end the conflict at the earliest possible time. Biden and Zelensky still operate under the delusion that supplying more arms to Kiev will defeat the Russian military. Putin isn’t about to surrender to the U.S. or Ukraine, no matter how many tanks or missile defense systems Kiev gets. Biden must ask himself how long he’s willing to destroy U.S.-Russian relations to defend a country that has no national security significance to the U.S. Even Biden’s 64-year-old Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Miley said recently that there’s no military solution to the Ukraine War. Miley told Biden that only a political solution can end the conflict. What more does Biden need to hear, if he hears anything at all at this point. Trump’s argument that the U.S. should not spend billions on a wasteful war is a valid one.
Biden and Zelensky are kidding themselves that Ukraine will be able to expel all Russian troops from Ukraine. Before the Feb. 24 invasion, Putin had troops in the Russian-speaking areas of Donetsk and Luhansk and the Crimean Peninsula. To drive all Russian troops from Ukraine, it would take a major mobilization of U.S. and NATO troops, in effect, starting WW III. China and India might decide to defend Russia from what looks like U.S. and NATO bullying. Biden has not gotten China and India to join his largely EU and NATO coalition against the Russian Federation. Zelensky decided unilaterally to accept unlimited U.S. cash-and-arms to fight a proxy war to topple the Russian military. Putin controls about 25% of Ukraine’s sovereign territory. How long and how many tanks would it take to get back its territory? Wouldn’t neutral ceasefire and peace talks make more sense?
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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.
