U.S. State Department warned U.S. citizens officially to not travel or leave immediately the Russian FederatioN, posting warnings about U.S. citizens harassed by Russian authorities. “U.S. citizens residing or traveling in Russia should depart immediately,” said the U.S. embassy in Moscow. “Exercise increased caution due to the risk of wrongful detentions,” referring to recent high profile case involving 32-year-old WNBA star Brittney Griner who recently left Russian detention under a prisoner swap for 56-year-old “Agent of Death” arms trafficker Viktor Bout. But when it comes to ordinary American citizens traveling in the Russian Federation, things could not be worse because 80-year-old President Joe Biden decided to join a Ukraine proxy war against the Russian Federation. State Department officials have not admitted that the U.S. is embroiled in active war wit the Kremlin.
White House officials have done everything possible to deny that the U.S. funds a proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin. Even in warning U.S. citizens to leave or stay out of Russia, the State Department refuses to level with the American public. Biden keeps his multibillion dollar proxy war a secret from the U.S. press, hoping to justify the untenable U.S. proxy war based on 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden justifies paying Ukraine’s bankrupt government and war against the Russian Federation due to Putin’s Feb. 24, 2022 invasion. But U.S. elected officials haven’t questioned the over $60 billion price tag for the Ukraine War. Biden and Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky tell the U.S. Congress and Brussels that Ukraine gets arms-and-cash to defend European democracy. Zelensky and Biden say nothing about NATO’s role of defending the EU.
State Department officials now warn U.S. citizens about staying or traveling to Russia, saying that U.S. citizens have a target on their backs. “Russian security services have arrested U.S. citizens on spurious charges, singled out U.S. citizens in Russia for detention and harassment, denied them fair and transparent treatments, and convicted them in secret trials or without presenting credible evidence,” said Moscow’s U.S. embassy. Does the Moscow embassy think Russian authorities fabricated all charges against Brittney Griner’s Feb, 17, 2022 for cannabis possession? If you listen to the Sate Department communiqué, Griner was innocent of all charges, referring to them as “spurious.” Britney told a Moscow Judge July 7, 2022 that she had an Arizona state prescription for medical marijuana. Does that sound like Russian authorities fabricated all charges against Brittney?
U.S.-Russian relations are at the lowest level since WW II, far worse during the bottom of the Cold War when the two nuclear-armed superpowers almost came to blows in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. ”They [warnings] have been voiced by the State Department many times in the last period, so this is not a new thing,” said Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov. State Department officials don’t want to admit that U.S.-Russian relations hit a low-point with the Ukraine War. Biden can’t expect preferential or even-handed treatment for U.S. citizens with the White House conducts a bloody proxy war against the Kremlin. Biden said March 26, 2022 that he did not think Putin should remain as Russian president, saying U.S. policy was to degrade the Russian military to the point it could no longer wage war. State Department officials don’t admit the U.S. is at war with the Kremlin.
When Biden decided to fund the Ukraine proxy war against the Kremlin, U.S.-Russian relations hit rock bottom. Moscow has never been closer to breaking off diplomatic relations from the U.S. Before the Biden administration, the U.S. enjoyed pragmatic, cooperative relations with the Russia Federation, something enjoyed for decades. Once Biden funded the Ukraine proxy war against the Kremlin, U.S.-Russian relations plummeted to all-time lows. State Department officials can’t use Brittney Griner as an example of Trump fabricating charges against a U.S. citizen. Whatever happened to Griner, it was a product of violating Russia’s strict drug laws, expected the Kremlin to adopt liberal U.S. cannabis laws. Biden and 60-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken like to say that Brittney was wrongfully detained, not admitting she broke Russian drug laws.
Whatever the fate of other U.S. Russian prisoners, including 53-year-old former Marine and security executive Paul Whelan or teacher Marc Hillard Fogel, Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine makes diplomatic relations next to impossible. Instead of working feverishly to end the Ukraine war, Biden goes along with Zelensky to blame Putin for invading Ukraine’s sovereignty. Biden doesn’t want to admit that funding the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine damages U.S.-Russian relations. Kremlin officials have little sympathy for U.S. citizens while the government fights its war with the Kremlin. Zelensky decided without coercion to reject Putin’s offer to end the Ukraine war by recognizing the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk. Zelensky’s new mission involves taking as much cash-and-arms as he can get to oust Putin from every inch of Ukraine’s territory, including the Crimean Peninsula.
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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.
