Showing he can outsmart and outplay 80-year-old President Joe Biden, 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin struck a deal with 68-year-old Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. Biden decided to fught a proxy war against the Kremlin, giving billions in cash-and-arms to battle the Russian Federation. Putin announced Feb. 21 he was ending the START treaty with the U.S., assuring reductions in nuclear weapons. Putin’s latest move with Lukashnko shows he out-maneuvered Biden, creating more threat to the NATO alliance. Biden insisted, in joining Ukraine’s War against the Kremlin, that he would drive Putin from power, only to find out the Russian leaders has something to say about it. Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are too consumed with their age-old hatred toward the defunct Soviet Union and now Russian Federation to see the damage to U.S. national security.
Faced with Iranian proxy attacks in Syria, Biden finds out the hard way what happens when you have diminished clout around an increasingly dangerous world. Joining Ukraine’s war against Putin was a colossal blunder for U.S. foreign policy, ending decades of cooperative and pragmatic relations. Biden thinks myopically about foreign policy now that he’s embroiled in h is proxy war against the Kremlin. No longer can the U.S. look to Moscow to manage crises around the globe. Biden has painted the U.S. into a dangerous corner, unable to respond nimbly to crises as they emerge on foreign lands. Yesterday’s Iranian-backed drone attack on a U.S. base in Syria shows what happens when the U.S. no longer has Russia on its side. Biden told Canada’s parliament yesterday that the alliance between Russia and China is grossly exaggerated, knowing he has little relationship with either country.
Pentagon officials were caught flatfooted by Putin’s move to deploy nukes to Belarus, Putin’s main ally in Eastern Europe. Biden told 51-year-old Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the U.S. would “forcefully” defends U .S. interests in Syria, despite seeking to topple Damacsus-based Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for his eight years as Vice President under former President Barack Obama. Obama and Biden puured billions into Syrian rebel groups to topple al-Assad but saw their fortunes sabotaged by Putin who joined the fight to save al-Assad in 2015. Watching Putin end the START treatty and put tactical nukes in Minsk shows the utter failure of the Biden policy, joining a wasteful proxy with Ukraine against the Kremlin. U.S. lawmakers haven’t figured out damage to U.S. national security. Biden doesn’t see the damage he’s caused to U.S. foreign policy.
No one in the U.S. or foreign press have assessed the damage done to U.S. foreign policy and national security. Biden still keeps talking to Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky about how he expects to vanquish the Russian Federation.. Striking a deal with Lukashenko slaps the Western Alliance in the face, letting the European Union know that Biden’s strategy for peace on the Continent. Instead of fueling more war on the Continent by hand Kiev unlimited cash-and-weapons, the EU would be far safer ending the conflict and mending fences with Moscow. With the U.S. and NATO ganging up on Russia, Putin feels he must take countermeasures like arming Minsk with tactical nukes. “This is part of Putin’s game to intimidate NATO . . .” said Hans Kristensen, information director of the Federation of American Scientists, referring to Putin stationing nukes in Belarus.
Biden’s belligerent rhetoric and proxy war against the Kremlin has all but killed diplomacy between the two nuclear-armed superpowers. How does Biden expect to continue diplomacy with Russia while funding a proxy war against the Kremlin? Placing nukes in Belarus shows the adversarial nature of U.S.-Russian relations, with Putin seeing the U.S. proxy war against Moscow as an existential threat. “There is nothing unusual here either: firstly, the United States has been doing this for decades. They have long deployed their tactical nuclear weapons on the territory for their allied countries,” Putin said. Biden has turned U.S. national security into a circular firing squad, with the EU joining Biden’s suicide mission. “We are not handing over [the weapons]. And the U.S. does not hand [them] over to its allies. We’re basically doing the same thing they’ve been doing for a decade,” Putin said.
Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine has created many unintended consequences, including a global inflation, possible recession and now deploying nukes outside Russia’s borders. Biden knows he and Zelensky will not defeat the Russian Federation yet continue to fight a bloody proxy war in Ukraine’s sovereign territory. Instead of pouring more arms into Ukraine, Biden should figure out a way to move the conflict from the battlefield to the peace table. Kiev wants no part of any peace process, fearing they’d be forced to make territorial concessions to Moscow. As long as Biden and Zelensku try to topple the Kremlin, how can anyone expect Putin to compromise? Biden and Zelensky sold the EU a bill of goods, that if not stopped now, Putin would continue to gobble up Ukraine’s sovereign territory. Sending nukes to Minsk, Putin wants to send Biden a loud message about EU 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.
