Agonizing about the fate of more U.S. war funding, 45-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky continues to cleverly refine his message, now saying that paying now will avoid the U.S. sending troops to defends Europe from a Russian invasion. Zelensky has said the Ukraine defends European democracy, completely ignoring the role of NATO in protecting its European members. Zelensky begged NATO Seccretary-General Jens Stoltenberg for fast-track NATO membership before Putin invaded Feb. 24, 2022. Zelensky asked the U.S. and NATO to commit troops to stop the Russian invasion, told by 80-year-old President Joe Biden and Stoltenberg that’s not happening. Yet Zelensky told U.S. and EU members that Russia was committing genocide against Ukraine. All of Zelensky’s excuses have all proved false, as Russia continues to rout Ukraine.
Zelensky has used every excuse under the son to get the U.S. and NATO to set up and no-fly zone and commit troops to defend Ukraine. Biden has sold the Ukraine War as defending democracy in Europe, even though bankrupt and war-torn Ukraine doesn’t have the resources, with billions in U.S. cash-and-arms, to defend itself. When Zelensky received Patriot Missile batteries, advanced ballistic missile technology, air defense stems and modern U.S., British and German tanks, he promised his counteroffensive would drive Russia out of Ukraine. Well, six months after the counteroffensive, Russia is dug in more than ever and Ukraine has not recaptured some 25% of its sovereign land seized by Russia in the first 20 months of war. Zelensky has made none of his excuses when he decided to wage war against the Kremlin. He convinced Biden to end U.S.-Russia relations to fund a deadly proxy war.
U.S. foreign policy has been left in shambles, losing its hard-earned credibility over years of U.S.-Russian diplomacy, détente and arms control, all because Biden exercised incredibly bad judgment to fund a proxy war against Russia. Whatever Biden’s excuse, going to war against Russia ended generations of diplomacy, détente and arms control. Biden made a colossal blunder selling out U.S.-Russian relations to help Ukraine defend itself against the Kremlin. Members of Congress have started to wise up to how Biden has sold Congress a bill of goods on Ukraine. Biden and his 70-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the press in March and April 2022 that the war against the Kremlin was designed degrade the Russian military. Looking at what’s happened in the last 20 months of war, the Russian military is not near collapse as Zelensky told U.S. officials for the last two years.
Zelensky’s made every excuse possible to justify continue receiving U.S. cash-and-arms. Zelensky asked 77-year-old President Donald Trump to visit Kiev to see the war zone, get a picture of the war. Telling U.S. and foreign press that he doesn’t know how Trump would end the Ukraine War in 24 hours, Zelensky wants Trump to come to Kiev to change his mind. Zelensly buffaloed Biden but won’t happen with Trump. Before Zelensky could figure out what’s happening, Trump would pull the plug on his U.S. cash cow. Unlike Biden, Trump would cut a deal with Putin to end the war, including ceding Russia Crimea and guaranteeing the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk in the Donbas region. Zelensky isn’t sure how Trump would end the war. Well just watch him end the conflict fulfilling his first campaign promise. Zelensky doesn’t want the war to end anytime soon.
Zelensky’s chief-of-staff Andriy Yermak said today that no one knows when the war would end but it could end quickly. Worried that Congress would cut Ukraine War funding because of a lack of progress, Zelensky’s office is now saying the war could end abruptly. For the last two years, Zelensky has said Russian President Vladimir Putin suffers from a terminal illness and could die suddenly. Or, over that same time period, Zelenksy said that the Russian military could collapse. All of Zelensky forecasts have proven off the wall. “To put this way, I think no one knows when the war would end, but I could end suddenly, Yermek said. Yermek wouldn’t dare speculate on how that would happen, only give Congress more false hope. All indications coming from Ukraine’s top general is that the war is stalemated. So, how can Yermak say he thinks the war would end so abruptly?
Congress must take a harder look at Biden’s continuing request for more billions. Biden asked Congress to approve $60 billion in more funding, an outrageous amount considering there’s no assurances that the war will end anytime soon. “I can’t say something so sensational that I know or feel,” Yermek says, making it sound ambiguous enough to save face. Yermek, under Zelensky’s orders, wants to tell Congress and the EU that victory is just around the corner, even though he doesn’t know when anything would happen. Zelensky says he hopes Trump, if he wins the presidency, would back the Ukraine War like Biden. Zelensky could not be that naïve. Trump would end the war in a heartbeat because he knows he could cut a deal with Putin. Zelensky finds himself stubbornly adhering to false proposition that with U.S. cash-and-arms he’s going to defeat the Russian Federation.
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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.
