LOS ANGELES.–Saying if he doesn’t get in $60 billion infusion of U.S. cash, Europe and the world will erupt into WW III, 46-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to gaslight the West, pressing his fake narrative about 71-year-old President Vladimir Putin trying to take over the world. Zelensky’s sales job is so fake it’s hard to imagine any U.S. or European Union [EU] official buys his rubbish. President Joe Biden, 81, has cajoled, pressured and brow beaten Congress into coughing up the cash, despite the fact government runs a $1.6 trillion deficit for fiscal 2024. U.S. budget deficits have been cut in two since 2020, in large part because of the post-pandemic bull market, watching the Dow Jones Industrial Average rise some 25% over the last four years. While asking for Ukraine’s $60 billion, Biden said he didn’t know where the cash would come from to rebuilt the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Putin, who’s morphed from cooperative partner into Dr. Evil, is exploited by Zelensky to gaslight the U.S. and EU into believing that if he’s not handed the $60 billion to run his bankrupt government, Europe would be set ablaze with WW III. Putin has told the press repeatedly he has no intent of going to war with any NATO country, only engaging Feb. 24, 2022 in his “special military operation” to stop the U.S. from arming Ukraine to the teeth to battle the Russian Federation. Warning Biden for months that a new Ukrainian security arrangement was needed, Biden ignored his pleas, deciding after the Feb. 24, 2022 invasion to fund proxy war against the Kremlin. Instead of working on a workable ceasefire and peace plan, the Kremlin views its war in Ukraine as one between Washington and Moscow. Decades of U.S.-Russian diplomacy, détente and arms control ended.
Biden and Zelensky have no intent of working toward a ceasefire and peace plan, only insisting to Russia leave every inch of Ukrainian territory. Russia was in Ukraine’s Donbas region and Crimea before the war, and will no doubt be in Ukraine after the conflict is settled. Yet if you ask Zelensky, he keeps saying that even though he’s losing the war, he protects European democracy. Since taking office in 2019, Zelensky provoked Putin for years begging for NATO membership. Putin said that NATO membership in Ukraine would encroach on a 1991 agreement, after the end of the Soviet Union to not move NATO into Eastern Europe. Yet Zelensky persists to this day in asking for NATO “fast-track” membership, something rejected by NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, largely because the Kiev government is currently at war with the Russian Federation.
U.S. generals claim without another $60 billion in military aid, Russia would be outgunned by Russia ten-to-one. “They are now being outshot by the Russian side five to one. So the Russians fire five times as many artillery shells at the Ukrainians that the Ukrainians are able to fire back. That will immediately go to 10 to one in a matter of weeks,” said Gen. Christopher Cavoli, head of European Command. Well, whatever the differences, it’s clear that the Ukraine War is not sustainable even with $60 billion more cash from the U.S. taxpayers. Handing Zelensky the $60 billion, keeps his Kiev government running but doesn’t guarantee a military victory. Conservatives led by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) don’t think Ukraine can win the war against the Kremlin, thinking it’s better to resolve the conflict through negotiation than on the battlefield.
Whatever the military arguments about rearming the Ukraine military, there’s no discussion among war-backers of what another $60 billion would do if Putin is committed in the long-term to resisting U.S. military intervention. If the war continues, what’s going to happen when Ukraine burns through its arms because its needs the cash to pay Kiev’s salaries and other basic services? Whether Ukraine ran out of arms or not, Biden and Zelensky have been told repeatedly by their generals that there is no military solution to the Ukraine War. Biden doesn’t see the damage the war does to U.S. foreign policy and national security. Russian now considers the U.S. a mortal enemy, no longer a global strategic partner, capable of working on hotspots around the planet. U.S. military officials push for more cash-and-arms to Ukraine don’t see the big picture of a world at war.
No amount of U.S. cash-and-arms given to Zelensky can change the outcome of the Ukraine War. Biden and Zelensky refuse to listen to their generals that said there is only a political solution to the conflict. Hosting a June 15-16 peace conference in Lucerne, Switzerland won’t accomplish anything unless Russia is not involved in the discussions. Even if Johnson finally caves, agreeing to a $60 billion loan to bankrupt Ukraine, it won’t stop the current conflict, unless Zelensky gives up his unrealistic peace plan designed for perpetual war. Zelensky demands that Putin pull out all his troops from Ukraine, offer reparations and submit to war crimes charges at the Hague. How’s that supposed to work? Hopefully a neutral peace conference can finally talk some sense into Zelensky and Biden, if they’re in anyway interested in settling the conflict.
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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.
