LOS ANGELES.–Commenting on the $60 billion given to fund the Ukraine War, 74-year-old Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the U.S. funding would only serve to destabilize Europe and possibly lead to WW III or a nuclear exchange, depending on how far NATO encroaches on the Russian Federation. Lavrov said that involvement of the U.S., U.K. and France presents a direct and provocative threat to the post-WW II order in Europe, potentially leading to WW III, where the Kremlin is forced to defend itself from NATO military action in Eastern Europe. “The Westerners are teetering dangerously on the brink of a direct military clash between nuclear powers, which is fraught with catastrophic consequences,” Lavrov told a Moscow conference on nonproliferation. Lavrov worries that the “troika” [U.S, U.K. and France] of support for the “criminal Kiev regime,” endangers world peace.
Cheering in the U.S. Congress April 21 for approval of a $95 billion foreign aid package with $60 billion going to Ukraine, shows the disconnect between Democrats and Republican moderates that back 81-year-old President Joe Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin. Lavrov tries to give U.S., British and French lawmakers some perspective on where the Ukraine War funding will eventually end up. ‘Of particular concern is the fact that it is the “troika” of Western nuclear states that are among the key sponsors of the criminal Kiev regime, the main initiators of various provocative steps. We see serious strategic risk in this, leading to an increase in the level of nuclear danger,” Lavrov said. Biden ignored 71-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin pleas for months before the Feb. 24, 2022 invasion, seeking to discus new security arrangements for Ukraine.
In the months leading up to the invasion, Putin saw the U.S. supplying Ukraine with more lethal weapons with which to attack the Russian Federation, certainly Russian positions in Ukraine’s Donbas region and Crimean Peninsula. Putin annexed Crimea March 1, 2014, after a CIA-backed coup, AKA the Maiden Revolution, toppled the duly elected Kremlin-backed Kiev government of Viktor Yanukovych. Once Yanukovych was driven from Ukraine Feb. 22, 2014 Putin had no choice but to annex Crimea to defend his Sevastopol Naval base in Crimea. No one leading the Maiden Revolution, including 52-year-old Kiev Major Vitali Klitschko , considered the consequences of toppling Yanykovych. Ten years later, Ukraine fights and bloody war against the Kremlin, largely because the U.S. and its NATO partners decided to fund proxy war to drive Russia out of Ukraine.
No one in the United States takes Putin or Lavrov’s concerns of nuclear war seriously, largely because they’re determined to use U.S. and NATO resources to drive Russia out of Ukraine. But Russia was in Ukraine, in Donbas and Crimea, before the war, and has no intent of getting out of Ukraine anytime soon. So, when it comes to the Ukraine War, the U.S. and NATO need to look carefully at what it’s doing, pushing the European Continent toward WW III, possibly nuclear war. Only 77-year-old former President Donald Trump sees the risks and the opportunities with diplomacy, negotiation and compromise ending the Ukraine War. Certainly some conservatives like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) understand the stakes for the U.S. and Europe for continued war. Yet the vast majority of Democrats and Republicans ignore the risks and back Biden’s proxy war against the Kremlin.
Ukraine’s 46-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky isn’t concerned at all of the risks to the U.S. and European Union from the prolonged Ukraine War. He sees Ukraine as fighting the beginning stages of WW III, hoping eventually Biden will authorize U.S. and NATO troops to the Ukraine War. Zelensky manages a bankrupt Kiev government, wholly dependent on U.S. government largess to pay his salaries and pensions, his cronies and those of Kiev civil servants. So, in Zelensky’s mind, he wants to continue the war so he receives U.S. cash. When it comes to giving Ukraine another $60 billion, there’s nothing to celebrate, because the U.S. is more embroiled than even in battling the Kremlin in Ukraine. Gone are the days of pragmatic,
cooperative U.S.-Russian relations, now replaced with hot war funded by the U.S. government to drive Russia from Ukraine.
Lavrov said the Kremlin sees no point to continuing any of the longstanding arms control agreements or to work on any new ones in the future. “In the context of an all-out hybrid war being waged against us, there is no basis for dialogue with the United States on arms control and strategic stability in general,” Lavrov said, underscoring that U.S.-Russian relations are worse than the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Biden’s failed diplomacy with Russia has driven the Kremlin into a close economic, military and strategic alliance with China. Biden warned in 2022 that he would send U.S. troops to defend Taiwan from a Beijing invasion. But based on the news alliance with the Kremlin, any war with China would potentially draw in the Kremlin, starting a two front world war, one in Taiwan the other in Ukraine. U.S. lawmakers aren’t looking at the big picture when they hand Ukraine $60 billion.
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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.
