LOS ANGELES.–Crossing another redline with the Kremlin, Ukraine’s 46-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky sent drones deep inside Russia to attack residential areas around Moscow. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned last week that Ukraine has become dangerously close to triggering Moscow’s nuclear first-strike doctrine, when the Russian homeland gets threatened. Ukrainian attack drones swarmed a residential area outside Moscow, killing one 46-year-old female resident, destroying residential property. Zelensky has said he isn’t concerned about escalating the conflict as long as the U.S. continues to fund proxy war with the Kremlin. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Md.) said yesterday that the White House must continue to give Zelensky everything he needs to fund proxy war against the Kremlin, regardless of risks to the European Continent and prospects of WW III and nuclear War.
Hitting a Moscow suburb with 20 attack drones, Zelensky continues the desperate measure including the Aug. 6 Kursk incursion taking some 1,200 kilometers of Russia territory. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Kiev’s drone strikes show the real terrorist nature of the Kiev regime, saying the attack could not be military. “There is no way that night time strikes on residential neighborhoods can be associated with military action,” Peskov said, referring to the strikes as terrorist attacks. Zelensky has said the same thing about Russian strikes on Ukraine’s residential neighborhoods, calling Russia a terrorist state. Zelensky took his case to The Hague’s International Criminal Court [ICC] to charge 71-year-old President Vladimir Putin with war crimes, issuing an Interpol warrant for his arrest. Putin’s trip to Ulaanbataar, Mongolia last week defied the ICC warrant.
Zelensky finds himself growing more desperate by the day with more Ukrainians, including Moscow Mayor Vitali Klitschko, opposed to his leadership. Whatever close relationship Biden has had with Zelensky, it could change abruptly with a change in Kiev leadership. Vice President Kamala Harris is all in on Biden’s proxy war with the Kremlin but doesn’t see how destructive the war has become. Many international powers have urged Zelensky in the strongest possible way to settle his differences with Putin. Biden kept up the war funding despite strong calls from many U.S. allies to settle the conflict at the peace table. “The Kiev regime continues to demonstrate its nature. They are our enemies and we must continue the special military operation to protect ourselves from such actions,” Peskov said, continuing to call the war as “special military operation.”
Moscow doesn’t view the Ukraine War as a war between Kiev and Washington but an existential conflict between the U.S. and the Kremlin. Putin calls the war “a special military operation,” puts emphasis on demilitarizing Ukraine from the flood of U.S. arms, all designed to eventually attack the Russian homeland. Now that Ukraine strikes have gone deep inside Russia, it tells the Kremlin that Biden intends to make good on his promise at the outset of war Feb. 24, 2022 to degrade the Russian military. Biden and his 71-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the purpose of the U.S. military intervention was to degrade the Russian military to the point it could no longer wage war. What could the Kremlin conclude other than the U.S. had essentially declare war on the Russian Federation? Pushing deeper into Russia, Zelensky pushes Russia into nuking Kiev.
When Trump and Kamala debate tonight in Philadelphia, it’s doubtful ABC News will bring up recent Ukraine War developments that imperil the European Continent. Kamala committed to continue arming Kiev to fight what she calls ruthless dictators like Putin. Kamala, like Hillary in 2016, accuses Trump of inappropriate relations with America’s adversaries, preferring war over diplomacy. Trump promises to end the Ukraine War as soon as he takes office, showing a real contrast with Kamala. New developments in Indo-China raise the stakes for U.S. foreign policy, knowing that the Biden White House has threatened to go to war against Communist China over Taiwan. Chinese President Xi Jinping views Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan as non-negotiable. Harris, if she has an opinion at all, agrees with Biden’s warmongering with Beijing.
Escalating the war in Ukraine with seizing territory in Russia and now striking a Moscow suburb raises the stake for the next president. Trump is committed to diplomacy, resolving the Ukraine War as a matter of top priority and letting Beijing know that it must work out its Indo-Pacific problems with Taiwan, not involve the United States. Zelensky has gone beyond the pale with U.S. and NATO weapons. Biden-Harris has done nothing to rein-in Zelensky, only give him the green light to continue attacking Russia. One wrong move now, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said last week, could trigger the Russian nuclear first-strike doctrine, allowing Moscow to nuke Kiev. Zelensky already sees his job threatened internally so why not provoke the situation into a nuclear confrontation. Whoever’s the next president, Russia and China must be urgently resolved.
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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.
