LOS ANGELES.–Ignored by the Biden-Harris White House and war hawks in Congress, the obligation and necessity of nuclear nonproliferation ended Feb. 24, 2020, the day the U.S. entered Ukraine’s war with the Kremlin. President Joe Biden decided to end any future arms talks with the Russian Federation for the purpose of funding proxy war in Ukraine, all because of complicated past relations with Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Biden’s recent history dates back to Feb. 22, 2014 when he was Vice President under former President Barack Obama. Obama and Biden approved a CIA-backed coup that toppled the Kremlin-backed Kiev government of Viktor Yanukovych. At the time, Biden was making deals in Ukraine that involved his 54-year-old son Hunter, arranging for a lucrative job for Hunter and his son Devon Archer on the board of a corrupt Ukrainian natural gas company.
Sponsoring revolution in Kiev infuriated the Kremlin that hosted its Black Sea naval base in Sevastopol, Crimea. Russian President Vladimir Putin paid close attention while he hosted the Sochi Winter Olympics, prompting him to annex Crimea and reinforce Russian troops in the Donbas region, including the Peoples Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Obama and Biden did nothing at the time other than slap Putin with economic sanctions for annexing Crimea but the start of today’s war in Ukraine began Feb. 22, 2014 with the so-called Maiden Revolution that ousted the Kremlin backed government from Kiev. Around the same time, Obama and Biden were busy funding proxy war in Syria, trying to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Putin decided to foil Obama and Biden’s proxy war against al-Assad that had already caused 500,000 deaths and displace 12 million Syrians.
So when it came to Biden’s decision Feb. 24, 2022 to fund proxy war with the Kremlin in Ukraine, it ended generations of U.S. efforts on nuclear nonproliferation. Putin has been warning the West for nearly three years about crossing red lines, including attacking Russian sites inside the Russian homeland. Biden has decided recently, though it’s still unclear, to allow 46-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to use U.S., U.K. and NATO long-range missiles to attack deep inside Russia. Putin warned there would be military consequences to any decision to attack inside Russia, saying it would expand the war to include the U.S., U.K. and NATO countries. Putin confirmed that Russia’s Novaaya Zmeiya Siberian nuclear testing site could be reactivated at anytime. Russia has not tested nuclear weapons since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
Biden’s decision to fund proxy war with the Kremlin has killed any attempt at nuclear nonproliferation but, more importantly, any cooperation on global issues, including terrorism in the Horn of Africa, now besieged by Iranian-funded Yemen’s Houthi attacks on commercial shipping that has all be wrecked safe travel through the Red Sea. Rear Admiral Andrei Sinitsyn, head of Russia’s Arctic Circle nuclear testing facility, said he was ready to resume nuclear testing on Putin’s order. Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have warned the West that expanding the U.S., U.K. and NATO war to the Russian homeland could trigger Russia first-strike nuclear doctrine. “The test site is ready for resumption of full-scale testing activities. It is ready in its entirety. Laboratory testing and testing facilities are ready. The personnel is ready. If the order comes, we can start testing at any moment,” said Snitsyn.
Biden and war hawks in Congress have abandoned any nuclear nonproliferation activities with the Russian Federation, all because Biden is all in on the Ukraine War. Biden claims that if the U.S. doesn’t back the Ukraine War, Putin would start taking over other NATO countries, including Poland the Baltic States. Biden has zero facts to support his excuse for the Ukraine War, only feeble justification for not letting U.N. peacemakers convene a neutral peace conference to resolve the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. So, at the risk of starting nuclear war in Europe, Biden is content to continue funding the Ukraine War into the indefinite future. Vice President Kamala Harris, now the Democrat Party nominee, said she would continue the Biden-Harris policy to supporting the Ukraine War, regardless of consequences on world peace. Nuclear nonproliferation is dead under Biden-Harris.
Biden-Harris has zero factual basis for continuing the Ukraine War at the expense of potentially starting WW III or nuclear war under the excuse that they support Ukrainian democracy. Biden and Zelensky have warned NATO that if the war ends, Putin would be emboldened to move the Russian Army into other European countries, something he’s denied but would have obvious consequences of triggering war with NATO. Putin said he wants the U.S. to stop arming Ukraine to the teeth to battle the Russian Federation. “The most important thing for us is not to disrupt the implementation of state tasks. If the task of resuming tests is set, it will be accomplished within the time frame stipulated,” said Sinitsyn. Biden-Harris has breached its fundamental duty to continue active arms control with the Russian Federation but instead have sacrificed world peace for Ukraine.
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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 Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
