LOS ANGELES.–Armed with his new “peace plan” ready to sell it to the U.N. Security Council, 46-year-old Volodymyr Zelensky has no peace plan at all, just another plea for more cash-and-weapons for his bankrupt government. Zelensky’s “victory plan” involves building up his military capability to the point he can drive the Russian military out of Ukraine, something he’s tried and failed to do over the last three years. Zelensky keeps promising victory over the Kremlin while watching Ukraine’s infrastructure destroyed, millions of citizens driven into exile and untold numbers killed or injured in combat. So, when Zelensky offers a “victory plan,” it’s more of the same, more cash-and-weapons to enable Ukraine to drive Russian out. Zelensky’s recent gamble of seizing Russian territory in the Kursk border region has backfired, with his troops facing more death-and-destruction.
Zelensky wants to sell his plan to his chief benefactor, 81-year-old President Joe Biden, who he’s gaslighted since the war began Feb. 24, 2022 when 71-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin moved 200,000 Russian troops across the border. Biden has a personal vendetta with Putin dating back to his days as Vice President when he and former President Barack Obama funded proxy war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Obama and Biden spent billions supporting various rebel groups in Syria, including ISIS and al-Qaeda, trying to get rid of al-Assad. Putin decided in 2015 to join the fight to defend al-Assad and saved the Damascus government. Only a year before, Obama and Biden ordered the CIA-backed coup Feb. 22, 2014 that toppled the duly elected Kremlin-backed Kiev government that toppled the Russian backed government.
So, when it comes to the Ukraine War, Biden has been all in, but for all the wrong reasons related to his past dealings with Putin. Biden decided to fund proxy war with the Kremlin in Ukraine, ending decades of diplomacy, détente and arms control, a three-pronged strategy that maintained the post WW II peace in Europe and the world. Going to war against the Kremlin has ended nuclear nonproliferation and arms control, leaving the U.S., Europe and the world on a war footing. “Today, it can be said that our victory plan is fully prepared. All the points, all key focus areas and all necessary detailed additions of the plan have been defined,” Zelensky said in a video message. Zelensky refuses to give specifics because it’s the same old message he’s been given for the last three years, give Ukraine more cash-and-weapons to eventually vanquish the Kremlin.
Zelensky has no “victory plan” only one which endangers the European Continent by promising more attacks on the Russian Federation. Zelensky has pleaded with the U.S., U.K. and NATO to allow him to use weapons to attack deep inside the Russian Federation. Putin and his 74-year-old Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have said that Zelensky is dangerously close to triggering the Kremlin’s first-strike nuclear doctrine which would allow Moscow to employ nuclear weapons to stop a threat to the Russian homeland. “The most import thing is the determination to implement it,” Zelensky said, remaining deliberately ambiguous, but asking his U.S., U.K. and NATO allies to allow him to go after military targets deep inside Russia. Biden praised Zelensky’s plan with his top commanders, calling it “good and strong content,” knowing it would mean an escalation of the war.
Zelensky said “no freezing of the war or any other manipulations that would simply postpone Russian aggression to another stage,” saying he wants all restraints on attacking Russia lifted so he can execute a more aggressive war plan in Russia. Biden, who only has a few months left in office, should not be making any long-term war plans, knowing that things could change if 78-year-old President Donald Trump wins office. Zelensky’s past 10-point peace plan called for prosecuting Putin for war crimes in The Hague’s International Criminal Court, Russia removing all troops from Ukraine and Putin paying war reparations to Ukraine. With a plan like that, it’s no wonder it’s has gone nowhere. Zelensky’s latest “victory plan” is rehashing his empty promises from the Feb. 24, 2022 start of the war that he would vanquish the beleaguered Russian military and drive Russia out of Ukraine.
Zelensky hopes to sell his “victory plan” at the U.N. Security Council where he knows it was face a veto by Russia and China. Zelensky has caused untold damage to Ukraine, all because he opted for war Feb. 24, 2022, rather that negotiate for peace with the Kremlin. Had Zelensky cut a deal with the Kremlin, essentially maintaining the status quo, he would have spared his country the death, destruction and refugee crisis that’s plagued Ukraine for the last three years. Zelensky knows that he faces another peace summit in Lucerne, Switzerland that would include the Russian Federation in the peace process. Putin has offered the settle the conflict over the last three years but just not on Zelensky’s terms. His new “victory plan” calls on the U.S., U.K. and NATO to give Zelensky the green light to escalate the war in Russia, something that would have disastrous consequences.
About the Author
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.
