LOS ANGELES.–Speaking on NBC News “Meet the Press” today, 69-year-old Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) batted away unfounded criticism of Trump from his former Chairman of the Joint-Chiefs-of-Staff who likes to call Trump a “fascist.” Miley had a falling out with Trump primarily over Miley’s war hawk policies which would have gotten the U.S. into a war with Russia and China. Well, before retiring Sept. 29, 2023, Miley got his way backing proxy war in 2022 against the Kremlin, wrecking decades of diplomacy, détente and arms control, leaving the U.S. in the most vulnerable national security state since the end of WW II. President Joe Biden, 81, was the first-and-only U.S. president to go to war against the Kremlin, all on the fake premise that 71-year-old President Vladimir Putin was trying to take over Europe. Biden has no facts for his warnings only wild conjecture.
Biden’s vendetta with Putin goes back to his time a Vice President under 63-year-old former Presidient Barack Obama. Obama and Biden supported, with CIA help, Ukraine’s Maiden Revolution Feb. 22, 2014, toppling the Kremlin backed Kiev government of Viktor Yanukovych. Whatever popular support for a pro-Western coup, there were consequences to the revolution when Putin seized the Crimean Peninsula to defend his Black Sea Naval Base parked in Sevastopol, Crimea, for decades. Once Yanukovych was driven from Kiev, Putin took defensive measures while he hosted the 2022 Sochi Winter Olympics. Today’s war in Ukraine is directly related to the U.S. meddling in Ukraine’s affairs, no matter how much it was wanted by Kiev’s pro-Western leadership. Obama and Biden started arming Ukraine in 2014 to retake Crimea from Russia.
Putin countered the U.S. threat by ramping up civil war in Ukraine’s industrial southeast, the Donbas region, home to Russian speaking enclaves in Donetsk and Luhansk. Thousands of Ukrainians died in the years from 2014 to 2022, before Putin opted to moving 200,000 troops into Ukraine to counter U.S. arming Ukraine over Kremlin objections. Biden refused to discuss new security arrangement in Ukraine, instead continuing to arm Kiev’s forces, amounting to a direct threat to the Kremlin. Chinese President Xi Jinping, commenting on why he doesn’t back Ukraine, said the U.S. overstepped its boundaries, encroaching on Russian national security in Ukraine. Biden pushed Putin into what he called “Special Military Operation” to demilitarize Ukraine from receiving U.S. and NATO weapons. Three years later, Ukraine has watched its country destroyed.
Biden and Ukraine’s 46-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said they would vanquish the Russian military, making it the goal of U.S. foreign policy to neutralize the Russian army. Three years later, Ukraine is in tatters, with the Kremlin controlling 20-25% of Ukraine sovereign territory, depending on who’s counting. Biden and Zelensky said after the Feb. 24, 2022 invasion that Putin suffered from a terminal illness and Russia was near military collapse. Now the Ukraine War continues to destroy Ukraine’s infrastructure and economy, leaving the Kiev government essentially bankrupt, wholly dependent on U.S. government largess. Vice President Kamala Harris said, if elected, she would continue the Ukraine War, calling Putin a “murderous thug,” promising to keep the war going indefinitiely. Former President Donald Trump said he would end the conflict in short order.
For purely political reasons the fake news defends the Ukraine War, making nothing but excuses for Biden-Harris failures. NBC News host Kristen Welker talked about Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward’s new book, “War,” where former Trump generals criticized his policies. “I like Gen. Miley, but I disagree with him. You know what? I fear four more years of a Biden-Harris policy. I fear holding Israel back so they can’t win the war they have to win to survive. I fear four more years of holding Ukraine back. Four more years of broken borders, for more years of not drilling for oil and gas, for more years of food prices,” Graham told Welker, countering her gossipy comments about former Trump Pentagon employees. Welker tried to help Kamala’s campaign but instead got a mouth full from Graham, giving CBS viewers a rude reality check.
Trump has been running out the clock on Kamala, with the fake news desperate to help her get elected. No longer can the American public trust the media for any objectivity, instead showing extreme partisanship. NBC News Kristen Welker got an ear full from Graham today, saying exactly the opposite of what she wanted to hear. Kamala’s final campaign close is that Trump is a hazard to the economy, U.S. foreign policy and national security. Welker knows the Kamala campaign’s talking points but Graham was ready for her, giving her audience a reality check. Kamala says prices would increase under Trump and the world be less safe. But voters recall life without inflation and foreign wars before Biden-Harris took over the White House in 2020. If trends hold for the next two weeks, Trump should win the Electoral College and the popular vote, with Kamala’s campaign faltering.
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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.
