LOS ANGELES.–European Union countries should jump for joy about 78-year-old President Donald Trump ending the Ukraine War at the peace table, regardless of the concessions to 72-year-old President Vladimir Putin. EU leaders are still drunk from drinking 82-year-old President Joe Biden’s Cool-Aid that losing the Ukraine War would embolden Putin to start taking over more European countries. Biden and Ukraine’s 46-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky have gaslighted the U.S. and EU for going on three years about Putin’s intentions. You don’t need to be psychic to listen to what Putin wants. He wants the U.S. and NATO to stop supplying arms to Ukraine and work on new security arrangements with Moscow to let the two countries to live in peace with each other. Biden and Zelensky insist, without any facts, that Putin wants to take over more European countries.
Trump entering the picture should be a time to rejoice for EU leaders knowing the most dangerous war on the European Continent since WW II is about to end with a political settlement. What else could the EU possibly want at this point? Does unending war on the European Continent benefit anyone except the defense industry? EU officials have been so duped by Biden and Zelensky they thinks it’s their obligation to defend Ukraine from its border dispute with the Kremlin. Putin asked Biden for months before the Feb. 24 Russian invasion to work out new security arrangements. When Putin said he would implement a “special military operation” to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine, Biden called the invasion “unproved and unjustified.” Of course in Putin’s mind it was totally provoked and justified because Ukraine sought NATO membership.
Zelensky is no innocent party in the conflict. Putin asked Zelensky early on in March 2022 to settle the conflict by recognizing Russian sovereignty over Crimea and accept independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, both Russian speaking provinces. Zelensky opted for war with the Kremlin and cajoled Biden into footing the bill, supplying all the cash-and-weapons needed for the conflict. Zelensky knew that Putin occupied Crimea since March 1, 2014 and had troops to protect Russian enclaves in Donetsk and Luhansk. Putin annexed Crimea because of a CIA-backed coup AKA the Maiden Revolution that ousted Kremlin-backed Kiev President Viktor Yanukovych Feb. 22, 2024. Ukraine’s pro-democracy advocates didn’t consider Russia’s Black Sea naval base in Sevastopol, Crimea, there since the 1950s. What was Putin supposed to do about the pro-Western coup?
Biden and Zelensky lost the war two years ago when Ukraine could not mount a credible counteroffensive promising to oust Russian troops from Ukraine in 2023. Every promise Zelensky made to the Ukrainian people and to Biden has failed because Ukraine is no match for the more experienced and armed Russian military. When the war started all you heard from Kiev was that Putin suffered from a terminal illness and the Russian military was near collapse. What happened to all of that? That was pure Kiev disinformation and propaganda designed to keep getting Kiev more cash-and-weapons from the U.S. and NATO. Zelensky’s constant demands for NATO membership fell on deaf ears with former NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg saying Ukraine was precluded from joining the Trans-Atlantic Alliance because it was at war with the Kremlin, among other reasons.
Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin was a colossal blunder because it dragged the EU into his vendetta with Putin, dating back to his days as former President Barack Obama’s VP. Obama and Biden funded proxy war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, driving 15 million Syrians into exile, killing 500,000 and nearly breaking the EU. When Putin joined the fight to protect al-Assad in 2015, Obama and Biden’s proxy war fizzed. Only one year before, Obama and Biden approved the CIA-backed Maiden Revolution that started the beginnings to the war now waged in Ukraine. But worse than anything, Biden trashed U.S.-Russian relations, turning a strategic global partner into a mortal enemy. Biden dragged Europe into his failed foreign policy and proxy war in Ukraine. Now Europeans have a way out of the conflict with Trump coming to power.
Biden’s foreign policy disaster in Ukraine pushed China, Russia, North Korea and Iran into a close economic, military and strategic partnership. Putin now has a mutual defense treaty with North Korea, sending 10,000 troops to help dislodge Ukrainian troops from the Kursk border region. Russia now gets North Korean and Iranian short-range missiles and other armaments to continue battling the West in Ukraine. Putin sees the war as one between the West and Russia, not primarily Ukraine. Putin flexed his muscle hitting Ukraine with an intermediate range, non-nuclear ballistic missile, prompting Zelensky to call on his Western benefactors to step up their military offensive against Russia. Zelensky knows that when Trump takes office, it’s a whole new ballgame, with Trump insisting on political settlement, no matter what the concessions to Russia.
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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 DodgingThe Bullet and Operation Charisma.
