LOS ANGELES.–Ukraine’s 46-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the U.N. Security Council to do something about 72-year-old President Vladimir Putin hitting Dnipro with a non-nuclear intermediate range ballistic weapon capable of an atomic payload. Zelensky called the missile a “clear and severe escalation,” while Ukraine continues to avoid the peace table and battle the Kremlin. Zelensky has been given every opportunity for a political settlement but refuses to meet with Putin because he knows he’ll be forced to trade land for peace. With all the hard-fought battles in Donbas, Putin isn’t likely to return Ukraine’s sovereign territory along the Black Sea coast. Putin responded to Biden allowing Zelensky to fire U.S.-made ATACMs and British Storm Shadow missiles deep into Russian territory, in a major escalation of the war with the Kremlin.
Putin has warned the U.S. that allowing Zelensky to fire U.S. and U.K. long-range missiles into Russian territory escalates the conflict, leaving the U.S. and U.K. targets of potential Russian retaliatory strikes. Zelensky opted for war rather than settle the conflict at the peace table because he’s refused to compromise on Ukrainian sovereignty. Putin offered to settle the conflict in March 2020 if Zelensky recognized Russian sovereignty over Crimea and accepted Russian independence over Donetsk and Luhansk. Putin had control over Crimea before the Feb. 24, 2022 and troops in Donetsk and Luhansk. Only after Zelensky got Biden to foot the war’s bill did he move the goalposts and now wants Crimea back and Russian troops out of Donbas. So when it comes to Putin using any weapon in Ukraine, it could all stop the day Zelensky wants to compromise for peace.
Putin has warned the West not to allow Ukraine to use weapons to attack deep inside the the Russian Federation. “From that moment, as we have repeatedly underscored, a regional conflict in Ukraine previously provoked by the West has acquired elements of a global character,” Putin said in a national address. “We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities,” Putin said, serving notice that U.S. and U.K. bases are now potential targets. “If anyone else doubts this, then they are wrong—there will always be a response,” Putin said. Biden keeps pushing for his failed war with the Kremlin to escalate before he leaves office. Biden receives no pressure from Congress, either Democrats or Republicans, to stop his provocation that could at any time result in a U.S. military based being bombed.
How far does Biden want to push things before he leaves office? What would he do if Putin struck as U.S. army base in Poland or anywhere else? Would he order U.S. troops to the Ukraine theater before he leaves office? Would Biden start bombing Russian military bases and start a thermonuclear war with Russia? Why doesn’t Congress step up and demand that Biden back off his escalation before giving Trump a chance to resolve the three-year-old conflict Jan. 20, 2025? “The use by the enemy of such weapons is not able to change the course of the military actions in the zone of the special military operation,” Putin said, saying the war along the frontlines in Donbas would go on regardless of Zelensky’s throwaway missiles attacks inside the Russian Federation. Partisan Democrats in the House and Senate need control Biden’s self-destructive tendencies.
Biden and Kamala had their shot prosecuting the Ukraine war over nearly three years, resulting in a widespread destruction and bankruptcy to Ukraine. Zelensky wants all the cash he can get from the U.S. to run his Kiev government and war with the Kremlin. Trump will tell Zelensky after he takes office he must freeze the war and start a peace process that involves negotiation and compromise. Zelensky has rejected all peace plans in the past because they require Ukraine to compromise its sovereign territory for peace. But after three years of war, Zelensky has no one to blame but himself for the position Ukraine finds itself. Continuing the war adds to Ukraine’s destruction and loss of more sovereign territory. Zelensky will be forced after Jan. 20m 2025 to go to the peace table. Throwaway missile attacks in Russia only make a bad situation worse.
Democrats and Republicans in Congress must pressure Biden to cease-and-desist escalating the Ukraine War before he leaves office. Whatever Putin did to add 10,000 North Korean troops to the Russian Kursk border regions doesn’t mean Ukraine should start firing U.S. and British missiles into Russia. “I believe the United States made a mistake by unilaterally destroying the treaty on the elimination of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles in 2019 under a farfetched pretext,” Putin said, referring to Trump cancelling the 1987 INF Treaty negotiated by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. Putin used that excuse to justify hitting Ukraine with a new intermediate-range non-nuclear ballistic missile. What’s known for sure is that Biden must stop immediately inflaming the Ukraine War and let Trump resolve the conflict after taking office.
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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.
