LOS ANGELES.–Dug out of mothballs since the her time the Bush-43 White House, 70-year-old former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was asked her opinion about 72-yearold Russian President Valdimir Putin. “He seems to be more out of control than he used to be,” Condi told Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade. “He was always an imperialist, but there is something about him now that seems almost more desperate in want to extinguish Ukraine,” Rice said. Rice once said that Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction [WMD], including nukes. So, when it comes to credibility, Condi has very little other than her claim to fame as a Stanford University Russian expert. Condi’s testimony before Congress in the run-up to the Iraq War led to the unanimous vote to go to war against Saddam Hussein. President Donald Trump knows all about Rice and WMD.
Trump recalls well his arguments on the 2016 campaign trail and debates talking about the wasteful, costly and unnecessary Iraq War, all because of figures like Condi that lied about Saddam’s WMD to go to war in Iraq in 2003. Condi heaped praise of Ukraine’s 47-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky to an “extraordinary” for using “relatively cheap” drones to take out Putin’s arsenal of strategic bombers. Condi knows that Trump has been focused on bringing peace to Ukraine but acts like Zelensky did a great thing to escalate the war. “It shows that the Ukrainians are very advanced in what they are doing in their defense industry with the building of these dronces and an employment strategy for them,” Condi told Kilmeade. Condi, who’s completely out of loop, opines about how well prepared Zelensky is with his new military strategy to bring Putin to the peace table.
What world does Condi live in, the world of Saddam’s WMD, a make believe world where Putin is evil and Zelensky is the savior? “Hopefully, they can get a ceasefire, but this also shows that the Ukrainians can hold at risk things that Putin cares about and that more than anything will eventually get him to the table,” Rice said, not challenged by Kilmeade one bit. How’s Zelensky going to get a ceasefire with Putin by attacking deep inside the Russian Federation? Putin told Trump today in a personal call that he would respond to Ukraine at a time of choosing. Does Condi really think that in the middle of peace talks launching military strikes helps the peace process? Putting Condi on Fox News, you’d think the host would hold her accountable for making indefensible statements. She acts like from her ivory tower she has insights into Vladimir Putin.
No one should forget all the speeches and Congressional testimony Condi gave to prove that Saddam Hussein possessed dangerous WMD. Now Kilmeade asks Cond, of all people, to size up the situation in Ukraine, talking about peace plans, Condi is the last person to use any common sense. She’s so smitten with Zelensky’s use of cheap drones but to what end? Where does it all go in Condi’s mind? Closer to ceasefire and peace talks? There’s every reason to believe that Zelensky’s slick actions with drones has cost the peace process dearly, especially all the work the White House has put in to end the war. Zelensky has worked behind the scenes to sabotage Trump’s peace plans, believing, errantly, that Trump would give away Ukraine’s sovereign land to get a peace deal. Zelensky thinks the EU, currently at war with Kremlin, would get him a better deal.
Condi urges President Trump to take a tough stand on Putin, much the same as Biden, when he all but destroyed U.S.-Russian relation over his four years in office. Condit thinks if Trump backs EU or domestic sanctions against Putin it would facilitate the end to the Ukraine War. Condi’s logic is so twisted, so off-the-wall, so destructive to U.S. foreign policy and national security that it can’t pass unnoticed. Trump has done everything possible to restore U.S.-Russian relations. What would happen if Trump joined the EU sanctions bandwagon to U.S.-Russian relations? It would fall apart. “I do think there ‘s a little part of Vladimir Putin that recognizes particularly that the energy infrastructure in Russia is degrading and that he would be better off to stop the war. But it’s being overcome by that other Putin who still thinks he can extinguish Ukraine,” Rice said.
Whatever Rice thinks of the Ukraine War, she’s still the Neocon-in-chief, an anti-communist warmonger looking to join any plan to take down the Russian Federation. Condi is just a duped by Zelensky as anyone else, with his great prowess that ambushed a small fraction of Putin’s strategic bombing fleet. But if you look at all his failure over three years of war with the Kremlin, it tells a different story of one failure after another. His foray into Russia’s Kursk region cost Ukraine dearly in terms of military personnel. Eight month after his invasion of Russia, Ukrainians have been all but purged from the Kursk region. Condi would have you believe that Zelensky has Putin on the run, something so laughable, so preposterous, it shows why she took the country to war on 2003. She’s a warmongering Neocon with a lifelong vendetta against communism and Putin.
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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.
