Showing that he’s getting into the holiday spirit, 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin cancelled Russian navy military exercises in the Black Sea, showing that he’s not interested in escalating tensions. Tension have been high since Putin invaded Crimea March 1, 2014, prompting sanctions by the U.S. and European Union, all demanding he return Crimea to Ukraine. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ceded the Crimean Peninsula to Ukraine in 1954 when it was a Soviet satellite. Western powers claim Putin’s annexation of Crimea was a provocative aggressive act, failing to mention that a CIA-backed coup in Kiev Feb. 22, 2014 toppled the Kremlin-backed, duly elected government of Viktor Yanukovych. No one in the West says a word about 50-year-old pro-Western puppet Vitali Klitschko, currently the mayor of Kiev, coordinating the coup with the CIA.
Ukraine’s 43-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pushing NATO to accept Ukraine for membership, despite Putin warning Zelensky that would be a “red line” for the Kremlin. Zelensky wants the suck the U.S. into a war with Russia, all because he lacks to resources needed to retake Crimea from Russia. Zelensky complained recently about the Russian build-up on the Ukrainian border, fearing another Russian invasion, this time to seize more land in the pro-Russian Donbass region of Southeastern Ukraine. Zelensky knows if he can get the U.S. into a military conflict with Russia, he’d have a better chance of returning Crimea to Ukraine. What Zelensky doesn’t get is that his only path to resolving any lingering issues with Ukraine or Crimea is by improving relations with Moscow. U.S. and NATO can’t fight Ukraine’s battles with the Russian Federation.
Putin’s decision to suspend the Russian Defense Ministry’s war games in the Black Sea sends a strong message to the U.S. that he’s interested in opening up more dialogue. Putin tried to summit in Geneva June 16 with 78-year-old President Joe Biden, finding little to talk about, leaving the summit early. Since taking office Jan. 20, Biden and his 58-year-old Secretary of State Tony Blinken have done just about everything to antagonize Russia and China, pushing relations back to Cold War lows. Putin decision to postpone military drills in the Black Sea sends the White House a clear message that Putin wants to improve relations. Sending U.S. and British warships into the Black Sea has ramped up tensions in the region. Blinken finds himself with too many fires to put out with U.S. foreign policy. Suspending military drills in the Black Sea is one less threat for the U.S.
Putin understands that for Russia to advance in today’s global economy, he must maintain business ties with the West. Biden pushed U.S.-Russian relations to the brink over Russian dissident Alexi Navalny, now serving out a two-year-ten-month sentence in a former Soviet gulag. Biden and Blinken demanded that Putin release Navalny, when it was purely and internal matter, not subject to outside influence. U.S. officials falsely accused Russia because of internal U.S. politics of meddling in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections. New indictments by Special Counsel John Durham prove that Russian had little or nothing to do with the 2016 or 2020 presidential elections. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton paid for a fake dossier, accusing former President Donald Trump or illicit ties to the Kremlin. Now that Hillary’s Steel Dossier has been completely discredited, Democrats and the U.S. press are forced to reassess U.S. Russian relations.
For the last five years, Democrats and the U.S. press have accused Putin of everything but the kitchen sink. Turns out that much of the accusations were fake based on Hillary old opposition research used in 2016 to discredit Trump’s campaign. Everything heard by Democrats and the U.S. press about Russia over the last five years was unfounded propaganda and disinformation. While Democrats and the press have a hard time coming clean about their perverted accusations and twisted press reports about Russia, Putin has shown he’s the bigger man calling of Russian military drills in the Black Sea. “I should say that our Defense Ministry had a proposal to hold our own snap drills in those waters. But I believe that would be pointless and that there is no need to further add to tensions there,” Putin said. Democrats and the Western Press need to admit that they fabricated Trump’s ties to Moscow.
Biden has a real opportunity to improve U.S. Russian relations. Biden needs to be extra careful with Zelensky who’s been itching to see the U.S. go to war with the Russian Federation, hoping to get back Crimea. Crimea won’t come back to Ukraine until Zelensky can work out a deal with Putin through diplomacy, not threats of joining NATO. Putin’s still dealing with a high level of Covid-19 infection, as are many other countries in Europe. He needs more cooperation from the U.S., especially on getting the Russian people Western mRNA vaccines, proven effective in preventing infections and death from Covid-19. Biden needs Putin on his side to deal with Iran’s resistance to rejoin nuclear talks in Vienna, where Iran’s new hard line President Ebrahim Raisi isn’t inclined toward acquiescing to U.S. demands to deescalate Iran’s uranium enrichment program, getting dangerously close to an A-bomb.
