Beating the war drums against 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation, 79-year-old President Joe Biden has gone mad, threatening to deploy 8,500 U.S. troops to Eastern Europe all because the fake news says that Putin might invade Ukraine. What kind of cockamamie diplomacy has Biden and his 59-year-old Secretary of State Tony Blinken engaged in, meeting with the Russian Federation to threaten them with crippling economic sanctions if they invade Ukraine. U.S., European Union [EU] and NATO officials have no evidence of a possible Ukraine invasion other that satellite photos inside Russia showing that Putin massed some 100,000 troops inside his own border. Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have insisted that the Kremlin has no intention of invading Ukraine, only sending a message to the U.S., EU and NATO.
Putin’s message has been simple: Stop supplying Ukraine, on the Russian border, offensive weapons with which to go to war with Russia. Biden has completely ignored Putin’s “red lines” that Ukraine not permit to joint NATO, but, more importantly, not serve as Western arms depot near the Russian border. Biden spent an hour-and-twenty-minutes talking on Zoom with NATO and his EU allies about what to do in the event of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. What kind of military alliance threatens a sovereign state for pure conjecture about a possible invasion? Putin has said emphatically that he has no intention of invading Ukraine, only wants the U.S., EU and NATO to stop supplying Ukraine with lethal weapons. Today’s call, Biden spoke to members of the European Commission, European Council,NATO, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom.
Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby announced today that 8,500 U.S. troops were put on “high alert,” ready, but not yet deployed to the European theater. “The leaders underscored their shared desire for a diplomatic solution to the current tensions and review recent engagements with Russia in multiple formats,” said the White House. White House clearly has used the EU and NATO to play a dangerous game of chicken with Putin, all because Biden conjectures that Putin might invade Ukraine. When Putin seized the Crimean Peninsula March 1, 2014, it was due to a Feb. 22, 2014 CIA-backed coup that toppled the duly elected, Kremlin backed government of Viktor Yanukovych. Annexing Crimea, Putin protected his Sevastopol, Crimea naval base. There’s no comparable situation in Ukraine now, other than the U.S. and NATO supplying lethal weapons.
Biden speaks and acts like Putin has invaded Ukraine, when, in fact, all his military assets are inside the Russian border. Biden hopes his gunboat diplomacy forces Putin to withdraw his military assets away from the Ukraine border. When does a sovereign power, like the U.S., have a right to order another sovereign power what to do with their own military assets inside their own border? Biden acts like Putin has crossed into Ukraine and sounds the alarm with his EU and NATO partners. “Today, I spoke with European leaders in response to Russia military buildup on Ukraine’s borders. We discussed our joint efforts to deter further Russian aggression, such as preparations to impose severe economic costs on Russia and reinforces security on the Eastern front,” Biden said, confused about what constitutes Russian aggression. Threatening Putin with crippling economic sanctions sounds like aggression.
Biden’s approach to Putin has been one of “gunboat diplomacy,” threatening Putin with punitive economic consequences unless he does exactly what Biden demands. Putin asked for a written response to his request for guarantees that Ukraine not be given NATO membership. But, more importantly, that the U.S. stop using Ukraine as an ammunition dump on the Russian border. Biden says Putin is the aggressor but not only has he not invaded Ukraine, he hasn’t supplied U.S. adversaries with offensive weapons to threaten NATO members, like Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. When it comes to what happens inside the Russia border, that’s entirely Putin’s sovereign right, until he breaches Ukraine’s sovereignty. Since when does Putin demand that the U.S. stop troop deployments or weapons inside the U.S. border? Biden’s argument of Putin’s aggression exposes his own hypocrisy.
Biden’s meddling into the Ukraine situation has pushed the world to the brink, dragging the EU and NATO into his personal vendetta with Putin. Putin has done nothing other than mass 100,000 troops inside Russia near the Ukrainian border. Putin wants the U.S., EU and NATO to know that he won’t allow Ukraine to be the next trans-Atlantic armed camp ready to pounce on the Russian Federation. Keeping his troops inside Russia near the Ukrainian border sends a loud message to the Western alliance to stop using Ukraine, on Russia’s border, as a military base with which to potentially attack the Russian Federation. When Biden talks of Russian aggression, he’s oblivious to what he’s doing to Russian national security. Biden’s EU and NATO allies want a diplomatic solution to the current crisis, not more “gunboat diplomacy” aimed at threatening the Russian Federation.
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