Meeting with the so-called BRICS alliance with Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin beat back the Western assault on the Russian Federation for its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. President Joe Biden, 79, assumed incorrectly that an embargo of Russian business by the Western Alliance would be enough to induce Putin to leave Ukraine. Then Biden exposed March 26, less that one month after the invasion, his true intent in Warsaw, Poland, telling the world Putin should not remain as Russian President. So the war against Putin got personal with Biden expressing, what he calls his personal views, on what should happen to the Russian leader. Once month later, 69-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin let the cat out of the bag in Ramstein, Germany, telling the press that the purpose of the U.S. Ukraine War was to degrade the Russian military.
Once Biden and Austin put the war in such glaring terms, Putin doubled down on his strategy to land-lock Ukraine by seizing the entire Black Sea coast, robbing Ukraine of access to its ports. After four months of war, 44-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says all the right things to the Western Alliance but, as commander-in-chief, has lost the entire Black Sea coastline. Getting back Ukrainian territory won’t be easy for Zelensky now that it’s in Russian hands. NATO’s 63-year-old Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said June 18 that the Ukraine War could take years, or, like parts of Georgia and Crimea, become permanent territories of the Russian Federation. Zelensky keeps asking for more sophisticated U.S. and NATO weapons but the damage has already been done to Ukraine. Zelensky and Biden still think they can prevail in armed conflict against the Russian Federation.
Putin has been selling oil and raking in more cash than ever, even after selling his crude oil at steep discounts to China and India. Putin proved that all of Biden’s hot air about crippling the Russian economy were idle threats, since the Kremlin had ways to circumventing the European Union [EU]. Biden can’t get the BRICS countries to denounce Russia over the war but, more importantly, stop buying Russian oil. “The Ukraine crisis has again sounded the alarm for humanity. Countries will surely end up in security hardships if they place blind faith in their positions of strength, expand military alliances, and seek their own safety at the of others,” said a BRICS commuique. Putin confirmed that BRICS was doing everything possible to help Russia’s economy after crippling U.S. and EU sanctions. Putin has pivoted his economic interests from the EU to the BRICS countries.
Putin said with all the U.S., U.K. and EU sanctions, he looked for countries with a reliable track record of backing the Russian Federation. Nothing irks Washington and Brussels more that Putin doing more business with China and India, where a voracious appetite for oil guarantees Putin can survive Western sanctions. Putin, who looks healthy as an ox, contrary to Western press reports he’s on his deathbed, praised his international partners for not taking sides in the Ukraine War. “Western partners neglect the basic principles of a market economy, free trade, and inviolability of private property,” Putin said of Western sanctions, calling them “politically motivated.” For al the Western press that claims the “whole world” is against Putin, there’s certainly a different narrative coming from the BRICS meeting. BRICS lets the Western Alliance know that business as usual goes on with Russia.
Biden and Zelensky have managed to preach to the choir in the Western Alliance, largely slamming Putin for his Ukraine invasion. No one in the Western Alliance dares to tell the truth about the Feb. 24 invasion, caused, in no small part, by Biden arming Ukraine to the teeth against the Kremlin’s objections. Putin said Dec. 24, 2021 that if Biden didn’t negotiate new security arrangements in Ukraine, he would be forced to take “military technical measures” to protect Russian national security. Biden ignored Putin requests for new security arrangements, claiming the Feb. 24 war was “unprovoked and unjustified,” something clearly not true from the Kremlin’s perspective. BRICS demonstrates that the Western Alliance is only one piece of business for Russian Federation. BRICS allows Putin to continue supplying oil, defense and other technology to non-aligned countries.
Biden has big problems alienating Russia and China, choosing instead to go to war against the Russia Federation. Putin fights in Ukraine a determined U.S. proxy war against the Kremlin, not, as sold by the White House, Ukraine’s attempt to reclaim its sovereign territory. Once Biden said Putin should no longer remain in power, he changed the whole focus of the war for the Kremlin. Biden and the Western Alliance kid themselves thinking economic sanctions cripple the Russian Federation. Biden has spent his entire presidency punishing Russia and China for not meeting his standards of human rights. Chinese President Xi Jinping, 69, said the Western alliance was “weaponizing” economic sanctions, especially with Russia and China. Biden threatened to slap more sanctions on Beijing if they do more business with Russia. Biden found out the hard way watching his economic sanctions backfire.
