President Joe Biden, 79, continued to refer to Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “butcher and war criminal,” prompting questions of why the U.S. and NATO refuse to commit troop to Ukraine. Biden said from the Feb. 24 outset, that he would not put U.S. or NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine because it would start WW III. But with Biden playing such an active role in arming and supplying cash to Ukraine, he’s already started WW III, only the proxy war variety. If Biden or his European Union [EU] allies through Putin was really such a menace to the European Continent, why would Biden no want to put boots on the ground in Ukraine? Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked from Day One U.S. and NATO troops and a no-fly-zone, something he said was necessary to stop the Russian advance. Biden and EU officials supplied arms-and-cash but no soldiers.
Biden told a June 30 press conference in Madrid at the end of a NATO summit that the American public should get used to high gas prices for the indefinite future because he would not stop the war against the Russian Federation. Biden told U.S. and EU leaders that the war in Ukraine would go on until he defeated the Russian Federation, something so preposterous, so off-the-wall and so dangerous that it defies all common sense. Since the war started Feb. 24, Zelensky has lost 25% of Ukraine’s sovereign territory, including the strategic Black Sea coast, where Ukraine’s ports are now in Russian hands. So when it comes to the war’s progress, the U.S. and Ukraine have lost their shirts to the Russian Federation. Yet every statement by Biden and Pentagon officials say that Putin has run an “incompetent” war, showing for all to see weakness in the Russian military.
Putin has been hitting various locations in Ukraine with devastating missile strikes, all to let the U.S., EU and Ukraine know that the Kremlin can strike at anytime of its choosing. Hitting a shopping mall in the city of Kremenchuk, Putin reminded that nothing is safe while they continue to prosecute the war. Every time a civilian structure, either residential or commercial, is struck by Russian forces, the U.S. and Ukraine call it a terrorist attack. Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the June 16 missile strike in Kiev seemed timed to EU leaders agreeing to extending membership to Ukraine. “The Russian are humiliating the leaders of the West,” said Gen. Ben Hodges, former commanding general of U.S. Army forces in Europe. Putin’s missile strikes at various Ukrainian targets send the message that he’ll strike anywhere in Ukraine, at anytime, since in war anything goes.
Biden has told the American public to get used to high gas prices because as long as he prosecutes the Ukraine War, the boycott of Russian oil causes gas shortages and skyrocketing prices. Biden’s plan with Zelensky to defeat the Russian Federation could not be more outrageous because it’s no plan at all but a suicide mission for Ukraine and the U.S. Treasury. “This says a lot about Russia’s true attitude toward global political institutions,” Zelensky said, saying Putin was giving the “middle finger” toward the U.S. and EU. Zelensky wants the U.S. and EU to be mad enough at Moscow to commit troops and a no-fly-zone in Ukraine. Watching Putin strike anywhere he wants in Ukraine shows that Biden and Zelensky have no control of the battlefield. Giving Ukraine long-range surface to air missiles systems isn’t likely to tilt the battlefield toward Ukraine anytime in the future.
No one in the EU understood until recently that the U.S. was paying Ukraine to fight a proxy war against the Russian Federation. When Biden tells the American public that they must sacrifice, it’s certainly not to save democracy. Biden decided on his own to fund the bankrupt Ukrainian government and prosecute a proxy war against the Russian Federation at the expense of the U.S. economy. Biden’s approval ratings on his running the U.S. economy are around 32%, because he decided the American public must suffer with high gas prices. But why should the American public go along with Biden’s asinine war against Putin? Ukraine means nothing to U.S. foreign policy in the scheme of things. Russia was a far more important cooperating partner until Biden turned Putin into his enemy. So Biden decided to choose Zelensky over Putin, not tell Zelensky to work out his border dispute with the Kremlin.
If Zelensky and Biden want the Russian missile attacks to stop, they need to go to the peace table in Istanbul and negotiate and end to the conflict. Talking about Ukraine wanting the conflict to end before winter makes zero sense. Why destroy more Ukrainian infrastructure, kill more civilians and military and drive more refugees into neighboring countries when the war could end quickly. Putin set his conditions for ending the conflict over three months ago, saying he wanted Ukraine to recognize the independents of Donetsk and Luhansk and acknowledge the sovereignty of Crimea. Putin said he will not compromise on Crimea because it was gifted to Ukraine in 1954 by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev as long it remained a part of the Soviet Union. Biden and Zelensky must decide how much more destruction they wish to wreak on Ukraine. Battling Putin has got them nowhere.
