Escalating the Ukraine War into the dreaded blocs talked about by 63-year-old German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin now has a military alliance with Iran, supplying the Russian Federation drones and ballistic missiles. Scholz warned recently about the world breaking into the same blocs as the Cold War with countries like China, North Korea and Iran joining a military alliance against the West. With Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky striking Dec. 6 airbases deep inside Russia the war has turned for the worse. All the warnings by 63-year-old NATO Secretary-General Jens Stotenberg about the war expanding to NATO are starting to come true. Zelensky doesn’t care if the U.S. and NATO are forced to commit troops or a no-fly-zone, he only wants to beat back the Russian invasion off Ukrainian soil.
Iran’s currently dealing with widespread unrest from 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini who was killed Sept. 16 by Iran’s Basij militia or “morality police” for violating Iran’s head-scarf dress code. So when it comes to Iran needing to partner with Russia, the feelings are mutual now for Putin, who’s expended much of Russia’s short and medium-range missile stockpile. Getting “Kamikaze” drones and now ballistic missiles from Iran shows how the Biden foreign policy has made a mess of the international order. U.S.-Russian relations were once a lynchpin of global foreign policy, now the Kremlin admits under Biden U.S.-Russian relations have never been worse. But the consequences to the Ukraine War, including 80-year-old President Joe Biden’s proxy war against the Kremlin, has turned U.S. foreign policy on its head. U.S. lawmakers, on both sides of the aisle, don’t know what to do. Prevailing anti-Russian attitudes in Congress have led to very bad decisions.
French President Emmanuel Macron, 44, is the only world leader in the Western Alliance willing to confront the slow-moving train wreck that, as Stoltenberg says, could suck NATO into a wider war on the European continent. “Iran’s support to the Russian military is likely to grow in the coming months. Russia is attempting to obtain more weapons, including hundreds of ballistic missiles,” said U.K. Defense Ministry. Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby confirmed that Moscow gives Terhan “an unprecedented level of military and technical support that is transforming the relationship into a full-fledged defense partnership.” Kirby admits that the Biden foreign policy has pushed Russia and Iran into a military alliance. White House officials have an inescapable choice to get foreign policy back on track. Biden must end the Ukraine War and get back to normal relations with Russia.
Zelensky’s agenda to get back every inch of Ukraine’s sovereign territory is unrealistic and dangerous to peace on the European Continent. NATO’s Stoltenberg’s has kept Ukraine out of the alliance precisely because Zelensky would start WW III. Biden, who funds Ukraine’s bankrupt government and the war, must get down to brass tacks with Zelensky, telling him he must resolve the conflict at the peace table not on the battlefield. With Putin’s new military alliance with Iran, the battle lines are drawn, without any way out of the conflict for the U.S. and Ukraine. Putin doesn’t win the war going to the peace table, he’s forced to make territorial concessions to Ukraine in a neutral setting that can resolve many of the thorny issues. Biden and Zelensky must conclude now that world peace is far more important than continuing to wage war against the Russian Federation.
Biden should heed the calls from French President Emmanuel Macron before the war escalates to a wider conflict with NATO. Stoltenberg’s on his way out of NATO but recognizes the dangers for the European Continent with the current war. Pentagon officials say they’ll try to counter Iran’s ballistic missiles with more long-range missiles from the U.S. But where does the war lead now that Iran has officially joined the battle against the U.S. Struggling with domestic unrest, it’s a perfect time for 83-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to join up with Russia. Iran looks at Russia much the same way that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad did in 2015 when he battled former President Barack Obama’s proxy war against the Damacus government. It took Russian involvement in 2015 to save the al-Assad government. Now Russia looks to Iran for a new military alliance.
Biden, EU and NATO must reassess whether a protracted war with Russia does world peace any good. Zelensky shows no reluctance to pull the U.S. and NATO into a wider conflict on the European Continent. Iran joining forces with Moscow is a direct consequence of Biden tossing U.S.-Russian relations under the bus to save Ukraine. But in the process, Biden has destabilized world peace and increased the chances of WW III on the European Continent. Peacemakers like Macron and Scholz see where the Ukraine is heading, as Stoltenberg says, to a wider conflict. Biden needs to sit down with Zelensky and tell him that the U.S. isn’t going to push Europe into a new world war. Zelensky has no qualms about involving the U.S. and NATO into his war with the Kremlin. Macron’s call for peace should not be met in Kiev with contempt to a genuine plan to spare Ukraine more carnage and destruction.
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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.
