Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi , 86, showed there’s dissention within the European Union about the U.S. proxy war with the Russian Federation. President Joe Biden, 80, has given Ukraine’s 44-year-oldj President Volodymyr Zelensky a blank check to prosecute an endless war with the Kremlin, requiring the U.S. to fund the lion’s share of Ukraine expenses and war. Zelensky seeks cash-and-lethal weapons to battle the Kremlin, hoping one day to claim victory over 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. Zelensky wants U.S. and NATO cash-and-arms to reclaim lost sovereign territory lost to the Kremlin over the last 14 months of war. Zelensky decided to go to war with the Russian Federation over the prospects of sitting down and working out the architecture of a mutually agreeable peace settlement. Zelensky and Biden have so far refused to negotiate with Putin.
Putin made clear in March 2022, only weeks after the Feb. 24, 2022 invasion, that he’s willinging to stop his “special military operation if Zelensky would recognize the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk and Russin sovereignty over Crimea. Zelensky rejected Putin’s offer, seeking U.S. and NATO arms and cash to prosecute an open-ended proxy war against the Russian Federation. No one forced Zelensky into a full-on conflict with the Kremlin, only to watch over the last years Kive lose some 25% of Ukraine’s sovereign territory. Now Zelensky wants to fight indefinitely to reclaim his lost territory with U.S. cash-and-arms. Berlusconi said if he were prime minister, he would meet with Zelensky knowing his military objective destabilize the European Continent, battling the Russian Federation. Biden and his European partners have blamed the entire Ukraine War on the Russian Federation.
Pentagon Spokesman Ned Price, 40, who mirror’s Biden’s views, say if Russia took the peace process seriously, he’s pull all Russian troops out of Ukraine. But Putin made commitments to Russian-speaking Peoples Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, who want nothing to do with Zelensky’s pro-Western Kiev government. Western media outlets denigrate anyone that different ideas about the Ukraine War. If you agree that peace talks should be the highest priority, you’re viewed by Kiev and giving in to Russian disinformation. Berlusconi is the latest foreign leader to disagree with Biden and Zelensky’s approach to Ukraine. Berlusconi accused France and Germany for organizing a dinner with Zelensky in Paris, excluding other EU states that don’t agree with Zelensky’s approach to the Ukraine War. Belusconi’s believes that Putin was provoked into the Ukraine War.
Berlusconi’s thinks that if Zelensky had not attacked the Peoples Republicans of Donetsk and Luhansk, Putin would not have invaded to protect Russian-speaking populations as he did in 2008 Georgia’s South Ossetia an Abkhazia if Georgia protected Russian-speaking populations. Zelensky was told by Putin in March 2022 he would end his “special military operation” if Zelensky would simply recognize Donetsk and Luhansk as independent. Zelensky refused and the war rages on in Europe with the new objective to getting Russia out of Donbas and Crimea. “I would have never gone talking to Zelensky because we are witnessing the devastation of his country and the slaughter. Zelensky accuses Russia of war crimes, saying would never enter ceasefire or peace talks unless Putin is prosecuted at the Hague in the International Criminal Court and agrees to pay reparations.
Belusconi disagrees in the strongest possible terms with Biden and Zelensky that the war was “unprovoked” and “unjustified.” Seeking NATO membership and taking unlimited cash-and-arms from the U.S. and NATO, the Kremlin wasn’t comfortable with Ukraine becoming an armed puppet U.S. state on the Russian border.” So I judge, very, very negatively, the behavior of this gentlemen,” Berulsconi said about Zelensky. Italian Prime Minister Georia Meloni said her government supports Zelensky attempt to reclaim sovereignty from the Russian Federation. Berlusconi sees things differently, asking Biden to reconsider his unlimited support to the Kiev government. Berlusconi has been discredited by Kiev as an old school politician with ties to the Putin and the Kremlin. Zelensky refuses to accept old school views about Russian. Zelensky thinks Putin should be removed from office.
When it comes to the Ukraine War, there’s only one view that works for Ukraine and the Western Alliance. Putin needs to pull all his troops out of Ukraine and pay Kiev reparations f or war crimes over the last 12 months. Before the Feb. 24, 2022 war started, Biden and Zelensky sees no provocations when it comes to Putin’s rationale for invading. Biden and Zelensky hold the view that they can continue battling the Kremlin until the Russian army has been degraded to the point it can no longer wage war. Putin sees his first obligation as protecting Russian-speaking areas in Donetsk and Luhnask, not acquiescing to Kiev’s demands for unlimited cash-and-arms. Berlusconi’s views reflect a number of EU countries views by Kiev as Russian puppets because they don’t agree with Biden and Zelensky’s proxy war against the Russian Federation. In Zelensky’s world, dissent cannot be tolerated.
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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.
