Pounding his chest near the first anniversary of the Ukraine War, 80-year-old President Joe Biden taunted 70-year-old President Vladimir Putin, telling the Russian leader that he will never win in Ukraine. Biden left no doubt because of his bravado that its his war, not Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky’s. “When President Putin ordered his tanks to roll into Ukraine, he thought we would roll over. He was wrong,” Biden said, admitting that the war is Biden’s one against Putin. Obama and Biden, while Biden was Vice President, presided over the Feb. 22, 2014 CIA-backed coup in Kiev, toppling he Kremlin-backed Kiev government of Viktor Yanukovych. Obama and Biden did nothing when Putin annexed Crimea, taking over the strategic peninsula to defend his Sevastopol naval base. Biden lost to Putin, swearing if he had a chance to redeem himself, he would do it.
Obama and Biden spent eight years finding a multibillion-dollar proxy war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, pouring cash-and-arms into Syrian rebel groups, some of which with ties to terror groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS. When Putin intervened in 2015, Obama and Biden’s proxy war blew up in their faces. Bashar al-Assad is still in full control of Damascus, with Biden now retaliating against Putin with his Ukraine War. Let there be no mistake, using Biden’s own words, the Ukraiine war against the Kremlin is Biden’s conflict. European Union [EU] officials have been sold a bill of goods by Biden and his national security team. Biden and Zelensky claim the Ukraine War is about protecting European democracy against an aggressive Russian tyrant hell-best on taking over Eastern Europe and beyond. “Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia. Never,” Biden said.
Biden’s unnatural investment in the Ukraine War reflects years of anti-Soviet and anti-Russia war hawk rhetoric on Capitol Hill where Biden, as a moderate Democrat, joined GOP war hawks in talking tough about Russia. Biden’s fellow war hawk, 67-year-old Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) salivates at the opportunity to take on Putin, something that joins him with Biden. But Biden’s vendetta with Putin has clouded his judgment, placed U.S. national security into dire straits and duped EU allies into believing he’s protecting their interests. EU leaders don’t want a confrontation with Putin, only to resolve the Ukraine War at the earliest possible time. Only Biden and Zelensky want to continue the fight with the Kremlin, all because Biden has been beaten badly in the past by Putin. Taunting Putin does nothing to advance the peace process or bring the conflict to an end.
U.S. media eggs Biden along in his reckless path of self-destruction for himself and the West. Decades of past diplomacy with Russia have been trashed by Biden, all because his judgment at his point is so poor he’s lost sight of the peace dividend. Ukraine is a bankrupt state with U.S. taxpayers footing the bill for Kiev’s salaries and the war with the Kremlin. “One years ago, the world was bracing for the fall of Kiev,” Biden said. “I’ve just come from a visit to Kiev and I can report: Kiev stands strong. Kiev stands proud. It stands tall and most important it stands free,” Biden said at the Royal Castle Gardens in Warsaw. Biden said nothing today about Putin canceling the 2010 START treaty, the last nuclear pact with the U.S. to reduce atomic weapons. Putin said yesterday in his delayed year-end speech that the U.S. and NATO seek victory over the Russian Federation in Ukraine.
Biden’s zealotry over the Ukraine War tells the story of an aged leader with a new cause, battling communism to the end of his political career. Ready to announce his reelection bid, Biden’s Ukraine War could prove his Achilles Heel in his bid for a second term. Former President Donald Trump, and a slate of expected GOP candidates, look to attack Biden’s Ukraine War policy as both a colossal drain on the U.S. Treasury and danger to world peace. Biden thinks he has the world behind him but China, the world’s second largest nuclear superpower, support Putin’s efforts to restrain current NATO encroachment on Eastern Europe. Biden has wrecked U.S. relations with China over Taiwan, among other things, and now threatens Beijing if it doesn’t go along with the U.S. proxy war against the Kremlin. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Li told Biden that he can’t tell Beijing how to run its foreign policy.
Less than one year ago in Warsaw, Biden said March 26, 2022 that Putin should no longer remain as Russian president, setting up today’s U.S. proxy war against the Kremlin. Kremlin officials no longer think they’re fighting Ukraine but U.S. and NATO’s attempt to dominate the Kremlin. “President Putin is confronted with something today that he didn’t think was possible a year ago. The democracies of the world have grown stronger,” Biden said. “Not weaker. But the autocrats of the world have grown weaker, not stronger,” pushing Putin into taking more draconic military action in Ukraine. No member of the European Union wants war with the Russian Federation. Biden has endangered the EU with his proxy war in Ukraine. Biden’s statements today show he plans to use his proxy war in Ukraine to launch his 2024 campaign. It could backfire on the 80-year-old president.
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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.
