President Joe Biden, 80, announced today he’s running for a second term, raising the stakes for war with the Russian Federation and Communist China. Since taking office Jan. 20, 2021, Biden sabotaged relations with Russia and China, calling 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin as “soulless killer” and accusing Beijing of genocide against Muslim Uyghurs. Biden was only one year into his first term when Putin invaded Ukraine Feb. 24, 2022, joining the Ukrainian war effort against the Kremlin. Instead of playing superpower and trying to broker a peace deal between Moscow and Kiev, Biden decided unilaterally to joint Ukraine’s fight with the Kremlin, funding the current proxy war, supplying Ukraine with unlimited cash-and-lethal-weapons. Brokering a peace deal with the United Nations would have been the way to resolve the Ukraine conflict.
Joining the Ukraine War against the Kremlin, Biden trashed decades, literally 70-years of attempted détente with Moscow. Generations of U.S. presidents worked feverishly on nonproliferation agreements to keep the world safe from nuclear weapons. Biden’s decision to join Ukraine’s war against the Kremlin has all but wrecked any arms control cooperation with Moscow. Putin signed a bill Feb. 28 suspending the 1991 START nuclear arms reduction treaty. Biden’s diplomatic relations with Russia have deteriorated to the point that the U.S. is one step away from direct military confrontation with the Russian Federation. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Yemakov told TASS state news that Washington has escalated the prospects of nuclear confrontation between the two superpowers. Biden said Oct. 7, 2022 that the risk of “Armageddon” is greater than the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
No one in the European Union, currently backing Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine, wants the war to spread to the European Continent, certainly not to nuclear confrontation. Yet Biden continues to supply Ukraine with more advanced weapons to fight the Kremlin, increasing chances of miscalculation that could erupt in WW III. “If the United States continues to follow its current course of confrontation with Russia, with the stakes constantly escalating on the verge of aiding into direct armed conflict, then the fate of START [nuclear arms treaty[ may be a forgone conclusion,” Yemakov said. Biden has the full support of GOP war hawks in Congress, like 67-year-old Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Only recently have growing GOP elected officials questioned Biden’s blank check with the bankrupt Kiev government. Spending over $100 billion on the Ukraine War has raised some eyebrows in Congress.
Biden and Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky believe keeping the war going degrades the Russian military, a goal shared by 69-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin April. 26, 2022 in Ramstein Germany. Austin said the goal of the Ukraine War was to degrade the Russian military to the point it could no longer wage war. Most EU countries did not sign up for Biden to join Ukraine’s battle with the Kremlin. Biden and Zelensky keep telling the EU and Congress that the Ukraine War defends European democracy against Russian encroachment. Most EU members are also part of NATO, affording member states protection against external threats. Zelensky told the European Parliament and U.S. Congress, that Ukraine’s fight against the Kremlin aims at protecting European democracy. With claptrap like that, it’s no wonder the war goes unchecked.
When it comes to U.S. national security, the U.S. is in a worse place than the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Never before in U.S. history has Washington joined a proxy war against the Russian Federation. Ending the START treaty shows that Biden thought fighting the Kremlin in Ukraine was more important that preserving past nonproliferation agreements. “The most acute threat today is associated . . . with the danger of nuclear escalation as a result of a direct military confrontation between nuclear powers,” Yematov said. Moscow no longer sees the Ukraine War as a battle between neighbors but a war between the U.S. and Moscow. All through the Cold War, the world feared a nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and Russia, something considered unthinkable by most countries. Biden’s proxy war, fighting the Kremlin with Ukrainian troops, has escalated nuclear risks with the U.S.
Now that Biden announced today he’s running for reelection, it’s time for his rivals to question the Ukraine War. “And these risks, to the deepest regret are steadily growing,” Yematov said, referring to the growing prospects of direct military conflict with Washington. So far, Biden’s chief Democrat rival, 69-year-old Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has brought up nothing about the Ukraine War. Only 76-year-old President Donald Trump has called for an immediate end to the Ukraine War. Trump said if he wins the presidency he would end the war before Inauguration Day. Whatever Biden’s issues with the Kremlin, they’re even more dangerous with the Peoples Republic of China. Biden said Sept. 23, 2022 he would commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan against a possible Beijing invasion. With an active proxy war with the Kremlin and threat against China, Biden has upended U.S. national security.
About the Author
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.
