Hearing the war drums pound in Washington, the head of Russia’s Security Counsel, 57-year-old former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev warned about the Ukraine War escalating into WW III, including the growing possibility of nuclear war. U.S. elected officials think 70-year-old President Vladimir Putin uses the threat of nuclear war to discourage the U.S. effort to win the war in Ukraine. President Joe Biden, 80, decided to join the Ukrainian war against the Kremlin, essentially supplying unlimited cash-and-arms to the Kiev government. With no end in sight and with the war grinding to a stalemate, analysts fear an unending war, hemorrhaging the U.S. Treasury for the indefinite future. “The world is sick and quite probably I on the verge of a new world war,” said Medvedev, claiming that world war was inevitable because of Biden’s proxy battle with the Kremlin.
Putin sees the Ukraine War as a battle with the U.S. and NATO trying to destroy the Russian Federation. Biden and his 69-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin have admitted in 2022 that the goal of the Ukraine War is to degrade the Russian military to the point it can no longer wage war. U.S. officials have been reluctant to send U.S. or NATO troops to fight the Kremlin, refusing to give 45-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky U.S. and NATO troops plus setting up a no-fly-zone to stop Russia’s air strikes on Ukrainian cities and towns. Biden has refused to supply the Ukrainian army with F-16 fighter jets, hoping to keep the conflict from morphing into a wider conflict on the European Continent. Seeing the conflict as a stalemate, a bipartisan group of lawmakers want to pass a war resolution that commits U.S. resources to winning the Ukraine War.
Beating the war drums in Congress, House members on the Foreign Affairs Committee led by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) sponsored a bill to prevent the Ukraine War from its current stalemate. Wilson thinks that legislation should push Ukraine over the finish line to victory over the Russian Federation. “We must not repeat the error of Sept. 1, 1939,” said Wilson, referring to an infamous meeting between British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany. Wilson has gone over the deep end comparing Putin to Adolf Hitler. Putin invaded Ukraine because he didn’t like the U .S. arming Kiev with offensive and defensive weapons. Selling the war as a repeat of 1939 is beyond preposterous, whipping the House and Senate in anti-Russian hysteria. Wilson’s bill “affirms that its is the policy of the United States to see Ukraine victorious against the invasion and restored to the internationally recognized 1991 borders.”
Wilson’s bill if approved would be the equivalent of a declaration of war against the Russian Federation. Wilson’s comparison of Hitler’s Germany is absurd, the kind of fake argument made by Biden and Zelensky, saying the Ukraine War defended democracy in Europe. Biden and Zelensky know that Putin had troops in Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk before the Feb. 24, 2024 invasion. When it comes to the Donbass region, the Russian-speaking enclaves of Donetsk and Luhansk want no part of the pro-Western Kiev government. Everything changed Feb 22, 2014 when a CIA-backed, pro-Western coup toppled the Kremlin-backed government of Viktor Yanukovych. Putin hosted the Sochi Winter Olympics at the time of the coup. But a week later, Putin marched the Russian army into Crimea to protect his Sevastopol naval base. Without the coup, Putin would not have seized Crimea.
No one in the West acknowledges that a CIA-based coup changed the geopolitical dynamics in Ukraine. Putin had to seize Crimea before the new pro-Western government tired to seize his Black Sea naval base. Wilson’s proposal would be a major escalation in the Ukraine War, demanding that the war end before year’s end with Kiev ousting all Russian forces from Ukraine. “They [Kiev] would be pressed to retake all of Donbass, Crimea would take a miracle,” said Ben Friedman, chief analyst Washington, D.C.-based think tank Defense Priorities. “It certainly seems unlikely that anything short of a failed offensive will make this clear,” forecasting failure before Ukraine’s counteroffensive kicks into gear. Wilson’s bill is a prelude to disaster, essentially telling the Kremlin what they already know that they’re fighting the U.S. Wilson’s resolution would potentially start WW III where Putin would declare war on the United States, knowing it’s out to topple his Kremlin government.
Pushing his bill to essentially declare war on the Kremlin, Wilson confuses President Ronald Reagan’s oft-cited adage of “peace through strength.” Biden got into the Ukraine War because of weakness, failing to discourage Putin from invading the country. If Biden were perceived as a strong leader, Putin would not have invaded, upending Wilson’s “peace through strength” argument. “The only way to maintain peace is through strength,” Wilson said. Reagan lived through the Cold War where the U.S. fought the Russians in a war of words or propaganda, not actual arms. Biden’s proxy war against the Kremlin puts the U.S. and EU dangerously close to a shooting war with the Russian Federation. “This bipartisan resolution demonstrates the wide support in Congress for Ukrainian victory . . .” Wilson said, knowing his bill would be declaration of war against the Kremlin.
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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.
