President Joe Biden, 80, must pay for his colossal foreign policy blunder of funding a proxy war against the Kremlin. Biden wasn’t thinking clearly when he decided to join 45-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s insanity of going to war against the Russian Federation. What kind of hubris or senility did Biden have thinking he’s trash 70-plud years of diplomacy with the Soviet Union and Russian Federation to join Ukraine’s border dispute with Moscow? Biden, a known ant-Russia war hawk, let his longstanding Russian hatred color his judgment, now throwing U.S. taxpayer cash down a rat hole in Ukraine. All the promises of defeating the Russian Federation were all rubbish by Zelensky and Biden, now stuck in a quagmire costing the U.S. and Ukraine dearly. Biden and Zelensky refuse to see reality that they profoundly miscalculated war with Russia.
Liberal media outlets, broadcast and print, are recognizing that Zelensky’s vaunted counteroffensive has failed, demanding more cash-and-lethal weapons from the U.S. and NATO. Biden asked Congress to approve another $24 billion in U.S. aid to a bankrupt Kiev government, refusing to go to the peace table and settle the destructive 19-month-old war. Biden finds himself caught between a rock-and-a-hard-place facing an Election Year knowing his foreign policy has failed. Only former President Donald Trump recognized the utter failure of the Biden policy in Ukraine. Giving Biden another four years would potentially start WW III, not just expanding the Ukraine War but starting a new one in Communist China. Biden has trashed U.S. relations with Russia and China, driving U.S. adversaries into a coherent political, economic and military alliance against the U.S.
Growing numbers in the U.S. Congress are beginning to see beyond the White House smoke to a dismal reality that the Ukraine War has failed. All Biden has done is feed an insatiable military appetite in Kiev, looking to stretch the war into the indefinite future. Zelensky has moved the goal posts, blaming the counteroffensive failure on a lack of measurable progress reclaiming lost Ukrainian sovereign territory. Zelensky, whose Kiev government is bankrupt, claims he won’t negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin until he’s arrested and prosecuted by The Hague’s International Criminal Court. Zelensky’s 37-year-old chief propagandist Kyrlyo Budanov claims Putin has a terminal illness and the Russian military faces collapse. Yet Kiev can’t make any progress reclaiming lost sovereign territory in the Donbas region of Southeastern Ukraine and the Black Sea coast.
Ukraine provides only propaganda to the U.S. and NATO when it comes to its long-awaited counteroffensive. Zelensky only admitted recently in June that the counteroffensive had begun. When Western officials started to question Zelensky’s promises to rout Russia by year’s end, Zelensky turned surly, accusing any Western officials doubting the war as a Russian apologist. Zelensky bamboozled Biden, whose advanced age leaves him vulnerable to influence. None of Zelensky’s promises of a Russian rout panned out, with or without all the advanced weapons given by the U.S. and NATO to Ukraine. Russia has dug in to its territorial gains and fight a bruising war of attrition much like it die in Chechnya or Afghanistan. Putin offered Zelensky a way out in March 2022, only weeks after the conflict started, but Zelensky opted for war over negotiation.
Biden has had his apologists in Congress on both sides of the aisle, notably Sen. John McCain (R-Az.)-like war hawk Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) itching to take on the Russian Federation. Fools like Graham are found in Democrats and Republicans, seeking war with U.S. adversaries like Russia and China. Now that Biden, Graham and other war hawks got their way, they’ve drained the U.S. treasury and wrecked generations of U.S. foreign policy counting on cooperative relations with Russia and China to solve conflicts around the planet. Now the U.S. and Russia are mortal enemies, working at cross- purposes. Putin has formed alliances with China, North Korea and Iran, all looking to take on the U.S. Biden trashed decades of arms control and pragmatic relations with Russia and China.
Congress should reject Biden’s request for $24 billion in more lethal aid to Ukraine and require Zelensky to enter into ceasefire and peace talks with the Russian Federation. Zelensky has no cash other than U.S. tax dollars to prosecute his war against the Kremlin. Zelensky said in March 2022, only weeks after the Russian invasion, that he would not negotiate with Putin until every Russian soldier was out of Ukraine, including the ones in Donbas and Crimea. Putin had soldiers in Ukraine at the behest of local Russian-speaking groups in Donbas and Crimea. Zelensky could have negotiated with Putin to let Donbass remain independent of Kiev and acknowledge Russian sovereignty over Crimea. Instead Zelensky talked Biden into funding a destructive and wasteful proxy war. Ukraine’s counteroffensive has failed because of Biden and Zelensky’s miscalculation.
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.
