President Joe Biden, 80, told the U.N. General Assembly today that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be stopped in Ukraine or all U.N. member states would be vulnerable to territorial aggression. Biden doesn’t admit to provoking the Feb. 24, 2022 Ukraine War by arming Ukraine to the teeth, refusing to discuss with 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin new security arrangements for Ukraine. Putin warned Biden for months that if they couldn’t discuss new security arrangements in Ukraine, he would be forced to take a “special military operation” to neutralize Ukraine weapons supplied by the United States. Biden ignored Putin’s calls for talks, forcing Putin to move his troops into Ukraine. Biden called Putin’s actions “unprovoked and unjustified,” something disputed by the Kremlin and other countries. Brazil’s 77-year-old President Lula da Silva said the U.S. provoked the war.
Whether Biden agrees or not with Da Silva, China and South Africa also came up with peace plans to end the conflict, all rejected by Biden and Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky. “But I ask you this: If we abandon the core principles of the U.N. Charter to appease an aggression, can any member state in this body feel confident that they are protected?” asked Biden rhetorically, knowing that many countries disagree with his premise. “If we allow Ukraine to be carved up, is the independence of any nation secure?” Biden asked. Biden talks about violating the U.N. Charter formed in the ashes of WW III. U.N. historians, not Biden, know that no one made more sacrifices, all 28 million, than the Soviet Union to defeat Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Yet Biden keeps domonizing Putin as if his rhetoric resonates with all in the U.N. General Assembly.
It’s not in the U.N. Charter for one member state to threaten another like Ukraine did receiving unlimited U.S. weapons before Putin took action against Ukraine. Brazil’s Da Silva puts things in perspective calling for peace talks. Da Silva said supplying unlimited weapons to Ukraine forced Putin to take action. “A lot is invested in weapons and very little in development,” said Da Silva, seeking to get both combatants to the peace table. Lula offered Brazil as a neutral third party to conduct peace talks between Russian and Ukraine. If you listened to Biden’s speech, he still beats the war drums at the U.N. Biden doesn’t face the fact that many in the U.N. disagree with his proxy war against the Kremlin. China and India, who offered their own peace proposals, want the war to end but refuse to take sides. Biden has lost the vast majority of the world population in backing the Ukraine War.
Biden’s be a disgrace to the United States managing the Ukraine War, joining with his Neocon war hawks in Congress to fund his proxy war against the Kremlin. What happened to decades of diplomacy, détente and arms control? Biden trashed U.S.-Russian relations on a false premise that Putin seeks to take over Europe. Putin wants Biden to stop supplying unlimited arms to Ukraine, just as Da Silva said. Biden and Zelensky’s Hitler comparisons are preposterous, slanderous talk than only perpetuates the conflict. Biden thought he’d talk tough at the U.N. leading up to an election year. World leaders like Turkish President Recep Tayyp Erogan agree with Da Siliva that peace must by the U.N.’s top priority in Ukraine. “We step up our effort to end the war through diplomacy and dialogue on the basis of Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity,” Ergogan said.
Biden’s warmongering at the U.N. General Assembly are made for domestic consumption has he heads into an election year. But if voters read Biden’s statements correctly, he’s comfortable with perpetual war, spending untold billions on funding the bankrupt Kiev government and war with the Kremlin. Biden doesn’t read the room at the U.N. well, he’s tone deaf to the mood to end the conflict to peace talks. Da Silva, Erdogan, South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, India’s Nerenda Modi and China’s Xi Jinping want to end the war, not listen to Biden talk about winning the war against the Kremlin. Biden’s on a self-destructive binge with Zelensky to read the U.N. sentiment. Most U.N. member-states don’t care what caused or started the conflict, only now a way to get out. Biden can’t figure out that the war train has long left the station, requiring new thinking to end the conflict.
No one at the U.N. or anywhere else wants to join Biden’s aggressive talk with Communist China. Whatever happens in Taiwan, Biden won’t have much of a coalition to join his war to rescue Taiwan. Biden’s over his head in the Ukraine War, trashed decades of relations with Russia since the end of WW III. Biden’s the first U.S. president since WW II to start a war with Russian Federation, defending Ukraine, a country that has no national security significance to the U.S. No one at the U.N. wants to hear about how Putin has morphed into the next Adolf Hitler. U.N. members states know, whether they like Puitin or not, he’s not trying to take over Europe. He wants the U.S. to stop arming Ukraine and threatening Russian national security. Zelensky continues to antagonize U.N. member states calling for the Security Council to kick Russia out as a permanent member.
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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.
