LOS ANGELES.–Russian President Vladimir Putin, 71, said yesterday in an interview with the Russia press before next month’s presidential election that he prefers 81-year-old President Joe Biden over 77-year-old former President Donald Trump. “Biden, he’s more experienced, more predictable, he’s a politician of the old formation,” Putin said. “But we will work with any U.S. leader who the American people trust,” dumbfounding the U.S. press, hoping to get more red meat from the Russian leader during an Election Year. Democrats and the press narrative has been that Trump can’t be trusted with U.S. adversaries, largely because he gets along with them. Since taking office Jan. 20, 2021, Biden called Putin a “murderous thug,” then attacking 70-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping for committing genocide against Muslim Uyghurs, then cracking down on Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters.
Biden’s relations with Russia and China have taken Cold War politics to a new low, driving both Communist nuclear powers into an economic, military and strategic alliance. Yet for some unknown reason, Congress and the U.S. press think a war-like state with both superpowers is good for the United States. Putin’s statement about preferring Biden over Trump is purely strategic, hoping Biden loses the election. Putin knows the harassment Trump has received from the government and the press, accused for years of colluding with Russia to win the 2016 election. Putin knows he’s been blamed by Democrats and the U.S. press for interfering in U.S. elections. No proof is required for Democrats and the press to make wild accusations about Putin and Trump. But that doesn’t stop Democrats and the press from making outrageous claims.
Putin knows that Biden is the one, not Trump, waging proxy war against the Russian Federation, all because he invaded Ukraine Feb. 24, 2024. Putin knows that if he said he preferred Trump over Biden, it would hand Biden’s campaign an early Christmas gift. All the accusations against Trump having some nefarious relationship with Putin were complete political fabrication. Trump got along with Putin because they both understood that war was not in the best interest of either country. Biden has waged war against the Kremlin in Ukraine at great cost to U.S. national security. Biden has turned the Kremlin into a mortal enemy, not a cooperative partner something worked on by every president since WW II. Trump said he would end Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine with the Kremlin in 24 hours, prompting an angry response from 45-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Zelensky knows that perpetual war with the Kremlin gets his bankrupt Kiev government untold billions in U.S. tax dollars. If the war ended, as promised by Trump, Zelensky would lose his funding he uses for his salary-and-pension, his colleagues and civil servants. Keeping the cash flowing to Kiev is the only top priority to Zelensky, pretending to defeat the Russian Federation. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, 52, who likes to dabble on his X platform on politics and world affairs, said the U.S. or Ukraine will never defeat the Russian Federation. Musk states the obvious, except to Biden and Zelensky. Both think more weapons-and-cash will eventually topple the Russian Federation. No one thinks that other that Biden and Zelensky to justify their destructive war. Putin, while saying the opposite, hopes that Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.
Biden and Zelensky have been told by their top generals that there is no military solution in Ukraine. Musk said Putin is prepared to keep the war going as long as it takes to defend Russian National Security. He sees a U.S. puppet regime in Kiev as a threat to Russian national security. President John F. Kennedy and the U.S. Congress thought that putting nuclear weapons in Cuba threatened U.S. national security. So, what’s hard for Biden to understand about supplying endless arms-and-cash to Kiev over the Kremlin’s objections? Trump is right that he could end the war quickly by pulling Zelensky’s U.S. funding, realizing that it damages U.S. national security. Trump thinks it’s in U.S. national security to have predictable diplomatic relations with the Kremlin, not a state of war. Biden wages proxy war against the Kremlin, upending U.S.-Russian relations.
Biden can’t have it both ways, expecting Russia to help stop terrorist attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea while the U.S funds proxy war against the Kremlin. What kind of maddening foreign policy does Biden run thinking he can verbally attack Russia and China and expect normal U.S. diplomacy? Revelations about Biden’s age-related cognitive decline explains why he can’t engage U.S. adversaries in constructive diplomacy. Biden sets U.S. foreign policy, instructing his national security underlings to carry out his counterproductive, self-destructive policies. What can be more harmful to U.S.-Russian relations than Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin? Only by ending the war through peace talks can the U.S. resume normal relations with the Russian Federation. Today’s status quo endangers world peace.
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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.
