LOS ANGELES.–Bankrupting his country with a hopeless war against the Kremlin, 45-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sarcastically admonished Congress for going on vacation before they award him another $60 billion in U.S. government largess. President Joe Biden, 81, and Zelensky don’t level with the public of how Ukraine uses U.S. cash. Zelensky and Biden would never admit that U.S. cash pays for the salaries and pensions of Zelensky and all his cronies, not to mention rank-and-file Kiev civil servants. Americans assume that the cash is used to battle the Kremlin due to the Feb. 24, 2022 Russian invasion. “First, we all must not do something, but everything possible to defeat the aggressor,” Zelensky told the Munich Security Conference. Zelensky doesn’t get that the U.S. and European Union [EU] once had a cooperative, pragmatic and mutually beneficial relation with Russia.
Since Biden joined Zelensky’s war against the Kremlin, U.S. relations with Moscow essentially ended, turning once global partners into mortal enemies. Zelensky doesn’t care about the decades of cooperative U.S.-Russian relations, the years of solving global problems, the endless attempts at arms control for the betterment of mankind. Zelensky says we must defeat the aggressor, asking the U.S. and EU to abandon the post WW II order where the U.S. and Europe did everything possible to get along with Russia, find common ground. No, to Zelensky the only consideration now is defeating the Russian Federation. How’s that worked out for Zelensky that spent the last two years battling the Kremlin to loggerheads, destabilizing European peace and leaving the planet closer to WW III. Zelensky has his reason for defeating the Kremlin but does it benefit the U.S. or EU?
Zelensky claims he run out of ammunition in his fight against the Kremlin, stalling out the current war. “The bolder and more active America was along with the others on the right side of history, the more successful freedom was,” Zelensky told the Munich Security Conference. To Zelensky, it all about the claptrap, throwing around the word democracy like it’s some kind of cynical way to gaslight the U.S. and EU. “The world would have long been divided among the dreams of a few dictatorships if it was not the American dream that always left enough space for the people’s dreams,” Zelensky said to Munich, knowing the vulnerability of the U.S. and EU to his meaningless his gibberish. Zelensky doesn’t defend a democracy in Ukraine, he defends his regime that suspended elections citing martial law because the war against the Russian Federation.
What irks Paul and other conservatives in the Senate and House is how facile Zelensky is at tossing around American buzzwords like democracy and freedom. Zelensky has no democracy or freedom in Ukraine only war with the Russian Federation, claiming he’s defending democracy because that what gaslights U.S. politicians. With Vice President Kamala Harris at his side, Zelensky admitted the obvious. Harris called the $60 billion a “way forward,” admitting it guarantees nothing. “But moving forward is much much better than stagnation on the battlefield,” Harris said, knowing that Zelensky’s 2023 counteroffensive got nowhere. What Harris doesn’t get is that Biden’s policy upended generations of post WW II foreign policy where all president, until Biden, tried to get along with Russia, build bridges and find common ground to advance world peace.
Harris says the U.S. should give Zelensky the $60 billion to continue battling the Kremlin, knowing that Russian President Vladimir Putin would double down on his war effort. Only today, did another Ukrainian city fall to the Russian Federation, all according to Kiev because they ran out ammunition. More Republicans are realizing that the war with the Kremlin isn’t in the best interest of U.S. foreign policy or national security. Biden has wrecked U.S.-Russian relations all to go along with Zelensky’s reckless war. Zelensky has destroyed so much Ukrainian infrastructure that the economy collapsed, leaving the Kiev government wholly dependent on U.S. government largess. Whatever Zelensky thinks is in Ukraine’s national security interests, it’s not advantageous to the U.S. U.S. needs cooperative, pragmatic relations with Russia.
Harris made clear in Munich that Biden stands with Ukraine as long as it takes to see Russia out of Ukrainian soil. “I firmly believe our commitment to build and sustain alliances has helped America become the most powerful and prosperous country in the world—alliances that have prevented wars, defended freedom, and maintained stability from Europe to the Indo-Pacific.. To put all of that at risk would be foolish,” Harris said. Harris knows that Biden is the first and only post WW II president to go to war against the Kremlin. When Kamala talks about sustaining alliances, she no longer refers to Russia and China, the two biggest nuclear-armed superpowers. Biden and Harris have done everything to alienate Russia and China now destabilizing world order, Kamala likes to talk about. What stability is left in Europe and Asia with the White House waging war in Ukraine and next China?
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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.
