LOS ANGELES.–Pushing to use U.S., U.K. and NATO long-range missiles to strike deep in the Russian Federation, 46-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is fit-to-be-tied, thinking his last best option is to twist 81-year-old President Joe Biden’s arm. Biden retires for good Jan. 20, 2025 and should not be making any consequential decisions of Ukraine or any other national security issue. When you consider the damage Biden has done to U.S. foreign policy and national security starting a proxy war with Russia, he shouldn’t make any more national security decisions. Biden was the first-and-only U.S. president in post WW II history to wreck U.S.-Russian relations, end decades of diplomacy, détente and arms control, leaving nuclear nonproliferation in the dust bin. Biden’s Ukraine War policy has put the European Continent dangerously close to WW III.
Zelensky has been gaslighting Biden for the last three years when he decided Feb. 24, 2022 to go to war with the Kremlin. After Putin moved 200,000 Russian troops into Ukraine, 71-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to end the conflict if Zelensky would accept the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk and Russian sovereignty over Crimea. Zelensky rejected Putin’s offer and went to war. His war with the Kremlin lost over 20% of Ukraine’s sovereign territory, destroyed Ukraine’s infrastructure, drove millions or citizens of out the country and bankrupted the Kiev government. Zelensky has no resources to fight the Kremlin other than what’s given to him by the U.S. and NATO. Yet recently Zelensky, after his Aug. 6 invasion into Russia’s Kursk border region, has begged his benefactors to used weapons to strike deep inside Russia.
Biden met recently with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer discussing Zelensky’s request to use U.S., U.K. and NATO weapons to hit military sites in Russia. “Neither America not the United Kingdom gave us permission to use these weapons on the territory of Russia, or any targets at any distance,” Zelensky said. Putin and his 74-year-old foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said any use of weapons inside the Russian homeland would be an act of war, prompting military response for supplying long-range weapons. What more does Zelensky need to hear about the prospects to escalating the war beyond Ukraine’s borders? “I think they are worried about an escalation,” Zelensky said, knowing he’s trying to sell his “victory plan” that includes hitting Russian military targets. Zelensky still thinks he can convince a vulnerable Biden to make a U-turn for a “historic mission” of hitting Russia.
Zelensky doesn’t care about the prospects of WW III or even nuclear war because he’s been through a brutal conflict that has destroyed Ukraine infrastructure and bankrupted the Kiev government. Without U.S. and NATO cash Zelensky would have no the cash to pay his own salary or any of his government workers. Zelensky faces mounting criticism in Ukraine for his reckless battle with the Kremlin that no one, other than he and Biden, think can defeat the Kremlin. “We have had some discussions in the history our relationship with Biden—very interesting and difficult dialogues,” Zelensky admitted, keeping the conversation ambiguous enough that no one knows what he’s talking about. “He later changed his view,” Zelensky said about Biden, still hoping he can talk him into the “victory plan” to start hitting military targets deep inside the Russian homeland.
Zelensky rejects all peace plans over the last three years, claiming they all favor the Russian Federation. “It is Russia who is fighting Ukraine. There can be no end of the war without one of the parties,” Zelensky said making no sense. Putin offered him a deal in March 2022, he rejected it, now Zelensky has lost more Ukrainian territory, making any future peace negotiation for complicated. Even if Zelensky accepted independence of Donetsk and Luhansk and Russian sovereignty over Crimea, Putin wouldn’t easily give up his spoils of a long-and-bloody conflict. Zelensky rejected the most recent peace plan from China and Brazil, concerned it would force him into making concessions to Putin. “I don’t think it was a concrete plan. I don’t see any specific action or stages in it, just generalized procedures,” Zelensky said, rejecting the plan worried about concessions.
Zelensky has gaslighted Biden about the Ukraine War, wrecking U.S.-Russian relations and ending decades of diplomacy, détente and arms control. When Zelensky comes to the U.S. General Assembly Sept. 26 he expects to meet with 59-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris and 78-year-old former President Donald Trump. Zelensky knows what to expect from Kamala but knows he’ll get a very different answer from Trump on continuing the Ukraine War. Kamala rubber stamps the Biden policy while Trump pledged to end the war in 24-hours, something Zelensky said is not possible. He knows that Trump means business when he said he will end the conflict, meaning he would restore normal diplomatic relations with Russia and get both parties to the peace table to negotiate and compromise. Trump sees nothing but death and destruction for continuing the war.
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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.
