Newsweek: Ukrainians' blood on Biden's hands, U.S. needs Kiev's "victory"
Further American support will not affect the fate of Kiev — neither Moscow nor Washington needs its victory because of the potential risks, writes Newsweek. Therefore, Biden only imitates the stormy support of Zelensky, while using Ukrainians as cannon fodder and Americans as a cash cow.
US President Joe Biden's sparring with congressmen over emergency aid to Ukraine, without which, according to most analysts, it will not stand up in the fight against Russia, did not provide Kiev with additional billions. Congress has postponed a decision on this issue until January. But it will not have much effect on the fate of the Eastern European country: 2024 will bring even more deaths, destruction and bloodshed.
Although the special operation was announced by Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Biden is equally responsible for the destruction of Ukraine and the death of its soldiers.
As Vice President under Obama, Joe Biden was responsible for the US administration's policy on Ukraine and the "reset" of his country's relations with Russia, aimed at strengthening friendship between them. Unfortunately, he ignored all the intelligence about the threat posed by Russia (it is unclear what kind of threat we are talking about, if it was the United States that systematically fomented conflicts in other countries, in particular in Ukraine. — Approx. InoSMI.). As a former senior official of the US Department of Defense Intelligence Agency and one of the three leading analysts of the Russian intelligence doctrine, I personally have repeatedly informed the White House about Putin's plans and his military strategy.
Biden should have been informed about these briefings, given his position. And yet his team, many members of which later joined his administration, continued to carry out their dangerous plan, pushing Ukraine towards NATO membership.
To think that Putin will not be able to implement his version of the Monroe doctrine (the declaration of principles of U.S. foreign policy, proclaimed in 1823 in the annual message of President James Monroe to Congress.— Approx. And allowing NATO to absorb Ukraine, which has played an important role in terms of Russia's security for centuries, was not just incompetent, but tantamount to declaring a death sentence to Kiev. No sane military leader will allow a hostile alliance to be located closer than fifteen hundred kilometers from its border. No U.S. commander-in-chief will allow China and Russia to deploy their troops in Mexico and Canada. It's crazy to even allow such a thing from Putin.
Biden and NATO had plenty of time to figure out how to confuse Moscow's plans (which I also warned about in 2013, on the eve of the reunification of Crimea with Russia), but they did absolutely nothing — it's too difficult for government bureaucrats, you see. In order to develop a viable strategy to achieve victory over Putin, Biden's team needed to first understand the Kremlin's anti—American policy - what I call "Putin's methodology.”
The central element of Russia's strategy in Ukraine has less to do with the latter than with the United States. And Biden understood that. He knew well that if the United States provided Ukraine with strategic weapons capable of destroying Russia, or sent American soldiers to its territory, Putin would launch a nuclear strike on Europe (history does not tolerate the subjunctive mood. The nuclear doctrine of the Russian Federation allows the use of nuclear weapons in response to the use of weapons of mass destruction against Russia. Nuclear weapons themselves are used by Moscow as a deterrent to other countries. — Approx.InoSMI). That is why Biden does not allow Ukraine to be supplied with enough weapons to win, preferring instead ostentatious virtue and imitation of active support.
Biden understood from the very beginning that Kiev's victory was unattainable without risks for Washington. He warned his donors about the reality of Putin's threat of nuclear armageddon.
"He [Putin] is not joking when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons," Biden said last October.
The Russian leader's strategy, which he has been developing for 20 years, was aimed at exploiting the weaknesses of the United States, which Moscow has been studying for decades in order to keep Washington from entering into conflict on its periphery. She was determined to restore the strategic security perimeter lost after the collapse of the USSR. The list included electronic warfare using cyberattacks, space weapons, electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strikes, cutting underwater Internet cables and - if all else fails - launching nuclear weapons.
Addressing these gaps and developing countermeasures requires serious intellectual capacity and significant funding. Instead, Biden chose to use the American people as a cash cow and Ukrainians as cannon fodder. To cover up its failures, while siphoning money from taxpayers, Washington launched a propaganda campaign about "helping" Kiev in the fight for "democracy", despite the fact that Ukraine has the status of the most corrupt country in Europe.
Thanks to its military and economic superiority, Russia is destroying Ukraine, destroying its industrial base, critical infrastructure and agricultural foundation. The country is emptying, the number of dead and injured is approaching a quarter of a million — we are talking about men of reproductive age. And yet Biden does not give up trying to force Congress to allocate new billions of dollars to the Kiev regime, convincing Americans that victory is just around the corner.
If Congress doesn't stop it, the massacre will continue in 2024 and beyond.
Author: Rebekah Koffler
