From America With Hate: Joe Biden’s Nasty Parting Gift To The Trump Administration
Russia hawks still want to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.
Two weeks after Donald Trump’s historic presidential comeback, the world is now snapping out of its political trance as harsh geopolitical realities begin to rear their ugly head. November 17, 2024 was a moment of clarity for the world after the regime of President Joe Biden granted Ukraine the authority to use United States-supplied Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) against military assets inside Russia.
To say this is an escalation would be an understatement. Prior to the Biden regime’s move to ramp up tensions against Russia, there was a general fear that letting the Ukrainians strike deeper into Russian territory would set off a dangerous escalation spiral, where Russia would respond in kind with greater escalation against Ukraine and even broaden its targets by attacking Ukraine’s NATO sponsors.
It’s an open secret that NATO countries have been co-belligerents in this conflict through their delivery of economic aid, military hardware, and intelligence to Ukraine. According to Defense Department figures, the U.S. has doled out close to $45 billion in military aid to Ukraine since Russia’s February 24, 2022 invasion of the country, as of April 2024. The U.S.’s delivery of aid is part of a larger aid package of roughly $75 billion, which consists of humanitarian and financial aid.
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The Russo-Ukrainian conflict is a classic proxy war. The Collective West is essentially using Ukraine as a sacrificial lamb against Russia in an attempt to degrade its military capacity and have it trapped in a geopolitical quagmire. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin admitted as much during a meeting in Poland with Ukrainian on April 24, 2022. He stated, “We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.” In essence, the Collective West’s objective in Ukraine is not so much about achieving victory, but rather bogging Russia down.
Moreover, there is a more cynical geopolitical ploy being executed in this Slav-on-Slav kerfuffle. Traditional Anglo-American policy with regards to Europe is one marked by divide-and-rule. The over-arching goal for foreign policy decision-makers is to prevent any form of entente between Russia and Germany, and the rest of the Old Continent for that matter, from forming.
The Collective West’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — from the imposition of sanctions to the delivery of military aid — has led to the effective disconnection of Europe from the Russian energy market. In turn, Europe has become more reliant on the more expensive American liquefied natural gas, putting further strain on the average EU citizen's wallet. All told, the Russo-Ukrainian conflict is an absolute boon for the U.S. as it now has an increasingly impoverished European continent as a vassal territory that it can bleed dry.
Nevertheless, the West’s quixotic geopolitical ventures have a tendency of being derailed once they confront an adversary willing to fight back. As a response to the Biden regime’s saber-rattling, the Russian foreign ministry declared in a statement that a long-range mission attack inside of Russian territory "would represent the direct involvement of the United States and its satellites in hostilities against Russia.” Additionally, the Russian government announced on November 19 its decision to lower the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons against its geopolitical adversaries. In this case, the revised nuclear weapons use doctrine allows Russia to carry out nuclear strikes as a response to a conventional attack against it by any country that is backed by a nuclear power.
The Russian government’s latest statements were no empty threats. On November 21, Russia fired an experimental type of intermediate range missile modeled on its RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. As 2024 comes to a close, tensions in Ukraine are not cooling down by any stretch of the imagination.
Entranced by a liberal universalist vision, foreign policy decision-makers in the Biden regime likely believe that long-range strikes into Russia could potentially give Ukraine leverage in negotiations. Such assumptions are mistaken. Russia appears ready to slug this conflict out until Ukraine’s military capacity is thoroughly decimated and the country is firmly outside of the NATO fold. In fact, the more the West intervenes in Ukraine, the more likely Russia will pursue more maximalist aims that could see further annexation of territory such as the strategic port region Odessa, thereby turning the country into a landlocked rump state that will largely be reliant on Western largesse just to keep the lights on.
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While Russia is significantly poorer than the U.S., militarily it is no joke. Even former President Barack Obama, in a rare case of foreign policy prudence, recognized in the aftermath of the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution that the Russians enjoy escalatory dominance in Ukraine. His recognition of this stark military reality guided his decision to not arm Ukraine with lethal weapons. By contrast, his successor in Donald Trump sent Ukraine lethal military aid — one of several moves by the U.S. and its western satrapies that likely prompted Russia to take the gloves off and finally invade Ukraine in 2022.
With Trump coming into office next year, the U.S. still has a unique opportunity to learn from its mistakes and as the Zoomers say, “take the L”, by cutting off all aid to Ukraine and getting it to negotiate with Russia on how to end this war. Nevertheless, the latest escalations by the Biden regime are designed to leave Trump with a nasty foreign policy conundrum that he must sort out.
The corporate media will be screeching the entire time about Trump potentially selling Ukraine out and letting Russia conquer it. Trump should ignore such hand-wringing and stick to cold, hard realism. Russia is going to win this conflict by virtue of its larger pool of resources and its marked military advantage vis-a-vis Ukraine. Moreover, Trump should dispense with the played out “peace through strength” bromides of the Reagan era.
This is no longer the unipolar era where the U.S. is facing off against backwaters such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Yugoslavia that it could easily topple. It’s now confronting the emerging Eurasian powers of China, Iran, and Russia along with the economic and military networks they’ve constructed in the form of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS. Any kind of interventions the U.S. pursues abroad could now be matched by unprecedented forms of blowback — be it Russia potentially arming the Houthis in the Red Sea or the Russians bolstering military ties with Cuba or Venezuela in Latin America to poke Uncle Sam in the eye.
Russia will simply not bend the knee in this fight. Project Ukraine is an absolute disaster, and Trump would be wise to provide a realistic off-ramp, no matter how messy it looks on the world stage. The silver lining here is that the U.S. can start to break free from its messianic foreign policy vision by shutting off the endless spigot of military and economic aid to Ukraine.
From there, it can chart a new course by pursuing a more realist non-interventionist foreign policy agenda that’s more centered on protecting the U.S.’s southern border with Mexico and keeping external actors out of the Western Hemisphere a la the Monroe Doctrine.
For that to happen, Trump must give the Russia hawks the cold shoulder.
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Have to wonder what the negotiations between Putin and Trump are looking like at this stage. Can't imagine getting Putin to "just chill" for 60 days while NATO goes ape is the easiest of negotiations.