The war in Ukraine was provoked by President Biden’s failed attempt to steal a march on Russia in Ukraine. “Stealing a march” on your rival for the purpose of sending in troops and missiles by entering an alliance with a border country is a traditional imperialist strategy. That is why Biden wasn’t afraid to provoke Putin because Biden was confident he could fight a proxy war against Russia using Ukraine’s soldiers instead of Americans, and thus at no political cost to himself.
But Biden’s warmongering has backfired, because provoking war cannot be to anyone’s benefit, except the armaments industry. Shortly after the war began, Biden came on national TV and announced that America is now willing to accept neutrality for Ukraine. Immediately President Zelensky of Ukraine took Biden’s cue and announced that Ukraine is now willing to forever forswear membership in NATO. These two announcements were obviously aimed implicitly at President Vladimir Putin of Russia, telling him, in effect, that “You have now achieved your political objective in going to war; so let the war end now, with Ukraine remaining neutral, as you demanded.
These public declarations can be retrieved from the archives by Biden’s political opponents, to show that his belated announcement to accept neutrality for Ukraine is a tacit admission that he provoked Putin unnecessarily.
But let’s look at the larger political context: Biden came into office with the declared objective of pivoting to Asia and confronting Russia and China. Biden has publicly declared more than once that he is willing to send military intervention in a war against China if China moves to integrate Taiwan into mainland China. Has there ever been an American president with such naked imperialist ambition.
Do the American people really want to give this president another term so that he can start World War III in Asia? One scholar has written about “The American Addiction to War.” No wonder his publication has received no publicity!
Harold Kulungian
Hadley