I ended my post on Monday with this: “Blinken’s support of such a move, going so far as to arrange for the replacement of Poland’s donated MiGs with American planes, makes me wonder if this administration actually wants to go to war with Russia.” (See: Polish Prime Minister’s Office: No, We WON’T Be Sending MiGs to Ukraine)
On Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken had declared on national television the State Department is working with the Polish government to backfill their fleet of fighter jets if they give MiG29s to their embattled neighbor. Although both the Polish president and prime minister have denied these plans, there are signs that such a move may still happen.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been extremely clear this is a red line for him. He’s said he would consider that Russia is at war with any country that renders such assistance to Ukraine.
My speculation that the Biden Administration actually wants war with Russia sounded a bit crazy even to me at first and I considered deleting it. But I truly believe it. This invasion could have been prevented. Every time this administration had the opportunity to take the steps that were necessary to avert this war, they punted.
Moreover, with full knowledge that Putin had massed nearly 100,000 troops along the Ukrainian border, Biden himself and other top U.S. officials made extremely reckless and antagonistic public statements that were guaranteed to infuriate him. I’m not suggesting they should have appeased him, but knowing that Ukraine’s potential membership in NATO was the major reason for the invasion, and that Putin was already building up troop levels, the situation called for some finesse.
Instead, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak, in a December phone call, Biden “assured Zelensky that Kyiv’s bid to join the NATO military alliance was in its own hands.”
Far from de-escalating the situation, news of Biden’s assurance incensed the man who was already setting up to pounce.
Regardless of whether or not Poland gives the fighter jets to the Ukrainian military, the harsh sanctions NATO has enacted against Russia and the totality of lethal weapons, humanitarian and other financial aid provided to date from NATO member countries, is evidence that we are already deeply involved.
As I see it, we are already at war with Russia.
While I’ve disagreed with quite a bit of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s rhetoric in the lead-up to the invasion, I fully agreed with his Monday night monolog, particularly with his conclusion that “what we’re watching is the beginning of a war between the United States and Russia.”
Carlson opened with the clip of Blinken greenlighting Poland’s potential gift of the MiGs to Ukraine:
If that sounds jarring, what else would you call it? Now you may support everything that Tony Blinken just said. Maybe you do support it, but let’s not lie about what’s happening. Let’s be as honest and clear-eyed as we can be, especially now, because it matters. The Biden administration just inserted itself with force into the middle of a hot war between two foreign powers. That means the United States is now an active participant in a war. We are at war with Russia. Whether or not that war has been officially declared, whether or not Congress has authorized that war, all of that is irrelevant. That war is happening right now as we watch.
Why is no one in Washington saying anything about this? Because they support it.
They always have. Almost five years ago, way back in 2017, Rep. Eric Swalwell of California came on this show. … He came to let us know how Vladimir Putin had gotten Donald Trump elected president. … [At] the end of the interview … Swalwell explained that because Putin had installed Donald Trump secretly in the White House, the United States should now “do everything we can to expand NATO’s role.” In other words, we should let Ukraine join NATO. That’s odd. Why would he say that? Why would a policy so seemingly obscure— NATO, Ukraine, What?— Why would that be a priority for some forgettable congressman from the East Bay?
Well, simple, because getting Ukraine to join NATO was the key to inciting war with Russia. We didn’t get it at the time. Now it’s obvious. Vladimir Putin just invaded Ukraine because he didn’t want Ukraine to join NATO. Putin certainly had other motives as well. People always do have multiple motives, but that’s the main reason Russia invaded. The Russians don’t want American missiles on their border. They don’t want a hostile government next door.
Now that’s true, whether you’re allowed to say it in public right now or not, it has been true for a long time. A lot has been written about this over many years by serious people. No one who knows anything and is honest will tell you Putin invaded Ukraine simply because he is evil. Putin may be evil. He certainly seems to be, but he also has strategic motives in doing that, whether or not you agree with those motives, that’s irrelevant. Those are the facts. So, with those facts in mind, the Biden administration’s behavior in the days before the Ukraine invasion tells you a lot about what motivated them.
With Russian troops amassed by the thousands on the Ukrainian border, Joe Biden sent Kamala Harris, the least capable diplomat in Washington, to explain America’s policy to European heads of state. At a public press event at the Munich Security Conference, Kamala Harris encouraged Ukraine to become a member of NATO. “I appreciate and admire President Zelenskyy’s desire to join NATO.” Message: Up yours, Vladimir Putin, go ahead and invade Ukraine. And of course, Vladimir Putin did that just days later.
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Why in the world would the United States intentionally seek war with Russia? How could we possibly benefit from that war? We still don’t know the answer to that question, but it is obvious that permanent Washington has been fixated on war with Russia for a very long time.
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As far back as 2016, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina— hysterical little Lindsey Graham— was jumping around, acting out his war fantasies in front of foreign soldiers in Ukraine. If we saw this tape at the time, we don’t remember seeing it – back in 2016, Ukraine seemed like a faraway place. We should have paid more attention.
SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: Your fight is our fight. 2017 will be the year of offense. All of us will go back to Washington and we will push the case against Russia. Enough of … Russian aggression. It is time for them to pay a heavier price.
“Your fight is our fight.” That’s a very strange thing for an American lawmaker to say to a foreign military. Why would the Ukrainian government’s fight in 2016 possibly be our fight? On what grounds is it our fight? What does that even mean? We don’t know. And yet now it is demonstrably true. Ukraine’s fight is our fight. Ukraine’s war is our war. It’s here, but most Americans did not see that coming—yet permanent Washington certainly did. Permanent Washington understood that the second Vladimir Putin’s forces rolled across the border into Ukraine we would inevitably be on a course toward war with Russia. They knew. Here’s the president of the august Council on Foreign Relations on the day of the invasion.
The video and the transcript of Carlson’s remarks can be viewed here.
You may not agree with my remarks or with Carlson’s monolog, but I think we can all agree that the Biden Administration has grossly mismanaged this crisis, as they have nearly every other crisis they’ve confronted over the past fourteen months.
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If there was a time we need ADULTS in the White House, this is it!
If only we had them.
You are spot on and we all know it, they will soon blame Republicans and want to fight a environmentally green and gender neutral war. These people are seriously going to do much more harm if not thrown out this November, at least make him a lame duck and stall everything with pen and phone in court. Very insightful piece.
Thanks Brad!
Democrats, globalists, deep state, and co-conspirators had to engineer, maneuver, and ‘shake things up’ to make this invasion work and to have it appear as though it’s one-sided to fool and distract the public for the purposes of installing the ‘great reset deception’. This invasion took some years to plan out and didn’t just happen overnight, as corporate media and numerous conservative news outlets would have us believe. Putin and Zelensky are both the evil conduits used which brought forth this agreed-upon invasion with the citizenry being nothing more than collateral damage to these two fiends. Same was done with the covid staged play where all the actors stationed themselves in place with pre-written scripts and false wailings.
Someone has been at war against the American people, since, at least January 20, 2021, if not much earlier.
We’ve been at war with Russia ever since Hillary decided to blame Trump’s win on Putin. All this is tied to Democrat politics, since then or before.
While I agree with a lot of what Tucker Carlson has said, regarding the war in Ukraine, nothing, but the fact that Ukraine has been invaded by Russia, is obvious, when you take out all the garbage circulating around this tragic event. Well, I guess one more thing should be obvious, by now, and that is the use of pawns, being Ukrainian citizens, as the tool to 1) increase a sick, demented old man’s political ratings, and 2) to cover up all the crap that lingers from years of a certain person screwing with and milking every penny he can, from Ukraine. I think the rest is just noise, at this point.
I just hope and pray that Ukraine can defeat that bunch of fools(Putin and Biden) without much more damage and loss of life.
All the garbage I mentioned above, is garbage because one or more people will claim that Ukraine has been held since the days of Catherine the Great, while other will claim that Ukraine used to be the capitol of Russia, and was the center of origin of the slavic tribe, which can be dated back to what, the 6th century, or much earlier? Depending on who one listens to, the stories are tailor made for their purpose of having a story.
Personally, to me, it doesn’t matter, except the fact that Ukraine was already a sovereign country, and Russia invaded it, for no valid reason.
I don’t offer any solutions because I’m not in a position to do that. Besides, any solution coming from the White House is already destined to failure, to the Ukrainians, and to us, because of who is occupying that White House.