Biden secretly escalating Ukraine war, costing Ukraine more territory

Biden secretly escalating Ukraine war, costing Ukraine more territory

 

With friends like President Biden, Ukraine does not need enemies.

 

Joe Biden has spent his entire 40 months as president ensuring Ukraine descends into a failed rump state of its former self. Half a million soldiers dead, millions fled to safer countries, economy on life support, all due to Biden’s lust to “weaken Russia.”

 

But the Ukraine destroyer in the White House pushes on, finally getting his $61 billion in weapons for Ukraine after 6 months of begging. They will do nothing but prolong Ukraine’s agonizing defeat.

Even worse, we’re now learning that last month Biden secretly gave Ukraine ATACMS, long range missile systems that can strike nearly 200 miles inside Russia. They were used to bomb a Russian base in Crimea.

 

Russia’s response?’ ‘We’re just going to take more Ukraine territory to ensure a sufficient buffer against long range attacks facilitated by Biden.’

 

The ATACMS are simply an extension of Biden’s deranged policy of putting weakening Russia above Ukraine sovereignty and independence. Even after Biden provoked the Russian invasion 26 months ago, he could have agreed to the Russo Ukraine peace deal negotiated to end the war within 2 months with no loss of Ukraine territory. But Biden said 'Nope...continue fighting Ukraine to weaken Russia.'

Now, he’s not only cost Ukraine roughly a quarter of its territory on Russia’s border, he’s ensuring Russia will take more territory to defend against Biden’s ATACMS.

 

And guess what weapon will be included in that $ 61 billion weapons boondoggle Biden is high fiving getting passed? Yep, more ATACMS to cost Ukraine more territory.

 

Forrest Gump might have had President Biden in mind when he noted “Stupid is as stupid does.”

My Illinois congresspersons vote for further destruction of Ukraine, further genocide in Gaza, further military confrontation with China

 My Illinois congresspersons vote for further destruction of Ukraine, further genocide in Gaza, further military confrontation with China

Sixth District Congressman Sean Casten, Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin, all cast their votes to spend $95 billion that will likely get hundreds of thousands more killed in Ukraine and Gaza. Since this massive tranche of wasted weapons dough has to be borrowed, it will help sour US debt past $35 trillion, representing 122% of US GDP.

To add to the unfathomable death and destruction of Ukraine and Gaza, their votes ramp up possible military confrontation with our imagined enemy China.

Casten, Duckworth and Durbin are not outliers in the Democratic Party. They joined nearly the entire Democratic ranks in the House and Senate to squander our treasure to further destroy two peoples who deserve better.

They know the $61 billion for Ukraine will not prevent Ukraine’s impending defeat with over a half million soldiers dead, no hope of victory, and economy and infrastructure in ruins. They know the $26 billion for Israel will further the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and likely the West Bank as well. They know China is an imagined enemy that may be provoked into a real enemy with the $8 billion in weaponry for Taiwan and other pretend US allies in the region.

Only Casten, Duckworth and Durbin know why they’ve sold their souls as public servants to promote endless war, carnage and genocide as core US policy. Money? Power? Political ambition? Belief in US empire and exceptionalism?

Whatever, they have disgraced themselves as public servants by ignoring the desire of the voting majority demanding peace, not war; investment in the Homeland, not wanton destruction worldwide.

Voters in the IL Sixth District and throughout Illinois, must push back fervently against these out of control war enablers. We must hold their shame up to them at every opportunity. Those who remain silent become Ukraine and Gaza's silent executioners. 

Bipartisan Ukraine aid vote neither victory for Ukraine nor for functional American governance

 Bipartisan Ukraine aid vote neither victory for Ukraine nor for functional American governance

We in the peace movement knew the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board would be quick to celebrate the House Republican capitulation to Democrats in squandering another $61 billion on the lost war in Ukraine. For its entire 26 months, the Ukraine war has had complete support by the Trib for endless weapons for endless war, instead of negotiations that could have resolved it in its first month.

But to frame it as a harbinger of functional bipartisan governance is both surprising and preposterous. It simply represents Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson caving to the US war party which always gets its endless billions for war through bipartisan support. The six months of Republican delay were a welcome break from war bipartisanship when Republicans actually aligned themselves with the electorate which favors peace, not endless war in Ukraine.

The Trib correctly noted that a majority of House Republicans voted against this weapons boondoggle which will prolong the war to kill off the remaining Ukrainian soldiers, and further descend Ukraine into an ungovernable, failed state.

That 112 vote Republican majority, along with a majority of the American people, have infinitely more sense than the Biden administration and its partner in endless war, Speaker Mike Johnson.

The $61 billion cannot replace the hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainian soldiers. It cannot prevent Ukraine eventually suing for peace, losing a quarter of its territory when negotiations early on would have kept it whole.

What will the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board write when that occurs? We in the peace community would like to know.

 

Rep. Casten votes to squander $95 billion to further destroy Ukraine, enable genocide in Gaza, provoke military confrontation with China

 Rep. Casten votes to squander $95 billion to further destroy Ukraine, enable genocide in Gaza, provoke military confrontation with China

My pretend peace loving, fiscally conservative Congressman Sean Casten is anything but. Yesterday he voted with almost all House Democrats to print nearly a hundred billion dollars to further America’s decline on the world stage from military adventurism.

Normally, Casten doesn’t support any measure proposed by conservative, Bible thumping House Speaker Mike Johnson. But when Johnson struck a devil’s bargain with House Democrats to goose our economy with endless more Ukrainian and Palestinian blood, Casten jumped right in.

Johnson and House Democratic leaders devised a brilliant plan to split Biden’s gargantuan $95 billion dollar giveaway to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan into 3 separate bills of $61, $26 and $8 billion. That made it more politically expedient for all 3 to pass. The gambit worked as House Democrats, including Casten, cast a total of 590 of their 661 votes for war, war, possible war. The first ensures the destruction of Ukraine. The second ensures the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza. The third makes war with China more likely. Casten voted aye on all three.

Congressman Casten knows Ukraine is being systematically destroyed by America’s refusal to negotiate its end. Congressman Casten knows the 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza are being devoured by US enabled Israeli genocide. Congressman Casten knows US provocations in the Far East put America on a collision course to war against China.

For my Congressman Sean Casten, loyalty to the Biden administration war agenda is more important than saving hundreds of thousands of lives.

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Biden’s words proclaim Two State Solution or Palestinians; Biden’s actions ensure One Apartheid State Solution

Biden’s words proclaim Two State Solution or Palestinians; Biden’s actions ensure One Apartheid State Solution

 

Every time he’s asked, President Biden asserts he seeks statehood for Palestinians decades long under Israel’s Apartheid regime controlling them in the region.  

 

But for his entire six decade career in public office he’s done everything possible to protect Israel’s inexorable dehumanization and removal of Palestinians from their historic land.

 

Now as president, with significant influence to promote Palestinian statehood, Biden is doing the opposite.  Last Thursday he cast the lone veto in the UN Security Council denying full Palestinian UN membership. The vote was 12-1 with 2 abstentions. It only needed 9 votes to pass but the US veto nullified the 12 vote approval.

Biden does much more that veto UN Security Council resolutions on Palestinian statehood. He remains in “ironclad support” of Israel’s government which fervently argues there will never be a Palestinian state. Israeli Prime Minister pulls no punches.  “In any future arrangement … Israel needs security control all territory west of the Jordan. This collides with the idea of (Palestinian) sovereignty. What can you do?” Everyone knows that I am the one who for decades blocked the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger our existence.” 

Biden’s ironclad support includes thousands of tons of weapons for Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Once the Netanyahu-Biden tag team finishes off those pesky Palestinians who want a state of their own, any further UN Security Council resolutions will become moot.

When Biden’s lips move on the issue of Palestinian statehood, he’s lying. But his thumbs up to the next load of 2,000 lb. bombs to level entire city blocks in Gaza represent the absolute truth of his commitment to a single Apartheid state solution for the Palestinian people.

Maestro Netanyahu playing acolyte Biden like a Stradivarius

 Maestro Netanyahu playing acolyte Biden like a Stradivarius

At 81, President Biden is conducting foreign policy like a freshman who just flunked Political Science 101.

Not realizing he’s the most powerful leader in the world, he’s being bamboozled by Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of a country whose GDP is one-fiftieth that of Biden’s America.

When Netanyahu exploited the October 7 terrorist attack to ethnically cleanse Gaza of all 2,300,000 Palestinians, Biden dutifully adopted Netanyahu’s directive that Biden send him billions in weapons to finish off those pesky Palestinians who refuse to leave.

2,000 lb blaster bombs…check

Intelligence…check

Demanding Congress squander another $14 billion to complete the ethnic cleansing....check

Fighter jets, helicopters, precision guided missiles…check, check, check.

Every few weeks Biden rings up Netanyahu to complain about Israel’s ongoing genocide that’s hurting Biden with his voter base in the November 5 election. Over half of his 81 million voters in 2020 are abandoning him over his enabling of the Gaza genocide. Stalked in public by anti genocide protesters has forced Biden to abandon public campaign events in favor of private fundraisers with mega donors.

When Netanyahu obliterated 7 foreign aid workers including an American, Biden again complained to his foreign affairs boss about the unsavory optics on the world stage. A week later Netanyahu upped the ante of his disdain for Biden by bombing the Iranian consulate in Syria, a dastardly disregard for diplomatic protocol that could trigger a regional war. It was as if Netanyahu was telling Biden, ‘Don’t dare criticize me in public or private.’

Never in American history has any of Biden’s 44 predecessors so shamelessly destroyed America’s standing on the world stage by allowing a small but powerful rogue state leader to commit such grotesque crimes on a captive people to eliminate their existence. These crimes that could not have started much less continue without Biden’s “ironclad” support

But Karma may be coming for President Biden. His refusal to abandon weaponizing Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza could sink his reelection November 5.

In his relationship with Biden over Gaza, Netanyahu caresses a Stradivarius. Biden flails away on a tin whistle.

Chicago Tribune remains in stunning denial of nature and reality of war in Ukraine

 Chicago Tribune remains in stunning denial of nature and reality of war in Ukraine

Every few weeks the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board publishes an editorial misrepresenting the war in Ukraine.

Yesterday’s latest, ‘A GOP speaker risks his neck to finally help a desperate Ukraine. He deserves Democratic support’, continues the Trib’s endless exercise in futility.

The Trib implies the delayed $61billion in weapons Biden wants for Ukraine’s defense must be passed by Congress to prevent a Ukraine loss to Russia. That is not supported by a single, respected historian and political scientist.

Sixty-one trillion in weapons will not prevent Ukraine from losing about a quarter of its territory to Russia. Why? Ukraine is just about out of trained, committed soldiers to continue fighting a lost war and may be on the brink of collapse. Most of that $61 billion will stay right here in the Homeland making weapons that won’t reach Ukraine’s military till long after they throw in the towel.

The Trib knows this war could have been prevented altogether or settled within the first month without Ukraine losing any territory. The Trib knows that the Biden administration, with UK help, blew up that settlement when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanded Ukraine President Zelensky keep fighting so the US “could weaken Russia.”

Twenty-six months later the Trib remains in denial stating, “We have never wavered in our support for the Ukrainian people against Russian aggression, stretching back to the beginning of Putin’s brutal, illegal war. We’ve never heard any reasonable argument to the contrary.” The editorial mentioned Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal’s visit to the University of Chicago to lobby Gov. Pritzker and his sister, special U.S. representative to Ukraine, Penny Pritzker, to “press his nation’s case.” Too bad Shmyhal, the Pritzkers and the entire Trib Editorial Board didn’t pop in to talk to esteemed UChicago Political Science Professor John Mearsheimer. He could have added some reality to the fantasy that endless US billions will end Ukraine’s destruction, when it’s only negotiations that can end its destruction.

What was truly reprehensible was the Trib’s gratuitous sliming of the House Republicans trying to stop this senseless waste simply ensuring Ukraine’s demise. Doesn't matter their motives...only that the $61 billion be quashed. Calling them “firebrands” when they’re promoting peace is a form of ‘projection’. It’s the Trib Editorial Board Members that wear the moniker ‘firebrands’ for engaging in radical promotion of endless war destroying Ukraine.

It’s not too late for the Chicago Tribune to pivot to peace in Ukraine. It knows the war is hopeless. It knows that continued war will simply kill hundreds of thousands more Ukrainian soldiers. It knows negotiations are the only way this war will end.

What is the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board waiting for?

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Speaker Johnson caves to War Party to save Speakership

 Speaker Johnson caves to War Party to save Speakership

Newbie House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson has been holding up the Biden administration’s $95 billion weapons boondoggle since he replaced Kevin McCarthy 6 months ago. McCarthy got booted for trying to be a tad too bipartisan than the conservative zealots led by Marjorie Taylor Green and Matt Gaetz.

But the conservative clique that stalled Biden’s weapons cache designed to continue the demise of Ukraine and the genocidal ethnic countries cleansing of Gaza was a wonderful step toward possible peace in both.

Alas, the War Party, led by genocide enabler Biden, brought all their rhetorical guns to bear on Johnson to break with the GOP Speaker removers and go bipartisan to pass Biden’s weaponspalooza.

MTG and Heave Ho Gaetz promptly threatened to McCarthyize Johnson for daring to help squander $95 million to get hundreds of thousand more killed for nothing.

Johnson is left with going all in with his war loving Democratic colleagues to pile up enough Democratic votes to prevent his expulsion.

To do that John has to regurgitate every despicable Democratic lie to justify his lust for financing endless war with $95 printed billions.

Here’s what he said followed by what his brain knows is the truth.

Speaker Johnson: “We’re going to stand for freedom and make sure that Putin doesn’t march through Europe… we’re the greatest Nation on the planet, and we have to act like it” (‘We’re among the worst nations on the planet, destroying our moral standing worldwide enabling genocide in Gaza and degrading Ukraine. But doesn’t matter if I can keep my Speakership’)

Speaker Johnson: “I can make a selfish decision and do something that’s different but I’m doing here what I believe to be the right thing.” (‘And the right thing is to make nice with war Democrats so they’ll make nice with me’).

Speaker Johnson: “To put it bluntly, I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys.” (‘I don’t care how many Ukrainians must die to save my Speakership as long as it’s not Yankee blood. That $95 billion, if it passes, might just get me the Democratic votes I need to stick around’).

Speaker Mike Johnson looks like a sweet, young man. But in his heart and soul lurks a craven, power hungry political opportunist who’ll send thousands to needless death to save his skin.