Will Biden’s proxy war on Russia sink his ’24 re-election?

 Will Biden’s proxy war on Russia sink his ’24 re-election?

Joe Biden has the Democratic presidential nomination sewed up if he seeks re-election. But once he receives it, his stellar record on domestic issues may not be enough to gain re-election.

Why? His ‘all in’ proxy war on Russia, including over $100 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine, may cost him millions of votes in November next year. Last month, support for weaponizing Ukraine dropped by one-fifth, from 60% to 48%. That shouldn’t surprise as a year of war sees no end in sight, does not connect with everyday problems Americans face, soars the federal debt northward, and carries no direct threat to US national security interests. Americans are trending toward negotiations, not weapons, to end a turf war 5,000 miles from the Homeland.

The 2 leading Republican presidential contenders have seized Biden’s proxy war as an opportunity to weaken Biden’s support. Trump and DeSantis currently account for over 75% of likely Republican voters next year. Both have staked out opposition to continued US aid to fund a seemingly endless war. Doesn’t matter that if Trump were president, he and DeSantis would likely both be promoting the same utterly self-destructive proxy war Biden and the entire Democratic Party are pursuing. Their opposition appears to be solely political, not principled.

Unless pending indictments derail Trump’s campaign, he’s the likely GOP nominee, as DeSantis remains a distant second and appears to be fading nationally with his cockamamie culture war core issue.

With a slim chance Ukraine can survive, much less prevail over Russia, more Americans are losing interest in and support for a lost cause increasing US debt; indeed, worsening America’s decline as a global power and potentially moving the war from proxy to nuclear.

Trump lost to Biden in 2020 by losing just 5 of his 30 victorious states in 2016. With aid likely over $200 billion by then with no upside, those states could easily tilt red giving either Trump or DeSantis the White House with a mandate to pull the plug on our proxy war that should never have been fought and once started, could have been ended early on.

There is strong historical evidence for this. Democrats lost the presidency in 1952 because they couldn’t end the senseless Korean War. Democrats lost again in 1968 over their disastrouis Vietnam War.

Of course, if Biden’s current proxy war goes nuclear, any discussion of war costing them a third election will be moot.