Destroying Ukraine and Palestine a sorrowful legacy for Biden presidency

Destroying Ukraine and Palestine a sorrowful legacy for Biden presidency

Joe Biden may not get a second presidential term this November. That he’s down in the polls to an unhinged enemy of responsible democratic government does not bode well for his electability.

But if he is reelected, it will be hard for him to do more ndamage to humanity on the foreign stage than his murderous current term.

Ten months into his presidency Biden had an opportunity to end the deadly civil war in Ukraine between the ultra-nationalist pro-western Kyiv government and the Russian leaning Ukrainians in Donbas. Besides ending destruction of the latter, he could have negotiated Russia’s security concerns over Biden supported NATO membership for Ukraine. Instead, he told Russia that their security concerns were not even ‘on the table’, a diplomatic way of telling Russia to ‘go to hell.’

That precipitated the Russian invasion of February 24, 2022. Twenty-seven months later, Ukraine is on the brink of collapse with over a million of young Ukrainian men dead or fled to neighboring countries to avoid being killed in an unwinnable war. The Ukrainian economy is on US life support. Biden has squandered over $100 billion in weapons and economic aid with another $61 billion authorized that will do nothing to prevent Ukraine’s inevitable defeat.

All this death and destruction could have been avoided had Biden had simply used sensible diplomacy instead of the standard ‘We Win, You Lose’ mentality he’s practiced during his entire half century governmental career.

Ukraine will likely keep its majority pro west portion after the war ends through a negotiated settlement. The same may not be said for the Gaza portion of Palestine being systematically destroyed by Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing there, supported and enabled by President Joe Biden.

For 8 months now Biden has been supplying tens of billions in munitions to allow Israel to pulverize Gaza’s 139 square miles into rubble. Hospitals gone. Schools and universities gone. Housing gone. Tens of thousands dead. Ten thousand or more missing under the rubble collapsed on them by Biden’s 2,000 lb. bombs. Little food, water or medicine allowed in by Israeli government with nary a significant action by Biden to stop the carnage.

One cannot sugarcoat Biden’s policy of supporting and enabling Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza. It is American genocide in Gaza as surely as it is Israeli genocide there.

But the worst may be provoked by Biden’s destruction of 2 countries. US determination to avoid defeat of its proxy war in Ukraine has the potential to go nuclear. Biden is signaling that Ukraine can use long range US missiles to attack deep into Russia. That could be a tripwire that ignites nuclear war, either from mistake, accident, or rogue military action.

Should that occur, Biden won’t have to worry about historians chronicling his monstrous legacy of senseless destruction of Ukraine and Gaza he could have easily prevented. None will be left to write that legacy.