Biden still slouching toward war, possibly nuclear, with Russia over Ukraine

Kamala Harris has a lot more to be concerned about than possibly losing to Donald Trump November 5…her boss President Biden escalating the Ukraine war beyond control.

 

 

As early as this weekend President Biden may approve Ukrainian long range missile strikes into Russia, even reaching Moscow, using US and UK missiles.

 

 

That would represent a huge US escalation that further overturns Biden’s initial comments on the Russian invasion that he would not foolishly escalate US involvement, least it provoke nuclear war.

 

 

But during the 31 months of war largely destroying Ukraine as a functioning nation, Biden has taken increasingly provocative actions risking wider war. Blowing up a Ukraine Russia peace agreement early on to win a zero sum game, check. F-16’s, check. Abrams tanks, Check. Providing long range missiles with strings attached, check.

 

 

But removing those strings may be a missile to far for Russian President Putin. He shot back at Biden’s deranged likely escalation charging “This would in a significant way, change the very nature of the conflict. It would mean that NATO countries, the US, European countries, are at war with Russia. If that’s the case, then taking into account the change of nature of the conflict, we will take the appropriate decisions based on the threats that we will face. Supporting long-range Ukrainian strikes inside Russian territory is a decision on whether NATO countries are directly involved in the military conflict or not.”

 

 

President Biden, keeps double and tripling down on his refusal to concede it has turned Ukraine into the Humpty Dumpty of Europe. But unlike the poor soul of the nursery rhyme, Ukraine didn’t fall of the wall of functioning nations. President Biden pushed it with his lust to bring Ukraine into NATO and weaponize Ukraine’s civil war against Russian leaning Ukrainians in Donbas Ukraine.

 

 

It’s possible Harris understands Biden’s reckless folly and will pivot from bombs and missiles to diplomacy to end it should she become president.

 

 

But don’t count on it. Harris has been an unbridled proponent of US exceptionalism and world dominance her entire political career. She is unlikely to buck the US security establishment which has and will exert virtually total control over her if elected.

 

 

Let’s all work to push a President Harris to pivot to peace to prevent her blowing up the world. We don’t want her to be America’s last president….that is unless Joe Biden, with his reckless war escalations in Ukraine, beats her to it.

That was then...This is now

 

That was then...This is now

 

Then...It's raining cats and dogs

 

Now...It's eating cats and dogs

 

 

Sane foreign policy biggest loser in Harris/Biden debate

 

Sane foreign policy biggest loser in Harris/Biden debate

 

You know that foreign policy gets short shrift in US elections when it isn’t even broached till over half way thru the lone presidential debate.

 

As bad as that was, it pales in comparison to the dreadful discussion of the No. 1 issue affecting all 8 billion of us: achieving peace while preventing nuclear war.

 

When asked how she would end Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza, Harris could have stated she’d cut off all US weapons to Israel, over 50,000 tons of which have killed tens of thousands of Palestinian moms and kids. Without them the Israeli genocide there would collapse within 3 months. Instead of an action plan she merely restated her now tired wish of achieving a ceasefire that is impossible till she pivots to ending all weapons deliveries.

 

At least we know where she stands…the weapons will continue flowing into Israel till all the Palestinians flow out of Gaza and the West Bank. This is Israel’s stated goal and Kamala’s support of it is “ironclad.” Trump, could have exploited Harris’ ghoulish support of genocide by calling for an immediate weapons embargo on Israel. Instead he offered the unhinged charge that Harris hates Israel and if elected, she’ll be responsible for Israel being destroyed “within 2 years.” What he didn’t reiterate is that he’s even more enamored of Israeli genocidal ethnic cleansing in Gaza than Harris. He’s never supported a ceasefire of any kind, instead trumpeting that Israel must “finish the job.”

 

Sane views on the US proxy war against Russia fared no better. Harris reiterated the delusional Biden position that Ukraine is the first step in Russia’s plan to go after Poland and other European countries. With Ukraine near defeat with no chance of prevailing, Harris appears ready to commit another $150 billion on a lost war of America’s making till the last Ukrainian solder is dead. But the greatest threat to peoplekind that Harris refuses to acknowledge, is that current US policy with Russia in Ukraine presents the biggest threat of nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis 62 years ago. That is unconscionable.

 

Trump response was to boast Russia would never have invaded Ukraine under his presidency and that he could end it while still President Elect with his superior negotiating skills. But it was Trump who reinstituted the flow of weapons to Ukraine during his term that fueled the civil war in Donbas. Along with endless NATO membership overtures to Ukraine by both Trump and Biden, the Russian invasion of Ukraine became virtually inevitable.

 

To his credit Trump did not view the war in Ukraine as a zero sum game that America must totally win; Russia totally lose. He simply said it must end period, reflecting disdain for the US national security establishment by refusing to parrot their assertion Russia is recreating the Soviet Union starting with Ukraine. While commendable, Trump never acted on any initiative to further peace during his term by reigning in our trillion dollar national security budget. Indeed, he expanded provocative bombings such as his assassination fo Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad that nearly triggered war with Iran in 2020.

 

Trump did inadvertently offer one truth that got no reaction. He said the Biden/Harris policies could provoke WWIII. While he likely only offered that to further his ‘demonize Harris’ agenda, every person in the peace community knows that is precisely the ominous path Biden/Harris policy in Ukraine have set the world on.

 

The Harris Trump debate did educate those of us in the peace community that peace will not be priority in either a Harris or Trump administration. Neither offered a plan to end the genocidal ethnic cleansing in Gaza nor the possibility of nuclear war with Russia over Ukraine.

 

But simply on Trump’s refusal to join the crowd viewing Russia as an existential threat to America or any other country including Ukraine once they renounce NATO membership and designs on Donbas, Trump is less a threat to our survival than Kamala Harris. She once again bragged the US must remain the “most lethal” country of the world’s 193. That should dishearten every person of peace to their core.            

US uses economic extortion to keep troops in its Iraq Roach Motel

US uses economic extortion to keep troops in its Iraq Roach Motel

The US has roughly 800 military bases round the world in 80 countries. Many are welcome by the host countries due to the influx of our tax dollars Uncle Sam squanders to maintain them.

But some are simply US roach motels. The troops go in unwelcome but when asked to leave…they never come out.

Case in point is Iraq, where US forces launched a dastardly invasion 21 and a half years ago. It largely ruined Iraq as a thriving nation, creating hundreds of thousands dead in its wake. President Obama declared an end to the Iraq war 13 years ago this December 15. But the US keeps a residual contingent of 2,500 US troops who continue to violate Iraqi sovereignty with their unwanted presence.

How unwanted? When the US assassinated a top Iranian commander and several Iraqis in a December 2020 Baghdad drone strike, Iraqi Parliament demanded the US leave. President Trump, followed by his successor Joe Biden just laughed off the continuing Iraqi demand. One of the reasons for staying was our Iraqi troop presence serves to support our unwanted 900 soldiers violating Syrian sovereignty to keep the Syrian oil from its rightful owner. That’s a US roach motel supporting a neighboring US roach motel.

Why doesn’t Iraq resist the unwanted US troop presence? Simple, the US has been holding Iraq’s foreign reserves in the Federal Reserve since our illegal 2003 invasion. This gives Uncle Sam control over Baghdad’s dollar supply and the ability to devalue the Iraqi dinar. The US also controls Iraq’s ability to pay its neighbor Iran for critically needed electricity.

But there are consequences for maintaining a roach motel in unwanted countries. All 2,500 troops in Iraq have targets on their backs thanks to whoever is their Commander In Chief. On August 29th, a US military operation against ISIS there inflicted injuries to 7 US soldiers.

No wonder much of the world outside of NATO and a few allies in the Far East are turning away from US unipolar dominance. They are joining BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Together they represent over half the world’s population and GDP. These non-aligned organizations refuse to bow US lust to control the world. They reject US disregard for sensible foreign policies and disrespect for national sovereignty.

Time for Uncle Sam to wise up least he find himself in a roach motel of his own making with no exit.