I & I Editorial BoardA mentally challenged President Joe Biden turned 82 years old this week, a much-diminished man from his heyday as a Democratic Party Senate stalwart in the last century. But one part of his character is undimmed by the passage of the years: His legendary spite and gleeful willingness to betray his political foes.
Knowing this, is he now about to set off a third world war to settle an election score with newly re-elected President Donald Trump, who Biden still calls an “existential threat” to America?
We’re talking of course of Biden’s inexplicably dangerous decision to encourage Ukraine to use long-range U.S. missiles against Russian territory, which has already prompted a response from Russia in the form of a missile barrage against Ukraine.
Biden’s also approving antipersonnel mines for use against Russian forces, along with sending yet another $237 million in military aid and forgiving $5 billion in loans.
It makes no sense at all, unless you see it as a way of showing he still has the reins of government firmly in hand, and wants to hand Trump a nasty, dangerous mess as he takes the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2025.
“Kiev has launched a long-range missile strike against military facilities located within internationally recognized Russian territory,” Putin said in a televised address. “A regional Ukraine conflict instigated by the West has acquired elements of a global one.”
Worse, Putin has approved use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-armed Ukraine, arguing that since Ukraine has the backing of two nuclear powers – the U.S. and the U.K. – it’s only fair.
This, as we know from history, pushes the globe once more to the brink of world war, this time with several of the potential participants having nuclear weapons — among them Russia, the U.S., and Britain, the latter two having just given Ukraine the OK to use intermediate range missiles against Russian territory.
It’s one thing for Ukraine to strike on its own, quite another for its backers to egg it on by letting it use weapons that can only escalate, not de-escalate, a stupid war.
And yes, we blame Putin for this mess.
He invaded a sovereign nation and started a bloody, mindlessly destructive war that is ruining his own nation as well as Ukraine. An estimated half a million people have perished, according to U.S. estimates made just over a year ago, so many more have died since then.
Both sides have, at times, talked about ending the war, now made more difficult by Biden encouraging Ukraine.
Russia has said it wants a pledge that Ukraine won’t join NATO and for the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine to become part of Russia again.
An increasingly desperate Ukraine is signaling it wants talks. It knows it can’t win a prolonged war, Russia’s specialty. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky now even acknowledges that he can’t militarily retake Crimea, which Russia invaded in 2014.
Meanwhile, for the first time in the three years of war, a majority — 52% — of Ukrainians say they want a negotiated end to the war. Only 38% wanting to continue fighting, according to a recent Gallup Poll.
As things worsen, neighbors anticipate the worst. Finland and Sweden are telling their citizens to expect war. Poland has already been warned by Russia that a new U.S. military base there is a “priority target.“
“Sweden is sending out five million pamphlets to residents urging them to prepare for the possibility of war, with instructions on how to stockpile food and even seek shelter during a nuclear attack, as fears grow of a conflict between Russia and NATO,” the UK Daily Mail reports.
How serious is it?
“I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely believe that the Third World War has begun,” Ukraine’s former military commander in chief and current ambassador to Britain Valery Zaluzhny said.
If America gets dragged into another senseless war on the European continent, we can blame Biden. If it’s because he just hates Trump, that’s pathological. And if it leads to a nuclear exchange with Russia, Biden will go down in the annals of infamy as our nation’s worst president, if he hasn’t already earned that title.
Don’t be fooled by his nice-guy routine and the occasional big smile. Biden’s history of political betrayals is staggering and legendary. So it’s not hard to see that in raising the nuclear stakes in Ukraine, while also once again loosening our border controls, Biden’s creating two huge messes for Trump to clean up.
The clear message: America be damned, this is personal.
As Jerome R. Corsi summed up recently in the American Thinker, “Expanding the Ukraine war to a point where settlement is no longer an option is Deep State logic for making sure a Trump second term fails to achieve its stated goals.”
The election might be over, but not the far-left Democrats’ efforts to torpedo Trump’s final term in office. Trump, for the record, has vowed to seek a quick diplomatic solution to the Russia-Ukraine war.
We ask: Isn’t intentionally creating domestic and global chaos ahead of Trump’s inauguration in order to destabilize his efforts to govern a divided nation worse even than “insurrection”?
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
“If it’s because he just hates Trump, that’s just pathological.”
It’s not just Trump that he, and the communist/democrat party hate. It is the very idea of our constitution/bill of rights and citizen rule. Wealthy elites(many of whom are indeed PATHALOGICAL, think only they should be in charge. Look what they are attempting to do to Trumps cabinet picks(something the milquetoast republicans would never do).
I think the idea that Biden is vindictive is a valid point. At this late stage, authorizing certain missile types isn’t going to change the outcome of this bloody, brutal war. The immediate danger it seems to me is if these missile types happen to kill a large number of Russians, or if they destroy a particularly valuable resource of the Russians. At that point, Putin would have to respond violently. This most recent Russian launch of a ballistic missile with a MERV top was mostly because of Putin’s red lines that were crossed so completely by Biden. The West should appreciate that the majority of Russians want Putin to prosecute the war much more aggressively than has been done thus far.
Very alarming, thoughtful, comprehensive and persuasive editorial.
We’ve always been reminded that, like Stalin, Biden is a nice smile riding behind behind steel teeth and hobnailed boots.
I don’t know if Biden knows what he’s doing or is just following the Democratic Party playbook. Everything you point out-that Biden probably would do if he was compos mentis-applies also to the Democratic Party.
I believe they just want power and revenge (a la “Russian Collusion” and the impeachments of his first term. Also as shown in the lawfare practiced against him after 2020).
In my opinion, the Democratic Party is a spoiled child squealing, “If I can’t have it (the Presidency) then no one will!”
President Biden leaves me nauseous (and puzzled, wondering whose running the country?)-but the Democratic Party will kill us all!
The article fails to mention why Putin felt he had to invade Ukraine. Acknowledging the whole truth is always the best place to start.
Because Biden said he could.
. In whose mind is this a good idea? The West has been on an anti landmine vendetta for decades. I’d have someone close to 47 issue a warning to Ukraine. “Use them and you’re on your own”. They have 60 days to reek havoc that could go on killing for 60 years.
Because Biden said he could.
To blame Putin for the war, is to assume that history started in 2022. Perhaps 1991 when Gorbachev was promised that if he didn’t object to German reunification (as a non-neutral) that NATO wouldn’t move one more inch to the East. We all know what happened in the years of Russia’s weakness and bankruptcy. When Putin came to power, he was broadly cooperative with the West. A lot of the logistics support for our Afghan war was based in the Stans. Economic cooperation was on the table too. But the West kept pushing. The war against Serbia (a traditional Russian ally) was important. Serbia threatened no NATO country. This was pure aggression and an attempt to change borders that in Ukraine is completely unthinkable, if you listen to NATO. Then came 2014, with the US sponsored coup in Ukraine that ousted an elected pro-Russian government. At that point the Bear had been poked enough and responded by taking Crimea which had only been part of Ukraine for a few decades and had no significant Ukrainian population. Then the Little Green Men were unleashed in response to Ukrainian repression of Russian speakers. They were certainly sponsored by Russia and probably included a lot of Russian nationals alongside local militias. When the West started talking about including Ukraine in NATO, the Russians preempted as they regarded that as an existential threat. After the war started, the West, in the person of Boris Johnson sabotaged peace talks.
Oh! a Putin troll. And I thought that kind of idiocy had not outlived long after the start of the war in February 22.
In 1990/91 when the talk about reunification took place, a fait accompli about which Gorbi could not do much, in 1990/91, the Soviet Union still existed, the Warsaw Pact was still in place. The Soviets / Gorbi and the US and German negotiators were the last one who foresaw the further and complete collapse of their entire system. In short, NO ONE ever thought Poland, or Hungary, or … would be one day in the position to FREELY chose to join the FREE world. NO ONE discussed setting borders to NATO extension. The “East” that you so casually define, was East Germany. And to this day, there are still no NATO troops or weaponry in the territory of the former DDR. None! True to the agreement.
Then, wait for it … after Putin’s meltdown at the Munich Security Conference in 2006, Gorbi and his former Defense Minister gave an interview to a German media. And guess what? The big kahunas themselves said NATO extension to other countries that back then were part of the Warsaw Pact was NEVER EVER DISCUSSED. I think those two would know.
I was about to waste more of my precious time regarding Maidan and the rest… ignorance is bliss.
Slava Ukraini
Re “ignorance is bliss”
Ignorance of lies and deceptions (=most mainstream news and establishment decrees) is bliss because exposing yourself to that is self-propagandization.
Ignorance of truths is not, or only temporarily or rarely, bliss because it is ultimately self-defeating …. https://johnmichaeldemarco.com/15-reasons-why-ignorance-is-not-bliss
The FALSE mantra of “ignorance is bliss”, promoted in the latter sense, is a product of a fake sick culture that has indoctrinated its “dumbed down” (therefore TRULY ignorant, therefore easy to control) people with many such manipulative slogans. Eg…
““We’re all in this together” is a tribal maxim. Even there, it’s a con, because the tribal leaders use it to enforce loyalty and submission. … The unity of compliance.” — Jon Rappoport, Investigative Journalist
You can find the proof that ignorance is hardly ever bliss (and if so only superficial temporary fake bliss), and how you get to buy into this lie (and other self-defeating lies), in the article “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room –The Holocaustal Covid-19 Coronavirus Madness: A Sociological Perspective & Historical Assessment Of The Covid “Phenomenon”” … https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html
“Separate what you know from what you THINK you know.” — Unknown
“If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t there more happy people?” — John Mitchinson
“Repeating what others say and think is not being awake. Humans have been sold many lies…God, Jesus, Democracy, Money, Education, etc. If you haven’t explored your beliefs about life, then you are not awake.” — E.J. Doyle, songwriter
Biden is not thoughtful enough to be vindictive…he goes for what he wants which unfortunately is very indecisive. Trump should be decisive at least in telling the Europeans they must pay for most of what remains and should be aggressive in middle range missiles in large numbers so this can be ended justly! This war is READY to end; russia’s economy is in tatters and Trump is going to bottom out the price of oil. Middle range missiles in sufficient number will end the war in victory to Ukraine’s 1991 borders. russia’s always leaves when it struggles to supply its dirty army-Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Western Kherson. russia didn’t even fight for Kherson city because they feared mass surrenders of their army trapped on that side of the river. The most immediate danger is putin literally targeting women and children in Ukraine with the express purpose of breaking Ukraine’s will…do you care?? putin respond violently?? putin is struggling to fight Ukraine and does not dare draw us or NATO into war-china is not going to save his butt. Trump will expect Europe to bear most if not all of aid in weapons going forward and if Trump at least does not oppose the middle range missiles for Ukraine by European nations then given in sufficient number Ukraine will collapse russia with many strikes on gas-diesel production and bridges-destroy russia’s ability to supply its dirty army. russia’s GDP before the war was a little larger than Texas’ GDP; russia is pathetic in many ways and evil. Trump and America cannot obey putin’s “red lines” which he keeps redrawing. I believe I read the “ballistic missile” had no warhead; putin is pathetic and evil targeting women and children on purpose. putin does not try to bring in citizens from Moscow and St Petersburg because he fears upheaval if he tries; that is the people’s “support”.
I would put nothing past the vindictive petulant children democrats. Their ten years of trying to destroy President Trump didn’t work so what else could be up their sleeves.
Russia did not invade a “sovereign nation.” The MSM has spent years selling the lie that Putin just woke up one day and decided to be evil and invade Crimea, and all his other actions were unprovoked. Needless to say there is a backstory here and another side to the story that the MSM fanatically refuses to tell.
How about admitting that there was a change in government in Ukraine a few months before the liberation of Crimea? One that was, shall we say, inconsistent with democratic values? Oh, I’m sure Victoria Nuland, a high-ranking globalist diplomat, flew across the Atlantic just to hand out sandwiches to the forces behind the regime change. Uhh, right? And that’s just the tip of the iceberg once you start digging. Please I&I, stop being lazy in accepting the MSM narrative and start digging.
“Russia invaded a sovereign nation.” If it did, it was not the first to do so. The U.S. invaded Iraq, must I remind you?
Absurd! I cannot believe you folks speak against helping Ukraine in some way. Certainly to sell weapons and ammo with the russian assets guaranteeing repayment or the Europeans; I assume we have per capita helped more than Europe at this point. putin is literally targeting women and children to try and break Ukraine’s will to fight. putin is our enemy. russia is a large dictatorship and vassal to china our enemy. If you folks help putin steal part of Ukraine then he and the next trash dictator after him will rebuild stronger and go for Odessa and Moldova next–costing even more and wasting what we already invested in victory. russia’s economy is in tatters and before the war was a little larger than Texas’ (in other words they are a corrupt failure). russia does not dare draw us or NATO in to war; they struggle to fight Ukraine. With 500+ missiles of even medium range, Ukraine could destroy 50 or 60 russian gas-diesel production plants and hundreds of russian railroad bridges in western russia and make it impossible for russia to supply its 500,000+ soldiers (become a liability) ending the war in a few weeks like russia ran away from Kherson city when it could not supply its soldiers). russia MUST leave to Ukraine’s 1991 borders and Ukraine immediately into NATO after that victory; anything less is surrender to putin who actually threatens us (so you want to obey putin because of his threats-great plan guys!). putin blundered into this and has done absolute evil and horror; it is a great opportunity for us to help our friend Ukraine destroy russia’s military leaving ONE large dictatorship on this planet. Wake up!
….cannot tell if this is satire or written by someone completely ignorant of regional history and geography for 100+ years and willfully blind to all goings-on since 2014. Dunno.
Brother John Are YOU kidding?? I am not sure where YOU have been. The Ukrainians VOTED to be free in 1991 then had an Orange revolution in 2004 when russia poisoned one of the candidates (have you seen how horribly he was disfigured??) and then had a Maidan revolution in the middle of winter in 2013 where the “Heavenly 100” were killed before they literally ran that dirty russia lover out of Ukraine. How much evil does putin-russia have to do before you show at least a SMALL AMOUNT of skepticism of russian BS! russia lied to Egypt in the 1960’s and suddenly Israel found itself in the middle of a war with ALL its neighbors…which thankfully it won. I mean…putin is literally targeting women and children in Ukraine to try and break Ukraine’s will to fight. If a woman was being ravaged by a man would you nuance THAT too?? I know plenty of the history of that region and I also know evil when I see it and to not tolerate it.
I must admit that as someone who came to age with heroes like Reagan, Thatcher, JPII, Walesa and Havel, I find appealing than any republican would not hold high the beacon of freedom. The shining city on the hill is dimming down. So sad,
As someone who came of age during those days, I find it alarming that anyone really thinks that “Freedom” is at issue in the Russo/Ukrainian war, and who overlooks the fact that the greatest threat to freedom and liberty for Americans is the “American” government.
Once we get our house in order, we can think about who needs our help. In the meanwhile, a clear-headed approach to these problems and what caused them is required.
Biden – reckless, feckless and venal, even in his dotage.
It’s possible that Biden is being blackmailed by Ukraine regarding his past corrupt activities in that country.
Bidens’ handlers aren’t and cannot authorize Ukraine itself to launch missiles into Russia. We installed the government there and control it through the puppet we hand picked to do our bidding.
American, British and French missile units are directly ordered to attack specific targets and are provided American ISR for target aquisition and require American servicemen to enter the data, arm and fire the weapons.
Due to proprietary restrictions, only American servicemen can access these systems
We are using Ukrainian territory and their military as a proxy to conduct another undeclared war. Not against third world failed states, this time against Russia.
The larger goal was to topple the nationalist Russian government to exploit its’ resources, industrial infrastructure and highly educated workforce.
The immediate goal was the Biden crime family syndicate using public monies and military muscle in protecting their natural gas rights owned by Burisma.
The corruption is open and beyond belief. The US military is used as a mercenary force in multiple nations to enhance and protect private corporate interests like Black Rock and Burisma.