Biden makes 10-year security pact with Zelensky that includes sending F-16s to Ukraine
This is a potentially massive escalation
If you were hoping that Genocide Joe was going to calm down and take the world back from the brink, think again. The US President has announced a bilateral 10-year security agreement with Ukraine and a $50 billion loan backed by the G7 countries. This move comes shortly after the US gave Zelensky the green light to strike Russian soil with US-made weapons. Biden pointed out that Israel, sorry, Russia launched a brutal attack on its neighbour and said: “We will say it again: Yes, again and again and again, we’re going to stand with Ukraine.”
Zelensky has hailed the deal as a “bridge to joining NATO” and Putin has vowed an “extremely painful retaliation”. US warmongers are using words like “historic” while patting themselves on the back for condemning more Ukrainian men and boys to their deaths. Fortunately, the deal is not an official treaty, but rather a pact between two leaders. This gives Trump the opportunity to campaign on scrapping it and pulling the world back from the brink. Ironically, Republicans could end up winning on a lesser of two evils argument, which would be strange for a party that prides itself on being the greater of two evils!
The security deal includes sending Patriot missile systems and F-16 fighter jets (I’m old enough to remember when this would be a dangerous escalation) to Ukraine, as well as training Ukrainians in combat and cyberwarfare. The agreement states the US and Ukraine will “work together to help deter and confront any future aggression against the territorial integrity” of Ukraine and talks of commitments “intended to support Ukraine’s efforts to win today’s war and deter future Russian military aggression.”
Ukraine has been attacking radar systems and air defences in Crimea and this is assumed to be paving the way for an armada of F-16s to blitz Crimea, something which would surely provoke a massive response from Russia.
The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement:
“We cannot ignore the fact that these planes are dual-purpose platforms that can be used both for nuclear and non-nuclear tasks.
“No matter what modification of the aircraft will be supplied, we will treat them as nuclear-capable and we will consider this step of the United States and NATO as a purposeful provocation.”
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov went a step further and said:
“They are trying to tell us that the United States and NATO would stop at nothing in Ukraine. Nevertheless, we hope that the Russian-Belarusian drills on the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons that are under way now will knock some sense into our opponents by reminding them about the catastrophic consequences of further nuclear escalation.”
It seems the US president, who is considered too senile to stand trial, really could be leading us into nuclear war and I still have no idea if this is intentional. Presumably, nor does he, given what the Special Counsel said when he was caught mishandling classified documents:
“It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him -- by then a former president well into his eighties -- of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Special Counsel’s Office, US Department of Justice
If you’re worried that a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” could accidentally lead us into World War III, don’t worry, grandpa is not alone. He actually has younger, non-senile sociopaths making his decisions for him. Phew, that’s a relief!
Jens Stoltenberg is making support for Ukraine mandatory for all NATO members (apart from Hungary) which is a way of making Ukraine a NATO member without officially making it a NATO member. Stoltenberg spoke of putting together a SAGU (security assistance group for Ukraine) to provide weapons and training. He lamented that previous promises to Ukraine had not been honoured and these will be turned from voluntary contributions into NATO commitments. Absurdly, Stoltenberg argued the purpose is to end the war he has just prolonged.
A declaration from NATO and the EU at the Vilnius summit last year spoke of “the importance of [Ukraine’s] deepening integration into the Euro-Atlantic community; and underlining the centrality of reform to support and strengthen Ukraine’s defence, prosperity, recovery, rule of law, and democracy.”
About that democracy… Ukraine has just banned the World Socialist Website, despite the fact it has opposed the Russian invasion and criticised Putin as well as NATO. It seems likely the motivation is that anything anti-NATO has to go. Ironically, WSW writers also face the risk of arrest in Russia - one thing all of these authoritarians hate is socialism. Have you noticed how when a neo-Nazi opposition leader like Navalny is jailed in Russia, the west cries, but when a socialist is jailed, they don’t even mention it? You probably didn’t notice because they don’t tell you about the socialists.
Clearly, there is no side in this conflict fighting for freedom and democracy. Zelensky is banning political parties and media outlets, and torturing and killing journalists, and the indifference of western leaders, combined with their own penchant for censorship, shows you what they would do here if they could. Of course, Russia behaves no better. It recently jailed a socialist writer called Boris Kargalitsky for five years and the western media just ignored the story (try Googling his name).
If you’re swallowing either side’s propaganda, you’re really not engaging in critical thinking. We’re supposed to get excited over dumb social media posts about Ukraine shooting down “fifth generation Russian fighter jets”. All I can say is if you‘re cheering on a war, please take a look at yourself. You shouldn’t gloat about Russian losses any more than you should gloat about Ukrainian losses. People are making Russia vs Ukraine a Republicans vs Democrats team sport because they don’t think they will be affected by the consequences. But this thing could soon be coming to their doorstep.
Russian ships carrying hypersonic missiles with a 600-mile range have docked just 230 miles from Miami, meaning we could be close to a Cuban missile crisis, part two. In 30 years, NATO has moved its border 1,000km closer to Russia so let’s see how the US reacts if Russian hypersonic missiles get stationed in Cuba.
Do you think the US would take this lying down and say, “Oh well, Cuba can ally itself with whoever it likes”? Or do you think they would consider it an unwarranted act of aggression? In such a situation, the US could decide to bomb Cuba or it could decide to negotiate, and both sides could agree it’s a stupid idea to put missile bases on the other’s doorstep. Which option do you think is more reasonable?
I get attacked by Ukraine flag Twitter whenever I point out the decision to allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia with our weapons not only makes us a target, but brings us within one miscalculation of World War III. If Russia’s nuclear bases or early warning system were to be struck, it would represent a bigger threat to Russia than an attack on Miami would to the US.
“But Ukraine is fighting for its survival!” idiots scream like there is not the option of discussing peace. If the nuclear button is pressed, no one will be fighting for survival because we’ll all be as dead as the Ukrainian men and boys who were thrown into the meat grinder for NATO’s proxy war.
Who voted for this nuclear brinksmanship anyway? The rest of the world certainly didn’t. Only 21% of 40,000 people surveyed in mostly western-allied countries feel the US is democratic and a majority disapprove of Biden’s handling of Ukraine, but when this thing goes nuclear, they will die too. What gives our leaders the right to make these decisions for them?
Senator Lindsey Graham let the cat out of the bag when he said: “Ukraine has trillions of dollars worth of critical minerals in their country. Vladimir Putin cannot be allowed to access that money and those resources because he will share it with China.”
Clearly, this war is not about Ukraine’s sovereignty, it’s about controlling the world’s resources and looting Ukraine’s wealth. You don’t have to militarily defeat a country to conquer it, you simply have to plunge it into debt. As much as anything else, this thing has been one almighty debt trap. Zelensky is already selling Ukraine’s assets to pay for this war and once they’re gone, the Ukrainian people are not getting those assets back. Russia might have conquered a small strip of eastern Ukraine, but the NATO empire has conquered western Ukraine without firing a bullet.
The newspapers are telling us we’re in 1938, but they’re not telling us that we’re the invaders. They’re not telling us that we chose to be in 1938 by violating the Minsk agreements and walking away from peace negotiations so we could steal the land from under Ukrainians’ feet and blame Putin. We have a moral duty to stop our leaders from going any further.
We often focus on Biden , as if he’s running the IC/deep state. As if he’s ordered them to protect him and his family from exposure to crimes etc . I think this is inverted thinking. The flow is actually opposite direction to this common misconception. It’s clear now that the IC/unelected 4th branch of govt are actually in charge , and have been for some time. The FBI and others are not hiding harmful evidence against Biden (or Obama , or Clinton etc ) because it’s “Biden’s FBI”. They are concealing evidence against him because they need a willing party/ useful idiot holding office at all times to protect themselves and cover up their crimes .
Folks like the Bush’s , Clintons, Obamas, Bidens do the bidding of the unelected govt , not the reverse. They are agents of the deep state. Trumps presence on the political scene has exposed this , and that is why they are so desperate to destroy him. Trump was and is the X factor that threatens the entire corrupted construct - and that construct is to maintain the illusion that we still have effective elected government. We don’t , not anymore , and haven’t for decades.
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