Seriously, Is Biden Trying To Start WWIII To Get Even With Trump?

By Issues & Insights Editorial Board | November 22, 2024

A 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”?

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