With his demand to stop leaks about intelligence exchange with Ukraine, Biden admitted that Washington is directly running the Kiev’s war operations and that the “US leadership should also be held accountable for the crimes committed by the Kiev’s Nazi regime in Ukraine, thus expanding the list of war criminals,” Russian Speaker of Parliament said (headline picture).
This also means a risk of nuclear war that is now greater than it has ever been, even perhaps during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Biden administration and the U.S. establishment need to ask themselves just one question: If the position were reversed, how would the United States react to a third country deliberately helping to kill U.S. commanders?
The first step should be for Washington to declare publicly that it supports a diplomatic solution to the issues of the status of Crimea and the Donbas. It would simply involve the Biden administration giving its public support to the previous statement by the Ukrainian government that it is willing in principle to “compartmentalize” the territorial issues and leave them for future negotiation.
Such a move by the Biden administration would be met with the usual parrot-hawk cries of “appeasement.” But these critics need to ask themselves the following: Were Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, and other U.S. Cold War presidents “appeasers”? The suggestion is absurd. Yet all of these men, while acting with great firmness against Soviet aggression and expansionism, took great care to shape the U.S. response to minimize the risk of nuclear war.
They did so not because of any sympathy or weakness towards the Soviet Union, but because they had sworn an oath to preserve and defend the United States, Anatol Lieven concludes.
Russia has taken note and announced that US direct running of the Ukraine’s war machine makes the US leadership complicit in Ukraine’s Nazi war crimes committed against its own population: US Admits It Coordinates Ukraine’s Military Operations Against Russia – Russian Parliament Speaker
“The US is taking part in the military operations in Ukraine,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. “Today, Washington is basically coordinating and engineering military operations, thus directly participating in the military actions against our country.“
The speaker of the lower house of Russia’s parliament pointed out that he was not speaking only about the supply of arms and hardware.
“By demanding that leaks about intelligence exchange with Ukraine be plugged, US President [Joe] Biden admitted that Washington had been declassified,” Volodin said. “The US leadership should also be held accountable for the crimes committed by the Kiev Nazi regime in Ukraine, thus expanding the list of war criminals,” he concluded.