Biden going against voters on Ukraine war – US lawmaker
US President Joe Biden is “dangerously trying to start WWIII” before he leaves office in January, Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed.
The lawmaker from Georgia was reacting to reports that Biden had lifted a prohibition on the use of US-supplied long-range missiles by Kiev for attacks deep inside Russian territory. The policy change has been reported by the New York Times, the Associated Press, Axios, and other news outlets, all of which cited anonymous sources.
The purported decision goes against the expressed desire of the American people not to “fund or fight foreign wars,” Greene wrote on X, referring to the election of Donald Trump as the next US president earlier this month. He campaigned on an “America First” platform and claimed that he could end the Ukraine conflict in 24 hours, if elected. Trump won, securing a popular majority.
Republican Senator Mike Lee mused that liberals “love war” because it “facilitates bigger government” in reaction to the news. Elon Musk, a key Trump confidante, agreed with this assertion.
Biden is “pointlessly escalat[ing] with two months to go” because his team knows that “the Blob” – the permanent national security and foreign policy community in the US – is unhappy that “they didn’t do enough to arm Ukraine,” pro-Trump venture capitalist David Sacks said.
Securing permission to use Western-donated weapons to strike targets deep inside internationally recognized Russian territory was part of the ‘victory plan’ proposed in September by Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky to Biden and Trump. Sources claim that the US president has now granted limited permission to do so with ground-launched ATACMS ballistic missiles.
Kiev is reportedly allowed to use the weapons against North Korean troops, which Ukraine and its backers claim have been deployed in Russia’s Kursk Region. Zelensky ordered an incursion there in August, stating that it would give his government a bargaining chip during eventual peace talks.
Neither Russia nor North Korea have either confirmed or denied the reported deployment. This month, the two nations ratified a bilateral agreement, which includes provisions for providing assistance in the event of a foreign invasion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow will consider an attack by Western long-range weapons on Russian soil as directly involving the countries that donated the arms. Ukraine does not have the military assets required to collect intelligence for such operations and cannot prepare them without direct assistance from NATO nations, he said.
