The Russians are right. 

From Tucker Carlson’s email list:

Joe Biden is doing everything he can to prolong this war.

This is not a new development. Biden has been among the conflict’s most aggressive provocateurs since its onset and even before. Think about all the times when legitimate de-escalation could have been achieved but wasn’t because of this administration’s steadfastly anti-peace behavior.

Before the war started, Vladimir Putin repeatedly decried the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO as cripplingly damaging to his country’s national security. His point had merit. Ukraine’s admittance to the West’s anti-Russia alliance would result in the stationing of hostile military forces, and possibly nuclear weapons, on Putin’s border. Any leader in their right mind would view that as unacceptable. America did when it happened in Cuba.

Knowing those facts, the United States should have scaled back, rejected the idea of a Ukraine/NATO partnership, and worked in good faith to reduce tension with the world’s most powerful nuclear country. Biden did the opposite. In February 2022, he sent his overburdened vice president to the Munich Security Conference where she threw the American government’s wholehearted support behind Ukraine and spoke glowingly about the idea of a NATO initiation. Russia invaded less than six days thereafter.

A few months later, after much blood had been shed, Russia made a surprising declaration: It was ready to end the war. 

In exchange for Ukrainian neutrality, Putin’s government told Kyiv it would withdraw its forces and cease the fighting. But that did not come to pass. According to Ukraine’s former top negotiator, Biden surrogate Boris Johnson hijacked the promising armistice talks, arriving in the war zone as negotiations were already under way to deliver a message on the American president’s behalf: Don’t sign a deal. Just keep fighting. Peace talks halted within the week.

Then this Sunday, just days after Donald Trump’s reelection introduced a real chance for peace, Biden played his most damaging card yet. By allowing Ukraine to launch U.S.-provided missiles inside Russia, the president increased this war’s potential damage from regional to planetary, risking nuclear proliferation in the name of more taxpayer-funded violence that benefits none of the parties involved.

Except permanent Washington.