Ending Hostilities with Russia or the Hell with that, Let’s Start World War III

The new administration’s priority in Ukraine would be establishing peace and not restoring lost territory, including Crimea. “And if President Zelenskiy comes to the table and says, well, we can only have peace if we have Crimea, he shows us that he’s not serious. Crimea is gone,” Bryan Lanza, a long-time Republican strategist who was a contractor on Trump’s 2024 campaign, said in an interview with the BBC.

The Russian president said that, in his opinion, Trump’s “desire to restore relations with Russia, to help end the Ukrainian crisis” deserved “attention at least.” Now, even the German president is talking again with Putin. In contrast, others complain that there should be no communication with Russia and let’s risk the destruction of the human race via all-out war, which could include nuclear destruction.

The first official Russian reaction came from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who reminded that “we are talking about an unfriendly country that is directly and indirectly involved in a war against our state.” And now President Biden has lit the fuse with him, his team, and even his wife, all going for war, not peace. Can anyone stop him and his administration?

Joe Biden thrust the United States deeper into Eastern Europe’s destructive war Sunday, reportedly authorizing the Ukrainian military to use American long-range missiles to strike inside Russia. The decision brings the US closer to a nuclear conflict than since at least the Cuban missile crisis, as Vladimir Putin has long stated that such an escalation would constitute an act of war.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov reportedly said Monday that any decision to allow Ukraine to fire American missiles into Russia would represent the United States direct involvement in the conflict, potentially opening the door for an all-out war between the two nuclear superpowers.

In Moscow, meanwhile, senior lawmaker Leonid Slutsky slammed Mr. Biden, accusing him of deciding “to end his presidential term and go down in history as ‘Bloody Joe’.”

Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov, meanwhile, told Russia’s state-run Tass news agency that Biden’s decision represented “a very big step toward the beginning of the third world war.”

A Nuclear War Could Kill Billions

Now, a few days later, President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a revised nuclear doctrine declaring that a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country.

The signing of the doctrine, which says that any massive aerial attack on Russia could trigger a nuclear response, demonstrates Putin’s readiness to tap the country’s nuclear arsenal to force the West to back down as Moscow presses a slow-moving offensive in Ukraine.

Donald Trump Jr. warned Sunday that Joe Biden is trying to start a third World War, recognizing Sunday’s missile-policy decision, paired with his administration’s years of war funding, as the dangerous and unnecessary provocations that they are. “The Military Industrial Complex seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives,” the president-elect’s son tweeted. “Gotta lock in those $Trillions. Life be damned!!! Imbeciles!”

Trump Wants Peace, But Will He Inherit A Global War

Trump has pledged to rapidly end the war in Ukraine when he takes power, but critics say a Trump-brokered peace deal could result in Ukraine being forced to cede territory. Someone at this point should compose a song, ‘Don’t cry for me, Ukraine’.

What does Italian Manlio Dinucci think the Trump administration should do in Europe?

1) Ensure that a ceasefire between NATO/Ukraine and Russia is implemented.

2) Initiate summit negotiations between the presidents of the US and the Russian Federation.

3) Ensure that the entire European front is demilitarized and denuclearised through the withdrawal of US-NATO intermediate-range nuclear forces deployed in Europe in the proximity of Russian territory and Russian intermediate-range nuclear forces deployed in Russian territory in the near vicinity of Europe and Belarus.

4) The removal of sanctions against Russia and the restoration of political, economic, and cultural relations between the US and Russia.

Donald Trump “will hurt America” if he allows Putin to win in Ukraine, NATO’s top military official has said, because they cannot stand the thought of losing. In the most substantial criticism of Mr Trump’s so-called peace plans, Adml Rob Bauer said Ukraine is of “strategic importance” to the US. The truth is that a peaceful world is really of strategic importance.

Conclusion

It seems some would risk the entire global population than let Russia win in Ukraine. There are always winners and losers. Wars are almost always won by someone in history, and there is little doubt that Russia is winning this war.