How Will Trump Remedy Biden’s Legacy of War and Death in Ukraine

On November 18th, Sunday around 2pm, President Biden gave Ukraine dictator Zelensky permission to use long-range ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) missiles, which have a range of 300km. This would have been while the President was in Latin America, because there are photos of Biden meeting with President Xi Jinping in Lima, Peru during the APEC Summit, then staying on for the Group of 20 (G-20) Summit at Rio de Janiero.

In any case, the British and French have also been agitating for the use of Long-Range missiles since they appeared together at the Armistice Parade on November 11, 2024 in Paris. The British, according to the Russians, have used the Storm Shadow missiles repeatedly without formal NATO approval to target bridges in Crimea, and Russia battleships in Odessa and Sevastopol. The Storm Shadow has a range of 155miles, while the ATACMS have a range of 190miles, and the French have SCALP-EG and other long-range cruise missiles with a range of 155miles. Reports have appeared on and off that the British, French, and Americans have supplied Ukraine with missiles directly or to Poland since 2023.

The severity of these attacks have only increased since the war began in February 2014, and especially after the Russian invasion in February 2022. After several years of pretend-talks and negotiations, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken lately has promised to do everything he can to forward as much money as he can to Zelensky in Biden’s final weeks. Biden himself delivered these remarks from the G20 Summit on November 18, 2024:

“Ukraine. The United States strongly supports Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Everyone around this table, in my view, should as well. And, by the way, Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine led to the highest-record food crisis in all of history.”

This kind of deceptive talk belies the several hundred billion dollars that have been laundered through Ukraine, all kinds of weapons, all kinds of supplies, and personnel, which were duly wiped out by the Russians in the losing war. Over the past year, without the U.S., Ukraine would have hustled to the table for peace-talks, but the U.S. has kept propping them up. No one in the Biden administration ever talks about the several million Ukrainians killed or wounded. Nor do they talk about the tremendous costs of their having to become refugees.

Various pundits realize that this has become a very expensive dark-money laundering scheme, and including hundreds of thousands of women and children being trafficked, and arms and drugs. More money has been spent on Ukraine than any Build Back Better project inside the United States following this year’s devastating hurricanes, wildfires, downed bridges, food factory explosions, or the original promised-for extensive rail infrastructure upgrades and improvements.

Yet, President Biden does not apparently care to be remembered as a Peace-President—that ended it appears as soon as President Obama was sworn in—and Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize has definitely become a joke, since he really had done nothing to earn the Peace Prize in the first place. We were supposed to continue in the celebration of joy and diversity if V.P. Harris had been elected; but she is all eager to please Zelensky and thus, eager to continue their food crisis.

Unless President-elect Trump is allowed to transition without incident, America will soon be facing an all-out war with Russia. At the G-20 Summit, Russia’s Foreign Minister gave a news conference as well for the press. Everyone is worried because since late September 2024, President Putin has revealed that the Russian Federation is revising their nuclear doctrine. The Foreign Minister Lavrov had this to say about their modified doctrine:

“Today we have officially published the Fundamentals of the Nuclear Doctrine of the Russian Federation. Everything is confirmed there and already enshrined in law. [Putin] announced this publicly on September 12 of this year. I hope this doctrine will be read, but not in the way they read the UN Charter, seeing there only what they need, but in its entirety and interconnectedness.”

He said there were no surprises implying that preemptive first-strike is also already enshrined within the U.S. Nuclear Operations. However the most meaningful outcome of the press conference by Lavrov is that he shares his hopes about an upcoming joint China-Brazil Peace Initiative for Ending the War in Ukraine. The two countries have held preliminary talks in September, and they will hold more talks in November in New York; France and Switzerland are also invited, even though France has been very pro-Ukraine.

In February 2023, China had also proposed a 12-Point Peace Plan; and in June 2023, the African Union proposed a 10-Point Peace Plan.

The China Peace Initiative launched in February 2023 is the People’s Republic of China desire to play a constructive role in resolving the Ukraine-Russia War. As discussed in brief in official China news, the 12-point proposal includes:

1. Respecting the sovereignty of all countries.
2. Abandoning the Cold War mentality.
3. Ceasing hostilities.
4. Resuming peace talks.
5. Resolving the humanitarian crisis.
6. Protecting civilians and prisoners of war (POWs).
7. Keeping nuclear power plants safe.
8. Reducing strategic risks.
9. Facilitating grain exports.
10. Stopping unilateral sanctions.
11. Keeping industrial and supply chains stable.
12. Promoting post-conflict reconstruction.

In June 2023, African Union leaders President Azali Assoumani (Comoros) and President Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa) suggested that war can be settled through negotiations and by diplomatic means. As a delegation they traveled to Ukraine and Russia to initiate a conversational peace climate. The African 10-Point peace initiative is described as:

1. Achieving peace through negotiations and diplomatic means
2. Peace negotiations to begin immediately between Ukraine and Russia
3. De-escalation of the conflict on both sides
4. Recognition of the sovereignty of states and peoples in accordance with the UN Charter
5. Provide security guarantees for all sides
6. Securing the movement of grain and fertilizer exports from both sides
7. Providing humanitarian support for the suffering
8. Returning prisoners of war from both sides and returning of children
9. Having post-war reconstruction and assistance to victims
10. Deepen cooperation with African states

That the People’s Republic of China continues to try to open negotiations for Peace Deal for Ukraine, also for Israel, is admirable, since in America, just as soon as the U.S. wraps up the war in Ukraine, the politicians and media are insisting that attention and resources must pivot towards China. Due to being a rising economic star, China must be viewed as an enemy because it was supposed to remain a pliant-colony of the West. This is the general view of The American Conservative and even guests at the WarRoom podcast hosted by Steve Bannon.

Of course this is not the view of all of the West; Schiller Institute founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the wife of Lyndon H. LaRouche, has toured China extensively and lectured on “The World Land-Bridge” a global transnational transportation and maritime shipping network developed to maximize transportation corridors’ efficiency and access for shipping companies. Since Lyndon LaRouche also used to travel the globe lecturing about his vision of a new global security development architecture, in which nations could develop to their full potential and end poverty without having to endure heavy debt to the IMF, this concept had spread. In the past, Brazil had suffered decades of deep debt servitude to the World Bank; even though it had joined BRICS intergovernmental investment bloc in 2009, it had to wait years to become part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Now that it has formally been invited, it can look forward to huge infrastructure deals and better economic trading.

Even the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations has recognized China’s accomplishments through the BRI. The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres complimented China for having eliminated extreme poverty by November 2020. Through careful planning and the development of tens of thousands of miles of roads and railway infrastructure, poor people had a means to travel swiftly and cheaply between rural areas and urban cities. The interconnectedness of high-speed rail has allowed relocation, stimulated travel, business development, and cross-border trade. The trade is mutual and customized based upon the cooperation agreements and benchmarks in progress:

“Over the years, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—also known as the One Belt and One Road Initiative or the New Silk Road—has included numerous physical development and financial investment projects ranging from the construction of railways to satellite networks. The endeavor remains one of the largest infrastructure plans ever initiated by a single country. ‘Belt and Road international cooperation has gotten off the ground, grown rapidly and produced fruitful outcomes,’ President Xi said in October during a ceremony marking the BRI’s tenth anniversary. ‘Covering the land, the ocean, the sky and the internet, this network has boosted the flow of goods, capital, technologies and human resources among countries involved.”

“BRI projects and investments have been implemented in numerous countries across Asia, Africa, Europe and even South America. As of recent months, over 200 BRI cooperation agreements have been signed with more than 150 countries and 30 international organizations. These projects include constructing or upgrading roads, ports, railways, pipelines and other trade-related infrastructure. Internet connectivity and digital advancement programmes have been pursued, too. In Mozambique, for instance, a BRI-funded project brought satellite television to 1,000 villages.”

After Trump becomes President will this be allowed to continue? In a recent webcast, “After the U.S. Election: Create a New Security and Development Architecture,” Zepp-LaRouche shared her concerns that America is at a crossroads. Schiller Institute describes the crisis as one deeper than a change in leaders, but tracing to root causes.

“The Western casino financial/economic, and neo-colonialist system has reached the phase of its own demise, to the point that its once leading nations are themselves in economic and social breakdown. Their own elites are responding with Global NATO warfare and brutality, in their attempt to maintain dominance.

“But the human response to the Global North degradation is, instead, for the Collective West to cooperate in the development of the Global South. That is the only way to have a humane solution to the crisis: Build economies, create billions of jobs, cooperate with the Global Majority, whose leadership dynamic is strong and increasing. “

This is a time for the BRICS and new IGOs to reach out to America to see if they will be interested in joining the Shanghai Banking Cooperative. Even the world’s most powerful nation may benefit from new partnerships; however in the past, President Obama had rejected such a possibility. Instead, they had opted for militarization of the Far East, trying to enforce the Atlantian hegemonic order, and introducing economic sanctions to enforce compliance. Zepp-LaRouche states that this a time for citizens to try to observe and share their thoughts about the cabinet appointments, about the direction of Trump’s foreign policy, to help the United States realize that by now many nations are eager for a multilateral world order.

The United States has its work cut out if it truly wants to secure the Southern border, cut down on crime and human trafficking, drug trafficking, child pedophilia, and homelessness. As pundits and guests at Steve Gardner‘s podcast comment, this is all interconnected. An amoral society leads to chaos and lack of accountability, low standards, and limited goals. In contrast the founders of America had many ideals about independence, being self-made, working hard, and taking care of matters at home first.

According to Richard A. Black, a representative to the United Nations from the Schiller Institute, China’s 14th 5-Year plan (2021-2025) envisions a “Science-Driver and Culture–Not Money–Ignite Progress.” In this report, he states that China no longer wants to be bound by capitalist-based GDP targets and market-based metrics. The reason is simple and based on what has happened in the United States: economists are compelled to fudge the data and distort the graphs in order to hide losses and exaggerate market growth, all to create a feeding frenzy at the stock market. Using a new system of tools, based on Premier Li Keqiang’s ideas, alternative economic indicators can be employed based on rates of change in areas such as energy consumption, rail cargo volume, new bank loans issued, to measure qualitative economic growth.

The Schiller Institute, named after philosopher Friedrich Schiller, values aesthetic cultural growth and the “negentropy” of free creative energy used for technical innovation. So growth might be viewed in terms of number of new products or inventions or patents filed. For instance, in Taiwan, the use of artificial intelligence, background rendering, and artistic presentations have given even Buddhist television shows at Tzu Chi an entirely different aspect, yet still traditional and appealing. America can achieve this too, and at one time, people treasured thoughtful theme parks and places where retirees can re-experience portions of the small towns they grew up in. But we can’t do this in an America where people are afraid to venture out due to crime, where guards are always surveilling customers, where people are caught up in division and prejudice rather than healing and love.

Once we have world peace, then all the sovereign nations can work together, and it only takes 10% of the GDP to uplift the rest of the economy “because the key is fostering an aesthetic education, to grow beautiful minds and hearts” according to Dr. Xin. This allows the long-term goals to connect with plans past 2025, to year 2035, even to the year 2050.

 

Written by Christine H. Kroll, M.A., P.E. (Op-ed)

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