Biden Permits Firing US Missiles Into Russia to Prop Up Kiev Regime, Ex-Pentagon Analyst Says
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The political confusion and disarray in Washington has been exposed by President Joe Biden's reported decision to permit Ukraine to fire US-supplied weapons at targets inside Russia, veteran Defense Department analyst and retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.
"This decision is a continued sign of political disarray in Washington and within NATO leadership. The Biden administration is praying that Ukraine can continue some kind of resistance until early November," Kwiatkowski said, in reference to the time when the US presidential election is scheduled to be held.
On Thursday, US media reported that Biden had already taken the decision to permit the Kiev regime of Volodymyr Zelensky to fire US-supplied weapons at targets within Russia.
The decision clearly reflected the fears of Biden and his top officials that Ukraine might totally collapse before the November 5 US presidential election, and therefore he was desperate to prop it up at least until then at all costs, even at the risk of provoking a thermonuclear confrontation with Russia, Kwiatkowski said.
"This political disarray, disorganization and frustration has been obvious and growing as the militarily and economically weak Western coalition of the partially willing walks the tightrope of a proxy war against a nuclear power," Kwiatkowski said.
However, Biden's reported shift in policy was enormously dangerous not only to his own country but to the entire world, she said.
"This shift in Biden policy on Ukraine’s use of US weapons inside Russia, around Kharkov only for now, is escalatory. It unleashes the Russian military as well, to bring a swift end to this war through force, rather than negotiation," Kwiatkowski said.
Biden had expected Ukraine to provide him with a war victory in under a year when the current conflict broke out in February 2022, fostered by massive US military support for Zelensky in Kiev and urging him to ignore Russia's efforts to reach a peaceful negotiated settlement, she said.
However, Biden is now frustrated as what should have been for his party a demonstration of strength and judgment, has instead made him and his party unpopular," Kwiatkowski said.
Also, high inflation and a stagnating economy in addition to losing wars tend to be politically deadly for a US president running on his record, she said.
Neither Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris is attending the June “peace talks” in Switzerland, but are trying to focus on desperately regaining the voter blocks in the United States that were critical in the previous matchup with former President Donald Trump, she said.
"A darker and just as possible strategy by the US administration is that they wish to incite a major Russian response to the US-UK-France Ukrainian escalation of a doomed war effort," Kwiatkowski said.
This fitted into the old and recycled Democrat narratives falsely linking Trump and Russia as the Democrats' hope this will somehow help re-elect Biden and save the ruling parties in the United Kingdom and France.
Each nervous Western partner was now evaluating their own political and military options as they watched the UK and US plans on Ukraine implode, she said.
"Best case for Biden, he is able to oversee a nuclear crisis that allows him to cancel or suspend elections, or otherwise silence his American critics in a time of nuclear 'war,' " Kwiatkowski said.
However, this dark approach offered both serious consequences for Ukraine and Western Europe and also introduced massive uncertainty, she said.
"It would likely backfire, not in a nuclear conflict that some in the US government seem to want, but in the political destruction of the European Union and NATO," Kwiatkowski said.
Biden's move to permit the more indiscriminate use of US weapons by the Kiev regime revealed his callous and cynical attitude toward the Ukrainian people, she said.
"This latest Biden decision tells us he wants more Ukrainians to die, and he wants the end of Ukraine as a wholly abstract problem," Kwiatkowski added.
