Escalating the War with Russia Betrays All Americans

One of Donald Trump’s most repeated promises to American voters throughout his presidential campaign was that he would settle the war between Russia and Ukraine through diplomacy. At one point, he even claimed he would end the conflict “in 24 hours.” A huge aspiration for antiwar dissidents, these pledges also parallel the general loss of support among Americans for the idea that Russia is an actual threat to the US.

Pew Research Center November 25, 2024

On November 6, the American electorate sent a clear message in alignment with these views when Trump was elected in the biggest US presidential landslide since 2012. President-elect Trump even spent some of his first hours after his victory on the phone with Vladimir Zelenskyy in an attempt to lay the groundwork for a peace deal. Shortly after that, Trump wrote that “both sides will be able to come together and negotiate a deal that ends the violence and paves a path forward to prosperity.”

So how did the Biden regime and the deep state respond to this? First by ignoring it completely, then by doing everything it could to derail any prospective road to peace.

This was first evident on November 8, two days after Trump’s call to Zelenskyy, when the Biden administration lifted a ban on the deployment of US military contractors to Ukraine for the first time since the beginning of the war. While the Pentagon predictably downplayed the decision’s significance, it was yet another step on the long path of increased US involvement in the war since it began.

And it only got worse from there. Far worse.

On November 17, Biden gave the green light for long-range US missile strikes within Russia, an incendiary, direct attack against the country. The first true US-initiated foray into the war came in the form of two ATACMS missile attacks in Kursk, where North Korean troops reinforced their Russian allies.

Perhaps the most ludicrous part of this horrifying roll of the dice against a nuclear power was the blatant admission among US officials that the strikes would not “fundamentally alter the course of the war.” Any reasonable person would ask why the attacks were even authorized in such a case, but the strategic purpose of military excursions is completely irrelevant to the modern war machine.

US involvement in Ukraine, after all, was never designed to bring about success. Instead, it was designed to—as Afghanistan did before it—line the pockets of the military-industrial complex at our expense. Our corrupt foreign policy is even worse in this theater because, unlike others, its operations unfold at the risk of nuclear war.

The lack of significant territorial changes, the system of conscription that enslaves men in Ukraine and Russia, the repression of political dissidents in Ukraine, and $183 billion in aid packages will never dissuade the war regime from its zealous drive to cultivate endless wars. It has a far different incentive structure than moral and rational people.

As the ideal puppet of the deep state, Biden has recklessly expanded the war and tempted Russia to respond in a catastrophic manner. The deeds of the modern war party have made even the coldest of Cold Warriors of the past—many of whom were themselves guilty of war crimes—seem infinitely wise to the threat of nuclear attacks and tempered in their approach to the subject by comparison.

Thankfully, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov seems aware of the political situation in the United States, and called the recent strikes an “attempt to leave as bad a legacy as possible to the next administration.” Still, all antiwar dissidents and opponents of the propaganda machine must now hope that Trump’s call with Putin left assurances that the careless escalation games will not continue under the president-elect’s new administration.

Above all, this sad episode demonstrates how disconnected the federal government is from the average voter, and refutes the fraudulent notion that “our government is a reflection of us.” No, our government is a reflection of the banks and military-industrial complex—both of which profit off of this war at our expense—and has acted contrary to the wishes and interests of American voters. Dissidents have long been aware of this fact, but the deep state’s escalation of Zelenskyy’s fruitless war has revealed it to a new generation of eyes.