Hungary and Slovakia, two NATO countries, have slammed President Biden’s reported decision to support long-range Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory, an escalatory step that risks nuclear war.
“This is an unprecedented escalation of tensions, a decision that thwarts hopes for the start of any peace talks and an end to the mutual killing of Slavs in Ukraine,” said Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who halted Slovakia’s military aid to Ukraine when he took office last year.
“Those who support US President Biden’s decision are in favor of the start of World War III,” Fico added.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó strongly criticized Biden’s decision. “The pro-war mainstream has launched its last, desperate attack on the new reality. These forces seem to have no qualms about the worst-case scenario: escalating the war in Ukraine to a global scale,” he said.
Szijjártó took aim at pro-war politicians in Washington and in Europe, saying, “One has the feeling that the pro-war political elites on both sides of the ocean are launching one last desperate, scalding attack on the new realities and the will of the people.”
Some politicians in the US have also criticized Biden’s decision, including Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who has consistently voted against US involvement in the Ukraine proxy war.
“By authorizing long-range missiles to strike inside Russia, Biden is committing an unconstitutional Act of War that endangers the lives of all US citizens,” Massie wrote on X. “This is an impeachable offense, but the reality is he’s an emasculated puppet of a deep state.”
Donald Trump Jr., the son of President-elect Donald Trump, said Biden’s decision was an attempt to start World War III before his father entered office. “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,” he wrote on X. “Gotta lock in those $Trillions. Life be damned!!! Imbeciles!”
Trump campaigned on ending the proxy war in Ukraine, and he overwhelmingly beat Vice President Kamala Harris, who vowed to continue US involvement in the conflict. Despite the clear repudiation of the conflict by American voters, the Biden administration is looking to ship as many weapons to Ukraine as possible before January 20.
In this short video, the leaders of Hungary and Slovakia say Russia was forced to intervene in Ukraine.
If American troops participate in launching missiles into Russia then Ukraine will suffer horrible consequences – FAFO!
That could happen to the US too, Putin said as much.
Look: I think that Russia is the lesser evil in Ukraine's War but, if you go to war, you must assume the consequences, and if you have a qualm with the USA about such consequences, you can always go to war with them as well.
Yes, it's escalation but that's what happens when you have a senile zombie "president" being pùppeteered from behind the throne instead of a proper government.
Americans are know to walk away when they lost, Trump thinks he can do it here too, I think. But it might not work to make it look like victory, it failed in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
That’s something I’ve been realizing in the last year or so: the USA is fighting “World War III by Proxy” and they avoid getting directly involved, preferring to leave the fighting to “lesser minions” whom they arm (to great joy and money-showering in the dark towers of the Industrial-Military Complex). However I feel that such “cowardly” strategy is not working well and that they’re losing all the proxy wars, and with them the US Empire.
How can a caretaker administration that lost the election be making such decisions? This simply isnt done in democracies.
It seems as though that is the new normal. I recall the Trump administration, Pompeo in particular, trying to make re-entering of the JCPOA as difficult as possible for the incoming Biden administration. Little did that turd Pompeo know that Biden never had any intention of reentering that deal, but he still tried to make it as difficult as possible.
It is really not the "new" normal, it is the normal that been going on for a long time.
Not to this degree.
Since when? That is exactly how democracies work. There always have been and always will be "lame duck" decisions. Why do you think outgoing Presidents pardon criminals on their last day in office? Or promote Generals. Or give out medals. The list is long.
That is not the same magnitude like geopolitical decisions. But now anything is possible, it is an unlawful world. They are used to just walk away.
I don’t believe bringing the world closer to a WW3 is part of the “lame duck” session for an outgoing administration. Then again, he isn’t running anything when it comes to foreign policy.
This has been my question all today & yesterdays. It really does feel like a terrible H.R. manager fired an incompetent employee then said "But feel free to stick around for eight weeks, collecting a paycheque and keeping access to our servers."
The US is NOT a democracy. It is an oligarchy within its borders and externally it is a kleptocracy.
It's really funny. Yes. It is funny. I know we're all about to die. But I never thought we would be so stupid in dying so stupidly.
Two phrases, for many to keep in mind: mutual respect and mutually assured destruction…
Ahem.
Yep, well, there's no "u" in "mutual", that's the thing. I mean, apart from the two already in there.
Norman Finkelstein: "'The Truth' doesn't prevail." I agreed with him, but "The Truth" is even more surprising. I never thought people wouldn't believe "The Truth" even when it is so obviously obvious.
You have to admit. Szijjártó and Fico are intellectual midgets when compared to the intellectual genius of Analena Baerbock. They couldn't even figure out how to make a 360 degree turn.
Wars, I am upset with you. You didn't acknowledge my intentional spelling mistake. I know we're all dying soon, but I expected you to maintain your sense of humor.
Hungary is dependent on Russian gas which comes from pipes running under Ukraine. If Russia fails to take out Ukraine there is good chance that Ukraine may turn off those pipes.
"an escalatory step that risks nuclear war"