The National Security and Economic Risks of Ukraine for America

Zelensky's missile scam highlights the untenable risks for the United States

America narrowly averted a Russian missile crisis last week. Unlike the Cuban variety of 1962, which unfolded a mere 90 miles away from our homeland and involved very real Soviet missiles, this recent Zelensky scam was perpetrated upon America from 5,000 miles away and involved errant Ukrainian weapons.

Nevertheless, Joe Biden and the national security establishment of Permanent Washington continue down a path of reckless escalation in Ukraine. This provocative posture presents untenable risks for America, especially given the total void of a compelling, vital US national interest in that internecine Slavic struggle.

Last Tuesday missiles struck the Polish countryside near the Ukrainian border, tragically killing two innocent civilians. In between photo shoots for Western glamour magazines, Zelensky immediately blamed the strike on Russia and declared: “Terror is not limited to our national borders. Russian missiles hit Poland…NATO territory.” Zelensky clearly summoned NATO retaliation, calling the missiles an attack on “collective security” and warned “we must act.” Zelensky’s “we” actually means “you” -- and specifically America.

Only…the missiles were not, in fact, Russian. Once cooler heads prevailed, both Poland and NATO determined that the missiles were “launched by air defenses in neighboring Ukraine.” Hopefully, the deadly tragedy resulted from incompetence on the part of Ukraine, rather than a purposeful attempt to lure allied combatants into a kinetic war on behalf of Zelensky?

Amazingly, Zelensky refused to offer remorse or take responsibility for his incendiary and dishonest rhetoric about the attack. In fact, Volodymyr doubled down, asserting “I have no doubt this was not our missile and not our missile strike.” Even the obsessively pro-intervention Joe Biden slapped back at Zelensky on this point, stating that Zelensky’s claim contravenes “the evidence.”

The Black Sea region is a powder keg right now. Eastern Ukraine becomes a wasteland of armed conflict that has been massively escalated by Biden’s Foggy Bottom and NATO’s Brussels headquarters. Notably, the broad NATO alliance has consistently funded BOTH sides of the struggle, through direct aid to Ukraine and mammoth energy purchases from Russia.

In Washington, other than grandiose pronouncements about “defending freedom,” neither the Democrats nor establishment Republicans has bothered to make a serious case to the American people for our massive intervention in this ancient, regional ethnic struggle. In addition, dire predictions about Putin marching Hitler-style across Europe -- into Poland and on to Paris…ignore the reality that Russia possesses neither the means nor the interest in conquest beyond the Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine.

But this latest flashpoint episode should remind Americans that we now engage in dangerous brinkmanship with the second largest nuclear power on earth.

For what?

Can anyone detail a tangible American interest that suffers depending upon the precise latest settlement of the amorphous border between these two corrupt, faraway nations?

The Cuban missile crisis brinkmanship to defend Miami made total sense, despite the Armageddon-level risks entailed. But to defend Lviv? Such adventurism represents the latest madness of the globalist and interventionists.

Thankfully, President Trump brought the interventionist cabal to heel, starting no new wars and winding-down the disastrous ones he inherited from Bush and Obama. We must return to Trump’s America First approach of realism and restraint, immediately.

This present Biden-Zelensky alliance not only jeopardizes our national security, but also our economic vitality. Right now, financial anxiety intensifies in America, with consumer confidence plunging to all-time lows and inflation spiking to four decade highs. Yet, Washington forces taxpayers to borrows a mountain of money to fund this reckless proxy war with Russia.

How much borrowed money?