What if Biden Is Wrong and Putin Isn’t Bluffing?

The government bureaucracy of the United States, led and encouraged by Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress, has been leading an escalation of efforts to support Ukraine in its war against Russia. The presumption apparent in their actions is that Russia is bluffing about its intentions to respond with nuclear weapons if it perceives the threats to have crossed certain critical thresholds. But what if Biden and the bureaucracy are wrong, and Putin isn’t bluffing? Former congressman and presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul, examines that possibility, writing at the Ron Paul Institute:

So the question is if he knows that his proxy war against Russia is moving us closer to the unthinkable – nuclear annihilation – why does his Administration persist in crossing red line after red line? Apparently, Biden’s “experts” believe that Putin is bluffing and will do nothing about the Dugina assassination, the Nordstream pipeline sabotage, and the Kerch Bridge attack.

But what if they’re wrong?

Normally foreign policy action should be weighed on a cost/benefit basis. Will adopting one particular policy benefit the United States more than the risks involved? In this case there is absolutely nothing on the positive side of the ledger. Will the security and prosperity of the United States benefit more from regime change in Russia than it would suffer should nuclear war break out?

It doesn’t seem all that hard. No.

So what’s going on here? Why does the US Administration – with the support of most Republicans in Congress – continue to send tens of billions of dollars in military aid and move us toward nuclear war over a conflict that has nothing at all to do with the United States?

The time to end US participation in this war is yesterday. And if it takes millions of Americans in the streets peacefully protesting while demanding that their representatives stop this madness, then bring it on. Tomorrow may be too late.

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