{"id":208069,"date":"2022-04-04T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=208069"},"modified":"2022-03-29T04:17:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T03:17:06","slug":"biden-confirms-why-the-us-needed-this-ukrainian-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/04\/biden-confirms-why-the-us-needed-this-ukrainian-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Confirms Why the US Needed This Ukrainian War"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a moment of candor, Joe Biden has revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion and why it needs it to continue.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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President Biden departs Brussels en route to Poland, Friday 25 Mar 2022.
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27 Mar 2022 –\u00a0 <\/em>The U.S. got its war in Ukraine. Without it, Washington could not attempt to destroy Russia\u2019s economy, orchestrate worldwide condemnation and lead an insurgency to bleed Russia, all part of an attempt to bring down its government. Joe Biden has now left no doubt that it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

The president of the United States has confirmed what Consortium News<\/em><\/strong> and others have been reporting since the beginnings of Russsiagate in 2016, that the ultimate U.S. aim is to overthrow the government of Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor God\u2019s sake, this man cannot remain in power,\u201d Biden said on Saturday at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. The White House and the State Dept. have been scrambling to explain away Biden\u2019s remark.<\/p>\n

But it is too late.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President\u2019s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region,\u201d a White House official said. \u201cHe was not discussing Putin\u2019s power in Russia, or regime change.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said<\/a>, \u201cAs you know, and as you have heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia, or anywhere else, for that matter,\u201d the last words inserted for comic relief.<\/p>\n

Biden first gave the game away at his Feb. 24 White House press conference \u2014 the first day of the invasion. He was asked why he thought new sanctions would work when the earlier sanctions had not prevented Russia\u2019s invasion. Biden said the sanctions were never designed to prevent Russia\u2019s intervention but to punish it afterward. Therefore the U.S. needed Russia to invade.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening,\u201d Biden said<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cThat has to sh- \u2014 this is going to take time.\u00a0 And we have to show resolve so he knows what\u2019s coming and so the people of Russia know what he\u2019s brought on them.\u00a0 That\u2019s what this is all about.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 It is all about the Russian people turning on Putin to overthrow him, which would explain Russia\u2019s crackdown on anti-war protestors and the media.<\/p>\n

It was no slip of the tongue.\u00a0Biden repeated himself in Brussels on Thursday: \u201cLet\u2019s get something straight \u2026\u00a0 I did not say that in fact the sanctions would deter him.\u00a0 Sanctions never deter.\u00a0 You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter.\u00a0\u00a0The maintenance of sanctions \u2014 the maintenance of sanctions, the increasing the pain \u2026 we will sustain what we\u2019re doing not just next month, the following month, but for the remainder of this entire year.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s what will stop him.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the second time that Biden confirmed that the purpose of the draconian U.S. sanctions on Russia was never to prevent the invasion of Ukraine, which the U.S. desperately needed to activate its plans, but to punish Russia and get its people to rise up against Putin and ultimately restore a Yeltsin-like puppet to Moscow. Without a cause those sanctions could never have been imposed. The cause was Russia\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n

Regime Change in Moscow<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Biden\u2019s speech in Warsaw. (Office of the President\/Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Once hidden in studies such as this 2019 RAND study<\/a>, the desire to overthrow the government in Moscow is now out in the open.<\/p>\n

One of the earliest threats came from Carl Gersham, the long-time director of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Gershman, wrote<\/a> in 2013, before the Kiev coup: \u201cUkraine is the biggest prize.\u201d If it could be pulled away from Russia and into the West, then \u201cPutin may find himself on the losing end not just in the near abroad but within Russia itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Ignatius wrote<\/a> in The Washington Post <\/em>in 1999 that the NED could now practice regime change out in the open, rather than covertly as the C.I.A. had done.<\/p>\n

The RAND Corporation on March 18 then published an article<\/a> titled, \u201cIf Regime Change Should Come to Moscow,\u201d the U.S. should be ready for it. Michael McFaul, the hawkish former U.S. ambassador to Russia, has been calling for regime change in Russia for some time.\u00a0 He tried to finesse Biden\u2019s words by tweeting:<\/p>\n

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On Putin, Biden expressed what billions around the world and millions inside Russia also believe. He did not say that the US should remove him from power. There is a difference.<\/p>\n

— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) March 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n