As Trump Looms, Biden Makes a Last-Ditch Pitch to Global Leaders

The New York Times ^ | Nov. 18, 2024Updated 5:44 a.m. ET | Zolan Kanno-Youngs

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The president approved Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles inside Russia, but that decision, among others, may soon be reversed.

President Biden will begin what is likely to be his last summit with global leaders as commander in chief on Monday, pushing for even stronger support of Ukraine despite the looming uncertainty of how president-elect Donald J. Trump might undo his efforts.

Just before the Group of 20 summit began in Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Biden authorized the first use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine for strikes inside Russia, U.S. officials said.

The decision, a major change in U.S. policy, was made in part to help shore up Ukraine’s defenses after Russia recruited North Korean troops to assist its fighters. It also came on a day when Russia bombarded Ukraine’s power grid in one of the largest attacks of the war.

For two years, Mr. Biden sent billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine to help repel Russia, but repeatedly hesitated when it came to offensive weapons, worried about provoking President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia into a wider war.

Mr. Putin, like Mr. Trump, will not be at the summit. But unlike Mr. Biden, both men are sure to be at the center of conversations about a future they will both dominate.

President Emmanuel Macron of France, who is in Rio for the meeting, told reporters that the Russian bombardment of Ukraine on Sunday shows that Mr. Putin “does not want peace and is not ready to negotiate.”

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Launching nuclear-capable long range missiles into Russia will trigger a nuclear response because Russia has no way of know if the missiles are or are not nuclear-tipped.

The globalists cannot allow Trump to take office and will use any means necessary to stop him including nuclear war.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

What if Mexico started firing Russian missiles into the USA?

[Jumper]

The Pentagon is going to rue the day they obey Biden on this order. They had the aducity to disobey Trump’s orders to leave Syria... I have a feeling the Syrian US troop deployment is a perfect retaliation target.

Biden should be impeached over this escalation as it is an act of war. Congressional oversight is too late if the US firees these missiles into Russia.

[lurk]

The reality is, the world did not regard Joe these last four years. And now that his stuff is being boxed for the short drive to his house of hospice, he is invisible.