Can Trump Stop World War III Now?

By Neenah Payne

President-elect Trump won the Electoral College (as he did in 2016) and the popular vote. Since Republicans also won the House and Senate, they now control all three branches of the federal government. One of the reasons people voted for Trump is that he promised to stop the war in Ukraine which risks causing a nuclear war with Russia – starting World War III!

However, the videos below show that days after welcoming President-elect Trump back to the White House in a peaceful transfer of power, the outgoing lame duck Biden administration seems to be trying to set off nuclear war with Russia before President-elect Trump takes office on January 20. They point out this may be considered treason worthy of impeachment. The Democratic Party claims Trump is “a threat to democracy”. However, Democrats are trying to subvert the will of the majority of Americans – those who voted for Trump who has promised to end the war.

Hopefully, Putin will delay any response until Trump assumes office in January.

The Biden Legacy: War With Russia?

The administration’s decision to allow strikes on Russian territory brings the U.S. to the brink.

President Joe Biden approved another escalation in his administration’s long march to turn an already extravagant proxy fight into a hot war. He reversed more than two years of policy, easing range limits on Ukraine’s use of American-supplied missiles against Russia. The mentally diminished president justified his decision as retaliation for North Korea’s dispatch of troops to aid Russia’s war effort. He reportedly hopes to dissuade the North from sending more men, apparently by stoking Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s fear of additional casualties.

Will Trump Prevent War?

“Biden Is Playing With FIRE” – Putin’s Nuclear WARNING As Ukraine Uses U.S Missiles Against Russia

Patrick Bet-David and the team discuss Biden’s approval of Ukraine’s missile strikes on Russia, the potential escalation of tensions, and how this impacts Trump’s peace efforts. Is Biden provoking Putin, or is there a deeper strategy at play?

Will Biden Be Impeached?

US Congressman urges to impeach Biden for allowing strikes deep into Russia

US President Joe Biden’s permission to allow Kiev to attack deep into Russia contradicts the American Constitution, the US leader must be impeached, US Congressman Thomas Massie, a Republican representing the state of Kentucky, said. “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. This is an impeachable offense, but the reality is he’s an emasculated puppet of a deep state,” the congressman wrote on his X page, commenting on media reports about Biden allowing attacks with American ATACMS missiles deep into Russian territory.

Douglas Macgregor, Col. (ret.) is a senior fellow with The American Conservative, the former advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, CEO of Our Country Our Choice, a decorated combat veteran, and the author of five books.

Col. Macgregor warns that Ukraine will be totally DESTROYED with nothing left if Biden doesn’t stop NOW! He also says this action by Biden may be treasonous and justify impeachment. However, Col. Macgregor explains why Trump’s support for Israel may prevent him from taking action to prevent WWIII.

Storm of The Century

Trump and the Storm of the Century: The U.S. is sleepwalking into disaster in the Middle East
By Douglas Macgregor, Dave Ramaswamy

What Trump will or will not do is unknown. When the illusive stillness in the standoff between Tehran and Jerusalem will end is also unknown. One thing is certain: If America joins Israel in its war against Iran, the outcome will be a geopolitical showdown that could dramatically alter the world as we know it. It is the storm of the 21st century and, for the moment, the American ship of state is sailing right into it. At a minimum, Trump should demand answers from his civilian and military advisors to four important questions.

Douglas Macgregor: Putin Issues FINAL Nuclear Warning, Ukraine At Risk Of TOTAL DESTRUCTION

World Is Dependent on Putin’s Restraint/Rationality

Journalist Glenn Greenwald explained to Tucker Carlson that he also believes Biden’s escalation of the war now may be a treasonous act worthy of impeachment. Carlson points out that with Washington gone insane now, “We’re depending on Putin’s restraint and rationality”.

Glenn Greenwald: Dangerous New Escalation in Russia, & Our Blackmailed Politicians (video) 11/20/24

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Partial transcript:

Permanent Washington decides nuclear war is preferable to Donald Trump. Glenn Greenwald on the nihilism of our ruling class.

Tucker: I think we’re watching the most evil thing I’ve ever seen in my lifetime, which is the lame duck administration leaving the next administration with a world war, with a nuclear conflict by allowing Ukraine, a proxy state of the United States, to strike within Russia. I think people in Washington misunderstand Vladimir Putin and they think he’s a monarch with absolute power, which is not true. Russian politics is complex. Putin is very concerned with his approval rating within Russia. He cannot appear weak. If he can’t hide attacks by the United States through Ukraine, either in Moscow or big civilian casualties, I think he will have no choice, in his view, but to launch a serious response against Ukraine or some NATO countries or possibly the United States. So, this seems like the most reckless thing that’s ever happened in my life.

Greenwald: I hardly have words for it. This is something some NATO countries, including the United Kingdom, have been pressuring the Biden administration to do for at least a year. We have guided missiles which are very powerful for attacking inside Russia. Ukrainians can’t use those missiles on their own. It requires the direct involvement of the United States and or a major country like France or the U.K., or Germany.

So, Biden didn’t just give Ukrainians missiles to use inside Russia. We are going to participate in the bombing of Russia…. Just two weeks after the country resoundingly rejected governance by the Democratic Party, Biden is making it much more difficult for Trump to do what he promised which the American people voted for, which is to resolve this war. Instead, we’re risking escalation with the world’s largest superpower. Nuclear power. Over what?

Tucker: During the Cold War, no American president, Democrats and Republicans, responded by attacking Russia. I mean, there’s nothing like this ever happened. No one’s ever been this crazy.

Greenwald: During the Cold War, which dominated our American life for 50 years, Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union “The Evil Empire”. They were infinitely more powerful, more threatening, more everything than Russia is now. We always communicated with Soviet leaders. There were phones all over Washington that rang to the counterparts. They communicated constantly.

After Russiagate, there’s basically no communication any longer between the Russian leaders and the Americans. That was they blamed Russia and claimed that Russia was our existential enemy because of their claim that they interfered in the 2016 election. Before that, the Obama administration and the Putin government cooperated in all sorts of ways around the world, of course.

I think it is important to say that this war has been 100% bipartisan, although the Biden administration, as the leader of the Executive Branch, is primarily responsible. There’s been 5 or 6 dozen anti-interventionist Republicans, typically more Trump supporters, both in the House and Senate, who have spoken out from the beginning against funding this war. But the vast majority of Republicans, to the extent they have a criticism of the Biden administration with respect to Ukraine, it was that they didn’t do enough. They didn’t spend enough money on Ukraine. They didn’t give Ukraine enough weapons. They didn’t get more involved, more heavily, more and earlier than they should.

This is the jingoistic climate that has been created way worse than what prevailed in the Cold War when Nixon went to China, Reagan negotiated all kinds of arms deals with the Soviets. This is now totally prohibited. It’s like we live in a marvel cartoon for children where there’s good guys and bad guys, where the good guys do not speak to the bad guys.

Donald Trump said in 2016 that we shouldn’t be involved in wars designed to change the governments of other countries, build, transform their societies. We should not be involved in regime change wars of the kind we did in Iraq, of the kind we did in Syria, of the kind we did in Libya, of the kind that we did in Ukraine in 2014 when we actually engineered a coup.

When Russia agreed to the reunification of Germany, it was obviously an extraordinary thing for the Russians to agree to given Russian history in the 20th century with respect to Germany. When the Berlin Wall fell, Russia allowed Germany to reunite and become part of the West and part of the EU. The only concession they extracted was that NATO will never expand one inch eastward beyond what was East Germany. The United States agreed to that.

However, immediately in the 90s, the administration started implementing NATO’s expansion eastward toward Russia. Exactly what was promised to Gorbachev the United States would not do in exchange for them agreeing to reunification. Why?

Now it’s not just eastward. It’s going directly up to the Russian border on the part of their border that has been invaded twice in Ukraine to destroy Russia. We removed the democratically-elected leader of Ukraine before his constitutional term was expired in 2014 because we perceived him as being too friendly to Moscow, which is what the Ukrainians voted for and replaced him. Aren’t you kind of amazed by how dismissive media and political elites are to the prospect of nuclear war?

Tucker: Well, it’s unimaginable. Trump has said repeatedly for years that nuclear war is the worst thing. He knows what it means. And anyone who spends five minutes looking into what a nuclear exchange would actually do is terrified of it. But only Trump seems worried about it.

Greenwald: Whoever these people who have been generating American orthodoxy, especially on foreign policy, are the most insane people on the planet. It’s because the United States has been the most powerful country in the world. No one could constrain it. No one could stand up to it. That level of unconstrained power corrupts people. That is, these people who have been increasingly out of touch and detached from reality.

Every time Trump talks about it, you can see the fear he has. He’s trying to convey to others every time. I mean, Tucker, I’m amazed. This is like impeachment level stuff. For Joe Biden on his way out of the door to involve the U.S. directly in a war for the first time.

Tucker: They should impeach him.

Greenwald: The answer is that the vast majority of the Republican caucus in the House and in the Senate supports what Joe Biden is doing, thinks he should have done this a year ago. There’s probably not a lot of anger in the House and Senate over this. A lame duck is supposed to be a duck that can’t do much. It’s by design pretty limited. It’s like this transition period. This is not a lame duck decision and it’s not like there was any emergency to it. They just wanted to escalate it because they thought Trump wouldn’t. So, they did.

Tucker: It puts us in this remarkable moment where the only adult is Vladimir Putin. This person, we’ve been told is Hitler and deranged, crazy, dying of nine different kinds of cancer, can’t be trusted. I mean, we’re all relying on his restraint. That’s just a fact right now. How weird is that?

Greenwald: Trump started getting targeted by these agencies, by the CIA, the FBI, starting with Russiagate….Trump is the first one since Dwight Eisenhower who tried to warn of this on his way out. Obviously, the intelligence community and military complex was way smaller when Dwight Eisenhower tried to warn of how much of a threat it was to democracy in his farewell address. It was before Vietnam, before the real buildup of the Cold War, before 911. Trump is the only one who’s trying to say these institutions are radically corrupted at their root.

Tucker: it just shows what a remarkable person Trump is. He is just weirdly resistant to that stuff. And that’s why they hate him.

Greenwald: I remember all this stuff that came out in the 2016 when they thought he might win…they threw everything out there. And Trump is a very rare person ….and he doesn’t back down. No matter what he goes through, he gets more aggressive against people who try to force him. I watched him for many decades when I was a lawyer in New York when he was a big real estate mogul, constantly being sued in lawsuits. Everybody knew how he was. And that’s what is so threatening about him. It’s not his ideology or his beliefs. It’s the fact that he’s immune to the type of control that for decades they’ve been able to impose on people who wield any power, let alone the power of the presidency.

Tucker: Well, how do you think this ends?

Greenwald: So fortunately, they know Trump’s coming in and they feel like he wants to go in a different direction with the war. And so even though there is going to be pressure on Putin to respond, I think as long as it stays limited to Kursk, as long as it’s not in large numbers, knowing that Trump is coming into office, I think they understand that’s an opportunity to try and end this war without it’s escalation. As you said, we’re depending on Putin’s restraint and rationality.

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How Will Putin Respond?

‘SITUATION IS SERIOUS’: 2 NATO nations warn citizens of Russian nuclear strikes

‘Outnumbered’ panelists discuss the ‘frightening developments’ after Ukrainian forces struck Russia using long-range U.S. missiles and Putin lowered the threshold for a nuclear response.