Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a peace plan for Ukraine today. His proposal mirrors the vows of U.S. President Richard Nixon, who five decades ago promised an “honorable end to the war in Vietnam.”
Putin addressed the U.N on Zoom after conferring in Moscow with former President Donald John Trump. Trump, as a young man, greatly admired Nixon. As president, Trump sought advice from Henry Kissinger, the main author of Nixon’s foreign policy.
Putin told the U.N. that he would start removing Russian troops from Ukraine immediately. However, because NATO nations are “fueling the war by feeding Ukraine with weapons through NATO member states, our troops will conduct incursions into countries that border Ukraine and perpetuate war. Our goal is clear – peace with honor.” Nixon made a similar move when he went after “weapon supply lines” in Cambodia, a country next to Vietnam. He ordered American forces to secretly bomb those supply lines and conduct clandestine intelligence activities.
President Joe Biden dismissed the “propaganda of the Russian president.” Biden insisted Putin was “expanding the war, and promised NATO would not tolerate his continued acts of aggression.”
But a satirical television show in Saudi Arabia, an oil-rich nation that supplies the U.S. and the world with petroleum, mocked Biden as an old man who has lost control of his mind, and his ability to deal with international relations. The show, which was also broadcast repeatedly on Russian television, depicted a U.S. president being led around by Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Is it time for me to say something?” the fake Biden is heard saying into a supposedly dead microphone on the Saudi program. The actress pretending to be Harris pats him on the back and instructs him to “read from the teleprompter.”
Fox News nighttime song and dance specialists, led by Tucker Carlson, played the skit over and over again, presenting it as “real news, not the fake stuff you see on the corporate-owned, legacy-dying, mainstream media.” Carlson finished his presentation by instructing his viewers to “think for yourselves. Don’t believe everything you are fed by powerful interests.”
