{"id":1414302,"date":"2022-04-01T07:31:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414302"},"modified":"2022-04-01T07:31:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:31:25","slug":"why-did-biden-go-public-with-charges-putin-might-use-chemical-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-did-biden-go-public-with-charges-putin-might-use-chemical-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Biden Go Public With Charges Putin Might Use Chemical Weapons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-did-biden-go-public-with-charges-putin-might-use-chemical-weapons%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414302&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/biden-1-e1648735423632.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The contrast between President John Kennedy\u2019s mature statesmanship during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and President Joe Biden\u2019s inflammatory handling of the Ukraine conflict was stark.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart Nikita Khrushchev edged back from the brink of nuclear war and negotiated a solution that respected the vital interests, and saved the faces, of both parties. Biden, perhaps deliberately, exacerbated the conflict, made negotiations between Russia and Ukraine more difficult, and raised the odds of a general war. Where Kennedy was self-disciplined, Biden revealed himself as irascible and irresponsible \u2014 a danger to global security. His administration has brought us to the point where, if we are lucky, the Second Cold War has begun or, if we are unlucky, the Third World War is about to start.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, Biden made three (supposed) \u201cgaffes\u201d: he called for regime change in Russia; he indicated that NATO forces would be in Ukraine; and he threated to reply \u201cin kind\u201d if Russia used chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Although his controllers attempted to walk back each of these statements, it is unclear whether Biden a) inadvertently blurted out what he and his controllers are actually planning; b) was suffering a flashback to his years in the Senate, when he could say anything without anyone\u2019s paying attention; c) was floating trial balloons; or d) misunderstood the policies of what is nominally \u201chis\u201d administration.<\/p>\n<h2>Chemical Warfare?<\/h2>\n<p>It is worth exploring one of these \u201cgaffes\u201d: that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/22\/clear-sign-putin-is-weighing-up-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-ukraine-says-biden\">Putin is considering chemical warfare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a serious charge made at a serious moment. It came not long after Russia charged that the United States had sponsored bio-weaponry research in Ukrainian facilities. But Biden cited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-in\/news\/world\/russia-ukraine-news-live-updates-joe-biden-says-vladimir-putin-is-weighing-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-ukraine\/ar-AAVloSI?ocid=uxbndlbing\">no evidence<\/a> to support his claim.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom was more circumspect. Britain\u2019s Ministry of Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world-report\/articles\/2022-03-24\/putins-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-ukraine-would-trigger-a-response-in-kind-biden-says\">said<\/a> that \u201cRussia could <em>possibly<\/em> be planning to use chemical or biological weapons in a \u2018false-flag\u2019 operation.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Where Is the Evidence?<\/h2>\n<p>The world was left to wonder what evidence Biden had. The Biden-collusive media shows little interest in exploring that question. The Biden administration itself, as is its habit, expects us to believe that it <em>has<\/em> evidence merely because it <em>says<\/em> it does. Just a few weeks ago, when an Associated Press reporter pressed State Department spokesman Ned Price to disclose what evidence he had for a claim Price had made about Russian \u201cdisinformation,\u201d Price repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/ap-reporter-spars-with-state-department-spokesperson-over-us-claim-on-russia-this-is-alex-jones-territory\">replied<\/a> that the bare fact that <em>he had made the claim <\/em>was sufficient proof<em>.<\/em> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet it is doubtful that Russia, even if it possessed chemical weapons, would or even <em>could<\/em> use them. In a CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/15\/politics\/chemical-weapons-russia-what-matters\/index.html\">interview<\/a>, Gregory Koblentz, an authority on the subject, noted that if Putin did use chemical weapons, \u201cit would not be too hard to trace back the use to Russia\u201d and that it wasn\u2019t clear \u201cwhat the military value would be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Koblentz said that if the Russians were trying to kill Ukrainian civilians, \u201cwhich is what chemical weapons are really good at, unfortunately the Russians have lots of conventional weapons that they can use very effectively,\u201d and that \u201cthere\u2019s some question about if Russia had chemical and biological weapons ready to go \u2026 Could they even use them effectively, given \u2026 how poorly they performed in \u2026 just supplying their forces with conventional firepower?\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Should We Trust Our Intelligence Agencies?<\/h2>\n<p>Biden\u2019s defenders might retort that he based his charge on intelligence information \u2014 and that the disclosure of such information would compromise \u201csources and methods.\u201d Or as Ring Lardner put it, \u201cShut up, he explained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. intelligence agencies do <em>not<\/em> have a good record in matters like this. Maybe they got it right that Russia would invade Ukraine. But not long before, they (or the political masters to whom they reported) got it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/kabul-s-collapse-followed-string-of-intel-failures-defense-officials-say\/ar-AANnxPt\">wrong<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/afghanistans-collapse-us-intelligence-wrong\/story?id=79470553\">predicting<\/a> when <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/559894-intel-analysis-afghan-government-could-collapse-six-months-after-us-troops\">Kabul would fall<\/a> to the Taliban and how strong a fight the Afghan military would put up. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And who can forget Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein\u2019s weapons of mass destruction? The Senate Report on Pre-War Intelligence in Iraq <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20071225161422\/http:\/\/www.gpoaccess.gov\/serialset\/creports\/iraq.html\">found<\/a> that \u201c[m]ost of the major key judgments in the Intelligence Community\u2019s October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) \u2026 either overstated, or were not supported by, the underlying intelligence reporting.\u201d Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, who chaired the investigation, <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/07\/11\/senate.pentagon\/\">said<\/a> that \u201cnobody inside the U.S. government had ever actually spoken to\u201d Curveball, the source who provided \u201c98 percent of the assessment as to whether or not the Iraqis had a biological weapon,\u201d \u201cexcept [for a single] Pentagon analyst, who concluded that the man was an alcoholic and utterly useless as a source.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Russian \u2018Disinformation\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Defenders of Biden\u2019s claim might also point to Russian \u201cdisinformation\u201d that the U.S. was sponsoring bio-weaponry research in Ukrainian laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s assume that that was indeed \u201cdisinformation\u201d \u2014 not because Biden says so, but because independent scientists, including some Russian scientists, reviewed the evidence that Russia produced and concluded that it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/russia-ukraine-lavrov-biolab-weapons-united-nations-pettersson-1689402\">didn\u2019t support<\/a> the claim. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even so, that wouldn\u2019t establish Biden\u2019s counter-claims: it is a simple non sequitur to deduce that if Russia falsely accused the U.S. of developing bio-weapons, then the U.S. is right in alleging that Russia plans to use chemical weapons. At least the Russians produced \u201cevidence\u201d of a kind to substantiate their charges and convened a United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss them. By laying out the \u201cevidence\u201d for its claims, Russia invited independent scrutiny of the kind that appears to have refuted them. But the U.S. hasn\u2019t documented Biden\u2019s charges. Let Biden disclose his \u201cevidence,\u201d summon the Security Council to meet, and permit independent experts to review it.<\/p>\n<h2>Why Did Biden Go Public with His Charge?<\/h2>\n<p>Biden need not have made his charges on the world stage. If he genuinely feared that Putin planned to use chemical weapons, he could have spoken privately to Putin and warned that the U.S. would respond \u201cin kind.\u201d Why did he go public?<\/p>\n<p>Biden purported to be pre-empting a \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation that Putin could have used to make it appear that Ukraine had made first use of chemical weaponry. But (to speculate): what if Biden\u2019s \u201cfalse flag\u201d allegation was <em>itself<\/em> a false flag? What if his purpose was to cover a <em>U.S. \u201c<\/em>false flag\u201d operation that staged a chemical incident, blamed Russia for it, and used the pretext to justify military intervention and regime change in Russia? If Putin can play mind games, so can we.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we are just starting to learn about the president\u2019s son Hunter Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10652127\/Hunter-Biden-helped-secure-millions-funding-military-biotech-research-program-Ukraine.html\">activities<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/28\/hunter-bidens-laptops-are-now-an-active-national-security-threat\/\">financing Metabiota<\/a>, a Pentagon contractor sponsoring Ukraine-based research into lethal diseases. Possibly that research had no connection with bio-<em>warfare;<\/em> but possibly the product was <em>weaponizable,<\/em> not only toxic<em>.<\/em> Either way, we urgently need more knowledge about Hunter\u2019s financial ventures in Ukraine \u2014 and how they might have influenced his father\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Robert J. Delahunty taught constitutional law for 15 years at the University of Saint Thomas and is now the Washington fellow at The Claremont Institute\u2019s Center for the American Way of Life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contrast between President John Kennedy\u2019s mature statesmanship during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and President Joe Biden\u2019s inflammatory handling of the Ukraine conflict was stark. 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