In a Jan. 23 interview with Sputnik News, Dr. Helen Caldicott, founder of the Physicians for Social Responsibility, says that Biden could have avoided the crisis in Ukraine, which now has us “on a trajectory to annihilation.”
“Supported by and supporting the world’s most powerful military industrial complex, he [Biden] has surrounded himself with died-in-the-wool neocons who are leading us on a trajectory to annihilation,” Caldicott, founder of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility, said. “As president, he is leading the world towards imminent nuclear war.”
Biden urgently needed to defuse the extremely dangerous situation he created and meet as soon as possible with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Caldicott said. “If Biden had an inkling of global leadership, he would cast aside his advisors and take the world stage, negotiate with Putin as if his, and all life, depended upon it and end this obscene military standoff.”
Caldicott cautioned that Biden’s policies had already brought the world closer to the brink of thermonuclear war than at any time in more than the past 60 years, in a reference to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Biden could have prevented the entire current conflict war from breaking out if he had simply heeded two security requests from Moscow, neither of which threatened the independence or integrity of Ukraine in any way, but both of which were essential to Russian security, Caldicott said.
“Before the Russian invasion, Putin had asked Biden two things: First, do not allow Ukraine to join NATO. And second, remove the offensive US missiles deployed in new NATO countries adjacent to Russia—easy enough but antithetical to the neocon agenda,” she concluded.
