A Nov. 19 WorldNetDaily article by J.M. Phelps carries the assertive headline “Shocking real reason Biden OK’d Ukraine use of U.S. longer-range missiles against Russia.” It begins this way:
The Biden administration’s sudden lame-duck approval of Ukraine using U.S. longer-range missiles to attack deep inside Russia leaves many scratching their heads in disbelief, some even speculating that the outgoing president seems intent on starting World War III – all to disrupt the coming administration of Donald Trump.
With only two months remaining in office, Biden has authorized Ukraine to use Lockheed Martin’s Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) rockets, which have a range of up to 190 miles and are designed to strike deep into enemy territory.
And indeed, for the first time in the 33-months-long war, Ukraine is firing the U.S.-supplied missiles deep into Russia.
In response, Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has signed a new nuclear doctrine stipulating that any attack on Russia, if that attack is supported by a nation with nuclear weapons, could serve as grounds for a nuclear response from Russia.
In other words, the use of nuclear weapons in the Russia-Ukraine war has suddenly become potentially much more imminent.
Well, not necessarily — Phelps is falsely elevating speculation as fact. He continued to make that false conflation clear:
What is really going on? Some U.S. military members are outspoken regarding what they see as the real reasons for Biden’s sudden escalation. One of them, Army Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, a former UH-60 Blackhawk pilot and co-founder of Restore Liberty, told WorldNetDaily: “This entirely has to do with trying to tie Trump’s hands to a war, dampening his ability to achieve the agenda that the American people want him to achieve.” According to Gaub, “This has been in the [Left’s] plan for quite a while, in anticipation of the landslide victory that occurred earlier this month.”
A “world on fire” for the Trump presidency is something Gaub predicted in an Oct. 6 Substack article. The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine is only one of the contributors to the chaos that lies ahead.
Gaub told WND it’s not about Biden attempting to extend his stay in the White House as some have suggested, because “he would have to declare an emergency that precluded the country’s ability to hold an election or hold a change of leadership.” He also pointed out that “we’ve successfully changed out leadership in much bigger wars,” including World War II.
For Gaub, “The idea is really just to disrupt the future of Trump’s presidency.” Rather than trying to stop the transition of power on Jan. 20, he said, “The powers-that-be are attempting to put Trump in a position where he has to deal with a mega conflict which could derail some of what he wants to accomplish at the start of his second term and beyond.”
To that end, Gaub added, “The American people must remember that we’re dealing with people [on the Left] for whom the rules are sometimes a mild inconvenience.”
Interestingly, in July Trump said he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day. While Russia’s United Nations ambassador is skeptical, Gaub suggests that, “based on his previous record, we should give him the chance even if it seems unrealistic for some.”
Trump has since backed off his vow to end the war in one day — his advisers now admit it will take months to resolve.
That Substack article by Gaub is little more than a pro-Trump rant from before the election: “We will soon decide whether we will return to liberty or accelerate toward potential communism if left unchecked by the true owners of our government: We, the People.” Gaub falsely fearmongered about the Biden year:
1. The Biden administration has been one of constant warfare and failure. Examples are abundant: Afghanistan, Ukraine, Israel, our illegal alien invasion, and government-led ‘warfare’ against the American people using our Department of Justice and other agencies.
2. Foreign wars that should never have started continue, purposefully lacking strategies to end them.
3. We destroy our military through woke policies while sending money and equipment to foreign wars. Our forces cannot train, and real warfighters lack any desire to join the military. Our readiness is on the edge.
That was followed by even more false fearmongering about the aftermath of a Trump win:
7. Trump wins the election.
8. The criminals and terrorists are activated domestically.
9. BLM, ANTIFA, and other criminal Marxist groups join in the fray.
10. We now have a fire in our backyard that is hard to put out.
11. A broader regional conflict breaks out somewhere. It could be more than one.
12. Trump is inaugurated, but America is chained to a world on fire, a fire we helped light.
13. The global elite are happy to see Trump once again saturated with so much that he cannot enact the American people’s agenda.
This is whom Phelps thinks is a credible person.