Democratic 2024 Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. issued a statement today in response to Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent comments regarding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
In a speech last week in Finland, Blinken, dismissed calls for a ceasefire, advocating instead for the further transfers of high-tech weaponry and aircraft to Ukraine.
Kennedy strongly criticized the Secretary’s stance, claiming it reflects a broader strategy by the Biden administration to continue the conflict rather than seek a peaceful resolution.
“Blinken’s speech highlights once again that the Biden Administration has no intention of ending this conflict peacefully,” Kennedy said.
“The plan, which members of the administration including Blinken have explicitly admitted on numerous occasions, is to use Ukraine to achieve the larger geopolitical goal of weakening Russia. In other words, the Ukrainians are cannon fodder in a U.S. proxy war against Russia.”
Kennedy went on to reference a report from Foreign Affairs magazine that stated Russia and Ukraine had reached a tentative peace agreement in April 2022.
The deal was purportedly scuttled following a visit to Kyiv by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whom Kennedy suggests acted “doubtless at the behest of the Biden Administration.”
Kennedy also cited comments by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett indicating that U.S. and its allies thwarted his efforts to mediate between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski.
According to Kennedy, the current administration is not only misleading Americans about the reasons for the war but also escalating it, thereby posing a significant global risk.
“The pattern here is clear,” said Kennedy. “Not only is the administration deceiving the American people about the motives for this costly and tragic war, but by continually escalating it they put the whole world at risk of nuclear conflagration.”
In a call to action, Kennedy appealed to President Biden, invoking the words of former President John F. Kennedy, his uncle, from a 1963 Peace Speech.
He quoted: “Nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.”
As part of his commitment to seeking a peaceful resolution, Kennedy announced plans to deliver a “definitive address on peace” on June 20 in New Hampshire.
The speech, which will be livestreamed at 7 p.m. ET, is expected to present a dramatically different direction for American foreign policy under a potential Kennedy administration.
