U.S. President Joe Biden refuses to answer until after November 5th the question of whether the U.S. will officially be at war against Russia.

As I explained on September 27th, headlining “UPDATED: The U.S. Presidential election is now overwhelmingly about whether to go to WW3 for Ukraine. This dwarfs every other issue.”, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had announced on September 25th that any nation which would bomb anywhere “deep” in Russia (such as The Kremlin) or would allow Ukraine’s armed forces to use that nation’s weapons in order to do so, would immediately experience Russia’s retaliation for having done that. This report was a follow-on to my September 13th “Biden might decide today whether to initiate WW3 against Russia.”, which stated that Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer was to meet privately that day with Biden to request his permission to allow Ukraine to use in that way the missiles which Britain had supplied to Ukraine, and that the White House gave a clear indication that it was not going to say yes to Starmer’s request. On September 15th, I issued an “UPDATE #4” to that article, which indicated that Biden’s answer to Starmer had been to the effect of “not yet,” but that all of the UK’s top leadership were united in all Parties urging that he say yes as fast as possible. Democracy u2013 The Go... Hans-Hermann Hoppe Best Price: $24.77 Buy New $37.61 (as of 09:25 UTC - Details)

I must confess that I took Biden’s response to mean that he didn’t want to quit the war in Ukraine before the voting on Election Day November 5th, but to do it instead after (when that announcement wouldn’t affect the election’s outcome). For example, on October 8th I optimistically headlined “NATO has begun its death-spiral.”

However, today on October 10th, Politico headlined “Ukraine allies meeting postponed after Biden pulls out over Hurricane Milton”, and reported:

A summit of allied countries aimed at coordinating more military support for Ukraine set for Saturday Oct. 12 has been postponed following the cancellation of U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Germany.

At the end of a three-day trip to Germany, Biden was due to chair a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, a loose alliance of more than 50 countries known as the Ramstein Format, named for the air base in which it is usually held.

“The October 12, 2024 event is postponed,” the U.S.-managed Ramstein Air Base said in an emailed note on Wednesday. “Announcements about future Ukraine Defense Contact Group meetings will be forthcoming.”

In other words: he does want WW3, but not before November 6th. This is why he cancelled the October 12th meeting, which would have prematurely forced Biden’s hand. He wants to win this election, and then to go to war against Russia.

The October 12th meeting was supposed to announce further increases in the U.S. empire’s support for Ukraine against Russia. If Biden had until now been intending to attend that crucial meeting in order to have it agree to continue and to extend but not increase the existing support to Ukraine, which would avoid WW3, then he definitely would have attended, in order to have that outcome and thereby leave the domestic political situation unchanged and unaffected by that war. That scenario would have publicly committed the U.S. to keeping in place his present policy of adhering to “Putin’s red lines.” But now that Biden has shocked everyone by canceling the meeting altogether, the sign is far more ominous: that whenever this meeting WILL occur, Biden is going to say yes to the WW3 chorus — and that this is going to happen AFTER November 5th. Getting Libertarianism... Hans-Hermann Hoppe Best Price: $3.95 Buy New $7.95 (as of 12:25 UTC - Details)

The general public might not be conscious of the fact, but nuclear weapons exist for a country so that if ever that country has a war that it will lose without using nukes, those weapons will be available to be used in order to avoid defeat. Ukraine’s Government right now wants the U.S. to back it up in that way so as to prevent what increasingly looks to be an inevitable defeat by Russia. Biden has repeatedly said publicly that Russia will lose this war; Ukraine will win it. The U.S. and its colonies have already spent over $400 billion so that it will. This is an existential war for both Ukraine as (since 2014) an American colony, and Russia as an independent country. It is not an existential war for America as an independent country. But it is for the U.S. as the largest-in-history empire; so that Biden is now making the decisions not only for his country but for his empire. This is what the concept of American global hegemony is all about. Biden’s duty as America’s President is to do what its Founders had authorized an American President to do. No “Emperor” in modern times has any right to exist as such, and therefore no ‘duty’ as an Emperor. If President Biden will use the powers of an American President in order to preserve and extend an American empire that America’s Founders never authorized to exist, then he will be a traitor.

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This originally appeared on Eric’s Substack.