Ex-security adviser accuses Biden of trying to 'sabotage' Trump's effort to end Russia-Ukraine war | 19 Nov 2024 | A former top security aide to Donald Trump on Monday accused the Biden administration of trying to intentionally "sabotage" the president-elect's efforts to bring an end to the Russian war against Ukraine. Former National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz said Joe Biden was repeatedly unwilling to authorize Ukraine to use U.S.-made missiles to strike deep inside Russia before the election, and his lame-duck decision this weekend to authorize it now smacks of an effort to thwart Trump's effort to create a ceasefire and peace deal. "The timing is really curious, because Biden was reluctant to do this before the election, because he was worried he would escalate the war. He would take a lot of criticism for possibly escalating the war," Fleitz told the John Solomon Reports podcast. "And now that the election is over, he's made this decision, which Putin has said is a red line and could put Russia at war with the United States.