Kentucky gubernatorial candidate Geoffrey Young has accused the president of perpetuating an \u201cillegal proxy war\u201d
\nGeoffrey Young, who is running for governor in the US state of Kentucky, has accused Joe Biden of committing war crimes in Ukraine and other countries, saying the president should be impeached for carrying out an illegal proxy struggle against Russia in the former Soviet republic.
\n\u201cI think Joe Biden (D-war criminal) should be impeached immediately for war crimes in Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, etc.,\u201d\u00a0Young said in a\u00a0Twitter post.\u00a0\u201cAlso for continuing the illegal proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. All US presidents since 1945 = war criminals (including Trump),\u201d\u00a0he added.
\nYoung, an MIT-trained economist who has worked as an environmental engineer in state government, made waves last year after winning the Democratic Party\u2019s nomination for Kentucky\u2019s District 6 congressional seat. He vowed during the campaign to help prevent nuclear war with Russia by pursuing a\u00a0\u201creasonable\u201d\u00a0peace plan with Moscow. He also called the Kiev regime a\u00a0\u201cNazi puppet government\u201d\u00a0and said the\u00a0CIA should be eliminated\u00a0because it\u2019s the\u00a0\u201cworst terrorist organization in the world today.\u201d
\nAfter Young won Kentucky\u2019s Democratic primary in May, his party declined to support him in the November general election against incumbent Republican congressman Andy Barr. He alienated party leaders with his contrarian views, such as accusing Biden of recklessly provoking China, illegally deploying troops in Syria and Iraq, and making the US vulnerable to attack by becoming a\u00a0\u201cco-belligerent\u201d\u00a0with Ukraine against Russia.
\nLess than a week after the congressional midterms, the 66-year-old Young, who bills himself as a\u00a0\u201cpeace Democrat,\u201d\u00a0announced his candidacy in Kentucky\u2019s 2023 race for governor. He will try to unseat the incumbent Democrat, Governor Andy Beshear, whom he has accused of being a\u00a0\u201cnot-yet-indicted felon.\u201d
\nYoung has called the Ukraine conflict a lost cause for the US and NATO and faulted Biden\u2019s administration for rejecting a peace proposal from Moscow in December 2021.\u00a0\u201cThere is no way Russia can lose this war and no way Ukraine and NATO can possibly win it,\u201d\u00a0he said last week.<\/p>\n