Posted on 03/05/2023 3:45:00 PM PST by delta7
For the first time in the century of US warfare against Russia, a sitting US president has requested and received a formal ceasefire and safe conduct pledge (propusk) from the Kremlin in order for him to visit a third country. President Vladimir Putin signed his authorization for the pass before it was transmitted to the Oval Office in Washington last Friday morning, according to the New York Times, “when the president gathered with a handful of top advisers in the Oval Office and consulted with others by phone.”
The newspaper also reported the Russian terms required Biden’s signed undertaking in advance that no US military or civilian aircraft would enter Ukrainian airspace during the 24-hour duration of the safe conduct pass. The New York Times confirmed this detail, claiming “American military planes were spotted hovering in eastern Poland near the border during the trip, but officials said they never entered Ukrainian airspace out of concern that it would be taken as the sort of direct American intervention that Mr. Biden has avoided.”
CBS News has reported the National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, as confirming the application to the Kremlin and the receipt of the reply several hours before Biden agreed to make his trip to the Ukraine. “’We did notify the Russians that President Biden would be traveling to Kyiv,’ Sullivan told CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes. ‘We did so some hours before his departure for deconfliction purposes. And because of the sensitive nature of those communications, I won’t get into how they responded or what the precise nature of our message was, but I can confirm that we provided that notification.’”
This is the first time White House officials have publicly confirmed accepting Putin’s word on a diplomatic, military, or security issue. Biden responded in Kiev with a personal attack on Putin: “Putin thought Ukraine was weak and the West was divided,” Biden said. “He thought he could outlast us. I don’t think he’s thinking that right now. God knows what he’s thinking, but I don’t think he’s thinking that. But he’s just been plain wrong. Plain wrong. And one year later, the evidence is right here in this room. We stand here together.”
The record of the White House-Kremlin exchange for Biden’s propusk also reveals Putin’s willingness to accept Biden’s word. But four days later on February 21, in his speech to the Federal Assembly, Putin declared: “The concepts of honour, trust, and decency are not for them…[nor] of [their] total, unprincipled lies.”
The Russian press has not reported the Putin propusk. But there is speculation in Moscow the clash of public statements and the contradiction between them and the private safe conduct agreement are a sign of secret negotiations on armistice terms between the Americans and Russians, which Biden also promised Putin to put to Ukrainian officials in Kiev. Last Friday, February 17, Putin was busy in meetings with the Belarus President, Alexander Lukashenko, which were held at the Novo-Ogarevo residence outside Moscow. The Kremlin communiqué, issued at 15:15 – that was 07:15 Washington time – did not refer to the war.
The Kremlin record is silent on whether Putin’s safe conduct pass for Biden is included among the papers visible on the table between Lukashenko and Putin. Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/
Until CBS broadcast Sullivan’s admissions on the evening of February 20, the White House had successfully deceived the New York Times, Washington Post and the mainstream Anglo-American media into reporting Biden’s trip to Kiev as a surprise — “a show of defiance of Moscow quickly beamed around the world”, and “an audacious move meant to demonstrate American resolve to help Ukraine defeat the Russian forces”.
Peter Baker, one of the New York Times reporters Seymour Hersh endorsed last week as “bright”, published the claim that “for much of the past year, in fact, most of the people around the president resisted any urge to go, on the assumption that it was too risky. But nearly a year after the Russian invasion, with Ukrainian troops faring far better than anyone expected at the start and other American and European leaders having made the trip, Mr. Biden and his team gambled that he could get in and out safely.” Baker and his newspaper had missed the fact, and also the significance, that Biden had asked, Putin had agreed, to assure the US president’s security, removing thereby what Baker and his newspaper called their gamble.
The New York Times published this photograph of the empty blue sky above Biden and Zelensky in Kiev, claiming in the text: “The White House was so intent on keeping the secret that it lied to reporters back in Washington. About four hours after Mr. Biden crossed the border into Ukraine, his office back in Washington issued a public schedule falsely stating that the president was still in the nation’s capital and not planning to leave for Europe until Monday evening.” Baker’s report concluded with the newspaper’s notice on how it had verified his reporting of the secret Biden had asked Putin to keep. And he still has.
Also fooled into publishing false propaganda of Biden’s trip to Kiev were The Times of London, owned by Rupert Murdoch, and the Financial Times, owned by the Nikkei Corporation of Tokyo.
According to Financial Times reporters in Kiev, Warsaw and Riga, Latvia, “US President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Monday in a show of American commitment… On a trip shrouded by secrecy for security reasons…the visit resembled previous US presidents’ clandestine wartime trips to Iraq and Afghanistan — but was more daring since US troops were not on the ground to help provide support.” Source: https://www.ft.com/ The Washington Post ignored the Kiev trip except to claim that during Biden’s visit, he and Zelensky “walked the city streets as an air raid siren blared.”
The Post omitted to republish the video clip of the two men walking, Biden displaying a neurologically symptomatic foot shuffle and Zelensky warning him against tripping as they approached a low curb step:
‘It’s standard diplomatic protocol.”
Didn’t think you had a link. It’s OBVIOUS that the US could not assure safe passage to Kiev, and that only Russia could - otherwise why request their permission?
Hopefully you guys learn that BEFORE starting wars, it’s good to have the capability to win them, or at least defend the president.
“Come to think of it, you may as well take up permanent residence in Russia, too; since you’d prefer to avail yourself of Russian bomb shelters in the event of a nuclear war.”
Yep, anyone with HALF A BRAIN would know the difference between Russian civil defense and US NON-civil defense.
So the question to you and your Neocon friends - would it not have made sense to FIRST provide some civil defense for Americans BEFORE trying to get the US into WW3, or do you guys HATE Russia more than you care about Americans, as it certainly seems that way?
It is standard in this new world to do this.
Biden needs to make sure Zelensky knows how to carry this out face to face.
Putin said go ahead.
Learn it little people.
You sure have a low opinion of aliens. I’ve never seen one nearly as squirrely as Heelsup.
“So the question to you and your Neocon friends - would it not have made sense to FIRST provide some civil defense for Americans BEFORE trying to get the US into WW3, or do you guys HATE Russia more than you care about Americans, as it certainly seems that way?”
Nice try, Sparky. I don’t hate Russia. I want Russia to call off its invasion of a smaller and weaker neighbor and go back home. That is hardly HATE.
As for the bomb shelters: Go right ahead and take refuge in Russia. I’ll stay here.
The fake media lied and claimed their buddy President Retard was “brave”
Bahahahahabz. He’s a coward
Biden occupies the White House and is legally the head of the US. Sullivan told his opposites in Russia Biden is heading to Kyiv. Putin is not going to risk harming Biden and the US invoking NATO Article 5. The Kremlin sent the message down the chain Biden would be in Kyiv and put a hold on any action that could threaten Biden's safety while he was in Ukraine.
That is far simpler and more reasonable than creating a Tom Clancy story line the author admits he can't substantiate.
“It’s OBVIOUS that the US could not assure safe passage to Kiev, and that only Russia could - otherwise why request their permission?”
You are so childish. We don’t need Russia’s permission to enter any independent country; we’d need consent from the head of state of the country we intended to visit. It is standard diplomatic protocol to notify countries who are at war with the country being visited; but we do not need the permission of those warring countries.
Still waiting for you to provide a link proving you are not a Russian shill.
Is it forthcoming?
Putin would get a letter on yellow school buses.
I don’t waste my time on Soros AI chatboxes.
“Still waiting for you to provide a link proving you are not a Russian shill.”
Sounds like you’re DRUNK again.
“We don’t need Russia’s permission to enter any independent country”
Technically not, except WE GOT Russia’s permission. The days of the US ruling the world have ended, and your friends will need to learn that.
Point of fact it was AF2 that landed in Ukraine—with a body double of JoeBama complete with foot placement for the promo shots.
An obvious fake, much more robust body frame for one, and they made sure he copied JoeBama’s doped up gait.
Zelenskyy show biz homo that he is— went along with it, complete with a Russian orthodox church in the background, or uke— who cares. Photo op. And Jake Sullivan is an amateur f up who couldn’t get Benghazi right for Hitlary. Pencil neck and not bright at all.
Oh- AF 1 DID land ... in Poland, and that’s where Joe Bama the real one got off the plane.
Showtime! God how stupid they think the gen. public is— they could be right. The Poles at any rate aren’t buying what Joey Bags and the Krauts are pushing them with. Observe that German pres came to DC to visit Joe Bama. Even Sullivan can figure out how bad the optics would have been to go from Poland to Deutschland on the trip. JoeBama’s version of Ribbentrop-Molotov alliance. Poles have been there before.
“Sounds like you’re DRUNK again.”
Nice try, Sparky.
You sound like you are mainlining, and the needle is permanently inserted into the one vein you have left that hasn’t yet collapsed.
“Technically not, except WE GOT Russia’s permission.”
No, we didn’t; because we didn’t have to.
In reading this AF1 went into a war zone without fighter coverage?
China is building a huge military. That ought to worry everyone
“In reading this AF1 went into a war zone without fighter coverage?”
No. He flew to Poland and took a train to Kyiv.
“China is building a huge military. That ought to worry everyone”
Doesn’t seem to borrow one person here. He’s got A Nuland-type Obsession over Russia.
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