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Biden's policy only delays Ukraine's defeat — Bolton
Tass ^ | 8/14/23 | Tass

Posted on 08/14/2023 3:38:16 AM PDT by hardspunned

NEW YORK, August 14. /TASS/. The policy of US President Joe Biden's administration in relation to Ukraine just postpones Kiev’s defeat, former National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump John Bolton wrote in an article published on The Wall Street Journal's website.

According to Bolton, "Ukraine’s offensive failures and Russia’s defensive successes share a common cause: the slow, faltering, nonstrategic supply of military assistance by the West. The serial debates over whether to supply this or that weapons system, the perpetual fear that Russia will escalate to war against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and occasional Kremlin nuclear saber-rattling have instilled a paralyzing caution in Western capitals. Although the UK under Boris Johnson wasn’t deterred, NATO has seemed unwilling to fulfill its commitment to restore Ukraine’s full sovereignty and territorial integrity."

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Sorry about the Tass but the original is behind the WSJ paywall. The neocon money quote, “The serial debates over whether to supply this or that weapons system, the perpetual fear that Russia will escalate to war against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and occasional Kremlin nuclear saber-rattling have instilled a paralyzing caution in Western capitals.” “Paralyzing caution” about starting WWIII sounds wise to me.
1 posted on 08/14/2023 3:38:16 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KZPuvK7Xi0

Russian/Ukraine update, 8/13/2023


2 posted on 08/14/2023 3:45:44 AM PDT by usual suspect
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To: hardspunned

Maybe Europeans have figured out that fighting John Bolton’s wars just ain’t worth the money, effort and anxiety.


3 posted on 08/14/2023 3:46:46 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”)
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To: hardspunned

Lord, what an idiot!


4 posted on 08/14/2023 3:54:39 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: hardspunned

Lord, what an idiot!


5 posted on 08/14/2023 3:54:56 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: hardspunned
Imagine all the new private jets, Riviera and Swiss villas, offshore bank accounts, mega-yachts and supermodels to crew them.

Tens of thousands of dead and maimed soldiers are just grist in the massive MIC grift mill.


6 posted on 08/14/2023 3:57:26 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: hardspunned

It’s a European problem and always has been but America under this administration will do anything to help any country but itself.


7 posted on 08/14/2023 4:01:52 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: popdonnelly

I’ll never forget the time I was watching one of those Sunday morning political interview shows. Before Trump I think was elected.

They were interviewing Bolton and I almost fell off my chair when he said he wished every single southerner who fought in the civil war would have been executed.

That would have been a genocide worthy of the types like young Turks, Hitler, Pol pot and Mao. About 1.5 million.


8 posted on 08/14/2023 4:03:14 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: usual suspect

Also on rumble to avoid giving YouTube traffic and ad revenue

Summer Operations | Bloody Battles For Urozhaine and Klishchiivka Military Summary For 2023.8.13
https://rumble.com/v37615b-summer-operations-bloody-battles-for-urozhaine-and-klishchiivka-military-su.html?mref=2ns2mg&mrefc=3


9 posted on 08/14/2023 4:23:35 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: Travis McGee

Once this hot war is over, assuming we’re not all dead, the conflict will settle into a new generational, multi trillion dollar cold war. With this gambit they cash in immediately and for generations. They and their children will be cashing billion dollar checks for the foreseeable future. I put the over under in May of last year on General Dynamic tanks sold in Europe over the next decade at 5000. That prediction looks pretty much spot on. Have you seen that Finnish border? How much can be siphoned off the hundreds of billions it will take to arm it?


10 posted on 08/14/2023 4:25:49 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

Bolton sees the light about Ukraine losing
But he blames it on the West for not giving them enough arms ( like over $100 billion who even knows…)
Still refuses to recognize the fault lies with advisors like himself who still fail to understand the “ enemy” Russia and its political will, economic resiliency, and military capability vs “ superior” western weapons and training. Turns out every weapon the West has provided burns well, the Russians adapt swiftly to every “ surprise” thrown at them, instead of charging across empty fields to plant flags in small ruined villages, they are willing to endure the derision of numbnuts like Milley and his girlfriend Kirby for not “taking Kiev in 3 days” and stay entrenched behind deadly echeloned defenses and kill hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian troops.

And Crimea…really is a redline. Not a bluff.


11 posted on 08/14/2023 4:27:32 AM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: hardspunned

Everybody hates Bolton.


12 posted on 08/14/2023 4:32:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: All

I feel bad for the Ukrainians but to quote Animal House: You F’ed up, you trusted us


13 posted on 08/14/2023 4:37:49 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Travis McGee

There is only one 100% correlation of the people mentioned.
You can throw in Nuland, Vindman, Soros, etc.
Hint, you’re not allowed to say.


14 posted on 08/14/2023 4:46:16 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: hardspunned
Another Biden/Neocon foreign policy debacle. Who didn't see this one coming?
15 posted on 08/14/2023 4:54:54 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Phoenix8
They were interviewing Bolton and I almost fell off my chair when he said he wished every single southerner who fought in the civil war would have been executed.

You should find that video clip and post it on free republic! I’m sure others would be as shocked as you!
16 posted on 08/14/2023 5:09:28 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: janetjanet998

Thanks. I found a wealth of info on “Rense”


17 posted on 08/14/2023 5:10:36 AM PDT by usual suspect
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To: maddog55

We are in a proxy war with Russia. “Helping” Ukraine is irrelevant. Biden calls Putin a war criminal and wants him removed. SecDef Austin says the objective is to weaken the Russian military so they can’t do this again.

Special interests are profiting from this war. The US military-industrial complex is thriving. US exports of LNG to Europe have increased significantly with the elimination of the Nordstream pipelines. The corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine are making a fortune. Refugee and other NGO organizations are flush with money.

This war has been going on since 2014 when the US/EU engineered coup of the duly elected government of Ukraine spawned the separatist movement in the Donbas and precipitated the first Russian invasion, unopposed, that annexed Crimea. The same idiots that led this coup, i. e., Biden, Blinken, Nuland, Sullivan, Powers, in 2014 are back in power. For them, it is personal. Putin humiliated them in 2014. This war is payback. It could have been avoided, but they chose to cross Putin’s red line about NATO expansion. They wanted this war.

We have entered a new Cold War and caused a global political realignment that is more dangerous for us. Most of the world is ignoring the sanctions against Russia. Even NATO members like Hungary and Turkey are not fully complying with them. We are stuck in another endless war that is already costing us hundreds of billions of dollars adding to our budget deficits and national debt. Debt servicing costs will be over $600 billion this calendar year along with a $2 trillion budget deficit.

We are being led by fools and knaves. We have a corrupt, compromised President who took millions of dollars in bribes from Ukraine. We had a US President, Donald J. Trump, who was impeached over a telephone call to Ukraine inquiring about Biden corruption. Deep State has been involved significantly in Ukraine militarily, intelligence activities, bio labs, etc.

Why is Ukraine the hill to die on for the US? We have no strategic national interests at stake. We are prolonging this war causing more death and destruction for Ukrainians in a war they cannot win. If we really want to help Ukraine, we must end this war now. We have the leverage to do so.


18 posted on 08/14/2023 5:16:13 AM PDT by kabar
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--- "We are being led by fools and knaves. We have a corrupt, compromised President who took millions of dollars in bribes from Ukraine. We had a US President, Donald J. Trump, who was impeached over a telephone call to Ukraine inquiring about Biden corruption. Deep State has been involved significantly in Ukraine militarily, intelligence activities, bio labs, etc."

Well captured in a short few sentences! Clarity! Kudos to you.

19 posted on 08/14/2023 5:45:37 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: EEGator
The first Trump impeachment over "the perfect phone call" provides a virtual who's-who of the cabal.

Below the puppet-master photo are some leaders at the very top of the Kagan-Nuland cabal that in reality drives our foreign policy.


20 posted on 08/14/2023 5:49:01 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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