Posted on 01/25/2022 8:20:12 AM PST by KeyLargo
Pushing For War: Why Is The Biden Administration Pushing Ukraine To Attack Russia April 6, 2021
Why is it any of our business whether Crimea is part of Ukraine or part of Russia? Why is it any of our business if the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine prefer… by Ron Paul of Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity
On March 24th, Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky signed what was essentially a declaration of war on Russia. In the document, titled Presidential Decree No. 117/2021, the US-backed Ukrainian leader declared that it is the official policy of Ukraine to take back Crimea from Russia.
The declaration that Ukraine would take back Crimea from Russia also followed, and was perhaps instigated by, President Biden’s inflammatory and foolish statement that “Crimea is Ukraine.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was a chief architect of the US-backed coup against Ukraine in 2014, continued egging on the Ukrainians, promising full US support for the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine. Many Americans wonder why they are not even half as concerned about the territorial integrity of the United States! Not to be outdone, at the beginning of this month US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin – who previously served on the board of missile-maker Raytheon – called his counterpart in Ukraine and promised “unwavering US support for Ukraine’s sovereignty.” As the US considers Crimea to be Ukrainian territory, this is clearly a clear green light for Kiev to take military action. Washington is also sending in weapons. Some 300 tons of new weapons have arrived in the past weeks and more is on the way.
As could be expected, Moscow has responded to Zelensky’s decree and to the increasingly bellicose rhetoric in Kiev and Washington by re-positioning troops and other military assets closer to its border with Ukraine. Does anyone doubt that if the US were in the same situation – for example, if China installed a hostile and aggressive government in Mexico – the Pentagon might move troops in a similar manner? But according to the media branch of the US military-industrial-Congressional-media complex, Russian troop movements are not a response to clear threats from a neighbor, but instead are just more “Russian aggression.
"US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was a chief architect of the US-backed coup against Ukraine in 2014, continued egging on the Ukrainians, promising full US support for the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine. Many Americans wonder why they are not even half as concerned about the territorial integrity of the United States!"
"Not to be outdone, at the beginning of this month US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin – who previously served on the board of missile-maker Raytheon – called his counterpart in Ukraine and promised “unwavering US support for Ukraine’s sovereignty.” As the US considers Crimea to be Ukrainian territory, this is clearly a clear green light for Kiev to take military action."
Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg believes that President Joe Biden essentially gave Vladimir Putin the green light to invade Ukraine because the Ukrainian energy company Burisma stopped bribing him after the 2016 election of former President Donald Trump.
Speaking with politics editor Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday, Nunberg expanded on a tweet he posted Friday suggesting that Biden abandoned Ukraine due to Hunter Biden’s corruption.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/23/sam-nunberg-biden-abandoned-ukraine-cutting-off-hunter/
Who cares if Hitler annexes the Sudetenland. “Peace in our time,” right Ron?
Nothing like a little war to juice the economy, take attention away from all the other Biden created disasters, and enrich some of the donor class.
The Biden Administration Is Pushing Ukraine To Attack Russia?
Really?
Why would a fool want to start a winter campaign in that region? Hitler and Bonaparte both had their asses added to them by Russia (USSR). It’s not our fight. The Ukraine is not part of NATO.
More hype, only from the other side.
If Russia is "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" then Ukraine is the same, except more corrupt, chaotic and disorganized.
Russia simply can't, and doesn't want to, invade or occupy Ukraine. Its not nearly as arrogant or flippant about the costs of war and occupation as US neocons.
But, Russia wants political control, just like the USA does. If the CIA can arrange a color-revolution, then it is 10X easier for Russia to do the same in Ukraine with all the culture, political, language, historical and economic contacts it has in Ukraine. Putin is just waiting for the chance.
As Biden destroys the Ukraine economy with all the war-frenzy, Putin's chance will come soon enough.
“ Does anyone doubt that if the US were in the same situation – for example, if China installed a hostile and aggressive government in Mexico – the Pentagon might move troops in a similar manner?”
If Biden, or anyone in the Leftist Party, were in power?
They’d just consider it another opportunity to sell us out.
Biden and Socialist Democrats see your kid as Cannon Fodder for Publicity Purposes, so their bribery pipeline won't be interrupted,
nothing more than that.
Never get involved in a land war in Asia, good advice from a Sicilian
Half a league half a league onward, i
nto the valley of death rode the armored vehicles yonder.
Charge for the corrupt contract records ordered the Bidet. Into the valley of death road the armored vehicles.
“Forward, armored vehicles!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Bidet had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the armored vehicles.
you know the rest.
Wow this article is even handed!
But, I do think Ukraine should give up on reclaiming Crimea. Its not possible.
From a practical point of view, Putin made a BIG strategic mistake in taking Crimea. Before that the electoral breakdown in Ukraine was fairly close between “pro Russian” voters and “pro Ukraine” voters. It was possible for a pro-Russian presidential candidate to win a fair election. With all the Donbas and Crimeans no longer able to vote in Ukrainian elections, Ukraine will NEVER elect a pro-Russian President again.
So Putin got Crimea. He got his parades. But he lost Ukraine for ever. He can not reclaim it. Even invading now, he will lose. A Ukrainian insurgency will send dead Russians home everyday until he withdraws.
A Green Beret describes how good the Russian Spetsnaz are
Blake Stilwell
Posted On May 12, 2020 19:19:20
In 2001, Mark Giaconia was a Green Beret patrolling the border areas between Kosovo and Serbia. His counterparts were Russian troops, many of which were airborne. Their mission was to disrupt the movements of Albanian UCPMB rebels in the area. For six months, he and his Russian allies worked side-by-side, in the forests and mountains around Kosovo.
Then one day, his coworkers put on what they called a “Spetsnaz Show” – and Giaconia realized who his tactical buddies really were.
To be clear, the “Spetsnaz” aren’t any single part of the Russian military apparatus. They are any special operations unit of the Russian military, including the Russian Navy, Airborne troops, and FSB (formerly the KGB). Most often, when westerners refer to the Spetsnaz, they’re referring to the special operations section of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service.
Giaconia’s experience with the Russians was his first – and it was the first time American Specials Forces and Russian special operators worked together. The height of their mission in Kosovo was rolling on a rebel base that had killed one of the Russians’ soldiers. The team captured a young rebel while on a patrol and extracted the location of the rebels’ base of operations.
American and Russian Special Forces troops in Kosovo alongside Swedish Jaegers, 2001.
Giaconia describes his time in Kosovo with his ODA in his book, One Green Beret: Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and beyond: 15 Extraordinary years in the life – 1996-2011. He describes the joint US-Russian Special Forces outfit arriving in an area called Velja Glava, where the rebel camp was supposed to be. After dispatching the sentries, the joint team dismounted from their armored vehicles and moved through the forest to assault the camp. The Russians deftly traversed through the vegetation while Giaconia laid the forest bare with a Mk 19 grenade launcher.
The Russians captured the Albanian rebels that were still able to be captured, and the UCPMB camp was taken out of action permanently. When it came to the performance of the Spetsnaz in combat, Giaconia says they were keen on tactics and had great intuition and instinct. They could shoot well, took care of their weapons and equipment, and were in great shape, and were very well-disciplined.
In short, he says he had a lot of respect for these “badasses in spirit.”
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-tactical/a-green-beret-describes-spetsnaz/
Because it’s what democrats do
“The Biden Administration is Pushing Ukraine to Attack Russia? Really?”
Yeah, that’s what I thought. Very doubtful since Ukraine can hardly protect itself from a Russian invasion.
Midterms. Desperation is setting in.
The Croatian Prez slapped down Biden this morning saying he and his admin were pushing the war propaganda. Croatia is having nothing to do with it.
ukrainian information on hunter biden will also include 10% for the big guy...
Crimea does belong to Ukraine, Ron bs Paul.
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