Posted on 04/29/2022 5:25:20 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose
The USA just gave Russia an excuse to seize all of Ukraine
Abraham Stein Apr 25
The United States has just given Russia a valid reason to take complete control of all Ukraine. Today, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Diplomat Anthony Blinken paid a visit to the Ukrainian president Zelensky in Kyiv, it was their first visit with Joe Biden as American President. The visit made it clear that the United States is directly involved in the conflict with the Russians, and the comments from Secretary of Defense Austin makes it abundantly clear that only a full Russian takeover of Ukraine will bring peace. A partial Russian takeover will produce more war.
Weaken Russia
Austin is the leader of the United Sates military and he made it very clear what the U.S. intends to do in Ukraine.
“We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine,” Austin said at the news conference. “So it has already lost a lot of military capability. And a lot of its troops, quite frankly. And we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability.”
Austin’s words can be read as a direct admission of war between the United States and Russia, it is obvious there will be no peace in the region unless the Kremlin controls all of Ukraine. The United States is throwing fuel on the fire, they have given an unstable hothead (Ukraine president Zelensky) a free reign to do as he pleases. Zelensky is not seeking peace, he is an egoist demanding ever increasing ransom money from the United States and heavy weapons. No amount of money will ever satisfy Zelensky, the U.S has made the mistake of getting in bed with the Ukrainian president, now they are stuck with him. Lloyd Austin and Anthony Blinken told the American people last year that all was well in Afghanistan and that the Taliban was “no threat” to the Afghan army, they were dumbfoundedly wrong. Austin and Blinken appear to be wrong again in Ukraine.
Austin words today might be read by the Kremlin as a direct threat to Russia, in all the years of cold war between Russian President Putin and the United States, Putin has never said that he wanted to “weaken the United States militarily”. It is clear the U.S is going in for a long war, which could trigger a nuclear response from one side.
All or nothing
For 70 years Ukraine was ruled by the Soviet Union and the region was at virtual peace.
The words today from Anthony Blinken, while not as direct as Austin, was also highly disrespectful.
He said, according to the BBC: "The bottom line is this. We don't how the rest of this war will unfold, but we do know that a sovereign, independent Ukraine will be around a lot longer than Vladimir Putin is on the scene. And our support for Ukraine going forward will continue and it will continue until we see final success."
Blinken words made it clear that the age of American-Russian diplomacy is finished, he made it clear that war will continue, and the only option is for Ukraine to win. The meeting today left no plans hidden, it is clear the Russian federation must take all of Ukraine, it is the only way to assure peace. Ukraine was under the Soviet Union for 70 years and there was never the threat of world war, as it is today with Ukraine under NATO control. A rogue, untamed, Western controlled Ukraine led by an erratic Zelensky makes the whole world unsafe. Zelensky and NATO will never stop pushing for conflict, unless Russia seizes all of Ukraine there is a real threat of Zelensky triggering world war 3.
... it is obvious there will be no peace in the region unless the Kremlin controls all of Ukraine.My take of what the US position is, is that if Russia persists, if Russia prevails in Ukraine, then the US will escalate. The more Russia "wins," the more the US fights. If Russia takes Ukraine, there will be less peace, not more.
Kind of like a homeless encampment that the EU has to pour money into, with no access to the sea to ship their grain, no oil or gas, and no energy transiting to Europe that they can steal or make money off of.
The Russians are going to leave a dried-up husk for the Euroweenies to take care of - filled with weapons scattered across the landscape.
“Ukraine was under the Soviet Union for 70 years and there was never the threat of world war” -— There were repeated threats of World War III during the Cold War, though they did not have to do with Ukraine itself.
“US war cheerleaders are fully prepared to fight Vlad down to the last Ukrainian.”
They may not have long to wait. Rybar lists Ukraine’s losses (dead, wounded and captured) at over 47,000. Yesterday, Ukraine lost 680 and today the “dead, wounded and captured” number was 520. The Rybar numbers “are according to insider information from the Ukrainian General Staff.”
“All data are predictable: the Ukrainian side in internal reports does not have the exact number of casualties for each category.”
“There is no communication with some units, and they are listed as missing, some equipment can be restored after the strike. Therefore, in internal reports, the trend always leads to an underestimation of the real number of losses.”
Very good Scott Ritter update video today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRy_Ak7sj80&t=105s
Ritter claims Ukrainian losses are now running in the hundreds to thousands each day and Russian losses after being heavy early in the conflict are now running “single or double digits” per day.
And China with the Solomon Islands.
The two countries signed a security pact.
Anybody but Ritter with info?
Because Austin is dumber than dirt. And nobody told him that he's dumber than dirt.
No, not exactly.
He said it because his role in the trip to Ukraine was as provocateur.
>>>Ritter claims Ukrainian losses are now running in the hundreds to thousands each day..
+100,000 per day? yeah right. At that rate their will be no Ukrainian army by the send of the weekend.
Of course we were told the Ukrainian army was finished about two months ago...
wait!?!? What?!?! You are sounding like the media screaming about Elon Musk buying twitter.
Oops! Misread hundred to thousands as hundreds of thousands...
NEVERMIND!
Ukraine has not been ruled by Russia since 1991. In the 70 years before that, there were only the 5 million killed by the Russians in the forced famine of the 1930s, and then WWII.
Kind of a weird way to define "virtual peace".
Yeah, I saw that ‘70 years Ukraine was ruled by the Soviet Union and the region was at virtual peace’ line and the thing that ran to my mind was “did they have a choice?”
I can agree with that, too.
Hundreds, thousands - who the hell cares! Most importantly, you posted your enlightened opinion on the internet, congratulations!
Not to mention the tens of thousands that were deported to Siberian camps.
No, I’m sounding like a guy watching the warmongers in DC put my grandchildren on the nuclear frontline over their corrupt oligarch cronies in Kiev. You’re sounding like a guy who doesn’t think through what the neocon DC cowboys are playing around with here.
“who the hell cares!”
BIG difference between hundred of thousand and Hundred or thousands
“Most importantly, you posted your enlightened opinion on the internet, congratulations!”
Thanks...I should get paid for it...anything but rubles.
The internet is loaded with sites with war info...here are just a few:
https://twitter.com/ILRUSSO1/status/1519639251763314688
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IEuCJI6coA&t=4s
https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/04/24/russias-plan-a-and-plan-b-explained/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpc1ar0kMU4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enTzaz347Iw
I got that feeling also. Trying to goad Putin into something stupid.
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