Posted on 08/03/2022 10:04:57 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered the most serious crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Russia on Tuesday said that the United States, the world's top military power, was directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine because US spies were approving and coordinating Ukrainian missile strikes on Russian forces.
"It is the Biden administration that is directly responsible for all Kiev-approved rocket attacks on residential areas and civilian infrastructure in populated areas of Donbas and other regions, which have resulted in mass deaths of civilians." - Russian Defense Ministry
Russia's defense ministry, headed by a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said Vadym Skibitsky, Ukraine's deputy head of military intelligence, had admitted to the Telegraph newspaper that Washington coordinates HIMARS missile strikes.
“All this undeniably proves that Washington, contrary to White House and Pentagon claims, is directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine," the defense ministry said.
US President Joe Biden has said he wants Ukraine to defeat Russia and has supplied billions of dollars of arms to Kyiv but US officials do not want a direct confrontation between US and Russian soldiers.
Russia said the Biden administration was responsible for missile attacks on civilian targets in areas controlled by Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine.
"It is the Biden administration that is directly responsible for all Kiev-approved rocket attacks on residential areas and civilian infrastructure in populated areas of Donbas and other regions, which have resulted in mass deaths of civilians," the defense ministry said…
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“we are currently poking china.”
No. China was going to break out into aggression no matter what we did or anyone else did, short of pre-emptive surrender.
mylife [FR born-on date 2003-01-23] provides valuable article posts here on Free Republic
You provide retread n00bie snark, FlushBoy [FR born-on date 2021-01-04], in between thirsting for death and the blood of young Ukrainian and Russian soldiers.
Have a nice cuppa.
“I’m noticing a trend amongst the pro-Russian forces on FR lately to write responses to their own posts. Curious as to the point of this recurring practice.”
It is easily explainable: They are sitting at computers and are being handed talking points as they type, so the “responses to their own posts” are actually addenda.
“Then NATO needs to be stopped? Is that what you’re saying?”
What land-grab wars have NATO engaged in? I mean real land-grab, such as conquer and annex?
100% AGREE!
Russia is a poverty-stricken corrupt technological backwater. The days of Russia storming across Western Europe are over.
Russia couldn’t beat Finland or Sweden, or any other advanced European country.
Four (FOUR!) HIMARS systems reversed Russia’s momentum overnight.
Weird that I can't recall when they started...
The new bestseller! "When Russia Invaded England, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and The Netherlands", by freeper Vaden
Actually considering how close the Communists came to winning in France and Italy right after WWII, it was closer than people thought.
I knew about the Commie French Resistance murderers.
I'll have to look into the Italian branch.
“in between thirsting for death and the blood of young Ukrainian and Russian soldiers.”
Nope. Just the Russians. And then only the subset of Russians who are in Ukraine inclusive of Crimea and Donbas.
Them I want to see slaughtered to the last man. Every one of them.
“Even Putin doesn’t allege that.”
Putin has tried to keep it one country at a time and has no desire to have NATO coming in on him. Biden’s only savior in this is that while Biden has been bankrupting us and our other trade partners using Putin’s threats of cutting off their natural gas. Putin doesn’t want everyone dog piling him.
Claiming that we are approving targets for the HIMARS system is not direct involvement. Okay, how do we know where the direct targets are unless we are on the ground confirming? Satellite don’t read minds.
“They are expensive weapons and missiles and we don’t want to see them wasted on low value targets.”
They already said they can’t pay for what they already have and Biden will not take them back.
“We don’t want them accidently blowing up a kindergarten or something else that could generate bad press or even war crime claims.”
I’m assuming you are missing the part where people in that area use human chains.
“We might not be sharing all the intel that we have with Ukraine...”
What’s left? These are the coordinates, this is how you aim it, This is how you fire it. Need much more?
“They don’t know why they are in Ukraine fighting, but attacks directly on Russia give them a reason.”
The grunts don’t know why, don’t know where, and fight because they want to. When they don’t want to, they leave. So far, not man y have left.
“Claiming that we are approving targets for the HIMARS system is not direct involvement.”
Don’t understand here. If a Ukrainian officer in the army knew how to insert the location or approving the targets in the HIMARs isn’t being part of the battle, then what is? The only difference is that one approving group is Ukrainian and the other US. Same task, same outcome. And if we weren’t there, could they hit the broad side of a barn with it? I’m sure if that was the case, Putin would sleep better at night.
wy69
Russia is not a technological backwater.
And they’ve been able to march to their objectives in Ukraine with their oldest and most outdated equipment.
Meanwhile, we’ve been depleting our hard-to-replace modern store of weaponry on a genuine backwater that doesn’t directly affect our country’s security.
Yes, yes you do want to see young men on both sides dead.
Because that's what the neocon thirst to continue to fight this Special Military Operation to the last Ukrainian is all about - weakening Russia, from the mouth of the Raytheon Bimbo himself, L-Lloyd Austin.
We're still curious to see what was in your old FR account(s) that was bad enough to hide with a new account from 2021...
I know I'm interested - I'll bet freeper mylife would like to take a peek at that info.
See my tag line. My opinions are hardly a secret.
But, no one ever said you were the sharpest bulb in the drawer...
Soviet Russia never went away. People like you were fooled into believing it did yet here the Russians are out on the war path again trying to conquer other countries.
Oh yes, because Russia was so angelic before the Bolsheviks took over. /s
Whatever you neolibs on the Left Coast want to tell yourselves at night when you hear noises from the closet...
probably just a homeless San Fran fag - but you do you.
Tsar Nicholas was pro American. And the US sent troops to fight the commies.
Russia is correct.
It is Biden and the NWO globalists intervening to start WWIII.
The US is absolutely wrong in this conflict. We should have stayed the he!! out. It’s none of our business. We’re not the world police.
We’re 30 Trillion in debt, inflation around 25% for things we ned to survive, trannies run our woke crappy weakling military, Critical Race Theory permeats our kids schools, and we go provoke a war in Europe!!!! Then fund it, and will end up rebuilding it!!!!!
And my guy (ugh), Waltz, completely backs expanding the US role in Ukraine. I will not be pulling the lever for him again. Unfortunately, the Powers That Be in Volusia County think he walks on water.
What a gaint mistake. Insane.
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