Putin deployed more than 80k troops just across border - and Kremlin-backed TV warns nation is 'one step away' from war

Daily Mail ^ | April 12 2021 | Henry Martin

[Broker]

Russia is thought to have massed 80,000 troops along Ukraine's eastern border Clashes broke out in recent weeks, undermining a ceasefire brokered last year Ukraine's country's President Volodymyr Zelensky is visiting area near Mariupol Zelensky said a Russian invasion is a real possibility that Ukraine is bracing............

[tlozo]

Russia isn’t my enemy.

"Russia sees the United States as its “adversary,” a top Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday amid heightened tensions with Washington over the eastern Ukraine conflict. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov’s words mark a departure from Russia’s usual description of the U.S. as a “partner.”

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/04/13/us-is-russias-adversary-leading-diplomat-says-a73575

[tlozo]

Ukraine as it’s the gate way always used to invade Russia.

Lol, what Nato army is going to invade Russia? Russia has a much larger conventional force than Nato.

[central_va]

I hear Germany is getting their tank up to snuff.

[tlozo]

I hear Germany is getting their tank up to snuff.

Nato is not an offensive threat to Russia.

Germany has only 236 tanks in its inventory.

Russian Army has in total 2685 main battle tanks in their active inventory.

https://defence-blog.com/news/army/revealed-number-of-main-battle-tanks-in-russia.html

[ETL]

Well you’re still putting out there old Anti-Russia stuff as well. Because you fail to understand some people are no longer living in the cold war era day in and out..they understand how Obama pushed Russia right into China’s lap.

Lol!

First of all, Russia and communist China have been on this joint geopolitical/military mission since the late 1990s, right around the time of Bill Clinton's traitorous ChinaGate scandal. Second, the lefty Obama-Hillary-Biden-led Dems were/are in cahoots with the Russians!, not just during the 2016 and 2020 elections, but throughout the 8 years they were in power!, basically handing your boy Putin everything he wanted and needed to continue about his goal of restoring the old evil empire and then some, when you include in the mix the oil/gas-rich Middle East.

[ETL]

Well you’re still putting out there old Anti-Russia stuff as well. Because you fail to understand some people are no longer living in the cold war era day in and out..they understand how Obama pushed Russia right into China’s lap.

"RUSSIA COLLUSION" (written by myself, based on what I dug up and my own prior knowledge)

The 'Trump-Russia collusion' story was of course a hoax, a COVER, to hide what THEY (the notoriously traitorous Democrats) were doing, as the only evidence for Russia collusion involves THEM!

1) Newly unclassified docs reportedly state (surprise-surprise) Russians actually wanted HILLARY to win, not Trump! Obama CIA chief Brennan hid the evidence!!

2) Top Putin aids (Vladislav Surkov and Vyacheslav Trubnikov) provided disinformation (fake 'dirt') on Trump! (via RUSSIAN AGENT Igor Danchenko) for Clinton campaign/DNC paid-for Steele dossier!!

3) Obama-Biden DENIED desperately requested military assistance to Ukraine during the 2014 Russia invasion of Crimea!! At the time (2014) Trump had sharply and publicly (on NBC's Today Show, and elsewhere) criticized the Obama administraion, asserting that "Putin has eaten Obama's lunch" once again.

4) $3.5 MILLION (via Hunter Biden) from the wife of a former mayor of Moscow! (Elena Baturina) The former mayor of Moscow (Yuri Luzhkov) was a strong advocate for Russia invading and taking over Crimea. The $3.5 million reportedly passed hands within WEEKS of the Russia invasion of Crimea! (Feb-Mar 2014). Obama admin did nothing but provide them food rations and blankets! They had begged him for military equiptment.

5) Burisma owner (Mykola Zlochevsky) was/is a RUSSIA ALLY! Joe Biden's son worked for and brought in millions from Burisma. Joe is ON VIDEO BRAGGING about extorting the Ukrainians into firing the prosecutor who was investigating his son and the corrupt RUSSIA-ALLIED owner of the company. Zlochevsky was an official of the former 'puppet' regime that Putin had installed in the Ukraine via a rigged election. Viktor Yanukovych, the 'puppet' president of that regime's pro-American opponent in the election (Viktor Yushchenko) barely survived an assassination attempt by poisoning. His face was left badly pock-mocked for a long time afterward. Putin is widely believed to be responsible.

6) For 8 years the Obama-Biden-Clinton admin immensely HELPED the Russians, via Obama's promised and delivered "flexibility" on missile defense, the Russia-favoring New Start nuke treaty, the Putin-loving Iran deal (Iran and Syria are pawns of Russia in the oil/gas-rich Middle East), the Uranium-One deal, where Obama-Hillary allowed Russia to take ownership of 20% of our uranium production!

7) They (Obama-Biden) deliberately slashed OUR military to pieces. Fortunately, Trump has/had since brought it back times 10.

[ETL]

"...the Clinton campaign, and ultimately the Obama administration, colluded with Russians for the purpose of accusing Donald Trump of . . . yes . . . colluding with Russians."

--Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, Sept 26, 2020
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Steele's Dossier Source Was a Suspected Russian Spy

Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, Sept 26, 2020

In an effort to depict Donald Trump as if he were in an espionage conspiracy with the Kremlin, the Obama administration used bogus information, from a man the FBI suspected was an actual Russian spy.

It turns out that Igor Danchenko, the man the FBI suspected of being an actual Russian spy, initially provided the bogus information about the American, Carter Page, through a former British spy, Christopher Steele.

Through a couple of cut-outs, Steele had been retained by the Clinton campaign to dig up -- or, alas, to make up -- Russian dirt on Trump. Through his private intelligence business in London, Steele was known to be working for Russian oligarchs, while Danchenko was on Steele's payroll.

That is, the Clinton campaign, and ultimately the Obama administration, colluded with Russians for the purpose of accusing Donald Trump of . . . yes . . . colluding with Russians."

--Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, Sept 26, 2020
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CIA told Obama of claim Hillary Clinton conjured Trump-Russia scandal

by Steven Nelson, New York Post, Sept 29, 2020

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday revealed a bombshell allegation that Hillary Clinton ordered "a campaign plan to stir up a scandal" by linking President Trump to Russia in 2016 -- and that then-President Barack Obama knew about her possible role.

Ratcliffe disclosed the information in a letter published by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) just hours before Trump debates Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who was vice president at the time.

Clinton's alleged July 2016 plot would tar Trump by "tying him to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the Russians' [alleged] hacking of the Democratic National Committee," Ratcliffe wrote Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Handwritten notes by then-CIA Director John Brennan, who now is a fiery anti-Trump commentator, say that Brennan briefed Obama on "alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services." ..."
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[Obama] CIA Chief Brennan hid intel saying Russia wanted Hillary win in 2016

May 13, 2020 - Ryan Morgan

Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell is working to declassify documents relating to the investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and, according to Fox News' Ed Henry, some of those declassified documents will actually show a Russian effort to benefit Hillary Clinton during the election, not Donald Trump.

Henry told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday's "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that four or five new batches of intelligence are being declassified, one of which contains an assessment that Brennan sought to suppress, showing that Russia wanted Clinton to win. ...”

"Remember the U.S. intel community came out with that remarkable statement, an assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, and most importantly the intel report claimed that Russia interfered because they wanted Donald Trump to win," Henry said. That of course followed the narrative of the now-discredited Steele Dossier.

Well, it turns out Obama’s CIA chief, John Brennan also had intel saying "actually Russia wanted Hillary Clinton to win because she was a known quantity, she had been secretary of state, and Vladimir Putin’s team thought she was more malleable..."

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Rep. Devin Nunes (R-California), Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, on Robert Mueller's May 29, 2019 press conference:

Nunes: "Well, he [Mueller] should have been gone after day two.

He has no Russians, except for the Fusion and Clinton Russians, and possibly the dirty cop, the FBI's Russians, those are the only Russians that he has, to show “connections” to the Trump campaign.

Clearly, the Clinton operation is heavily working with Russians or Russian disinformation. He didn’t take time to look into any of that"
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Senator Lindsey Graham (R)
Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee

July 27, 2020:

“ He [Igor Danchenko, working for Christopher Steele] calls up a bunch of people in Russia.

Who do you think this information came from?

It came from the Russian intelligence service."
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Re: ((Vladislav Surkov))

"On October 11, 2016, [Christopher] Steele was interviewed in Washington by [Hillary-Obama] State Department official Kathleen Kavalec.

In that interview, he [Steele] identified two of his insider Kremlin sources as Vladislav Surkov and Vyasheslov Trubnikov.”

Surkov has spent over a decade moving up in the regime. In 2013, he became Putin's personal adviser, particularly on Georgia and Ukraine, where Putin has since made major territorial annexations.

Kremlin-wise, Surkov is top-echelon; he's sometimes referred to as "Putin's Rasputin."

Trubnikov is a longtime regime eminence who ran the SVR (Russia external intelligence service, analogous to the CIA) before Putin came to power. Since then, he has continued to be an insider, while moving on to critical positions...”

--Andrew McCarthy, National Review, May 29, 2019
Article: Was Brennan's 'Intelligence Bombshell' the Steele Dossier?
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Below, via the FOIA, Obama-Hillary State Dept official Kathleen Kavalec's own personal notes from her interview with Christopher Steele, naming top-level Putin aide Vladislav Surkov and Vyasheslov Trubnikov as Hillary/DNC paid-for Steele dossier sources!

CU FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] Document Release — Kavalec Memo & Related Records:
https://www.scribd.com/document/409446360/CU-FOIA-Document-Release-Kavalec-Memo-Related-Records
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Re: Vladislav Surkov:

"Foreign politicians talk about Russia's interference in elections and referendums around the world. In fact, the matter is even more serious: Russia interferes in your brains, we change your conscience, and there is nothing you can do about it."

—Vladislav Surkov, personal aide to Vladimir Putin
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Re: Top-level Putin aide Vladislav Surkov (DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion)

"She [HILLARY CLINTON] launched the [Russia] 'reset' policy after the murders of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian intelligence agent who had been granted asylum in Britain, and Anna Politkovskaya, Russia's leading investigative journalist.

In both cases, the regime of Vladimir Putin was directly implicated. [both were poisoned]

Instead of trying seriously to deter Russian aggression, which in Ukraine so far has claimed more than 10,000 lives, the Obama administration in 2009 created the McFaul-Surkov commission.

Michael McFaul, Mr. Obama's chief adviser on Russia, was tasked with building civil society alongside Vladislav Surkov, a Kremlin aide responsible for suppressing it. ..."

— David Satter - Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Wall Street Journal, June 12, 2017

[Mr Radical]

Yes, Golitsyn was right.
But the plot didn't quite go as planned and since then it has moved on.
Otherwise, how do you explain the present anti-Russian stance from the left-dominated western media and leadership? The same folks who white-washed the crimes of Dear Old Uncle Joe (Dear Old Joe Stalin, not Dear Old Joe Biden). And the same Clinton cabal who looked the other way as Chinese agents stole every secret from the computer servers of America's universities and government agencies?
But I think you know the answer to that already ;-)

[Jewbacca]

Sure, Vlad.

[jmacusa]

Ukrainians have never considered themselves to Russians. They have never wanted to be part of Czarist Russia or Communist Russia. They want to be Ukrainians. Free people, independent of Russia and left alone by Moscow. If Putin pushes this he'll get his ass kicked. Russia is in no shape to fight a war or even a ''regional conflict''.

[dfwgator]

Yes, if the Russians tried to take Kiev, they’d have big problems, but these are the Eastern provinces that are mostly ethnic Russians.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Russia and China along with their proxy surrogates are all clearly planning/coordinating their moves together both regionally and globally as they seek, to achieve as much as they can with in the face of the weakest administration in the last one hundred years with the acclimated prepdonerance military power that they have obtained now with the Democrats in the pockets of our enemies,and now that socialist nationalist populist isolationists along with the moon-bat kooky (Ron Paul) types are in total firm control within the entire GOP there is very little to nothing that can be done to stop this.

Soon the skies shall be darkened Red and our enemies will be coming for us then death’s sting from the bright lights of the Red dawn shall indeed; be very gruesome and as Thunder pointed out they will have their New world order empire.

[jmacusa]

Russians in the eastern provinces are there largely because Stalin put their parents and grandparents there to create a permanent Russian presence to counter any conflicts from ethnic peoples in these regions.

[dfwgator]

So what are you going to do, boot them out?

[jmacusa]

Believe me the majority of the peoples in those areas want the Russians gone.

[ETL]

Yes, Golitsyn was right. But the plot didn't quite go as planned and since then it has moved on. Otherwise, how do you explain the present anti-Russian stance from the left-dominated western media and leadership?

I showed on this thread that the Dems' tough talk on Russia was just that: tough 'talk'. In reality, they bent over backwards to appease the Russians throughout the 8 years of Obama-Hillary-Biden. AND they worked with them trying to defeat Trump in BOTH elections, 2016 and 2020, in the concocting the "Trump-Russia collusion" hoax, providing fake 'dirt' on Trump to team Hillary and the DNC via the Steele dossier and his Russian agent(s). I would suggest that you more carefully go over what I've previously posted on this thread.

[billakay]

The Ukrainians are at the brink of starting a war they cannot possibly win, at the obvious urging of Joe Biden and NATO.

If they start, the Russians will be well within their rights to bulldoze right over their country and institute a much more reasonable administration.

[Wallace T.]

Golitsyn may well be proven to be right, although there have been a few twists and turns that he did not anticipate. The Chinese and the Russians are replicating the roles of the Japanese and Germans of the last century, but unlike the fascist Axis, the Asian power is the more prominent player. The Iranians may be the 2020s equivalent of Italy.

The only man who could have served as a modern Churchill is playing golf at Boca Raton and is likely targeted for extensive lawfare by the Deep State.

Germany and therefore Western Europe will sit this conflict out. They have no military force capable of resistance, and Russia controls the natural gas supplies. Ukraine and possibly the Baltic States will be reabsorbed into Russian Empire 3.0. Poland and the other former Soviet satellites will see the handwriting on the wall and work out deals with Moscow.

China may strike quickly before Taiwan and other East Asian nations develop an effective nuclear deterrent. They may attempt a modern version of the Battle of Tsushima, in which the Japanese Navy decisively beat their Russian counterparts. The Chinese believe that American moral decadence and inadequate maintenance of military assets (only partially addressed by Trump) will provide them with a decisive victory. As with Europe, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, etc., will look to cut deals with the new hegemon in Beijing.

In the Western Hemisphere, Biden's open borders are carte blanche for terrorists of both the Muslim extremist and Communist varieties. Communist satellites in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua are also bases for future attacks. Combined with internal terrorist groups like BLM and Antifa and a Deep State more concerned about swatting the gnats of rightist militants than fighting the wolves of leftist and black supremacist groups, the potential for instability is escalating, especially in the blue states where law enforcement has their hands tied and where police commissioners and sheriffs are sympathetic to leftist terror.

Conservative anger at the Left's escalating war against American institutions and even common decency will likely lead to a replication of the "better Hitler than Blum" attitude of the French Right in the 1930s. Putin and the Russians have cultivated sympathy among paleoconservatives and libertarians by their facade of nationalism and Orthodox Christian trappings. LewRockwell.com is essentially a Putin fan club. If the U.S. faces an overseas war, traditionalist young white men will not sign up as they did in 2001, 1965, or 1941. A military filled with women and beta males will be defeated if they try to challenge Russian or Chinese forces in ground warfare. Even if our tanks and planes are better than those of our adversaries, "social justice" goals of diversity and inadequate maintenance will lead to disaster.

I wish I could be more optimistic, but barring divine intervention, the future of the United States and Europe is bleak.

[ETL]

What a piece of you-know-what you are.

Feel lucky this isn’t my site.

[Kazan]

I had no idea until recently that Gopniks were such a big part of Russian pop culture. They were likable than our gangsta rappers.