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............

[dynachrome]

Putin isn’t our friend, but he dam’ sure doesn’t have to be an enemy.

[dfwgator]

We have no friends, only interests.

[ETL]

Putting aside the phony FR Putinista trolls, who aren't nearly as dumb and clueless as they put on as to the threat from Russia, very few people it seems are aware of the serious military alliance between Russia and communist China, the two staging increasingly elaborate joint war games since 2005.

Russia and China began the so-called "peace mission" series of joint war games in 2005. They claim it's about combating terrorism, but only a fool would believe that, as the games are large scale and increasingly complex. Also in this alliance are Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, and a few other hostile hard left and islamo-nazi regimes.

Recall, Bill Clinton's treasonous ChinaGate scandal began in late 1996...

From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."

THE HUNGRY BEAR
PART 5: Russia, China 'cooking something up'
By W Joseph Stroupe | Sept 29, 2006
https://web.archive.org/web/20170721060215/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."
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War Games: Russia, China Grow Alliance

Sept 23rd, 2005

In foreign policy it’s critical to “know thine enemy.” So American policymakers should be aware that Russia and China are inching closer to identifying a common enemy - the United States.

The two would-be superpowers held unprecedented joint military exercises Aug. 18-25. Soothingly named “Peace Mission 2005,” the drills took place on the Shandong peninsula on the Yellow Sea, and included nearly 10,000 troops. Russian long-range bombers, the army, navy, air force, marine, airborne and logistics units from both countries were also involved.

Moscow and Beijing claim the maneuvers were aimed at combating terrorism, extremism and separatism (the last a veiled reference to Taiwan), but it’s clear they were an attempt to counter-balance American military might. ..."

[wgmalabama]

Senile Joe and the California Hoe. Praise be the anyone but Trump.

[ETL]

A distraction from China

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2015: First Russia-China naval war games underway in Mediterranean

By Carol J. Williams
May 11, 2015

Reporting from Moscow —

Neither Russia nor China has one inch of coastline on the Mediterranean Sea, making it an unlikely and provocative venue for their first joint naval war games.

The 10 days of maneuvers that got underway Monday will include live-fire exercises in the strategic sea connecting Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The point is lost on no one: A powerful new alliance of eastern giants is flexing its muscles in the very backyard of Western Europe — much as China has done on its own in the Pacific.

The war games follow Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow, where he headlined Victory Day celebrations and spent three days making billion-dollar deals with Russian President Vladimir Putin. ...”

https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-china-russia-joint-naval-maneuvers-20150511-story.html
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Russia and China’s Growing Military Interaction; Surprised?

by Peter Zwack | September 9, 2018

The drums are already rolling for the upcoming Russian “Vostok” (east) wargames commencing on September 11. With its focal point in the Trans-Baikal region of eastern Siberia adjoining Chinese Manchuria and Mongolia, this is a nationwide Russian military and societal event.

Touted by Russian minister of defense Sergei Shoigu as “unprecedented in scale, both in terms of area of operations and numbers of military command structure, troops, and forces involved,” Russian state press is declaring that up to three hundred thousand troops and one thousand aircraft will be involved, with the majority from the Eastern and Central Military Districts.

This would be even larger than the near-legendary Zapad-81 maneuvers held in the western USSR during the depths of the Cold War. ...”

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/russia-and-china%E2%80%99s-growing-military-interaction-surprised-30822

[griswold3]

Good post
To “support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” doesn’t mean much these days.
This would be a way to rid themselves of their undesirable elements (white males) in conflict

[dfwgator]

Also to reimpose those Wilsonian Sedition Acts.

[ETL]

Re: "Russia, Russia, Russia!"

The phony, lying, Left continue, to this day, talking about "Trump-Russia collusion". Meanwhile, Russia is in bed with the far left, here and abroad! They are in the same camp with the radical left groups here in the US!

Re: Maduro allies

The Links Between Black Lives Matter and Nicolas Maduro Revealed

PanAm Post ^ | June 23, 2020 | PanAm Post Staff

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"...while Black Lives Matter claim to oppose police abuse and racism around the world, the organization is simultaneously a great supporter of some of the world’s most brutal and repressive dictators. In particular, the founders of BLM have been staunch supporters and allies of the sanguinary Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro and of the Castro regime in Cuba.

In December 2015 Black Lives Matter sent a delegation, headed by the organization’s co-founder, Opal Tometi, to act as observers during the Venezuelan Parliamentary elections of that year. The Maduro regime did not allow accreditation for observers from the Organization of American States, the UN, or the EU. The only accredited observers where from regimes and organizations friendly to the “revolutionary cause.”

Later that same month Tometi penned an article where she espouses, word for word, the regime’s standard text for international propaganda.

“In these last 17 years, we have witnessed the Bolivarian Revolution champion participatory democracy and construct a fair, transparent election system recognized as among the best in the world ,” wrote Tometi about one of the world’s most corrupt voting systems in history.

Earlier in 2015 Maduro was given an award at the Afro-descenndants Summit” held in Harlem. Maduro was invited at the behest of the Black Lives Matter leadership. ..."

[Venezuelan President] Nicolas Maduro with Opal Tometi (right), co-founder
of Black Lives Matter, in Harlem, Manhattan, December 2015.

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Also in 2015...

Moscow defense minister inks deals with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua for joint exercises

by Bill Gertz, February 20, 2015

Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.

Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb 11 to 14.

It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.

Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. ..."

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2015...

Nicolas Maduro with Opal Tometi (black dress, center), co-founder of Black Lives Matter, in Harlem, Manhattan, December 2015.
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2020...

Russia to boost Venezuela ties amid US pressure

February 8, 2020 - BBC

Russia has pledged to boost military and economic co-operation with Venezuela to help the South American nation deal with growing US pressure.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s comments came after his meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas.

Mr Lavrov said any attempts to remove Mr Maduro’s government by force were unacceptable.

The US accuses Mr Maduro of leading a corrupt and brutal regime. ...”

“Russia is a key ally of Venezuela, lending it billions of dollars and backing its oil industry and military.”

[lodi90]

We are at the brink of War with Russia and US media silent. Stay alert

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LOL. No we are not. Putin wants attention. Same stuff different year.

[Broker]

Economics power Putin’s grab. NATO sucks us in.
Interesting read. https://www.laprogressive.com/nato-ukraine-and-russia/

[dfwgator]

Exactly. Just a little sabre rattling for domestic consumption.

[Lod881019]

Paging John Bolton how’s that Biden Presidency you where so looking forward to working out for ya?

[rrrod]

This wouldn’t be happening if Trump was Prez.

[31R1O]

I remember a story about Macron wanting his Libya campaign money story to go away and that was the story behind allowing Gaddafi to fall. If Ukraine were to fall that would probably be the end of the Burisma/Biden story.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/15/muammar-gaddafi-allegedly-gave-nicolas-sarkozy-50m-euros-2007-presidential-campaign

[saintgermaine]

Fortunately Russia doesn’t want any war with the US. Who are we to tell other nations what to do, when our own government is about as corrupt and deceitful as it comes, sorry to say.

[dfwgator]

“The missiles are flying..hallelujah...hallelujah!”

[ETL]

"Thank you, Comrade"

[Kazan]

Why in the world should we even consider going to war with Russia?

[rrrod]

Quit telling the truth!!!

[dfwgator]

Because Foggy Bottom has had a sad ever since the Russians abandoned Communism.