Posted on 12/06/2021 5:15:29 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
THE TWIN CHALLENGE: At a weekend appearance at the Reagan Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin offered vague promises of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine and Taiwan while stopping short of specifying what the U.S. would do if either country is invaded.
The most immediate concern is the massive buildup of Russian forces, armor, and high tech weapons poised on Ukraine’s eastern border, which has every sign of an impending invasion, which could be launched as early as next month with up to 175,000 troops, according to a U.S. intelligence document obtained by the Washington Post.
“They've invaded before, and so as we look at the numbers of forces that are in the border region, as we look at some of the things that are occurring in the information space, as we look at what's going on in the cyber domain, it really raises our concern,” Austin told Fox News anchor Bret Baier. Noting that Ukraine is not a NATO ally, Baier asked, “What happens if Putin does invade Ukraine? What does the U.S. do?”
“I certainly won't speculate on different scenarios. We're certainly committed to ensuring that Ukraine has what it needs to protect its sovereign territory,” Austin said, “we have provided them with a number of different things over the years and most recently things including lethal capability, a lot of non-lethal capability.” But when pressed for specifics, Austin said that President Joe Biden is looking at a number of options. “I won't get out in front of my boss.”
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Well, the thing to worry about is the crash of Evergrande which is a slow mo disaster in real time. The CCP are having to take it over and there is no way they will be paying off any outside countries/central banks. Fortunately here in the US there is likely enough Chinese held property, businesses etc that we can just nationalize all their chit and pay ourselves back. Still look for this hyper inflation to tip over into deflation.
Any chance this is coordinated between Russia and China?
Maybe their plan is to spread us so thin that we can’t stop either one of them and they both get what they want - Ukraine and Taiwan respectfully.
Bluffing is counterproductive because bluffs get called.
What exactly are these idiots committing America to?
Sending guns?
Sending money?
Sending members of the American military?
Maybe, but I am not sure there would be any particular advantage in doing so. Under the Puppet Chinese Emperor and his new woke military, I really don’t see any reason for coordination of any kind.
Yup - every one of our boomers and all of them Virginia and Seawolf fast attack boats - why every durn one of them has its own dedicated oiler. And them oilers are fast - 45 knots or so - hydroplanes -gotta be fast to keep up with them fossil fueled subs. Yah you betcha. Same with all them nuke powered bird farms.
“Sending members of the American military?”
Americans had no zeal for war in 1939 and 1941.
If Iran invades Afghanistan we will have a trifecta.
"Hell no we won't go"
Please describe how one applies to the other.
Only that “war-hesitancy” cost the Allies 100s of thousands of unnecessary deaths. Like the 20% of Americans who support Joe Biden, most deniers were Democracy’s women.
Our US “democracy” was naive, ENTERING THE WORLDS WORST WAR TWO YEARS AFTER CANADA!
It’s amazing how long and slow the Russian military build up is on the Ukraine border.
Their logistics are still a mess, not much better than the old Soviet Union.
Putin can win but will get a bloody nose. He will likely back down.
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