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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When does the lamestream blame joe ?
Good luck with military recruiting when you have Jan 6th political prisoners.
Blah…blah..blah.
Austin is too busy hounding patriots out of the service and getting his hair frosted and his nails done…oh, wait, that is his lap poodle Milley.
Hah, they will aid their money laundering operations in Ukraine, but we ain’t messin’ with our friends in China.
They will be as tough on Russia as when they annexed Crimea and invaded Ukraine under Obama.
They will be as tough on China as when they created slave camps and released Covid.
The same Austin who cheerfully but incompetently surrendered to the Taliban?
I am sure Xi and Putin are totally amused by this pathetic, empty threat.
And remember....our military is totally dependent on fossil fuels.
Has Austin cleared this with muntiny milley and his handler Pelosi ?
Mutiny Milley better call the Chinese boss and reassure them we will do no such thing.
You know, cuz national security and stuff.
Taiwan is also the biggest producer of microchips in the world. They will be opening a large production plant in Japan to augment their affiliates in China in five months.
Yeah, we're supposed to help protect the sovereign rights and borders of the Ukraine and Taiwan - while our southern border is wide open and we are being invaded.
Prediction: China and Russia will coordinate their respective invasions to occur at the same time.
Just an observation:
What happens when the undeniable occurs and it’s discovered that a terrorist attack upon the US originated from Mexico, said terrorists facilitated by either corrupt Mexican government officials or cartel?
I don’t care about Ukraine. Likewise about Taiwan, which has failed for DECADES to adequately invest in its defense.
If it takes China invading Taiwan to wake the eff up about the CCP, then screw ‘em. Neither country are worth going to war over. They are DOMESTIC issues of China & Russia respectively, no different than Mexico to the US.
I tire of reading garbage about Taiwan...
Quick! More pillows! More blankets! For Taiwan, too!
They just can’t stop trying to gin up a war.
They gotta have the graft from military orders and sales. And it is not them that are stopping the bullets. It is the fools that elected them that will stop or slow down the bullets.
It is Red China that is the threat to the U.S. They own the Bidens lock, stock, and barrel head.
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