Posted on 01/22/2022 9:07:48 AM PST by Mariner
The State Department has ordered families of U.S. Embassy personnel in Ukraine to begin evacuating the country as soon as Monday, U.S. officials tell Fox News.
Next week, the State Department is also expected to encourage Americans to begin leaving Ukraine by commercial flights, "while those are still available," one official said.
Moscow has massed tens of thousands of troops at the border with Ukraine, leading to fears of an invasion.
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“As soon as...” is a weird way of ordering an evacuation.
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This is much better than in Afghanistan:
SHELTER IN PLACE
There are still Americans sheltered in place.
Then comes the Wilsonian Sedition Acts, criticize the government, and off to jail you go.
He can still be neutralized, by an Act of God.
“As Prez’dent, I am ordeing those M’rines outta there triple-ASAP onna MAC-VSOG superlift bigbird, PRONTO! Lesgit some Muzzam refageez on there, too. Ever’one we kin fit. Embassy staff can catch ubers an’ lyfts to a train or bus station. Leave yer stuff behind. Endastory.”
Brandon just gave it to them, in case they could not understand his incoherent speech the other day.
Beyond the personal and human aspects, I'm viewing this from the narrative and policy angle, and how this is intended to play out very soon in the news cycles.
At every corner, the bidAn admin is bungling things. On purpose. In the case here of Ukraine, by stating "as soon as Monday", as inept and clumsy as that sounds, if Russia goes in this weekend, it sets up another bungling.
The game plan is to awaken more people to the fraud that bidAn is, and the blinken he rode in on.
Yes, Afghanistan II. Back then, the departure of Kabul as choreographed.... don't forget the fake taxiing C-17. Don't be surprised if there is a similar view in Kyiv.
This gets any more hot and it’ll blow.
I suspect they’ll avoid the bombing of major Ukrainian cities not directly in the line of battle until it gets that far out of hand.
Any ports, airports, rail lines are toast.
There’s an e-mail sitting in their inboxes. They won’t get to read it until Monday. Meanwhile, the rest of the world knows all about it.
I don’t believe the Ukrainians will even fight. Especially if Russia swoops down through Belarus. I think instead they will wage a political p.r. battle. Their government has all its chips in on the Western world somehow scaring Putin into not invading. I think that is a lousy bet.
Evacuation? They can catch a bus to Budapest any time. What’s the problem? Or just shelter in place - why would the Russians bother with them?
World War IV should provide a nice distraction from the crashing economies and the supply chain disruptions.
Yikes
😳😬
(Does that mean Americans in Ukraine can spend one last weekend walking in the park, going to a nice restaurant tonight, and tomorrow night?)
Yes but get vaxxed, boosted, boosted, social distance and wear a mask while eating.
(Or just annex the Donbass.)
Hey we’re not giving up Congress...
Oh. Never mind.
My thoughts exactly
“Oh, it is on like Genghis Khan wearing Sean John in Bhutan!” -Andy, The Office.
Any Russian excursion into Ukraine will be limited and justified on the basis of liberating Russians back to Mother Russia where they belong linguistically and perhaps historically.
Some NATO members are going it alone.
France, Germany, Russia to hold four-way talks on Ukraine in Paris
Putin , please don’t do anything until 2025, when Trump is back.. 🤓
Putin and the rest of these Rooskie invaders will rot in hell. The European nito countries are cowards.
It’s Russia vs. Ukraine.
Anything can happen.
The key is to just keep it Russia vs. Ukraine.
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