Posted on 01/28/2022 8:18:04 AM PST by Mariner
This administration will wait until its full then bomb it. That gives them more “pipelines are evil” ammunition to use to shutdown more of them in the USA.
The US State Department under the Obama and Biden Administrations became a toothless tiger long ago.
Anyone remember the plane loads of cash and gold sent to Iran for some unknown purpose (Yes, of course it was there money) to help smooth the unenforceable treaty to keep Iran from getting a nuclear bomb? The red-line in Syria over the use of chemical weapons?
But my all time favorite was when Obama sent Military food rations (MRE’s) and blankets to the Ukraine, when it was invaded by “little green men” in the Crimea. Yes, Ukraine had one of the largest nuclear arsenals, but agreed to give up nuclear weapons in exchange for a mutual aid pact to protect its sovereign borders.
“....the world's third-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. Ukraine was one of the three non-Russian former Soviet states, including Belarus and Kazakhstan, that emerged from the Soviet collapse with nuclear weapons on its territory......” Say haven't Russian troops been active in Belarus and Kazakhstan recently?
In 1994 Ukraine gave its nuclear weapons to Russia for destruction and “...Russia, the U.S. and the U.K. pledged to “respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine. The (1994) memo reaffirmed their obligation to ‘refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine.’ The signatories also reaffirmed their commitment to ‘seek immediate’ UN Security Council action ‘to provide assistance to Ukraine … if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression.’ These assurances upheld obligations contained in the U.N. charter and the 1975 Helsinki Final Act.....”
Yes that was perhaps the most significant Diplomatic example of the Obama-Biden Administration, unless you want to count the mess associated with the 2012 Benghazi attack.
Well how about some of Joe's stellar foreign policy moments? I have to say that the handling of withdrawal from Afghanistan was a favorite. Then again the way the State Department and the Vice President have handled relations with Latin America to stem the flow of illegal immigrants is a classic case of talking points over real action.
However, I really have to say it was amazing to watch Biden say Ukraine can count on backing by the USA and then only a week later say that our response will depend upon how much of a Russian incursion occurs. And now, that US troops have been sent to Romania I think Russia will just keep laughing all the way into Ukraine they want to go.
My heart goes out to the people of Ukraine and soon to the people of Taiwan. Yes there are dominoes that fall because of failed foreign policy.
So is the gas and oil, you bum ditch!
its called senility
What’s being said in public and what’s happening privately between Biden and Putin are two different things. Biden is doing this to save face with the more aggressive European allies. Meanwhile behind the scenes he is giving Putin all he wants, and betraying Zalenski. Also Germany needs the Nord Stream II pipeline die to their idiotic policy to shutter their nuclear and coal plants. If Trump were in power our response would have been much more muscular and hard hitting. Also there are reports that there’s not agreement within the Biden administration right now as to what to do about this, as Biden is powerless.
It should be noted that State is ran by Hillary holdouts who disagree with the Obama/Biden symphocats on Ukraine and NATO. They were the ones that throw the largest stink about it in 2014 as well.
This guy wouldn’t have let things get into this mess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyypNGz81cc
Video of Trump walking ALONE into the DMZ. A brave President wouldn’t let the Ukraine/Russia/Germany/China mess happen.
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The White Hospice will never get rid of Blinken until Bammy says so.
Another possibility is that Putin and Biden have negotiated the end game and this is all for show. Zalenski will be overthrown (By FSB backed groups) and a pro-Russian government will emerge and invite the Russians in.
This is NOTHING MORE than a wag the dog event to distract the American public from the senile, feckless, INSTALLED, president of the US!!! Miley and Austin doing this presser is absolutely nauseating SPIT!!!
Apparently so...
State Department said they would get all Americans out of Afghanistan and that deserting Bagram Air Base was a good move.
They also backed Biden.
WHO THE HELL WOULD TRUST THESE PEOPLE?
Called it yesterday. xiden is going to wage WWIII against both Russian and Germany.
“In 1994 Ukraine gave its nuclear weapons to Russia for destruction and “...Russia, the U.S. and the U.K. pledged to “respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine. “
Signed by Bill Clinton and an obscure Russian president that nobody remembers.
Some people are not smart enough to have their own country.
Pardon my naivety, but how/why does the US have any say in a pipeline between Germany and Russia that does not pass through any territory under the control of the US? Isn’t this completely an EU issue? Or is Biden threatening to sabotage the pipeline somehow? This would be a HUGE mistake.
In fact the US was successful in that effort, and Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the man Nuland mentioned in the phone call, became Ukraine's hand picked prime minister after the ouster of the elected president.
The irony of course is that Yatsenyuk was offered the prime minister position a couple of months earlier by the elected President, and turned it down.
“If Russia succeeds, you will need to learn Chinese, and quick. Per GRU Defector Stanislav Lunev, the Russians and Chinese have already agreed on how to split our territory. China gets the lower-48, after using biological weapons and neutron bombs to clean up the population. “
Only stupid-assed neocon warmongers will say that, and not even they believe it.
Good riddance to NATO. It is an anchor around the necks of Americans.
“..Our State Dept is making us sound like a third world Muslim country....”
Uh...well...maybe that’s because it’s being run by turd world muslims... /s
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