Posted on 02/14/2022 6:57:06 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Monday that he had officially decreed Wednesday – which various anonymous reports had pegged as the first date of an alleged Russian invasion – the Ukrainian “Day of Unity,” a holiday to celebrate the country’s sovereignty.
Zelensky had dismissed claims of a February 16 invasion date on Saturday and has expressed significant skepticism that the Russian government would attempt to invade at all since President Joe Biden announced, citing no evidence, that he believed Russian leader Vladimir Putin would do so. During a press conference on January 19, Biden alarmed the world by declaring that he believed Putin had decided to invade Ukraine and that Biden’s White House would not intervene in the event of a “minor incursion.”
On Monday night, Zelensky delivered a televised address in which he confirmed he had received unspecified information that Russia would begin a military attack on the country, but that he was not alarmed because Russia had already invaded eight years ago and the state of Ukraine’s military was currently superior than when Biden was vice president. In March 2014, Putin colonized Ukraine’s Crimea region and began a war in the eastern Donbas region, which Moscow to this day claims is a “civil war” without a Russian presence. Extensive evidence, including the heavy use of Russian weaponry, ties the pro-Russian separatists in Donbas to Moscow.
“We are told that February 16 will be the day of the attack. We will make it the Day of Unity,” Zelensky announced, according to his presidential office. The country will mark the holiday, his office explained, through several patriotic activities.
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Zalinski is openly mocking Biden.
Amateur hour.
JUST IN VIDEO: Russian tanks driving on city streets near the border with Ukraine in Belgorod
all of a sudden I am thinking well of Zelensky.
P.S. - It is Biden’s WH that set February 16 as the Russian invasion date - with no evidence.
Invasion date will be a surprise....
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/2d0d4fc6-e9c0-40bc-8806-fb99676514f8
Of course. This whole mess is to distract from the failings of Western governments, especially that of Joe Biden. Russia just doesn’t want Ukraine to join NATO. Then again, why would we want Ukraine to join NATO?
The guy was a comedian. Seems like he is working on a set.
He's grasping the fact that being an "ally" to the US deep state is probably the most dangerous thing in the world.
I admire people who whistle past the graveyard...and I’m all for national holidays. We need more of them here.
“…why would we want Ukraine to join NATO?”
We don’t, and neither does he U.K. nor the continental European states. But it is a decision for the NATO members to make, not Mr. Putin.
Mr. Putin is aware of this, he knows perfectly well that the chances of the Ukraine joining NATO are nil. But it is a semi-plausible fig leaf to justify a “pre-emotive” attack upon Ukraine.
Mr. Putin wants to unite the Russosphere under his leadership. He has been poaching territory for years and the low hanging fruit are all picked. Belarus is now effectively his satrap. Ukrainians see themselves as a separate people, Putin sees them as a wayward branch of the Russian family. One that needs to be brought to heel.
I expect him to try and slice off the eastern part of the country and put a puppet to lead the western Ukraine.
Gawd that Biden admin is not only evil and stupid, but they are also the worst liars I have ever seen.
Some defense experts have pointed out that Russia would have an involved in a costly and protracted war in Ukraine. There is not much to be had in Ukraine. Wheat? Oil? There is uranium, but that could be purchased from any number of countries (including Russia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_reserves
Psychic to Hitler: “You will die on a Jewish holiday.”
Putin wants to sow discord within NATO.
That is all.
You get it. CONGRATULATIONS
NATO is doing a good enough job of that on their own.
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