Posted on 02/23/2022 4:27:14 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Europe braced for further confrontation Wednesday and Ukraine urged its citizens to leave Russia after tensions escalated dramatically when Russia’s leader got the OK to use military force outside his country and the West responded with a raft of sanctions.
Hopes for a diplomatic way out of a new, potentially devastating war appeared all but sunk as the U.S. and key European allies accused Moscow on Tuesday of crossing a red line in rolling over Ukraine’s border into separatist regions — with several calling it an invasion.
The top U.S. diplomat canceled a meeting with his Russian counterpart; Kyiv recalled its ambassador and considered breaking all diplomatic ties with Moscow; dozens of nations further squeezed Russian oligarchs and banks out of international markets; Germany halted a lucrative pipeline deal; and the U.S. repositioned additional troops to NATO’s eastern flank bordering Russia.
After weeks of trying to project calm, Ukrainian authorities signaled increasing concern on Wednesday. The Foreign Ministry advised against travel to Russia and recommended anyone there leave immediately, saying Moscow’s “aggression” could lead to a significant reduction in consular services.
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Don’t care.
With any luck, Europe will implode and have to focus on a very localized Great Reset and just leave us out of the whole mess.
Someone should have told the Resident that his threat to withhold Putin’s pudding cup after Nappy Time was not enough to be called a “threat of crippling sanctions”.
In other “news g”, globull warming will cause sea levels to rise and flood all of Obama’s seaside mansions.
beginning in January 2017 I learned that ANY bad thing that happened ANYWHERE was the fault of the United States President so....... Joe has had over a year in office. He OWNS UKRAINE....literally and figuratively
Both meanings of “NATO has run out of gas” are true.
Europe us run by copies of Canada’s little girly man.
Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the richest woman in Russia and the widow of Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow, Senate Republicans revealed in their report on the younger Biden’s work in Ukraine.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/23/hunter-biden-received-3-5m-from-russian-billionaire-report/
Limp wristed Europeans bracing. How about doing something. We shouldn’t be involved in this mess
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Putin invaded Crimea under Obama.
Putin invaded nothing under Trump.
Putin invaded Ukraine under Biden.
Those are the facts.
Putin strikes when he smells U.S. weakness.
7:49 AM · Feb 22, 2022
Look at the map and shudder. He’s about to launch a blitzkrieg! He’s LITERALLY HITLER!
Newsflash: they are all NATO countries, and by Article 5, any attack on one is an attack on all.
Russia Ukraine. Collusion. Hunter. Burisma. Impeachment. Mueller. CIA. FBI. Comey. Russia Ukraine. Obama. Manufactured crisis. Biden. Theatre. Media. Russia Ukraine.
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Vindman bobsy twins.
Why has Brandon not prepared our energy infrastructure to be prepared for this Russian invasion?
Why does he want Americans to suffer with higher energy prices when he could have prepared? And now our 401k’s are crashing just as Trump predicted. It’s not funny having a demented incompetent President no matter how many jokes Psaki wants to make.
bargaining posture. he knows that won’t happen.
there was an author somewhere who posited that developing military theory on readiness of forces/ability to respond to enemy readiness is part of what walked matters up to the start of WWI.
for russia, the problems created strategically by having nato air bases in ukraine may be such that they see no alternative to taking aggressive measures now to prevent that.
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