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U.S. believes Russia planning to "decapitate" Ukraine's government
Reuters va Yahoo ^ | February 24th, 2022 | by Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Doina Chiacu

Posted on 02/24/2022 8:50:18 AM PST by Mariner

WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The United States believes that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is designed to decapitate Ukraine's government and one of the three main axes of assault is directed at the capital Kyiv, a senior U.S. defense official said on Thursday.

"It is our assessment that they have every intention of basically decapitating the government and installing their own method of governance, which would explain these early moves," said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

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Any reasonable and thorough assessment of what Russia believes is in their essential security interests, would show they intended this for some time.

And nobody should be surprised.

1 posted on 02/24/2022 8:50:18 AM PST by Mariner
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2 posted on 02/24/2022 8:51:36 AM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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We did the same in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, tried to in Syria and Yemen. just in the last 20 years. Russia has learned well from the US


3 posted on 02/24/2022 8:52:24 AM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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We’re gonna need more popcorn.


4 posted on 02/24/2022 8:52:44 AM PST by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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5 posted on 02/24/2022 8:53:09 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: realcleanguy

It is sad, this could have been prevented. Biden needed to change the subject and here we are.


6 posted on 02/24/2022 8:54:15 AM PST by FreedBird
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To: realcleanguy

Harvard educated nose pickers try to predict Putin’s next move.


7 posted on 02/24/2022 8:54:19 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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Shouldn’t be too tough, most of them have fled by now.


8 posted on 02/24/2022 8:54:33 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE ( ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
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I assume Russia doesn’t do woke social-engineering, JAG review of operations, and MSM PR management in its wars, like the USA does.

When they go to war, I bet they focus on winning.

So if grabbing eastern Ukraine and all black-sea ports means they must kill Ukraine’s leadership, then its a possibility.


9 posted on 02/24/2022 8:54:52 AM PST by PGR88
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“...and installing their own method of governance...”

Sort of what communist China did to the USA. America is now being governed by an illegitimate, evil corrupt, puppet regime. No difference than what Putin is doing in Ukraine.


10 posted on 02/24/2022 8:54:52 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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Plus it helps eliminate the Biden corruption paper trail


11 posted on 02/24/2022 8:55:02 AM PST by calenel (Tree of Liberty is thirsty.)
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We did the same in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, tried to in Syria and Yemen. just in the last 20 years.

None of those have worked out very well for us.

12 posted on 02/24/2022 8:55:04 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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Probably get rid of all of Hunter Biden’s buddies.


13 posted on 02/24/2022 8:55:10 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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Good. Maybe this will cut off the Joe and Hunter faucet to the billions of dollars they received from the Ukraine’s corrupt government.


14 posted on 02/24/2022 8:55:36 AM PST by carikadon (Don't mess with Texas)
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Bolsheviks did this in Ukraine in the 20’s, 30’s etc... until they had run out politicians, acedemics, intellectuals, etc...


15 posted on 02/24/2022 8:55:46 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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Russia is sending the Biden/Davos national money laundering vehicle to the scrapheap.


16 posted on 02/24/2022 8:56:09 AM PST by Rebelbase
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Uh, that’s what Putin directly said is the purpose of the invasion so yes, that may be correct.


17 posted on 02/24/2022 8:56:35 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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That sums up biden entire occupation.


18 posted on 02/24/2022 8:57:51 AM PST by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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US Biolabs in Ukraine? Guessing these are not agricultural experiment stations or fisheries laboratories.


19 posted on 02/24/2022 8:58:02 AM PST by packagingguy
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>>And nobody should be surprised.

Apparently Biden is surprised - but that is no surprise.


20 posted on 02/24/2022 8:58:58 AM PST by qwerty1234
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