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U.S. Wants to See Russia Weakened, Says Defense Secretary Austin
Wall Street Journal via MSN ^
| 25 April 2022
| William Mauldin, Thomas Grove
Posted on 04/25/2022 6:40:28 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Russia’s military capabilities should be degraded after he and Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and announced more U.S. military aid to the country.
“We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine,” Mr. Austin said Monday after the highest-level visit of U.S. officials to Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. Mr. Blinken said: “Russia is failing, Ukraine is succeeding.”
In what could be a significant escalation of the conflict on Monday, large fires broke out at fuel-storage facilities in the Russian region of Bryansk, some 60 miles from the border with Ukraine, as well as at a nearby military fuel depot, Russian state media said. Russian missiles struck railroad targets in central Ukraine early Monday.
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To: Erik Latranyi
“We’re fighting another proxy war, this time to the last Ukrainian.”
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posted on
04/25/2022 7:47:31 AM PDT
by
Basket_of_Deplorables
(Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
To: PGR88
. Things are blowing up inside of Russia now, whether by covert action or Ukraine attack. I believe Austin also admitted it is with USA support
Don't rule out internal dissent in Russia to the war. Blowing up fuel supplies limits the ability for Russia to engage in an offensive war, and that reduces troop casualties. WWI caused the fall of the Romanovs. Invading Ukraine could destroy Tsar Putin's empire as well.
62
posted on
04/25/2022 7:47:52 AM PDT
by
Dr. Franklin
("A republic, if you can keep it." )
To: Erik Latranyi
This guy is even dumber than he looks.
63
posted on
04/25/2022 7:54:06 AM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth)
To: Erik Latranyi
That’s ok. Russia wants the USA weakened, the USA wants Russia weakened, and yet the USA still wants Russia to “help” negotiate with Iran. Trusting, aren’t we?
64
posted on
04/25/2022 8:03:53 AM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
To: JonPreston
What’s good for Disney is bad for America. GM? Do they still have assets in the US?
65
posted on
04/25/2022 8:05:13 AM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
To: clintonh8r
Worst SECDEF in American history! I know GS-14s who can do a better job than this a$$hole!
66
posted on
04/25/2022 8:07:59 AM PDT
by
DarthVader
(Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
To: clintonh8r
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posted on
04/25/2022 8:09:23 AM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
To: Erik Latranyi
Russia invaded Ukraine, is eyeing Moldova next, and has its sights on controlling eastern Europe. Putin wants to fulfill Czarist dreams of empire and put the USSR back on the map.
Austin is stating the obvious. Of course the U.S. wants Russia to have a weaker military. So does everyone else in Europe right now. Why is this so hard to understand?
To: Erik Latranyi
U.S. Wants to See Russia Weakened Canceled, Says Defense Secretary Austin
To: SoCal Pubbie
“The Young Putineers think not buying Stolichnaya is a borderline act of war.”
Y-you mean, that case of Stoli I just bought was for naught;-?
70
posted on
04/25/2022 8:14:10 AM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
To: Widget Jr
“Of course the U.S. wants Russia to have a weaker military. So does everyone else in Europe right now. Why is this so hard to understand?”
Because he says it out loud. Bad idea to tell a paranoid megalomaniac that you really are out to get him. It makes it harder to get him.
71
posted on
04/25/2022 8:15:58 AM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
To: Erik Latranyi
The current group of idiots running the state department have no interest in anything other than weakening the USA.
To: Eleutheria5
Also because he doesn’t do the one thing that can meaningfully weaken him, which is to send American oil and natural gas to Europe. Green New Deal Uber Alles!
73
posted on
04/25/2022 8:17:56 AM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
To: Tell It Right
Rather than a EV car think about hydrogen powered BMW and others have made them feasible much cheaper in the long term.
74
posted on
04/25/2022 8:19:02 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
( )
To: BobL
Russia doesn’t have to seed the Democrat party like it had to do in the past, because those seedlings have sprouted and germinated and multiplied, so that it is now mostly a homegrown cancer. Russia’s investment paid off exponentially.
75
posted on
04/25/2022 8:22:42 AM PDT
by
ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
To: Erik Latranyi
“U.S. Wants to See Russia Weakened, Says Defense Secretary Austin”
Hard to see how this doesn’t force Russia to now move into Eastern Europe...otherwise NATO will just keep pricking it, since that is now their stated policy.
76
posted on
04/25/2022 8:28:28 AM PDT
by
BobL
(Putin isn't sending gays into our schools to groom my children, but anti-Putin people are)
To: ought-six
“Russia doesn’t have to seed the Democrat party like it had to do in the past, because those seedlings have sprouted and germinated and multiplied, so that it is now mostly a homegrown cancer. Russia’s investment paid off exponentially.”
Absolutely...and the Democrats knew it was going on, and they PROTECTED it, by their CIA attacks in the 1970s and similar crap.
77
posted on
04/25/2022 8:30:08 AM PDT
by
BobL
(Putin isn't sending gays into our schools to groom my children, but anti-Putin people are)
To: Erik Latranyi
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin biggest goal is to weaken America.
78
posted on
04/25/2022 8:30:18 AM PDT
by
Revel
To: ecomcon
Russia is the big threat to the NWO. That is why the deep state wants them wiped out.
79
posted on
04/25/2022 8:32:29 AM PDT
by
Revel
To: Erik Latranyi
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