Posted on 05/01/2022 4:42:41 AM PDT by GonzoII
Washington, United States: In rallying global arms supplies and asking Congress for $33 billion more to support Ukraine, Washington is choosing to ignore Vladimir Putin's threats to use nuclear arms, and instead is openly testing the Russian leader's limits.After the United States brought 40 countries to a US base in Germany last week to discuss aid for Ukraine's war with Russia, Putin on Wednesday threatened a "lightning fast" response if there is any direct intervention by outsiders on Kyiv's behalf.
"We have all the tools for this, that no one else can boast of having. We won't boast about it: we'll use them, if needed," Putin said.
It was a thinly veiled reference to Russia's tactical nuclear weapons, which Russian military doctrine holds can be used to force an adversary to retreat.
Rather than pull back at that threat to unleash Moscow's nuclear bombs, US President Joe Biden doubled down on US support for Ukraine.
The $33 billion he requested includes $20 billion for arms and munitions, nearly seven times the amount sent to the country since the Russians invaded on 24 February.
No longer hiding support
Early in the war Washington worried that aggressively equipping Ukraine's army with anything but "defensive" weaponry risked embroiling the US and NATO in a direct conflict with Russia.
Now, the Pentagon has shed those earlier inhibitions and is shipping offensive weapons like heavy artillery, helicopters and attack drones.
Rather than hiding it, the Pentagon also began openly talking this week about how it is training Ukrainian troops, including inside Germany, to use the weapons they are receiving.
And instead of saying, as it did in February, that it wants only to help Ukraine survive, Washington now says its goal in the war is to debilitate Russia for the long term....
(Excerpt) Read more at firstpost.com ...
"Putin ‘knows that extraordinary retaliation and universal opprobrium would follow, with no remotely comparable strategic upsides to justify them,’ he said."
just say NO to crack!
and No to Biden.
It’s not our civil war and neocons need to stop wasting our taxpayer dollars.
Pelosi is in Ukraine to obtain the USSR nukes which
apparently were NOT destroyed per Agreement.
Pelosi will protect the Romney/Black/Xiden/Pelosi/Kerry
tunnels even if every American on the homeland must die.
Deep State looking for ‘one last score’.
as long as its remain Russia’s fault they will to continue to antagonize him because this to would be a part of their great reset. They hide while the rest of us burn and re appear to “build back better” They are playing all their cards including a scorched earth policy
Yesterday John Kirby cried at a press conference, while Pelosi & her Neocon warmongers strolled around Kiev, arm-in-arm, with the Ukrainian Piano Player spreading US tax dollars. And the GOPe cheered.
Th warmongers in DC have made it our war. Each one of my grandchildren is now sitting on the nuclear front line. We have not been in such a dangerous situation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. All to protect the DC oligarchs’ corrupt cronies in Kiev.
OMG, that military base must be huge if it’s big enough to bring together 40 countries! 🤣
When the public doesn’t trust their overlords (politicians and their minions) the public must be punished …… wonder how the politicians and their minions intend to avoid the coming horizon ?
The Biden admin scares me. And a lot of Congress going along with it.
Poking the bear. Very dangerous.
Putin needs to leave Georgia, Ukraine. Including Crimea. Then pay restitution.
Call it the great GREAT reset.
The words spoken before the quote you posted are more chilling....
That view was echoed by Gideon Rose of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
“Moscow will not use nuclear weapons during the conflict,” said Rose.
MY GOD, we have complete fools in charge of this country. I heard Biden the other day, piling it on Putin, thinking that this is the way he gets his poll numbers upo again....
I don’t think the west will do anything other than send weapons to Ukraine, and keep the war going.
$13.6 billion already spent.
Another $33 billion has been allocated.
That would build the entire border wall, with $21 billion left over for US Border Patrol funding.
“We have all the tools for this, that no one else can boast of having.
Putin is NOT referring to nuclear weapons here.
He is saying they have something new, something “no one
else has”.
India and Pakistan, even North Korea has nukes and we
have thousands, so any use will result in an exchange.
Any verbal response is an escalation.
So, actual preparation is good, but public comment helps nothing.
Is it a calculated risk or are we just too stupid to know what we’re doing? Many here are willing to stake the future of mankind on daring Putin to use his nukes. Do they know what they are doing?
That's been true as long as they have been alive. It's been true as long as I've been alive. It's not new, only your sudden realization of it is.
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