Posted on 06/13/2022 7:16:29 PM PDT by elpadre
Having made multiple declarations that Russia would cease to be a world power after the Ukraine war, President Biden and his top officials are now focused on damage control – warning Ukraine through proxies that it will have to sacrifice territory for a ceasefire.
Speaking at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Los Angeles, Biden blamed Volodymyr Zelensky for allegedly not heeding American warnings about a Russian invasion:
And, folks, nothing like this has happened since World War Two. I know a lot of people thought I was maybe exaggerating, but I knew — and we had data to sustain — he was going to go in, off the border. There was no doubt. And Zelenskyy didn’t want to hear it, nor did a lot of people. Understanding why they didn’t want to hear it. But he went in.
Ukrainian officials angrily disputed Biden’s version of events, but the cat was out of the bag.
That’s a turnabout from April 25, when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin declared in Kyiv that the United States wanted to destroy Russia’s capacity to undertake wars on this scale: “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. So it has already lost a lot of military capability. And a lot of its troops, quite frankly. And we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability.”
A month earlier, Biden had tweeted, “The Russian economy is on track to be cut in half. It was ranked the 11th biggest economy in the world before this invasion — and soon, it will not even rank among the top 20.”
(Excerpt) Read more at asiatimes.com ...
more of story:
“...If the formula that Kissinger and Stoltenberg propose returns to the Western agenda, the warring parties will in effect return to something like the Minsk II framework – which the United States sabotaged in the advent of the present war. A peace agreement is deeply to be desired, but the character of any possible peace will make clear that the war was unnecessary to begin with....”
Remember this moron and his standing ovations during the SOTU address? Everyone in Washington is an idiot.
Another Neocon fail. They suck hard.
$40 billion and more. Where did all that money go?
The anti-Ukraine press is trying too hard to read into this what Biden did not say.
This was a fundraiser. He was trying to raise money. He often tries to make him self look tough by talking down about someone else. Zelensky was a convenient target. He also said he was telling European leaders "America is back" when they would know better. The speech built himself up at the expense of Zelensky and other European leaders, who definitely noticed it.
This speech was for show, not substance. There is no policy shift here.
The bidenistas ain’t gonna like reading this one.
Gone.
10% for the big guy.
“That’s a turnabout from April 25, when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin declared in Kyiv that the United States wanted to destroy Russia’s capacity to undertake wars on this scale: “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.”
What the US missed was that the Pencil-Heads in the Pentagon who imposed “Just-in-Time” production to military hardware (as opposed to paying the cost of housing huge quantities of munitions) never assumed that their Russian counterparts (who most likely graduated from the same US business schools) would be LAUGHED OUT OF THE KREMLIN when they tried that crap there. The Russians said keeping the munitions around was harmless and could be very useful...as we now see.
So, guess which side has the munitions to go decades, and guess which side has to try to resurrect people from the dead to figure out how to produce them again? No, it’s not that hard to figure it out.
It was Laundry Day.
They use the “ALL” free and clear.
It will clean up those nasty skin conditions.
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Total morons in DC. Why don’t they tweet out more clips from video games, throw more Ukrainians into a meat grinder, continue the Toria Nuland strategy of endless wars, and declare we are winning?
Let’s see, another country the State Dept, NATO, and the CIA destroyed. Do I need to list them again.
The country is broke, bring the dam military home, all of it. It’s time NATO loses its training wheels. No more bribes for the belt way...
The Bidet’s touch of turning anything he handles into s!?t strikes again.
Remember this moron and his standing ovations during the SOTU address?
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Biden and Neville Chamberlain came from the same mold, but Biden might be even more dangerous to American interests.
Nice point pnhd,
NOT
Doubtful Russia would settle for “ Minsk 3” after what the war has cost them, what they will accomplish by continuing, what they have discovered about the brutality of the Ukes to their own people, the level of deceit and duplicity of the Ukrainian govt, NATO and the West.
The United States and NATO, obviously. The Russians will run through all their inventory and be left with nothing to defend themselves from China or anybody else who wants to fight with them.
Meanwhile the US and European military suppliers will be getting billions of dollars to make state of the art munitions and weapons systems which Ukraine will test out on the Russian soldiers.
Have you seen how effectively cheap drones with IR sensors are at killing Russian soldiers? In a few years there will be thousands of those drones killing Russian soldiers every day. And the Russians will be trying to buy surplus electronics parts from black market suppliers since they can't even make a drone themselves.
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