Posted on 02/25/2023 5:32:56 AM PST by Zhang Fei
China is considering sending Russia lethal military aid in the form of artillery shells as President Vladimir Putin’s army rapidly depletes its supply of ammunition a year into his invasion of Ukraine, U.S. officials said, a prospect that has alarmed those in the Biden administration who believe Beijing has the ability to transform the war’s trajectory.
There is no evidence that any weapons transfers have occurred, these officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the U.S. government’s assessment. But if China does move ahead, it would mark the first time Beijing has provided lethal aid in the conflict despite repeated warnings by the United States not to provide such support. It would also violate the spirit of a peace plan Chinese leaders proposed Friday.
The aid being contemplated consists of 122-millimeter and 152-millimeter rounds, which Russia has in dwindling supply as it prosecutes a war largely fought with artillery, the officials said.
The disclosure, first reported Friday by the Wall Street Journal, follows a public warning from Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said last weekend that Beijing is seriously considering a provision of lethal aid. It comes, too, as Western nations grow increasingly concerned that Chinese involvement in the conflict could prove a significant setback for Ukraine and its backers.
“China has the capacity to be a game-changer,” said a senior U.S. administration official.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In response to Blinken’s warning, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said this week that China “will never accept the U.S. pointing fingers at Sino-Russian relations or even coercing us.” Urging the United States to “earnestly reflect on its own actions,” Wang said “it is the United States and not China that is endlessly shipping weapons to the
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Friends, As the IDIOT BIDEN & HIS EQUALLY DEMENTED DEMOCRATS (or even MORE IDIOTIC DEMOCRAT VOTERS, VOTE FIXERS, CHEATERS AND OTHERS ON THE LEFT, AND, YES, THE RINOS & MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX) move the world into the most serious prospect of a NUCLEAR WAR since the “CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS”, I urge you to watch the classic (and PROPHETIC) film “ON THE BEACH”!
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Oh, almost forgot: KEEP VOTING DEMOCRAT & RINO!!
Go look around the rus/ukr threads, there's a bunch of dudes/accounts clearly getting erection writing about “the end of American hegemony”, alleged “collapse of dollar” etc.
Exactly.
“West are not the good guys.”
Yeah, so root for genocidal psychopaths. Just because your local cops piss you off, root for the gangsta niggaz shooting at them. If you US vet, patriot, ultra MAGA supporter says so, it must be true.
I’m not happy about it, but our moronic actions could very much hasten the end of the Petro-Dollar. This will not be a good thing for Americans. And is probably by design by those behind Biden, who is clearly not running things.
Great summary.
My son was in the Marines for 4 years and did not reenlist. I don't blame him. I would not want to be working for the Biden gang.
Nothing like a Freerepublic wakeup ping for the unwashed Zelenskyites. Keep crowing.
Other than that, how was the play Mr. Lincoln?
I had lunch with a Russian friend in Tallahassee. He managed to leave the Soviet Union. He has sponsored his wife’s childhood Ukrainian friend and her family. The grandmother moved in with them. The mother and her children are living in an apartment. He’s flying a Ukrainian flag on his deck.==
Left from Soviet Union? He must be Russian speaking soviet Jew no Russian. Only soviet jews could emigrate USSR but to Israel. Some of them diverted their itinerary to USA because they didn’t want to fight for Israel in arabo-israel wars.
So I guess he is one of those who departed USSR for Israel but ended up into US. Israelis call them a “twice defector”. Because they defected USSR and Israel at same time and at same route))).
Briton Beach in Brooklyn, NY, is full of them.
PPCLI vet. 2nd battalion. I’m not rooting for anyone. I want to stay the hell out of a problem that’s not mine.
Nothing like a Freerepublic wakeup ping for the unwashed Zelenskyites. Keep crowing.==
Simpler call them Zelebobiks like they call them in Russia.
“Bobik” is the little barking mutt is either trying to provoke a reaction or is just unintentionally causing one.
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