Posted on 06/21/2024 2:35:22 PM PDT by McGruff
It seemed like a seismic shift in America’s handling of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion: National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced the Biden administration was relaxing its restrictions on Kyiv’s use of weapons on Kremlin territory.
But critics say the change didn’t go nearly far enough — and rather than the US boldly confronting Vladimir Putin, this week’s declaration is another example of the Biden White House restraining Ukraine for fear of “escalating tensions.”
Sullivan said that Kyiv may now strike “anywhere that Russian forces are coming across the border from the Russian side to the Ukrainian side to try to take additional Ukrainian territory” — instead of only around the northeastern city of Kharkiv, about 18 miles from the Russian border.
“This is not about geography; it’s about common sense,” Sullivan told PBS Tuesday
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That was/is another facet of his domestic media mind game, to frighten the Russian rank and file into subservience. Working with the useful idiots in the West too, the meme having been injected by the GRU into social media and onto FR by.....someone we won't name.
The goal was intimidation and not take over.
That would be why he left the govt in place.
Most of the objectives were accomplished.
My turn?
With commies, Marxists, islamists and their sympathizers destroying our nation, is it reasonable to assume Putin has nothing to do with anything? He was behind the fracking protests which led to the NY ban, Russia has meddled in our affairs for over 100yrs, did he stop for some reason?
It’s just hard to see how dropping a few missiles on Moscow neighborhoods will cause Russia to surrender. But if the Neocons imply that is the case, then it must be true.
LOL!!!!
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