“Pure theater.”
Why do you say that? I’m not arguing, just asking.
I’ll let DesertRhino speak for themselves, but I also speculated that Biden is ready to give up Eastern Ukraine to Putin, but needs to scare Americans into believing it wasn’t pure appeasement, blackmail, etc.
1. There are no Russian troops at the Ukrainian border because the maneuvers are taking place in Yelnya, which is closer to Moscow than to a Western border.
2. Putin, Lavrov, Russian military leaders have multiple times stated that Russia is not going to invade, nor they need to give the West any pretext to impose new sanctions with the NS2 pipeline certification pending.
3. Ukraine is hanging on ropes with the regime’s ratings hitting new lows every day. They have 9 million starving according to UNESCO right now.
Who and why needs to invade this country? To what ends?
Because this whole thing is ginned up in the DC fever swamp. I don’t think the Russians have the slightest intent to invade Kiev or greater Ukraine.
I think the buildup is in case Kiev tries to seize Donbass or Crimea as they have threatened. That’s it...
They are also getting angry that we are on a rocketsled to basing missiles there.
If we do, they’ll probably put missiles back in Cuba and load up Kaliningrad with intermediate range missiles.
That’s my prediction.