Posted on 01/29/2022 7:28:35 PM PST by elpadre
Former President Donald Trump said the US should not be involved in the Ukraine-Russian crisis, calling it a 'European problem' after Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to hold talks with Germany, France and Ukraine while Joe Biden said he would deploy troops to the area 'in the near term' without backing from NATO.
Speaking with conservative radio host Glenn Beck on Saturday, Trump said the US should keep out of Europe but doubted Germany could help broker a peace agreement due to its gas dependence with Russia through the Nord Stream 2 pipeline deal.
'They're getting their energy from Russia, so Russia has total control over Germany,' Trump said. 'And Germany's saying, 'Oh, we don't want to fight them.' They can't fight them.
'Russia owns Germany,' he reiterated.
The $11 million Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was designed to double the gas flowing directly from Russia to Germany, a project that has faced criticism in Europe and the US as it provides the Kremlin dangerous leverage over Europe.
Trump called it 'one of the dumbest moves I've ever seen,' and said he warned then-German Chancellor Angela Merkle of the implications.
'And I'm the one that brought that up. Nobody even knew about it,' Trump said. 'I used to talk about it all the time.
He added that when Germany agreed to the pipeline deal, he sent over a white flag to Merkle.
'It's a white flag of surrender,' Trump said. 'I told Angela, you're turning your whole country into Russia.'
Trump's comments come a day after Biden vowed to mobilize troops in the Eastern Europe without NATO's backing.
'I'll be moving troops to Eastern Europe and the NATO countries in the near term. Not too many,' Biden said as he got off Air Force One after a trip to Pittsburgh.
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Russia won’t likely make a first move.
They don’t want to legitimize Biden’s war talk.
“’I’ll be moving troops to Eastern Europe and the NATO countries in the near term. Not too many,’ Biden said”
highly technical military jargon like “not too many” has always confused me ...
Ukraine’s mistake for listening to Bill Clinton. But they were a mess in the ‘90s anyway so they might as well as get rid of it if they had no way of being responsible.
Good point.
Biden needs to think twice (actually once likely escapes him), about doing anything without European countries because it’s in THEIR areas of influence. Biden doesn’t get to call the shots.
Bidens ‘behavior’ is much like Obamas.....and the decision making process even moreso. Think Libya.
The world needs to be reminded of these rules of American politics that are NEVER broken:
1. When the Democrats are in control in DC, they destabilize multiple foreign nations to make their corruption money.
2. When the Democrats are not in the White House, they do everything possible to overthrow or destabilize the American government to regain power and return to Rule 1.
Go back in history and look…
Biden isn’t capable of a Ukraine solution. He is getting his marching orders from someone else. My guess would be Obama.
It looks like we don’t need to worry about that since they are busy kicking all the non-compliant ones out of the military.
Which works for me in a way, because they are military trained soldiers and we need them here on our side in this country for when TSHTF here.
I have issues with John Mearsheimer, but in this speech on Ukraine from 2014 he is right on the money!
He could have given exactly the same speech today, and it would not be less true.
https://livelyclock.substack.com/p/john-mearsheimer-on-ukraine-in-2014
It is well worth listening to. However, for those who haven’t time, JM argues for keeping Ukraine as a neutral state in between NATO and Russia; neither a member of NATO nor the EU.
Very good point! More like a Clinton, though,,, I came, I saw, he died.
Obamas thumb prints are all over the way this administration is operating.....many steps similar or identical to Obamas when in office....sufficient enough to question how involved he is in this administration. Not hard to assume he’s very much involved.
Clintons involvement now is basically calling up her thugs and sending them out to the press and various insiders she still has in government positions. But I think overall people are just tired of dealing with her...even within the party.
Yes...and yes.
When hasn’t Ukraine been in a mess....they are experts at screwing up everything others have attempted to assist them with because everyone ends up on the take...those helping as well as the Ukrainians.
I think Biden’s was and is using Ukraine as a distribution center for unloading military weapons etc going somewhere else....and Ukraines getting a kickback.
Here’s some links which may help with the explanation ; short answer is :
A BTG is a motorized rifle or tank battalion of 2-4 companies with attached ATGM, artillery, reconnaissance, engineer, and rear support platoons making a fairly self-sufficient ground combat unit.
https://russiandefpolicy.com/tag/btg/
Russian Military Forces: Interactive Map
https://www.gfsis.org/maps/view/russian-military-forces
Intelligence data on 1st and 2nd Army Corps of Russian Federation in occupied Donbas - InformNapalm.org (English)
https://informnapalm.org/en/intelligence-data-on-1st-and-2nd-army-corps-of-russian-federation-in-occupied-donbas/
Never underestimate FJB’s ability to eff things up”.
Obama was dead right on this one.
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I see this comment a lot.
Berry didn’t get where he is by being stupid.
I got where he is by punking people.
He punked Joe.
He can pull joes strings and have Joe be his cut out, his fall guy,
his punk.
.its berry fkng everything up, Joe’s just the meat sock puppet.
I said in 2014 that the pro-Russian forces would not attack demonstrators in Kiev during the Sochi games but that didn’t stop the anti-Russian forces from staging the coup in Ukraine that overthrew the pro-Russian government.
It was punctuated by a false flag attack on the anti-Russian demonstrators that killed dozens.
A false flag attack attributed to Russia is very much possible during the Beijing Olympics.
The propaganda will be that Russia slapped China in the face.
A story already leaked out by Western intelligence through mainstream media that China allegedly asked Russia not to attack during the Olympics.
No, won’t go critical until after the Olympics. Putin is meeting with Xi during that time period.
The axis is finalizing their plans. Main characters are Russia, China and Iran. Germany will side with Russia. So will France. The loss of energy resources is just to great for the EU to really tolerate. Biden thinks we will supply their energy needs, LOL. Well, it is laughable if there wasn’t such a serious mental disconnect that we are not energy independent anymore.
Biden is mentally stuck somewhere in history. I feel like he is pre-Reagan maybe even earlier. China accused him of maintaining and acting in a cold war mentality and they are correct in that assessment. Due to his illness, he is stuck back in the past and that is very dangerous for us.
I have been concerned how many old codgers we have in high-up places in our government. Old farts who failed to succession plan and hold onto the levers of power until their cold, dead hands are pried off. Biden is lost on modern warfare, Harris? Pelosi is another old fart who doesn’t understand it, neither does Schumer. These people are politicians and activists, not CIC material.
If we do not reign in Biden very, very soon we are going to find ourselves in a very bloody war of his own making. He needs to be stopped. Trumps means tweets do not hold a candle to Biden’s rhetoric and insanity. Someone needs to tell him to sit down and shut up, Mr. President.
Maybe Biden is stuck somewhere in the 18th century, but I liked Mearsheimer (see link above) calling (with tongue in cheek) the DC foreign policy establishment 21st century people, and Putin, himself and some few others 19th century people. The latter understand power balance and power politics, the 21st century f.p. “experts” don’t even know how to spell it.
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