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Biden, Putin agree in principle to meet — if Russia doesn’t invade Ukraine
nyPOST ^ | 2/20/2022 | kenneth garger

Posted on 02/20/2022 8:38:08 PM PST by bitt

President Joe Biden has agreed in principle to meet with Vladimir Putin to discuss the Ukraine crisis – as long as Russia doesn’t attack its neighboring country.

The potential summit would follow a planned Thursday meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Sergei Lavrov – which will also only occur without a Russian invasion of Ukraine, officials said.

“President Biden accepted in principle a meeting with President Putin following that engagement, again, if an invasion hasn’t happened,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a Sunday night statement.

“We are always ready for diplomacy. We are also ready to impose swift and severe consequences should Russia instead choose war,” Psaki said.

The press secretary also reiterated the belief that Russia is on the brink of launching an attack.

“Currently, Russia appears to be continuing preparations for a full-scale assault on Ukraine very soon,” she said.

Biden last Friday said he was “convinced” that Putin had decided to invade Ukraine “in the coming days.

The president made the declaration after the US obtained intelligence that Russian commanders have received their orders and are making specific plans on how to carry out an invasion, CBS News reported.

News of the potential meeting between Biden and Putin came as it was revealed that the US received credible intelligence that Russia plans to carry out disturbing human rights abuses in the aftermath of an invasion of Ukraine.

Details of Moscow’s purported post-attack plan were included in a letter from Bathsheba Crocker, the US ambassador to the United Nations to the UN human rights chief.

“We have credible information that indicates Russian forces are creating lists of identified Ukrainians to be killed or sent to camps following a military occupation,” read the letter, which was obtained by The Washington Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: biden; putin; ukraine
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1 posted on 02/20/2022 8:38:08 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 02/20/2022 8:38:25 PM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

So if Russia invades, he doesn’t have to meet Biden?

That’s an incentive. We are lead by idiots.


3 posted on 02/20/2022 8:41:16 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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Wonder why the Media is good with Biden privately meeting when he’s involved with so much Ukraine Corruption?

And the fact that Biden lied about what the Generals told him in Afghanistan?

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4 posted on 02/20/2022 8:42:40 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: bitt

Will they meet out behind the gym?


5 posted on 02/20/2022 8:44:05 PM PST by punchamullah
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To: bitt
Biden's memo pad...

Russia is going to invade the Ukraine on the...

16th 17th 18th 19th 20th...

6 posted on 02/20/2022 8:45:06 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: AnthonySoprano
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7 posted on 02/20/2022 8:47:42 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: punchamullah

Seems like there was some kinda meeting like this in 1938....that Chamberlin ‘kid’ and that Austrian-turned-German guy. How did that meeting turn out?


8 posted on 02/20/2022 8:51:57 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: DoughtyOne
Biden's memo pad...

Russia is going to invade the Ukraine on the...

16th 17th 18th 19th 20th...

Now US "intelligence" sources say it's on for February 30th.

9 posted on 02/20/2022 8:55:46 PM PST by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” ("Every nation has the government it deserves.”) )
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To: DoughtyOne

I know this is no laughing matter but your post made me laugh LoL.


10 posted on 02/20/2022 9:06:24 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: DesertRhino

Yeh, probably the only thing that could make Putin invade the Ukraine is to avoid meeting with Biden. 😆


11 posted on 02/20/2022 9:16:11 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: bitt

Crimea will invade with Russian equipment. Is that acceptable for Biden?


12 posted on 02/20/2022 9:19:02 PM PST by Tai_Chung
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To: Sooth2222

...US “intelligence” sources...

Is that a real thing anymore?


13 posted on 02/20/2022 9:27:28 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

You won’t get any criticism out of me.

Everything is a laughing matter these days. You either laugh
at it or let it cause you to keel over.


14 posted on 02/20/2022 9:29:40 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: pepsionice

Yes, it was called the “Munich Conference”. An aggressive European authoritarian entity was expanding it’s control over other areas using military threats.

Just like the EU/NATO today, an expansive authoritarian entity, trying to expand into Ukraine and especially eastern Ukraine.


15 posted on 02/20/2022 9:30:07 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: bitt

“… News of the potential meeting between Biden and Putin came as it was revealed that the US received credible intelligence that Russia plans to carry out disturbing human rights abuses in the aftermath of an invasion of Ukraine….”
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Please… nobody tell Biden about the Russians’ detailed plans to send in Russian and Belarusian Cossacks to bayonet Ukrainian babies.🙀🙀🙀😂


16 posted on 02/20/2022 10:04:25 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: bitt

Putin may have implied, “take me to your leader,” but it’s hard to believe he was referring to biden.


17 posted on 02/20/2022 10:05:13 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: bitt

Biden’s going to send Corn Pop to lead negotiations.

Bathsheba Crocker??? ROFL! Where do they find these people?

Seriously, Putin can outwait all these clowns.He needs no timetable.


18 posted on 02/20/2022 10:10:47 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: bitt

Of course, if Russia invades, The Big Guy gets 10%.


19 posted on 02/20/2022 10:21:05 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: DesertRhino

It’s funny going back to 2012/2013, and how the Ukraine basically wanted a ‘free-trade’ agreement with the EU, and they came in with all kinds of extras....hinting of NATO invitations, etc.

If anyone from either the Ukraine or EU had just sat and thought about it...trade was the only thing that made sense and avoided this whole confrontation.


20 posted on 02/20/2022 10:28:37 PM PST by pepsionice
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