Posted on 09/21/2022 7:31:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
The White House warned that Putin is preparing for an escalation of the war in Ukraine. Putin’s calling up troops in a partial mobilization and warns that he will use all weapons at his disposal if he has to. Usually, deploying troops is not called an escalation. Using nuclear weapons obviously would be. The US likes to say they are not escalating, but they repeatedly have.
Putin will replenish his forces in Ukraine with 300,000 of his two million reservists as he prepares for a referendum to allow four regions in Donbas to join the Russian Federation.
Leonid Slutsky, a senior lawmaker and head of the Russian Liberal-Democratic Party, stated on Wednesday that Ukraine had reached the “point of no return” in negotiations.
“Kiev has violated all possible agreements… The point of no return in the negotiation process has long passed,” Slutsky was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.
WHAT ABOUT ESCALATION?
There was a peace agreement in April until the UK and US stepped in and halted it. The US and UK have engaged in escalation. Obviously, Russia’s invasion and attack on Ukraine’s power grid were escalations.
US sanctions, intel sharing, and sending of more serious weapons to Ukraine to kill Russians are also escalations. We’re not commenting on the wisdom or necessity of it.
MOBILIZATION AND NOT JOKING ABOUT NUKES
It’s the first mobilization in Russia since World War II.
In a seven-minute televised address to the nation aired on Wednesday morning, the Russian leader warned the West that he isn’t bluffing over using all the means at his disposal to protect Russia’s territory, in what appeared to be a veiled reference to Russia’s nuclear capability. Putin has previously warned the West not to back Russia against the wall and has rebuked NATO countries for supplying weapons to help Ukraine.
Putin’s announcement of escalation came during the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 has been the target of broad international criticism that has kept up intense diplomatic pressure on Moscow.
On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskky will address the gathering in a prerecorded address.
Some say escalation is a sign of failure on Russia’s part. However, he’s about to absorb a huge and important land and sea area into Russia while talking about nukes and beefing up his army with 300,000 troops. It doesn’t really sound like failure. Another word might be appropriate.
US sends longer and longer range missiles: not an escalation.
US operationally coordinates major Ukraine counter-offensive: not an escalation.
Russia plans to annex several provinces: escalation?
Or maybe… all three of these events are in fact part of the same escalatory spiral.
~ Michael Tracey
BIDEN TO ADDRESS THE ESCALATION AT THE UN
According to Jake Sullivan, when Biden speaks before the UN today, “He’ll offer a firm rebuke of Russia’s unjust war in Ukraine and make a call to the world to continue to stand against the naked aggression that we’ve seen these past several months.”
Biden’s not even running the country. We don’t know who is running it, but whoever it is, they love the dictator’s club – the UN.
“He will underscore the importance of strengthening the United Nations and reaffirm core tenets of its charter at a time when a permanent member of the Security Council has struck at the very heart of the charter by challenging the principle of territorial integrity and sovereignty,” Sullivan added.
Democrats took a regional dispute, blew it up into a US-Russia confrontation, and now face potential use of nuclear weapons. If they allowed Minsk 2, maybe none of this would have happened.
UKRAINE’S “DEMOCRACY” RESPONDS TO THE REFERENDUM
Ukrainian citizens may face lengthy prison terms if they participate in public referendums on whether to join Russia. The voting is to be held in the Donbas republics and Russian-controlled Ukrainian regions, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk told local media on Tuesday.
Vereshchuk is also in charge of the “reintegration of temporarily occupied territories.”
Speaking to the Ukrainian outlet Strana, she urged local residents not to take part in the referendums by threatening them with up to ten years in prison. She said they will also be barred from employment in some positions and certain activities for up to 15 years. They will lose all their assets.
NATO is escalating to match or supersede Russia’s escalation for a non-democracy the US claims is a staunch democracy. Russia originally wanted the regions to be independent.
LET’S GO BRANDON!
The Biden regime lies constantly. It’s what they do.................
I have a feeling that you are right on the money. If it wouldn’t be for the US the war would be over by now as some of these war mongering idiots in our regime try to keep this war going come hell and high water. On the other hand, if the Ukrainians had any sense they would stick with Russia, along with an assurance of a certain amount of independence. It may not be the greatest being aligned with Russia but there are worse things than that. At least people would be still alive and have roof over their heads. Neither would I want to rely on US promises, as other countries have found out the hard way.
“It is in our historical tradition, in the destiny of our people, that we stop those who strive for world domination, who threaten to dismember and enslave our fatherland, our homeland.”
Interesting & kind of funny to see political spin from Putin the original Propagandist & historic revisionist.
It sounded better in the original German.
“Doomsday weapons besides nukes”
You mean their bio-weapons?
Yeah, thank God we have our crack national security team, i.e., Biden, Harris, Blinken, Austin, Milley, and Nuland, to confront Putin.
Fortunately, the KGB corporal has as much military and strategic acumen as the Austrian one did.
After learning about the Nazi’s hold on the Ucrane since WWII I have decided to put my prayers for Russia. They fought with us against the Nazis in Germany and they are more culturally ken to us than most other countries in Europe.
After learning about the Nazi’s hold on the Ucrane since WWII I have decided to put my prayers for Russia. They fought with us against the Nazis in Germany and they are more culturally ken to us than most other countries in Europe.
Perhaps you forgot about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and how the Soviet Union was the largest supplier to the Nazi war machine while it invaded France and bombed Britain.
Putin may or may not be serious, if he is then we are not prepared in any way shape or form to deal with a nuclear confrontation at any level of government. You warmongers want to go to war with BiteMe and his college faculty lounge cabinet as CNC. Throw in the woke General Milley and his gay loving entourage formerly known as the chiefs of staff going but we didn’t mean for it to be a nuclear war, how do we fight a nuclear war and Milley saying I know a Russian general I’ll call him after my pronoun breakout session and tell him our plans. We don’t have a Reagan, we don’t have any warriors in place just woke bureaucrats. You people really want to go to war for a corrupt cesspool that isn’t anywhere near an American strategic interest point with these buffoons in charge. I am wondering who is crazier here the FR Gen. Jack D. Ripper’s or the elites, deep state and US government.
The warmongers want it to be our war and won’t be happy until we hear the EBS alert and we are warned about an incoming nuclear missile attack to take shelter. Then the tough guys will be going oh sh*t, oh sh*t we didn’t really mean for that to happen. All for a 3rd world corrupt cesspool.
At this point in time, Russia is the main stumbling point in the path of the Globalists and their Blood Brothers, the Neo Cons vision of One World Government.
Just as COVID derailed globalization, the Uke/Russo war will derail trade.
China is building an old school colonial empire in Africa. I suspect that is the trend.
If cornered they won’t back down; along with bio weapons they have a variety of thermobaric bombs, and some “unknown unknowns”.
Russia has not deployed their full arsenal yet, wanting to minimize civilian casualties and infrastructure damage. That comes next.
6 seconds- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPgoWxT1PMc
Ukraine is cornered, Russia is being left alone and untouched.
Your theory they want to achieve international pariah status by going ‘total war’ WMDs for an ordinary foreign invasion seems unlikely.
That, and feeding all of Sergei's friends into the Ukrainian woodchipper so Putin can appoint his tumor as his successor.
"Today, the new Russian President PutinTumor ordered a complete stand-down in the Ukraine, apologizing that the war had 'metastasized', and that the situation could no longer be 'treated' as 'benign'."
And contaminate every inch of the territory they went to war for: the natural resources; hydrocarbon production; agriculture; and poison the complete, total, secure access to the Crimea and their sub base there; along with those 10,000 summer dachas for mid-level communist proles.
Oh yeah, sure thing there, n00bie.
I see it that way too. They will double down. They always do, so yes, false flag coming.
Our gov has been corrupt for years but under Obama became very evil.
We are being led by the Austrian one. Biden is a corrupt fascist who has directed the surveillance state against his enemies aka MAGA Republicans. The raid on Mar-a-lago is Kristallnacht.
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