Over the past two and a half years, the Obama Administration has made supporting the pro-West Ukrainian government against Russia a matter of policy in virtually every case, even when it made little sense to do so. The most recent round of rising tensions, however, may be changing that.
Though officially the US insists it has no intelligence on Russia’s report of Ukrainian spies trying to infiltrate the Crimean Peninsula, killing a pair of Russian officers, Vice President Joe Biden today spoke with Ukraine’s president, warning him he must “do his part” in avoiding escalation of tensions with the Russians.
That’s a huge shift in US narrative, as in the past they’ve always embraced whatever Poroshenko said about Russia, including his repeated predictions of an imminent Russian invasion of Eastern Europe. In this case, however, it seems the administration is uncomfortable with the road the Ukrainian government is going down, perhaps because unlike in Eastern Ukraine, where Russia was merely a supporter of the rebellion, Crimea is an official member of the Russian Federation, even if not formally recognized by Ukraine as such.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is facing potential diplomatic fallout with Russia itself over the situation, with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warning Russia might ultimately decide to sever diplomatic ties with Ukraine in protest over the attempted infiltration. Ukraine has denied involvement in the matter, though Russia insists that a captured member of the infiltration team confessed to being a member of Ukraine’s spy agency.
Gee, so you mean spending $5 Billion to destabilize the Ukraine (that’s from Hillary’s future Sec of State Vicky Nuland), followed by arms shipments (‘defensive’ direct from US, much more deadly arms routed through NATO) and sending about a $ Billion of direct US military aid (and other NATO nations sending more), and given them $10s of Billions by the IMF that broke IMF rules and which is now lost forever …… you mean that this wasn’t all such a good use of US taxpayer dollars and the fascists you’ve put into power with these $Billions are now a danger to start a nuclear war and wipe human civilization off the planet?
Gee who could have possibly seen that this was a waste of money and that bringing back fascism to Europe would end badly?
Just another Hillary success story.
Arms shipments from the US prove it
Vickey Nuland Sec.Of State?One more nail on the coffin of U S of A by Israel
Is Biden’s kid still on the board of directors for the Ukrainian oil company?
After a certain point, chaos is bad for business.
Trump is the only hope to stop the Russian Invasion. His platform is tough on Russia and he said maybe it’s time to start shooting down their jets
If you think a ‘Russian Invasion’ is coming, then you need to turn off your TV and stop watching all the propaganda.
There are no facts to it at all. Its just hot air and BS. And its mainly designed to separate you from your money so they can waste trillions more on ‘defense’ that we don’t need.
What you’ve really seen is a long line of provocations and ultimatums from the US. And when the Russians fail to submit to US demands, there’s another wave of BS about a ‘Russian invasion’.
This is just political b.s. from Biden. They don’t want Ukraine or Syria blowing up on the “smooth ride” to 270. After that, it’s back to warmongering.
You patsies can’t even take time off from your domestic political sideshow and racist hate for Obama to even care about the pending world disaster you’re in the process of causing.
The “spies” are said to have had IEDs and other explosives and were targeting public facilities such as airports. I s’pose they’d be called “terrorists” if they weren’t “the good guys.”
Aug 11, 2016 Russia says it has thwarted armed Ukrainian raids on Crimea
Russia says it has thwarted two attempts by armed Ukrainians to get into Crimea.
https://youtu.be/MUCGUY5lGNo