President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely hold talks in the “near future” after a meeting between the US and Russia’s top diplomats made no apparent progress on tensions over Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday.
Blinken met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the Organization for Security and Cooperation on Europe summit in Stockholm. According to The Guardian, the two diplomats spent their 40-minute conversation “trading threats” and opted not to make a joint appearance to the press in a sign that there was no breakthrough.
“We had a very direct, very candid, non-polemical exchange of views,” Blinken said after the talks. “It was serious; it was sober. I believe that the foreign minister will take the conversation back to President Putin. I’m going to do the same, of course, with President Biden. And I think it’s likely the presidents will speak directly in the near future.”
Over the past few weeks, the US has been claiming Russia is planning to invade Ukraine, but Moscow denies the accusation. The US bases the claim on what it calls a Russian “troop buildup” near Ukraine’s border. For their part, Russia says its military movements inside its own borders are not meant as a threat, and Moscow is now accusing Ukraine of amassing troops near the conflict zone in the eastern Donbas region.
Blinken said Thursday that there would be “severe costs” if Russia invaded and called on Moscow to de-escalate. “It’s now on Russia to de-escalate the current tensions by reversing the recent troop buildup, returning forces to normal peacetime positions,” he said.
Another major concern for Russia is the increase of US and NATO military activity in the region. Lavrov said NATO has shot down proposals from Russia to ease tensions. “NATO continues its activity aimed at escalating the situation directly on our borders. NATO refuses to consider our proposals on easing tension and preventing dangerous incidents,” he said.
I’ll bet Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan are longtime chain smokers.
Somewhere within and outside the US administration are individuals teaming to ensure a global financial collapse that will coincide with a Russia versus
US conflict. In whatever form that takes.
Either one or both will be major global depopulation events.
Yeah, lucky us, little people!
First to Blinken
Watch if he blinks or go in for massive destrution
It is a war of nerves between a patriotic Russian, Putin, and Zionists. You can not say if the Zionists will go for Samson Option.
Those pesky little Russians just will not surrender – lol!
Blinken said Thursday that there would be “severe costs” if Russia invaded and called on Moscow to de-escalate. “It’s now on Russia to de-escalate the current tensions by reversing the recent troop buildup, returning forces to normal peacetime positions,” he said.
And never mind our forces being in your backyard Russia. Our “normal peace time positions” cover the entire planet.
So, what did the Russians say at that meeting. We get here only the US side, and only its version of that.
I expect there was an open threat of war, an expressed explanation of “red line” already mentioned in public. “Do that, and we fight.” I expect that from what I see of Lavrov in that meeting, from Blinken’s reaction, and from what Putin had already said.
We are on the brink of the US again provoking a war, which its side will then lose as in Georgia.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/12/russians-will-get-it-immediately.html?m=1
The US is ok with this. They will use it for anti Russia propaganda and end Nord Stream 2. Kiev wants a war but only so far as Russia takes the Donbass. They will use it to get more money and integration with the West. They’ll gladly sacrifice troops and the Donbass for this. Russia wants the status quo and Kiev to follow the Minsk agreement. If forced Russia will respond with overwhelming force. Recognizing this will be the end of economic cooperation with Europe they will make it hurt. If Nato choses to respond it might be the end of the world.