Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the US has significantly escalated its support for Kyiv, both militarily and rhetorically, reflecting a growing mission creep that comes with the risk of provoking Moscow.
Early on in the invasion, the US was wary of confirming details of military aid, intelligence sharing, and training of Ukrainian forces. But now, US officials are speaking openly about how Washington is helping Ukraine in its fight against Russia.
Last week, anonymous US officials speaking to the media claimed US intelligence had helped Ukrainian forces kill Russian generals and sink the Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. While the claims aren’t confirmed, the statements alone are a major provocation toward Russia. It was known that the US expanded intelligence-sharing with Ukraine, but US officials had previously been hesitant to detail the increased cooperation.
On Saturday, Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia’s State Duma, said that the intelligence-sharing amounts to the US directly participating in the war. “Today, Washington is basically coordinating and engineering military operations, thus directly participating in the military actions against our country,” Volodin wrote on Telegram, according to Russia’s TASS news agency.
President Biden reportedly told senior US officials that the leaks on intelligence-sharing must stop, which Volodin said means the reports were likely true. “By demanding that leaks about intelligence exchange with Ukraine be plugged, US President Biden admitted that Washington had been declassified,” he said.
Besides the increased intelligence cooperation, the US recently resumed training Ukrainian forces on how to use weapons provided by Washington. After the US-backed ousting of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, the US and NATO began training Ukraine’s military. The US pulled out Florida National Guard troops that were stationed in Ukraine for training shortly before Russia invaded, and they have since restarted their mission outside of Ukraine.
Last week, the Pentagon detailed its training of Ukrainian forces, which is taking place in Germany and two other undisclosed locations outside of Ukraine. The Pentagon had previously downplayed the idea of training after President Biden appeared to reveal that US troops were training Ukrainians in Poland. But now, the Pentagon said US forces are teaching Ukrainians how to use drones, radar systems, armored vehicles, and howitzers.
The howitzers are part of the escalation in US military aid that has come over the past two months. In the early days of the invasion, the US was hesitant to confirm it was sending shoulder-fired Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine over fears of Moscow viewing the move as escalatory, but now each new military aid package is detailed by the Pentagon.
President Biden has asked Congress for $33 billion in new assistance for Ukraine, which Democrats in Congress have ramped up to $39.8 billion in a draft plan. On Monday, President Biden signed a bill reviving the World War II-era lend-lease program, which allows the US to send weapons to Ukraine free of charge while technically requiring payment at a later date.
The mission creep shows no sign of slowing down as the US and its allies have made it clear they are digging in to support Ukraine in the long-term, and some NATO countries are discouraging any kind of diplomacy with Moscow. The Biden administration’s rhetoric has reflected this as it has stated one of its goals in Ukraine is to weaken Russia.
As the escalatory spiral continues, the question now is if there is a point where Moscow will respond, and if they do, what that response will look like.
Aggressively maximizing postmodern proxy war abilities, is still within the rules of proxy war. The moment people lose sight of the fine line, we slide too easily into direct war.
What’s invalid, is NATO an their Ukraine mission in the first place, not how it creeps. Mission creep is an old normal normal now. All the Forever Wars were creepy.
The Ukraine War is a European war, not an American war. Its a ridiculous priority in the middle of inflation caused by supply chain mismanagement causing inflation and shortages.
Raising interest rates only makes things worse, as the problem is not directly the overprinting of dollars.
US finally, but too late, got cold feet. The damage is already done. Intel sharing works both ways as the American fascist regime soon is going to experiance in Syria, in Iraq and on the seas. Enjoy.
Ukraine is a nation under existential threat. Ukraine has a right to self defense. US/NATO has their own agenda. But Ukraine’s right of self defense includes its right to get weapons from whoever will supply them. Do we want to live in a world where 6,000 nukes gives a country the right to invade its neighbors and take their territory?
Do you want to live in a world where a powerful nation seeks hegemonic control of the entire planet? That country uses regime change, invasions, economic intimidation, bribery, psychological warfare and cultural displacement to gain control over an entire world? And yes. That nation uses nuclear blackmail. But it’s not Russia.
This war in Ukraine began in 2014 with the US instigated, organized and funded coup which overthrew the legally elected Ukrainian government. The resultant government began repressive measures against Russian speaking Ukrainian citizens. The SBU was used to crush opposition. Violence against Russian speaking people was encouraged.
After the Odessa massacre in 2014, several areas in Ukraine voted with overwhelming majorities voted to become autonomous. Crimea also earlier had voted to withdraw from Ukraine and rejoin their historical association with Russia, which had been subverted by Khrushchev in 1954 by Soviet dictate.
The Kiev regime, rather than give up the repressive measures against the population of these areas, chose a military solution. In the Donbass, people organized and resisted. Large numbers of the Ukrainian military chose to join the resistance, bringing their weapons with them. This began a civil war.
After 8 years, continued shelling of the now separatist regions, and backed by the US in training and arms, the Ukrainian regime again sought a military solution. Large numbers of troops and supplies were massed on the line of resistance.
After the two Minsk accords were abrogated by the Kiev regime, and 8 years of attempts at negotiating a non military solution to the civil war, Russia attacked before the AFU did.
It comes down to this: does a government have the right to oppress it’s own people? Does that government own it’s population? Do a people have rights and if those rights are violated, do those people have a right to dissolve the bonds with an oppressive government and seek other government?
If you truly believe that a government has rights over its population that include violation of those peoples rights, then if you are American? You are still British, not American…
I don’t support war over a government’s internal policies unless the government is engaged in holocaust level genocide.
Star Fleet calls it the Prime Directive – non-interference. The only post WWII exception I can think of was India’s invasion of East Pakistan to stop the genocide of Bengalis in 1971.
You might want to do a little research on the subject of genocide post WW2. I can think of a dozen off the top of my head that involved millions with whole populations in areas that were wiped out.
You are correct that there were other holocaust level genocides. But the India-Pakistan war is the only war I could think of that was actually fought to stop a holocaust. Tragically, no one went to war to stop the massacres in Rwanda, Zaire, Nigeria, Uganda, Darfur, Cambodia or Myanmar. What other holocaust level genocides are you thinking of?
If that were true, then you would be supporting the people of Lugansk and Donask. The intentions and actions of the Ukrainian regime is clear. 14,000 dead and most of those were civilian women and children.
The hatred of those in the Ukrainian state toward Russians is clear. When the Odessa massacre was happening, the Neo-Nazi thugs trapped protesters in a building and set it on fire. The Ukrainian national anthem was sung while those trapped burned to death. The victims included women and children.
The Kiev regime swept this atrocity under the rug. Although the culprits were known and there was ample evidence, none were held accountable. Many in Ukraine lauded these criminals as patriotic heros.
A holocaust level genocide means a mass murder with hundreds of thousands or millions of victims. Even the Palestinian genocide has not reached holocaust level.
I support the people in Luhansk and Donestk. I just don’t pretend to know whether the people there want to secede or who is to blame for the 14,000 estimated deaths from the civil war there, which includes combatgants and civilians from both sides and innocent bystanders.
Nazis and ultra nationalists thugs have committed war crimes in Ukraine. But not a holocaust.
War crimes do not justify a war of choice unless there is an actual or imminent holocaust.
In less than three months of war in Ukraine many more people have been killed than the 14,000 deaths in eight years of fighting in the Donbass. More people would be alive today if Putin had not chosen war as an instrument of foreign policy.
Yes. More people have died as the result of the Russian invasion than the 14,000. Why?
The use of the population in ethnic Russian cities as human shields. Not ethnic Ukrainian cities. The AFU routinely placed heavy weapons in civilian areas. Snipers would evict residents of an apartment and obstruct the other residents from leaving. Both these tactics are war crimes.
The people of Donask and Luganst voted in overwhelming numbers for autonomy. Unlikely that after being shelled for 8 years they would choose to remain under the government that authorized that.
You really should do a little research on genocides. The vast majority of these were done by their own governments.
Israel uses the human shield trope against the Palestinians and Hezbollah. The US used it in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. The Nazis used it to justify the leveling of the Warsaw Ghetto. In wars of national liberation or national resistance the irregular forces embed themselves among the civilian population. If the civilians support the irregular forces in asymmetric warfare, then the weaker force eventually wins after a protracted guerrilla war of attrition. If the population resents the irregulars, the stronger adversary makes short work of them. That is why the Russian army succeeded against ISIS and their allies in Syria and why Russia is getting its ass kicked in Ukraine.
Putin is either a liar or a fool. But if he really believes that Ukrainians and Russians are “one people” then he has no idea what his soldiers are fighting in Ukraine just like the American politicians and generals had no idea what they were fighting in Afghanistan and Vietnam. He can’t understand the motivation of the Ukrainian people who have helplessly resented Russian chauvinism for centuries.
Your point is that ethnic Ukrainians hate Russia and by inference hate those people of Russian descent and Russian culture.
Yes. The Soviet dictates that expanded Ukraine far beyond it’s natural borders were another communist disaster. The remedy is simple. Let the historical Russian areas go.
FYI, Russia is hardly “getting it’s ass kicked”. Rather the opposite is true. You have fallen prey to propaganda. The AFU field units are being attrited. The AFU has little or no support in ethnic Russian areas of Ukraine.
As far as human shields being a “trope”. Nope. It’s a war crime. Period.
You support war if it serves your purpose.
For nation-states I only support wars for self defense or to prevent an actual or imminent holocaust level genocide.
I also support the principle of the Declaration of Independence that people(not nation-states) have the right to take up arms against their own governments or governments of colonial or neo-colonial powers when those governments or foreign powers become oppressive and there are no non-violent means of achieving independence or self determination. So I support the right of people to revolution and wars of national liberation.
Will you support the right of Palestinians to claim back land that was theirs for millennia? It was conquered and the real owners’ land was forcibly taken away from by intrigues and conspiracies hatched in London and other capitals and in the narrow corridors of UN with out consulting the original stake holders, the Palestinians . You are so obsessed with holocaust . Will you accept a free discussion over its various dimensions with out interference from your captive governments?
Of course I support the Palestinian right to self determination – by any means necessary.
I meant Israeli vacation of all Palestinian lands grabbed from them. You will not. And you did not respond to the other. Why?
I consider Tel Aviv occupied territory. Does that answer your question?
“Do you want to live in a world ….”
Ironically, in order to have global ordered peace, there is no alternative to having a global wmd inspection regime with global enforcement capability. The US “total spectrum dominance” policy purports to be that regime in the endgame, as other power seekers have done since the invention of pottery. The successful inspection regime would require global transparency, something in which the US militancy establishment has none to offer.
Something the entire US government is lacking in is transparency.
Ukraine is not a sovereign nation. Its “rights” are forfeit since becoming a Washington colony.
Ukraine is a sovereign nation as the Russians are learning the hard way.
So sovereign was Iraq. so was Libya. Yugoslavia. Afghanistan and so on
So what is your point?
All these sovereign states were attacked and destroyed by the “custodian nation” of democracy freedom and human rights.
Is this your opinion? if not, can you share the source of this statement.
Ukraine/Donbass is a civil war. Russia and nato intervened, to everyone’s detriment, except the war profiteers.
By definition, to be colonial is to lack sovereignty. Pleading the Law on this is sophistical pettifogging. In fact, since 2014 especially, Ukraine receives its first level government from Washington & Alexandria in every meaningful sense. And, that the current President of Ukraine is a professional TV actor seems a rather
providential serendipity, no?
Ukraine is not a sovereign nation. Its “rights” are forfeit since becoming a Washington colony.
This statement plus your response to my question is the reason I will have to ignore you from this point on.
Pfff!!! You must be 16 years old.
Much was possible before this war that is no longer possible.
The US and NATO tried to use Ukraine against Russia.
Now a lot is Off the Table, including any truly independent neutral Ukraine.
Ukraine committed suicide, egged on by Washington.
“A truly independent neutral Ukraine” was never on the table.
It was a Russian satrapy. Then it became a US/NATO satrapy. Now Putin is trying and failing to make it a Russian satrapy again.
Heh, nice word. A little antiquated. How is it different from the common “puppet” ?
Because history started on Feruary 24th. Nothing else happened. Big bad Russia just, out of the blue, decided to expand.
“Because history started on Feruary 24th”
No.
The history of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict goes back almost 800 years to when the Mongols overthrew Kievan Rus in 1242. One of the fragments of Rus was the Grand Duchy of Moscow which grew to be the Russian Empire. Most of Rus fragmented into small principalities, city-states and feudal dependencies that were invaded, fought over, divided , conquered, by foreign overlords. Parts of Ukraine were ruled at various times by Poland, Lithuania , Hungary, Austria, Russia, the Ottoman Turks, the Mongols, the Golden Horde, the Tatars (who conducted periodic slave raids in Ukraine), the Kazakhs, the Cossacks and the Genovese
The Ukrainians developed a national identity based on their common oppression. As aspect of Ukrainian culture is a deep sense of tragedy and irony – a dark fatalistic humor reflecting resignation and resentment. Ukrainians would joke that “all the wars in Europe were fought in Ukraine. And the Ukrainians lost every one.” In 1547 Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan IV (the Terrible) proclaimed himself “Czar of all the Russias” and claimed dominion over all the lands and people of what is now Ukraine, Belarus and the European part of Russia. The Czars came to believe that Russia was the “Third Rome” and that they were destined to rule all the Slavic peoples (Pan-Slavism). The first Ukrainian state was established by the Cossacks in their revolt against the Polish Commonwealth in 1648. To pacify the Ukraine, the Russians made peace with the dreaded Cossacks n 1654. The Cossacks tried to maintain their independence but eventually became functionaries of the Czars who oppressed the Ukrainians on behalf of their overlords in Moscow. The Cossacks raped, pillaged and murdered Ukrainians and persecuted Jews and Catholics in pogroms encouraged by the Czars (especially against Jews). By the end of the Eighteenth century Russia completed its subjugation of the Ukraine under the brutal rule of its Cossack functionaries who raped, pillaged and murdered Ukrainian peasants with impunity and immunity as agents of the Czars. Ukrainians were required to address the most reprehensible Cossack marauder as “noble prince” because they were given titles of nobility by the Czars and license to take whatever they wanted in Ukraine.
The Russians never acknowledged that Ukrainians were a separate nation. Over the centuries of Russian rule the Czars closed Ukrainian schools, banned publication of books in Ukrainian language and even banned children from being baptized with Ukrainian names. Following the Enlightenment of the Eighteenth century there was a rebirth of Ukrainian nationalism. When the hated Czar was overthrown in 1917 Ukraine became an independent nation in 1918. Lenin recognized the importance of the Ukrainian national identity and the futility of the Czarist attempts at assimilation. So Ukraine became one of the constituent republics of the USSR and along with Belarus, Ukraine had a vote at the UN and some autonomy in the Soviet Union before Stalin.
Ukrainian nationalism was created in opposition to foreign oppression and against futile attempts by foreign overlords to dominate the Ukraine and erase its national identity. For the past 370 years the principal oppressor of Ukraine has been Russia. Putin’s invasion turned a smoldering resentment of centuries of Russian overlordship into a passionate hatred of the Russian oppression and resistance to the Russian invasion. Much like the Palestinians whose national identity coalesced in opposition to Zionist attempts to deny and destroy the indigenous Arab culture,, Ukrainian nationalism has been shaped by opposition to Russian imperialism for centuries.
Anyone who understands Ukrainian history understands that after having a taste of independence, Ukrainians will never surrender their country to the Russians. For the moment, Ukraine is getting weapons from NATO. But even if NATO cut off its support and Zelenskyy surrendered, the Ukrainian resistance would continue as a guerrilla war that the Russians would eventually lose. The key to an asymmetric war of national resistance is support by the people. In Crimea it is clear that the Russian soldiers were welcomed as liberators. In Donbass, the secessionists can’t even draft men to fight for Russia and several weeks ago Russian soldiers were killed by poisoned cake they were given by the girls they liberated. Like the Palestinians, Ukrainians will fight the Russians with stones, knives, kites or cakes.
Like the US in Vietnam or Afghanistan, or the Czars before them, the Russians will find that they are at war with the Ukrainian people, their language, their culture, their religion, the children. Like the US , the Czars and the Soviets, every action the Russians take to suppress the Ukrainian resistance will make it stronger until eventually the Russians will have to leave.
Ukraine has a problem with anti-Semitism (as does Russia) and Nazism. But anyone who understands the relationship between Ukraine and Russia understands that Russia cannot de-Nazify Ukraine any more than direct British rule could put an end to sectarian violence in Ulster. (In fact Ukraine and Donbass’s relationship with Russia is a lot like England’s relationship with Ireland and Ulster.) The two roots of Ukrainian Nazism are anti-semitism and resentment of Russian chauvinism. By invading Ukraine the Russians have given the Azov battalion the status of national heroes and are legitimizing the Nazis as part of the national resistance movement.
Wars, if you read this far, I hope you understand that I don’t believe that history of the Ukraine-Russia conflict started February 23rd. It is a long history. Putin’s war has only made things worse for Ukraine, Russia and the entire world. In fact, Putin is doing exactly what Biden wanted him to do. I hope you also recognize that there is nothing progressive about siding with an imperial power whether it is declining (like US/NATO) or collapsing (like Russia).
The goal is freedom. Not choosing our favorite imperialism. In the war with Russia, Ukrainians are fighting on the side of self determination. We need to recognize that.
The fact that the USA flouts international law means that we need to find ways to make the US abide by international law.
I supported Putin’s demand for a neutral Ukraine with no foreign military bases and I shared his stated concern about Nazis in the Ukraine. But Putin should have continued diplomacy, supported an indigenous opposition in Ukraine and worked with China to develop a carrot and stick approach to pressure Ukraine to stay neutral.
Please with the history lesson. Once again: The history of THIS conflict doesn’t go back 800 years. US/NATO instigated this one.
That is not how the Ukrainians see it. They have been revolting against Russian imperialism for centuries.
My reply is being held up by the censor bots because I named a religion that I guess must remain nameless. Hint – adherents of the nameless religion were the principal victims of pogroms in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe.
The gist of my reply is that the history of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia goes back almost 800 years. Ukrainian national consciousness developed as a reaction to oppression, much like Palestinian national consciousness.
An invasion of Ukraine by Russia will backfire, strengthen Ukrainian nationalism and engender a national resistance that will inevitably defeat the Russians.
The history of THIS conflict doesn’t go back 800 years. US/NATO instigated this one.
The conflict between the Russians and Ukrainians was going on for centuries before NATO or the US existed. That is why Putin and his supporters don’t understand what they are fighting and why they will lose.t
“Do we want to live in a world where 6,000 nukes gives a country the right to invade its neighbors and take their territory?”
Thanks for the Israel update!!!
We agree. Russia and Israel are both committing genocide – they are trying to erase the Palestinian and Ukrainian national identities.
Palestinian population in Israel and territories:
1950-1,172,000
2021-7,000,000
Some genocide
Check the United Nations Genocide Convention for the definition of genocide.
15 minutes to bring the Jews into the discussion. What took you so long?
“Israel” /= “the Jews.”
Most Jews are not Israelis, and many Jews disapprove of the Israeli regime, and even of Israel itself.
“Israel” /= “the Jews.”
Most Jews are not Israelis, and many Jews disapprove of the Israeli regime, and even of Israel itself.
Hopefully Russia will respond by giving hostile nations what they want immediately and completely, an end to their reliance on Russian fossil fuels. That would avert climate disaster while destroying western economies ability to arm everyone against each other.
You’re right. But shouldn’t they hit directly at the offender, NATO’s surveillance capability? Launch some satellite killers. Make it go dark.
The longer the SMO goes on, the more it feels like a real time war game: Russia Vs Amerika. With so many U.S. tacticians on the ground, directing ‘Ukrainian’ forces, tacit agreements between both sides concerning intel and weapons, and the media as respective marketing. Is this where The West Point Business School gets to test itself against New School Russian practice? All the hallmarks are there: Amerikan cheating, looking for shortcuts, new neat gadgets to offset faltering competence, Russia levelling things with air strikes, Amerika resorting to neighbouring bases. How long it can remain a ‘game’ remains to be seen.
Seems as if the U.S. is putting Russia in a no retreat position. I don’t see Russia accepting defeat and at the same time can’t see the U.S. and the West not continuing to escalate. Where is the ‘off ramp’ here before an escalation to a bigger conflict?
What? The bridge over the Kerch strait is still standing. How hard is it to shoot your officers and walk towards the rising sun ( and take your chances) or towards the setting sun ( and take your chances)
I am from the U.S. but the days of the U.S. intervening in countries around the world and acting as the only say in World Affairs needs to come to an end. Perhaps when the dollar collapses and the U.S can no longer fund its foreign interventions, it will come to an end. Until then, more war, more destruction.
To be fair it’s not like Russia wasn’t sharing intel with Iran and Syria. But not at the cost of American lives. This will have an ugly backlash in the future.
The nation is being manipulated again to support an illegal aggression all based on lies. WMD which they all knew did not exist. Based on deliberate lies we destroyed the Iraq and the ME.
Now, based on lies we are being manipulated to support the total destruction of Ukraine and Europe and Russia.
They know for sure Putin would not use nuclear weapons. Ret. General Petraeus says so, he would know.
The aggression against Russia started the day NATO leaders broke their word of honor and moved NATO close to the Russian border in order to encircle Russia.
Every one in government with any expertise knew and told them that it was bad politics. Only Wolfowitz neocons could sign up with NPAC, yet they are still there, Biden even promoted them because he is one of them.
As U.S. hegemony continues to slip away, expect the U.S. to become even more desperate to hold onto it. More backdoor military interventions leading to more outright wars. Of course, other NATO nations will be dragged into these new interventions and wars. The U.S. can create as much money as needed and use it any way it wants which would be fine if it ever acted with ethics or morality. But in the meantime, the people of the U.S. suffer with subpar healthcare and poor government services in general. “We can’t afford those services” they say! It’s all falling apart, but we can spend $40 billion on the Ukraine. This is our government in action and I see no real alternative.
This will create a powerful antiwar movement and a political crisis on both sides of the Atlantic. Always has, always will.
Washington will probe and push until they get a push-back. That is the pattern in small and in large -the programme of NATO expansionism toward the ultimate of full spectrum dominance. When Russia responds they will scream “illegal & unprovoked”, and thence the need to preserve ambiguity.
Frankly, the “mission” of US militancy has nothing to do with anything we normally hear. All obfuscation. Simply stated, something somewhere must forever be being destroyed with US weapons, which must be replenished at an increasing rate. They leave it to others to fill in where, when and why.
How do we know ANY of the reporting on Russia from the War Department or the White House, or any US government agency or individual, is valid? Now that we have our own Ministry of Truth, and we know its stated purpose, how is the US public to be assured that WE aren’t the target of ‘disinformation’ from our very own officials? As Rand Paul noted recently, the US government is the greatest source of disinformation already- and now we’ve got card-carrying liars in charge of determining what the truth is? Is this really what the Founding Fathers saw the United States evolving into?
As Alexander Mercouris analyzed in one of his recent videos, this is exactly how Vietnam started. Only this time the US is pushing a peer adversary with nuclear weapons. Even if Russia doesn’t use its nuclear arsenal, its missile arsenal is more than sufficient to hand NATO a bad defeat. Most of the NATO-Russia war games ended in nuclear war, however.
Yes, this is how Vietnam started with a superpower attacking a small country and eventually being defeated by a guerrilla force. Good analogy.
Weren’t you the guy who was predicting that the invincible Russian tanks would sweep across Ukraine in a couple of weeks and set up a newgovernment in Kyiv? What happened to Putin’s master plan?
NATO is not going to defeat Russia because NATO is not engaged in any war with Russia. Russia is being defeated by Ukrainian nationalists. Putin should not have invaded.
By the way I am getting confused by the Russian propaganda you spout. So please help me out. Did the US really target the Muskova for the Ukrainians? Or was the ship sunk by an accidental ammunition fire and choppy seas?
If bad weather can sink a Russian guided missile cruiser in the Black Sea, they better keep their fleet out of the Atantic and Pacific.
No one knows the master plan. I extrapolate from their announced goals. So that armored sweep will likely still occur, since otherwise how does Russia get Kiev to surrender? As for the ship, no one except Russia knows what happened. The image of the ship I saw showed no actual missile impact. And if you think Russia being defeated, you are going to be so butthurt when the 60,000 Ukrainians in Donbass are finally ground done over the next month or so.
The US already provoked Moscow. This has been a long series of provocations. Each time, the US has tried the “who, not me” defense.
However, this was instigated every bit as much as anyone in a high school group ever instigated trouble against other members.
It began with the expansion of NATO, against the clear warmings of our own experts.
It hit a new high with the two color revolutions, the second being the 2014 coup engineered with so much help of Hillary’s State Dept.
The US manipulation of Ukraine to try to take away Russia southern defense bases leased from Crimea. In fact, NATO very publicly meant to take them over and use them against Russia– now of course the US lies about that, but it was in the papers as public claims at the time.
That then grew into subsequent attacks on separatist regions, which were starting again as artillery barrages by Ukraine and its demands BEFORE Russia attacked.
In December, Putin gave a strongly worded plain warning, really an ultimatum phrased as “this is not an ultimatum.” The US blew it off, saying every single thing in it was “off the table” and refusing even to do diplomacy.
So now the US “might provoke?” Hysterical laughter. It has been deliberate policy to provoke, for two decades and more. The Blob running the State Dept wanted this, and already got it.
I agree. US did everything it could to provoke Russia to attack Ukraine. But it was Putin who took the bait by starting a war of aggression that Russia can’t win. Putin’s war has already killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians and raised the specter of nuclear war.
A war which Russia can not win. Assuming you are right, it is a war Russia won’t be the only loser. U S of A will be incinerated whatever the Zionist sock puppet zombie Biden claims.And it seems you agree
Yes, there is a risk of nuclear war. But Russia will have to launch the first strike. I trust there are generals and oligarch in the Kremlin who will stop Putin if it comes to that.
But the Ukrainians will not stop fighting even if NATO cut off their aid. So it is up to the Kremlin. The Russians could learn from the British who resigned themselves to becoming the USA’s junior partner. The Russians have to learn that no empire lasts forever and the Russian empire is declining faster than the American empire.
Generals and oligarchs will stop Putin!!!. My my. Russia is not U S of A controlled by fifth columnists where its president is not even aware of what is happening around him. The “president’s” job is just read out statements handed out to him by his captors. Where as Putin and the ruling class are real Russian patriots.No fifth columnists can stop. Can’t you see the popular support he receives. Where as in U S of A, the fictional Argo City, only the media which is owned by the fifth columnists cheer up the “war”. With fake surveys they promote war. It is for the USA and its fifth columnists should understand their days are numbered. Nature’s revenge
The Russians may have to choose between defeat and nuclear war. I trust they will make a wise decision.
How can the US possible be part of a war in Ukraine when there is no war, only a “special operation”??
Since when did it become a war? When Russian forces started to retreat and casualties skyrocked??
The hypocrisy from the Kremlin is staggering, it would be hilarious if it wasn’t for the fact that thousands and thousands of innocent civilians have died and millions are homeless.
Spare me the outrage. Russia has to do a heck of a lot of bombing in order to reach the level of slaughtering, destruction and displacement that NATO has perpetrated on Europe and the Middle East in the last 25 years.
And BTW, we are still occupying half of Syria and stealing their oil.
Or maybe your outrage is not moral but you feel that NATO has exclusive rights to invading and bombing.
The difference is that Russia is fighting a real enemy on its border while NATO was bombing for lust and profit while bragging of planting “seeds of democracy” and watering them with the blood of innocent Iraqis, Libyans etc. far away from their borders.
“we are still occupying half of Syria and stealing their oil.
Hey, Russki troll, show me a source saying the US is taking half of Syria’s oil production.
If you can’t then shut that trap.
Keep poking the bear until the bear pokes back with giant claws!
We do not need obama who is pulling the strings of dementia Joe Biden from behind the scenes becoming Death, the destroyer of worlds.
Same old mission, get weapons and training to the Ukr, numbers are bigger. I haven’t heard anything about intelligence sharing in the last few days.