Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that it was up to Ukraine whether or not to target Russian territory with US-provided weapons, a policy that brings the US and Russia closer to a direct clash.
Blinken made the comments after ABC News reported that it’s likely the Biden administration will soon arm Ukraine with Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), which have a range of up to 190 miles.
While appearing on ABC’s ‘This Week,’ Blinken was asked if he was OK with Ukraine using ATACMS to hit targets deep inside Russian territory. “In terms of their targeting decisions, it’s their decision, not ours,” Blinken replied.
When asked about the increasing Ukrainian drone attacks inside Russia, Blinken claimed the US does not “encourage” or “enable” the operations. However, The Economist recently reported that Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia frequently use intelligence gathered by Kyiv’s Western backers.
As the war has dragged on, the Biden administration has been less and less concerned about the risk of Ukrainian attacks inside Russia escalating the war. The administration previously feared that Russia could respond to such attacks by targeting a NATO country.
The US has also brushed off Russian warnings against providing Ukraine with longer-range missiles, as Moscow has previously called them a “red line.” According to a US official speaking to ABC, the ATACMS “are coming.”
I wish newspapers ran the annual “nuke targeting your town” pix they did when I was a kid. Of course we lived 10 miles from a SAC base so we knew we were toast. People under, hmm, 65? are entirely disconnected from understanding of power of nukes. Contemporary bombs are about 1200 kilotons compared to Nagasaki 20 kilotons.
Russian nukes go from 30,000 tons of TNT up to 200 million tons of TNT. U.S.& NATO nukes go up to 750 thousand tons or one four thousandth the blast of Russias 200 million tons of TNT TZAR bombs. God help us if this SENILE president decides we have all lived long enough.
I don’t think there is such a great difference in the destructive capacity between Russian and American nukes. Russian advantage is the hypersonic missiles and better anti-missile defense systems.
And who knows what is parked off the east coast. American are like deer frozen by headlights, Get smart. Tune in. Turn on and drop out. Do not vote for any office in the next federal election. They are all bad people who have never tried to help the people make a plan.
The stupid Republicans go right along with the Biden Administration on this war. This is the issue that Republicans should be hammering Biden on in the debates. Instead they will tepidly claim that Biden isn’t doing enough to help Ukraine. Or he hasn’t executed the war properly.
It is not nice to go against the wishes of the MIC. All congressmen/women learn to understand.
I am not convinced abstention is a very good way to make life better. The reasoi I drifted away from Buddhism… Non participation may e a good way to avoid being part of the problem, but working for propitious changes require more than abstention,
Abstention requires a plan if there is going to be a result. If Americans grow tired of gruesome atrocities they are committing daily and decide to take responsibility for them; What can we do?
I see the first step as organizing the highest voter turnout in US history with voters writing in friends or family. Of course the military dictatorship that runs the country will obscure and lie about what happened when the votes are tallied.
Even so, the population at large will have acted and will know the disgusting people serving war in Washington DC are not tolerated by people with normal human emotions. That’s when the next step can be taken. Nothing important will happen until Americans quit killing innocent people world-wide every day.
Like saying $750 will buy as many toys as $200 million. When one of the Russian scientists died recently, one of his coworkers said one of his bombs when tested blew the windows out of a house 143 miles away from ground zero. I suppose it is known that doubling the TNT does not double the area of destruction, but increasing the explosive 4000 times is apt to have exponentially force greater far greater if not 4000 times and ability to affect changes on the ground more profoundly than the world has ever seen. In terms of deterrence, who, what country would like to be the first to det one of these go off in their Capitol City…. No Problem????? Russia lost more than 20 million in WWII and they will go quietly when confronted. The American Neocons who directed this ongoing attack on Russia & her security are seeking “Full Spectrum Dominance” AKA the ability to control (rule) the entire workd. All Russia wants is Ukraine to be neutral and not join NATO and put nuke missiles on it’s border. But the Neocons are so crazed, and have so much control over America that they have America playing chicken with with Russia and risking destroying the planet to secure their control over every endeavor onthe entire planet.
“All Russia wants is Ukraine to be neutral”
Russia rejected a draft ceasefire agreement because it didn’t give Russia absolute veto power over all future Ukrainian military activities. That’s not neutrality, it’s suzerainty.
Same suzerainty the US would demand if Canada was hosting Russian missiles. Non issue.
No one has ever tested an ABM system against an enemy first strike.
We are just conditioned to think we are safe. No matter what we do to others, we will always be safe, This lack of feeling vulnerable is exploited by the cluque that Biden brought with him into the givernment. So now they can gamble, raise the stakes. For as long as American public is not afraid — they can go on and push buttons. Rusdia serns to get it — and has not been overreacting. Just picked their next Ukrainian target.
But gamblers are dangerous. Hopefully Buden goez and Blinken and companyvwith him. Somebody else may get a chance to reasses.
No, it’ll only happen if Putin decides he is done trying with the invasion and annexation of Ukraine. In which case he should just pull out of Ukraine in the name of peace.
Yawn………………….
Sorry, i forgot you guys only get excited about ant West/pro Putin posts.
Fluffer.
I grew up in Southern California. We lived 15 miles from El Toro Marine base. About 40miles away, in Seal Beach, there were missle silos. As dad drove us on PCH, he pointed them out to us. Also, with the silos, there were stacks of mines. An hour to the north of our home was the SAC base in Riverside, which housed B-52s. A MAC base was at Norton AFB in San Bernardino. A TAC base was in Victorville. When I was in grammar school, the air raid siren would go off, and under our desks we would go.
El Toro was a nice base. My brother was in aviation ordnance and was stationed there for a little while. I only spent a few weeks there, going to school for Nuclear/Biological/Chemical monitor-survey (I had a secondary billet in my company as the NBC defense NCO).
When I was in high school, I liked to drive out there to watch the nigh touch and go landings. Every once in a while one of the jets would scrape its rear on the runway, sending a sparks. We had four pilots on the same block, and they said whoever did that had to buy the squadron drinks. One of the Marine pilots was a fellow named Bud Weir. He was one of the early ones selected to the Mercury program. After the Marine Corps, he became a test pilot until he was in his 60’s. There was a WSJ article about him suing to keep flying as a test pilot when he hit 60. He won. Physical testing showed him having the cardiovascular of a 35 year old. A real character. Super competitive. I got involved in little football game with them. Tough as nails.
You grew up in California? 🤣
Pff, GTFOH. You grew up in Russia.
It is not against the deadlines here to be boringly repetitive with one’s insults.
But it is boringly repetitive.
I grew up during the Eisenhower years, in OC, which was almost totally Republican. In high school I was one of the kids in my high school who worded for the campaign for Richard Nixon for POTUS. Did it again when he ran for governor.
Yes, lived in Riverside — ducked under those desks regularly.
I grew up in Flint, MI, which was at the time a beyond-major manufacturing center. I recall when one of my junior high teachers told us that the Soviet Union most certainly had one big-ass nuke aimed directly at us 😳
Every country that has a nuke (or more) has them aimed. Preordained to kill millions in some other country, as there are those with nukes aimed at us.
Vandenberg AFB ?
I was stationed there in the mid 70’s.
A big event was watching them test launch Minutemen at night. 🙂
I remember that! A friend of mine was stationed there when he was in the Air Force.
How can anyone take anyone with the name Blinken seriously?
Biden is as serious as a heart attack! We don’t need no Blinken with Biden around workin on WWIII….
Biden, at most, is working on his next Depends change and nap.
No need. He $hits directly on our faces and lives everyday. (Sarcasm)
Great point,,and true! 🙁
😂
HERE WE GO!!!!!! INTO BIDENS DEMENTIA WORLD CHJAOS.
Where it stops no one knows. From RPGs to Russias 200 Megaton nukes, 4000 times the blast of U.S. or NATO NUKES. Time to stared digging your own bomb shelter, the deeper the better.
Obviously, it is not Biden who is making political decisions in US.
From their perspective that’s the beauty of it. These Neocons make the decisions under cover of the Commander in Chief who the American people elected. The Criminals have built-in absolution.
Maybe not,,let us wait and see…….:)
Well, let’s see how they react to sirens,with minutes before the first nuke ruins their barbecue.
Pretty sure he just listens to the “right” people, then acts, speaks. Pretty sure that he, and other Presidents, have and will be mouthpieces for the real government. Everything is a “strategy” meeting, where what is said, done is decided, not by the President. The JFK assassination fixed forever a President making his/her own decision about anything. Cross the MIC/CIA……
I’m not actually sure how to take this interview. Blinken 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 it’s up to Ukraine to decide where to target. But Z is actually on a short leash, and is expected to do what he’s told.
I suspect that Ukraine would find it nearly impossible to accurately fire a missile into Russia without US targeting intel. If the US is overtly caught providing that information for a target inside Russia’s traditional borders, there might be consequences for US assets in the region.
Take your Xanax, pop-pop.
china released covid to clear the HK protests
US releases WW3 to prevent currency disruption.
It’s never direct.
Are you sure it was China who released Covid?
It was released in China given its origins in Wuhan but it could have been done by America . Anything is possible but we’ll never know
See my above response regarding Covid.
Mmmm. My response got removed.
Whooops! It’s down below.
There was a bio leak in Fort Detrick and a resulting flu outbreak all prior to the epidemic. Wuhan was paid to supply bat genetic material to NIH who btw was also funding corona virus experiments at Fort Detrick.
Whoa! The tinfoil hats are on today!
as if you don’t have one in your pocket just in case
Sure, buddy.
US soldiers were the first public note of Covid when they were too sick to return home from athletic games in Wuhan. The US has never disclosed its first known case.
I believe the first major case was in China. A doctor died of it. He was vilified for telling the leadership of the virus. From what I understand, it traveled from Wuhan, to Italy, to New York. We met a young fellow who was in Italy at the time, with other students of major universities who were stuck there when flights were curtailed. He hitch hiked to Greece, where he met a man and his wife who took him in for nearly a month. The man was apparently very wealthy, as the young man described where he stayed. He was able to fly out after a month had elapsed.
9/11 was an inside job. but we’ll never know, will we.
Oh, we KNOW, Spy, we’ll just never get the truth from our guvvmint, much like the assassination of JFK.
It is in the Dulles Report. OOPS, I meant the Warren Report.
I don’t think so. It was a display of the incompetence of the institutions that are supposed to protect us. W. then got us into Afghanistan, Iraq, f*cked up a lot of young men sent to fight, and kill hundreds of thousands over there. Total incompetence. It runs in both political parties.
The virus was most likely deliberately released in the U.S. first. Somebody released it – perhaps at the Greenspring Retirement Community in Springfield, VA, in June of 2019. They probably did this to get Trump on board (see look what happened at Greenspring), telling him that there was as accidental release from Ft. Detrick and the only thing to do now was to make sure the virus got to China, where it would be detected, and where the Chinese government would report it to the WHO as per their responsibility under IHR(2005) rules. IOW they very likely set China up as a patsy.
I don’t think disagree here it’s very possible. However, i want to put out a counter idea in which I can claim, and yes perhaps assume… that China had seen the pro-democracy demonstrations turn into civil war…. in Ukraine, Syria, Libya and the HK protests where no different. However.. as soon as they noticed foreign fighters (Azov Battalion) they realized outside influence was now being put to work. If China shut down it’s borders… that exactly what the outside influence needed to further add fuel to the pro-democracy.. re: “China is bad” so China was actually in checkmate. They needed to shut down the borders but couldn’t do it themselves. I am not anti-china. This is not an anti-china post. But overnight COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 largely silenced the protests. 2 million people from PRC and the world disappeared fearing for their lives. The best way to remove a large crowd is to release a deadly highly transmissible virus. Typical Chinese move, sorry, this feels more like a dragon furry than american capitalism.
So in that case how did China manage to infect the residents at the Greenspring Retirement Community in Springfield, VA in June and July of 2019? And how did China manage to prevent the U.S. “government” from following the legally binding IHR(2005) rules? AFAIK the CDC never identified the pathogen responsible for the outbreak of the “mysterious respiratory illness” at Greenspring. You don’t think that’s a little suspicious?
I think it’s incredible suspicious. Especially given that Fort Detrick is only a 60 minute drive away. However, i believe one country was in need, and which country, and I mean entire country was at major risk of a civil war? Which country saw 3 countries toppled that same way,, and which country saw foreign hired mercenaries on their soil. In this case it was China. If you are telling me the Americans did it, just for capitalistic gain to sell a vaccine, — or perhaps you have other reasoning then I find it difficult that the Americans released it. They both have this capabilities and development, but one country is willing to cut it’s nose to spite it’s face for the greater goal. I just believe they actually did it, and quite honestly it worked perfectly. The Americans love the bombs. They make plenty of money that way.
“I think it’s incredible suspicious. Especially given that Fort Detrick is only a 60 minute drive away.”
What’s so “suspicious” about being within an hour drive of a military base? Much of the country is within an hour drive of a military base.
If there was an accident at Fort Detrick, I’d expect the effects to be much closer.
If there was an intentional release from Fort Detrick, I’d expect them to want it a LOT further away.
“I think it’s incredible suspicious.”
What’s “suspicious” (damning in my view) is the fact that the CDC never identified the pathogen responsible for the outbreak at Greenspring. The whole thing was big local news for a little while and then “swept under the rug”; that is to say, the U.S. government never honored its legal responsibilities under IHR(2005). This is precisely what I would expect if somebody was carrying out the scenario I described earlier.
“Especially given that Fort Detrick is only a 60 minute drive away.”
As I see it, that’s not very relevant except in the sense of being a cover story to establish plausibility in convincing Trump of a release (accidental or otherwise) on U.S. soil and a need to frame somebody else (China) for it accordingly (and thus also to establish plausible deniability of a deliberate release from the perspective of other countries).
“However, i believe one country was in need, and which country, and I mean entire country was at major risk of a civil war? Which country saw 3 countries toppled that same way,, and which country saw foreign hired mercenaries on their soil. In this case it was China. ”
I think not. That’s just wild, unfounded speculation. There was no mass unrest in China, if that’s what you’re implying. It makes no sense whatsoever that the Chinese government would unleash a bioweapon on China – with all the unknown and potentially catastrophic consequences – to solve some kind of a far-fetched hypothetical domestic problem.
But you still haven’t answered my questions. In order to commit a crime, the perpetrator has to have a motive, means and opportunity. Let’s say for the sake of argument that Chinese government “did it” as per your wild speculation. How and why did they infect the Greenspring Retirement Community in Springfield, VA, in June and July of 2019? And how and why did they prevent the U.S. CDC from identifying the virus and notifying the WHO as per the legally binding international health regulations?
“If you are telling me the Americans did it, just for capitalistic gain to sell a vaccine, –”
Of course not.
“…or perhaps you have other reasoning then I find it difficult that the Americans released it.”
I haven’t yet mentioned anything about why in my view “the Americans (sic)” may have released it, yet you find my reasoning in that matter a priori “difficult (to believe)”? Seriously?
I’m not going to dwell on that point here very much but just ask you a few questions. Why did Charlie Manson and the Manson family murder Sharon Tate and everyone at her house? And why for example did Jeffrey Dahmer have a refrigerator full of peoples’ heads? Was it all about “money”? Obviously not. Here’s the point: evil people do what they do because they’re evil. Period. They don’t have to have some kind of motive that would seem “rational” to someone else.
You lost me here ” That’s just wild, unfounded speculation. There was no mass unrest in China, if that’s what you’re implying”
Sorry. you are not looking to have a discussion but just wanting me to believe your point of view.
I think your point of view has merit, however, evil for evil sake is not that case.
“Sorry. you are not looking to have a discussion but just wanting me to believe your point of view.”
I want you to come to the realization that your view is not very reasonable.
“I think your point of view has merit, however, evil for evil sake is not that case.”
As is painfully obvious by now to anyone paying attention, the corrupt “West” is not run by reasonable people but by a cult of devil-worshiping, demon-possessed, theistic Satanists. These people do what they do because they’re evil. Unfortunately there is no other explanation that makes sense.
Check out what happened in Fairfax County, VA in the summer of 2019. A mysterious upper respiratory virus broke out in a Senior Living Center which was located about an hour’s drive from the U.S. Lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Sixty three people came down with the virus, and three people died from it. Within a month of that outbreak, the Lab at Fort Detrick was shut down. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Israel has reported that the U.S. warned them of the Covid virus in November of 2019 before any case of Covid had been reported anywhere in the world. Don’t look at China for the cause of Covid. Look here at home.
I believe you are referring to the outbreak which occurred at the Greenspring Retirement Community in June and July of 2019.
I believe someone deliberately infected the facility as an example to get Trump on board the effort to spread the virus to China and then blame China. And the news about the so-called “breaches of containment” at Ft. Detrick might be just a cover story – a ploy to create plausible deniability; i.e. at worst it was an unfortunate accident, not a deliberate act.
I agree.
You might very well be right.
Interesting. I believe the Pentagon knew of it about that time. Trump certainly knew of it. His admission is on tape, when he was interviewed by Bob Woodward.
While it’s certainly possible that COVID came from somewhere other than China, including but not limited to Fort Detrick, it does seem to have been loose in China no later than August of 2019 (when satellite imagery suddenly show hospital parking lots in Wuhan filling up and constant traffic to its ERs, and when Internet searches in that region suddenly spiked queries for typical COVID symptoms).
“Secretary of State Antony Blinken that
it was up to Ukraine whether or not to target Russian territory with
US-provided weapons, a policy that brings the US and Russia closer to a
direct clash.”
Here is Russia’s negotiating point. If Russia is hit with ATACMS missiles then Washington D.C. is fair game for the strategic weapons that Russia owns.
“then Washington D.C. is fair game for the strategic weapons” – unfortunately, in US there are no organized opposition to the militaristic oligarchy. So, the escalation may easy get to no return point. At a certain moment, they may decide in Kremlin that the best option is a first disarming nuclear strike. Actually, when a big war is unavoidable, it is the only reasonable option which may give to Russia and to the rest of humankind a good chance for survival.
NUCLEAR WAAAAAAAR! You guys are like 5-year-olds.
It’s their desperate attempt to scare the public in hopes that the people will start asking the Administration to stop assisting Ukraine. The worse this wars gets for Putin, the more the will up the ante.
Since the end of WWII, we have wanted this. Well, baby, we just may have our wish come true, which does scare the sh*t out of me. OK?
Just hide under a desk then.
So start also asking for Putin to stop this war because asking one side only while giving the other a pass is just that. And as far as i know, the country who put almost half a million troops in someone else’s country attacking and annexing is Russia which according to most here, makes Putin the victim.
And we hope morons like you are right. It’s so easy to make fun of something when there is no way of being proven wrong. There won’t be any “I told you so” if a nuclear war does happen since we’ll all be dead or wishing we were dead.
At some point there may quickly be “organized opposition”,,and I think it will roar as a furious LION! 🙂 Can’t wait.
At a certain moment, they may decide in Kremlin that the best option is a first disarming nuclear strike.
Which means we’re all dead. Period
Yep. Especially since submarine-launched missiles make a disarming nuclear strike an impossibility.
Somebody needs to tell the madmen in Washington about that, because I’m not sure they see it that way. They may be of the deluded opinion that if their 100+ Aegis-equipped ships are appropriately positioned and armed with the latest SM-3 missile variant, that they can take out many if not most Russian SLBMs in the boost or mid-course phase of their trajectory.
If they were of that deluded opinion, we’d likely already know.
I think anyone who’s been paying attention to the big picture here already knows what’s going on, and Russia is at the top of that list. The U.S. withdrawal from the ABM treaty and the subsequent development and deployment of Aegis systems; the upgrading of the fuzing on SLBMs; and lately, the withdrawal from the INF treaty and the development of new intermediate range nuclear capable missiles…all point to one thing and one thing only: the U.S. government no longer believes in the “MAD” doctrine and now seeks nuclear primacy, apparently for coercive purposes (i.e. nuclear blackmail) or even to launch a first strike. The madmen in Washington are flirting with planetary extinction.
Ahh, Ukraine is escalating the war. Gotta love this line.
Never mind the number one belligerent in this war who invaded, illegally annexed foreign land, and went scorched earth on Ukraine for a year and half. No escalation there. None.
Ukraine is not in a position to escalate anything. The USA is escalating its proxy war against Russia. The Ukrainians are pawns.
Yes. The US IS escalating the war that Russia started. This is a US being opportunistic for sure. The Ukrainians are defending their land and the US is quite happy with the Russians being attrited down to third world status.
On the contrary, the U.S. “government” started the war – against the people of both Ukraine and Russia – when it fostered the coup in Ukraine in 2014.
Except none of that is true.
Unfortunately it is true. The U.S. “government” started a war against both Russia and Ukraine in 2014, whether you happen to like it or not.
You wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped you in the face.
I could say that about you and with evidence pulled from archive articles. You’ve been wrong many times.
Aha! You ARE also rational thinker!
No. Donnie J and I are different people, I assure you. Are you going to address the issues or are you just going to vomit garbage?
We have different writing styles. Not that hard to tell the difference.
Is that you Julio? Multiple names?
On the contrary, the U.S. “government” started the war – against the people of both Ukraine and Russia – when it fostered the coup in Ukraine in 2014.
The Ukrainians are defending their land and the US is quite happy with the Russians being attrited down to third world status regardless how many Ukrainian’s die or how much destruction to their land.
Finished it for you.
Hello! McFly! The war was kick started by us by the Clinton administration. Prior to his administration, W withdrew the U.S. from the ABM treaty. It was Billy who kick started things that have led to today. Kennan’s warnings were ignored. Thirty years. Thirty years of provocations, lining up new members of NATO that border Russia. Trump withdrew from the Open Skies and INF treaties. At least Obama refused to send arms to Ukraine. Trump did. Javelin missiles. Then Biden came along, with his band of merry warmongers. But why? The Blowback series of books by the late Chalmers Johnson tell a sordid story of empire, stupidity. I am re-reading his last book in the series, “Dismantling the Empire”. Several months ago,I finished “Doomsday Machine, The Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner” by the late Daniel Ellsberg.
Let me interrupt your personal X-Files episode.
We all know that the US has been attempting to democratize and capitalize the entire world since WWII. It’s in our interest to do so. (I’m not saying I agree with that approach, I’m just stating the obvious.) What YOU and your ilk have difficulty understanding and/or admitting is that Russia and China and the EU and Iran and many others have been attempting to do similar things in THEIR interests.
Putin sees himself as the new Peter the Great and is attempting to create a new Russian Empire.
You and the other useful idiots — as Putin would refer to you all, I’m sure — are blind and deaf to those efforts.
I would recommend you stop acting like a child and see the world for what it is.
US started the democratic processes in Chile,Pakistan,Saudi ,Egypt, Congo,Italy,Portugal, and spent lot of democratic energy or unleashed the democratic forces in Latin America from mid 60s.
the US and Nato are totally cruising for a bruising…
though I expect that Russia will continue with its policy of considerable restraint and patience as far as attacks on Russian soil is concerned, I suspect that Russia will use a much ratcheted up asymmetrical pay back attacks of its own, such as in, say, Syria, where the US troops are quite vulnerable, or perhaps in western Africa. or both regions; along with many increased attacks on Ukrainian/Nato command centers
I don’t expect that Russia will be passive about use of these long range missiles
How did it work out for Russian troops in Syria when they attempted to take on US SFs? Are you ignorant to ALL history or just when it comes to your daddy Putin?
the result is that uncle sam has proudly announced to the entire world that he is overtly stealing Syria’s oil the very instant that it comes out of the Syrian ground.
And your evidence is what?
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/washington-steals-over-80-percent-of-syrias-oil-output-per-day
One of many articles.
Syrian Oil Ministry is your source. Try again…
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/delta-crescent-energy-syrian-oil-391033
“Little-known U.S. firm SECURES DEAL for Syrian oil”
I’m pretty sure that isn’t stealing but I don’t really know what you people are thinking.
Also, now y’all hate the Kurds?
Maybe keep trying…
Not even a nice try.
Your source is America. Try again .
Profound. Go away, troll.
Pot meet Kettle.
I add to the conversation. You D-bags spew s**t. Live with it.
Kek
Always with the cogent arguments🙄😘
People with autism dont like to hear the echo of their own noise . They throw tantrums.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/delta-crescent-energy-syrian-oil-391033
Yes, nice and cosy, isn’t it:
“The company, Delta Crescent Energy LLC, was incorporated in Delaware in February 2019, according to its business license. Its partners include former U.S. ambassador to Denmark James Cain; James Reese, a former officer in the Army’s elite Delta Force; and John P. Dorrier Jr., a former executive at GulfSands Petroleum, a U.K.-based oil company with offices and drilling experience in Syria.”
Need we know more.
Hmm should we trust the Syrian oil ministry on their oil or the people stealing it? Tough call.
That’s not evidence but allegations by the Syrian government, Russia, and China without nothing to back it up.
https://youtu.be/gh1YHtRZUts?si=TZ92cKA9FAl-xA_Y
What say you about us, America, land of truth justice, the American way, the rules based land, pirating Iran’s oil tankers, taking the oil to a home port, then selling it on the open market? Knowledge of us stealing Syrian oil is quite common, as is the tale by us of Syria using chemical weapons on its own people.
You join the conversation to present nothing.
You really are a dictator-loving cat, aren’t you?
For all the MAGA heads here:
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/05/biden-administration-poised-ax-us-oil-companys-waiver-kurdish-led-northeast-syria
President Donald Trump had stated in October and November 2019 that US forces would remain in northeast Syria “only for the oil” and that they may “have to fight for the oil,”
Keyboard Komanndo preens in his jammies..
I’m not a SF soldier. Your ignorant comment doesn’t undermine my point though does it, jaggoff?
Yep, over 200 Russians got annihilated in a matter of minutes. They didn’t even know what hit them. And it was all self inflicted for playing with fire against US forces.
Syria invited Russia into their country. Syria never invited the United States military into their country and by what right do the United States armed forces occupy areas of Syria?
Fighting ISIS and the invitation of Syrian democratic forces and the Syrian Kurds. Russians f**ked around and found out didn’t they?
The neocons need to ratchet up the escalation now, just in case their rigging of the 2024 primary and general elections don’t pan out
Correct
This certainly ramps everything up on the insanity scale. They should just launch the ICBM’S themselves. Playing chicken like this is only one thing. Suicide
The only folks taking nuclear are the Kremlin and you, the pro Russia bloggers because that’s what you guys do, repeat all the crap coming out of the Kremlin.
If you have heard about the Pentagon Papers, you know that Ellsberg revealed tactical nukes as being in the war plans. Not enough that we killed 1.5 to 2.0 million Vietnamese, we actually had plans to use nukes. So, you know there are members of administrations who are all in on using them, as have previous administrations.
No one in the US is planning or talking about going offensive with Nukes.
I spent 24 years in the military and not once did I witness anyone talking about nuking anyone unless it was in self defense against a country that used them against us.
And never, not once, did i see plans that involved using nuclear weapons against any country unless that country got stupid with nukes first. If i did, it was all conventional plans only.
Finally, if you have seen or heard from fourth parties, anything close to the US planning anything with nukes, that’s probably bologna. .
The DOD has strict rules on how to employ them under different scenarios.
One of which is Putin getting stupid with nukes. And boy does he and his cronies not like to talk nukes all the time?
Member of the Admin can talk all they want about nukes, just like the kremlin does. The only difference is, the Kremlin talks about it all the f ing time but you guys never have an issue with that.
Read his book. Doomsday Machine; Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. Enlighten yourself. (I don’t know why I type a response to you, you are such an idiot) No more.
No one in the US is planning or talking about going offensive with Nukes.
There isn’t a war on our border being provoked by an anti-US military alliance that has surrounded us. Otherwise all options are on the table would be a phrase you’d be hearing quite frequently.
How convenient. If you didn’t hear about anyone talking about using nukes, then it must not be true. The only military service you had was sharing a bunk bed with Lindsey Graham.
“No one in the US is planning or talking about going offensive with Nukes.”
Hey chumpy, “the US” doesn’t need to “talk about going offensive with Nukes” – with words – when their actions can only be taken as a threat of nuclear blackmail or a first strike; e.g. the burst-height-compensating fuze upgrade on SLBMs (to enable them to take out hard targets); the Aegis Ashore systems in Romania and Poland; the refusal to negotiate the issue of intermediate range missiles in Europe and withdrawal from the INF treaty, etc.
“Member of the Admin can talk all they want about nukes, just like the kremlin does. The only difference is, the Kremlin talks about it all the f ing time but you guys never have an issue with that.”
LOL! Well of course the Kremlin talks about it all the time because the US has made it clear that it seeks to destroy Russia, so what else would you expect under the circumstances?
Wow. To think they didn’t tell you!!! Here you go:
“US joint chiefs of staff posted then removed paper that suggests nuclear weapons could ‘create conditions for decisive results’
The Pentagon believes using nuclear weapons could “create conditions for decisive results and the restoration of strategic stability”, according to a new nuclear doctrine adopted by the US joint chiefs of staff last week.
The document, entitled Nuclear Operations, was published on 11 June, and was the first such doctrine paper for 14 years. Arms control experts say it marks a shift in US military thinking towards the idea of fighting and winning a nuclear war – which they believe is a highly dangerous mindset.
“Using nuclear weapons could create conditions for decisive results and the restoration of strategic stability,” the joint chiefs’ document says. “Specifically, the use of a nuclear weapon will fundamentally change the scope of a battle and create conditions that affect how commanders will prevail in conflict.”
The Russians won’t be the first to launch ICBM’s, they’ll soon defend themselves from the onslaught of the last 9 years of an illegal coup on their doors step, the funding of neo Nazi Azov battalions killing Russians in the Donbass.
It’s when they are attack with depleted Uranium and missiles from Ukraine they’ll hit the source NATO.
That’s when things will kick off and the US will launch first.
But in your fantasy world the US are the good guys. Ask why they’re still in Syria supporting Al Qaeda
Anyone knows where that SOP book titled “HOW TO START WWIII?” …Blinken borrowed it? (Sarcasm)
It’s called “Starting WWIII for Dummies”.
Great reply!
Why thank ye, NA 😁
General Milley, appointed by Trump,,both big and stinkin Turds!
Abettor:
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[a person who encourages or assists someone to do something wrong, in particular to commit a crime.]
“she pleaded guilty to manslaughter as an aider and abettor”
America is the main belligerent in the Ukraine war against Russia.
Yes, our troops are very close to Moscow. And… Russia never invaded and annexed Ukraine. That’s just a big lie.
I’m sure you are not delusional, you are just doing your job of trying to present Russia as the victim.
“And… Russia never invaded and annexed Ukraine. That’s just a big lie.”
This statement is actually correct, because, as of Feb. 2014, “Ukraine” (to the extent it was ever a legitimate state in the first place) ceased to exist, thanks to the U.S. “government” fostered coup.
In an act of legitimate self-defense, Russia invaded the lawless territory of the former Ukraine.
Correct. We started the civil war in Ukraine. Against all protestations from Russia, we pushed the envelope which led to what we have today, a proxy war with Russia, and we have dragged NATO countries (targets 15 minutes away from Russia by missile) into it.
Did you just open up a new account just so you can argue with me?
Ok “nelson Navarro” or f ck face, whoever you are pretending to be… take-your Putin fluffing skills over to your colleagues here. They’ll greatly appreciate it.
I got a better one for you:
Russia did not invade and annex Ukraine.
There was a tectonic plate shift last year in Feb and overnight, Ukraine ended up inside the now about to be ruined Russian Federation.
“Did you just open up a new account just so you can argue with me?”
No I didn’t, chumpy.
“Ok ‘nelson Navarro’ or f ck face, whoever you are pretending to be…Ok “nelson Navarro” or f ck face, whoever you are pretending to be… take-your Putin fluffing skills over to your colleagues here. They’ll greatly appreciate it.”
Sorry chumpy, but I only take advice from other humans, which leaves you out.
“I got a better one for you:
Russia did not invade and annex Ukraine…blah…blah…blah”
Hey chumpy, instead of dreaming up fantasies from behind a computer screen, why not get off your cowardly azz, grab your rifle, get over to “Ukraine” and teach those evil Russians a lesson?
Yeehaw Nelson, I like your style!
Here is the interview. Warning: The spin on this is so pronounced, you may start to feel dizzy.
https://youtu.be/x7rv684DaVQ
Spin? It’s overt lying.
They want to escalate the war as much as possible now in order to make it harder for a Neo-con unfriendly administration to undo their misdeeds, just in case their attempts to rig the 2024 primary and general elections don’t work
Why does seeing Blinken make me think of pulling a piece of furniture away from the wall and seeing the cockroaches scurry?
“Blinken said…that it was up to Ukraine whether or not to target Russian territory with US-provided weapons”
1/ As noted in this article’s Johnstone link, the US’s ‘it’s up to Ukraine’ position marks a clear reversal of the US’s earlier policy of providing longer-range missiles only on condition that Ukraine not use them against Russian territory:
“When the White House began negotiating with Ukraine to provide it for the first time with [more advanced] weapons…Biden insisted that …Zelensky agree to one major restriction: No firing into Russian territory, no matter how great the provocation.”
“’Ukrainians have given us assurance that they will not use these systems against targets on Russian territory,’”…Blinken told reporters.”
“The U.S. Is Sending Advanced Weapons to Ukraine. But Conditions Apply. [NYT 6/1/22; see Johnstone Tracey/Guardian link too]
2/ This interdiction weakened fast. Thus, 4 mo. later, an explicit prohibition on using US systems to attack “‘Russian territory‘” morphed into the permissive, “Zelensky…says the [long distance] weapon is crucial to [Uk’s] ability to launch a wider counteroffensive after its recent advances. He has also insisted that he has no plans to strike Russian cities or target civilians.”
[“The Missile Ukraine Wants Is One the U.S. Says It Doesn’t Need,” NYT, 10/6/22]
3/ “When asked about the increasing Ukrainian drone attacks inside Russia, Blinken claimed the US does not ‘encourage’ or ‘enable’ the operations.”
a/ A plain lie – providing the longer range weapons obviously “enable[s]” their use; and dropping the former interdiction on use in Russia is a tacit green light, obviously “encourag[ing]” such use.”
b/ But just as the servile reporters in attendance didn’t point up the clear reversal, likewise there was evidently no effort to call on the carpet Blinken’s “enabling/encouraging” lies + the dangers augered.
Our govt lies and has for decades regarding regime change and supporting installed puppet govt dependent on us aid and bribes. An we keep losing.
“That’s a nice city named Kiev you got there. It would be a shame if it were to have… an accident.”
Blinken is dangerous to the US, and ought to be removed.
If we were a sane society, Blinken and such would just be ignored and shunned.
No surprise here from the criminal elements in us govt.
Now Ukraine is a bloody heap of rotten young flesh they’re going to play Russian roullete with the rest of the species. These Neocons brought us 9/11 cum ME sequelae, CoVid-19 cum 20M dead, Ukraine, … and on the basis of those successes would push on to direct war with Russia.
Biden: “I live every day as if it were your last”.
In other news, it appears that nearly every country is selling/buying military equipment. So, it seems the world is arming for its last hurrah.
Yes. If one looks at previous major conflicts, the period preceding was typified by build ups of weapons and increases in troops.
It would be really nice if this is an exception.
Bush Cheney’s 1 % doctrine has been turned against the peddler of the doctrine . Given the 2014 violence in Maidan ,coup, cold blooded burning of dissenters in government building followed by shelling of Donbass for 10 years prepared the ground for invasion of Ukriane and satisfied the 1% clause enshrined by democratically elected Bush Cheney .
Additional sinews buttressing the argument in favor of invasion was provided by the NATO and West and the general anti Russian atmosphere created by West.
Did Russia attack or was it forced to attack ? This invasion is more legit than the legitmacy of attacking Syria,Iraq,Somali,Libya,Yemen and obviously Afghanistan .
But dont tell that Bush Cheney .Later’s 1% religion and former’s Gog and Magog philosophy dont suffer peacenik, waffle over evidence or waste brain over diplomacy or sully soul over honesty or make room for transparency .
Based on thta 1% US still has AUMF on the book .It is actually still reading from the book .
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein
Blinken is talking tough as he knows the end is near in Ukraine’s fight. Ukraines army is being reduced while Russia’s is building strength. There is only one outcome, it is just a question of how many need to die.
Actually the Chinese are in Cuba but kept quiet by media
NATO pushed the so called “Counter Offensive” to break up the Russian war of attrition which NATO was loosing badly. The so called “Counter Offensive” was a last ditch effort to shape the European battlefield in favour of NATO.
Blinken visited Zelensky in desperation. NATO is attempting to freeze the war they started in 2014 essentially a Minsk3. This will allow NATO to rearm and rebuild and restart the war at a latter date. Nato rebuild and rearm is what Minsk1 and Minsk2 allowed.
As Russia will not agree to a ceasefire i expect the next escalation by NATO will be to send send Polish troops into the fight by attempting a so called “Peace Keeping” operation in West Ukraine.
Blinken okays WWIII.
I understand the concept of trying to be peaceful. But, when one country invades another over nothing more than a political dispute, the only response is a lethal one.
That said, May we PLEASE dispense with stupid? Ukraine has had the ability to Target Russian Territory from the very first shot fired. Do you not realize the basic geography?
They share a border, a very very LONG border
Your average Ukrainian Farmer on that border can “strike Russian Territory” by picking up a stone, walking over to his field, picking up a large rock, walking over the edge of his farm field and hurling that rock at Russia!
Actually as easy as it would be for your neighbor to throw rocks at YOU from their backyard.
This and related headlines are about most ignorant and stupid crap committed to print about this entire conflict. Ukraine, being the invaded party, has every single right known to makind to pound Russia into a pile of mud blood and garbage at this point. All one can really do is hope that the Ukrainian people will refrain from total genocide in the near future. That alone would represent an almost Angelic level of restraint.
If you want credibility please refrain from stupid headlines like the one on this story? PLEASE?
Russia also has no problem burning ukraine down to a charred cinder, so the sooner they smarten up the sooner russia will stop shooting at them
“Russia also has no problem burning ukraine down to a charred cinder”
Apparently it has SOME kind of problem doing that, since it’s been trying unsuccessfully to do that for 18 months now.
They haven’t even tried or it would have already happened.
Yeah, it’s been 18 months of …
Stopped being very convincing after the first 30 or 40 iterations.
You don’t understand tactics very well. The Ukies are the ones that keep walking into the meat grinder.