President Biden appeared to reveal on Monday that the US is training Ukrainian troops in Poland.
Biden made the comments when trying to explain a recent gaffe. In Poland on Friday, President Biden told members of the 82nd Airborne Division that Ukrainians were “stepping up” against the Russian assault and said, “You’re going to see when you’re there,” suggesting that the US soldiers would be entering the war zone.
Explaining his comments on Monday, Biden said, “We were talking about helping train the troops in — that are — the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland. That’s what the context.”
“I was referring to with — being with and talking with the Ukrainian troops who are in Poland,” he added.
When asked about Biden’s comments, a White House official told Politico that US troops are “interacting” with Ukrainian soldiers in Poland. “There are Ukrainian soldiers in Poland interacting on a regular basis with US troops, and that’s what the President was referring to,” the official said.
Since 2014, the US has trained Ukrainian forces, both openly and covertly. But since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, it hasn’t been clear if any training programs were still taking place. If the US is training Ukrainian troops now, it means they are being trained to kill Russian soldiers in the current conflict.
Before Russia’s invasion, the US pulled National Guard troops out of Ukraine and reportedly ordered CIA paramilitaries to leave the country. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reportedly told House lawmakers in February that the Biden administration was considering training Ukrainian forces remotely.
Biden had to explain other recent comments he made, including what appeared to be a call for regime change in Russia. On Saturday, Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” The White House appeared to walk back his threat, but Biden doubled down on Monday while claiming the US is not following a policy of regime change in Russia.
“I’m not walking anything back. The fact of the matter is I was expressing the moral outrage I felt toward the way Putin is dealing, and the actions of this man … but I want to make it clear: I wasn’t then, nor am I now, articulating a policy change. I was expressing the moral outrage that I feel, and I make no apologies for it,” Biden said.
The Kremlin responded to Biden’s call for Putin to no longer be in power, calling it “alarming.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia will “continue to track” statements from Biden. Russia had recently summoned the US ambassador in Moscow after Biden called Putin a “war criminal.”
Speaking of Joe Biden, my god this man must not remain in power. Joe Biden doesn’t know of what he speaks. He doesn’t know what day of the week it is, what planet he is on or what he just said.
A strong leader willing to back up his words with force can be dangerous. A weak senile angry man who doesn’t know what he utters is terrifying.
You’re exaggerating. He knows which planet he’s on. Blinken told him.
So did Victoria, and Elliot, and that old war gang of old.
The War Party really does want to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian
May be even reduce some populatiin here! I do not think that Biden is aware of what is happening. It is not some retirement home game.
The War Party wants to take out Putin.
The war party would be overjoyed for Russia to fall into chaos and brutal civil war.
Doesn’t matter what they do in Poland. They cross the border, they’re dead. The lame “mercenaries” already found that out.
Technically, NATO is already at war with Russia. The training of Ukrainian troops and the supplied weapons, regardless of which country they’re stored in.
If the Ukrainian army decided to fire a missile into a Polish weapons depot and blame Russia, we could have a rapid escalation.
If it could be determined to have come from the Russian side–that’s a big if–what else can Biden do, sanction Russia and refuse to pay for oil and gas in rubles?
Russia has advantages in hypersonic missiles, anti-missile defense, and electronic jamming for all intents. All Biden can realistically do is talk without end and effect.
Either us kills putin or hope and pray that it’s doesn’t get involved in any war of choice in the near future because this time the Russians r really going to offer bounties alongside doing a lots of other things
We should just leave the mess we created in Ukrainee since 2014, and let Russia clean it up.
Pay Putin to do it.
The sooner we get out of the quicksand -/ the better. Ukraine territory was part of Imperial Russia and than under name Ukraine became part of Siviet Uniom. Once outside, being a proper country demands that people can live tigether. West Ukraine should go back to Poland. Center with Kiev, a neutral state as Austria, East and South go back to Russia.
We never cared when it was part of Soviet Union. Crimea was Russian territory, not Ukraine.
We Americans are now spending OUR money to defend the entity created by communists in Soviet Union?
And even uf we take seriously Budimpest Agreement in nuclear weapons, and claim it as reconition of borders — Ukraine TRASHED the Agreement since 2014!
Why on earth would Russia respect its borders then?
And more importantly. why do WE CARE?
Are we sure that Nuland or Blinkeen have no inheritance there and want to make sure Ukraine is under our control? The whole thing feels to personal given the remoteness of the territory to our national interest.
Nothing new here. The Ukrainians have been training outside Ukraine for years. Especially now that NATO cannot come into their country. Ukraine is a sovereign country and can have its troops train wherever it wants.
Yes, but why do we have to send our people to Poland, or wherever, to train them? One thing that I fear is a terrorist action at the warm water port at Crimea by a member of the regular Kiev forces (Azov battalion) If that happens…………
Do read the threats EU and US officiaks ard hurling towards Sebia. Not EU nor NATO member, it is siding with Russia. What? Endangering our security! How dare anyone chose who to trade and be friendly to?
How stupid it is to forget that NATO and EU are in war with Russia.
The Serbs, Russians and all decent people everywhere remember the horrendous attack by NATO in 1999 (the year of NATO’s 50th anniversary)”50 years is enough” was the cry then, but NATO went on and has caused havoc ever since. “Defensive”?????
Not this ridiculous troll again.
US and the English has under 8 years since the coup trained and indoctrinated an army of tens of thousands of ukie Nazi’s that are taking their orders directly from the Pentagon on their mobile devices or tablets. Kids are being thought to hate Russians and how to kill them on their summer camps. Training goes on in Poland. This is for real.
In the previous war against Donbass in 2014 after the US instigated Maidan fascist coup, ukies would surrender en masse after being defeated in cauldrons, now most of them don’t. According to Russian forces on the ground, what they meet now is zombies who continues to fight even when they lost, regular ukies with second thoughts are being shot in the back by Nazi squads should they even consider surrender.
Still, Russia has practically realized its main objectives and what’s left of the ukie army and death squads are trapped in cauldrons in the east. Ethnic Russians, roughly half of the population, south of the Dniepr have lived trough h*ll during these 8 years according to their testimonies. It’ll take decades for them to heal, the ukies, in the ukraine or what will be left of it, if it’s even possible, will probably need more to be de-programmed from the fascism they’ve been thought for generations. But in the US and Canada, they will be preserved and nurtured for another time…
It would be hoped Russia would incorporate the coastal region and Donbas along with a buffer in the North against Poland. It can then proceed to rebuild those areas much as it did after the previous Nazi takeover of Ukraine as well as control activity in the Azov and Black Seas.
My guess is Russia’s original intent was to push in as far as possible, to Mariupol, then form a protective barrier that will secure the Donbas and most importantly, Crimea. The other day Russia fired off a rocket that precisely hit its target on the Poland/Ukraine border. Once Russia pulls back, that will be it.
It is not pulling back. Ukrainian propisal at the last meeting is not serious.
This has already been accimplished.
Mariupol has been taken over. The mayor, we now know, has not been there for a while telling stories of winderful defense, Today admitting Russia controls the town. There are stll Azov die hards hiding there until flushed out.
Mariupol used to be part of Donetsk before Maidan coup when Nazi irregulars pushed them out. Now Donetsk through Mariupol would connect to Kherson region that is attached to Crimea. The dam blocking water to Crinea was unblocked.
I suspect that these aeas are not going back.
Azov Sea access will never go back to Ukraine. Neither will Kherson.
It took almost a week for Mariupol mayor to admit he is not there, and his reports of circle of defense was a fantasy. A week ago Russian troups entered center. Security is still not restored due to snipers in hiding.
But bulk of forces can move now that this is now policing operation.
The Ukrainian troops the US is training will be as effective as the South Vietnamese troops were against the Viet Cong and the Afghan troops were against the Taliban.
This is a tricky situation, one wrong move and we could be directly at war with Russia, which is a war that could (hopefully not) potentially turn nuclear…
I do not feel overly confident in Biden’s abilities to stave off such potentials, in fact, his boisterous remarks only complicate, an already, highly dangerous atmosphere…
It is not him. He is listening to the likes of Elliot Abrams and Victoria Nuland.
His rude and disparaging remarks are not tolerated by Russia any more.
As he uttered those stupidities while basking in his own sense of brilliancy — three cruise missiles were fired from a Russian submarine in Black Sea to Polish border destroying a fuel depot. A message, I would say.
Buden is running out of epithets.
Looks like a grate place foe Beu Biden
If he really wants nuclear war — can he at least give us some warning!
General Tod Wolters, Commander of the United States European Command and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, appeared to contradict President Joe Biden during a Tuesday Senate Armed Services Committee meeting, saying the U.S. was not training Ukrainian troops in Poland.
“I do not believe we are in the process of currently training military forces from Ukraine in Poland,” the general said in response to a question from Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas during the hearing, which Newsweek attended.
….”I do not believe in Santa Claus, either.”
You don’t believe? We’re not talking here about what you believe, general. We’re speaking of whether or not we are ,. . .oh never mind. You’re hopeless. . . Love all your ribbons, though.
https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2010897/senate-armed-services-committee-examines-us.webp?w=790&f=561dea2bf805deb0c6276318177dc3d5
War Crimes?
oh my!
Congress passed a bill that prevents Any further U.S. Military Support to Ukrainians who are clearly involved in pro Nazi Culture because we Were there supporting them by Training them with our Military! I failed to not learn of this years ago. All I knew was Ukraine was some kind of dark place where “you could get anything that you desired” and it was a disturbing attraction for Flynn and others. The 700Club was there 30 + years as a tax haven and Nazis are the wicked shepherd’s fruit!
An act of War and Russia turned the other cheek. Thankfully the bill was passed unanimously! We Don’t Fund Fascists. Amen for a unified moment of good old USA values: they lasted a month.
We just armed them with Billions and Billions of dollars worth of Deadly weaponry. We made a Law and 2/3 of our three legged milk stool of a balanced government broke it. That and Clarence Thomas is a P.O.S.
Then Zelenski freed and armed the Prison Inmates.
We should be grateful that Russia has been the civilized gentleman through all of this but we’re very wrong thinking Vlad the Bad is motivated over his place in history books for recognition, fame and legacy. The radioactive poisonings blamed on the Russians began in England. Following that shocking False Flag on sovereign England, a new profile of Putin was disseminated to build universal condemnation; prelude to war and Our War Industrialists were in both Poland and Ukraine acting UNREGULATED fomenting this NATO M.A.D. WAR.
Do not expect Russia to turn the other cheek any longer or that they would ‘come around’ by a just U.N. court of law will that will exonerate them justly: they don’t care about our corrupted judicial systems we wish to oppress them with. Sanctions to destroy them are our hobble after over 100 years of our industrialized treachery? They’re like screwing with my gear with Malware and threats of death for shaming the devil.
War is inevitable. It is Written with the Hand of God in the uncorrupted Celestial Narrative: A serpent is coiled and as it lunges to strike the Diaspora, a Lion is aroused and intercepts to save the prey from the jaws of the serpent. This is Divine Judgement Poured out on the serpent who will be shredded and laid bare for crows and ravens to gorge on the strewn carcasses. This NATO WAR is guaranteed Mutual Assured Destruction from which Russia has been drawn into through our diplomatic betrayals for a wopper of a publicly financed and privitized moneymaker which Russia pre-empted in defense. God Bless them. Like the Mountain Meadows Massacre, there are seditous actors wearing Russian costumes to invite the full force of the US Calvary to destroy the natives on their behalf, nothing new to see there. “Those days are shortened for the elect’s sake” is in the bible.
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From the Western press point of view this is really a “Wag the Dog” war.
There has been zero attempt to provide any background or truth about the war.
The Russians on the other hand are very clear about what is happening. “We are not fighting against the Ukrainians, we are fighting the USA.”
The reason for the 14 years of threats and pumping money into Ukraine is that it is US taxpayers money being spent on US made weapons and being dumped into Ukraine because they have created a “perceived threat” from Russia.
The MIC get richer, the taxpayer gets poorer and the Ukrainians get dead.
Where is the problem?