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© 2021 AFPBiden warns Putin of unprecedented sanctions if Ukraine attacked
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itsonlyrocknroll
Joe Biden's administration is back sliding, dithering hesitation, fiddling whilst Rome burns.
When President Putin senses politically a strategic door ajar, Putin will kick it off its hinges.
The 100,000 troops to the border of Ukraine, plus all the hardware support are not there to play winter wonderland to welcome Santa.
The present of such a large force represents a ruthless brutal reminder of the consequences if the EU, Britain, US in fact the whole free world appeases this ruthless Slavic thug.
Sanctions will not deter Putin. The German Government is unlikely to shelve Nord Stream 2.
The White House has suggested that stopping the Nord Stream 2 pipeline could be part of an economic response, although the issue is controversial in Europe, which relies heavily on Russian energy resources.
“Could be”??????
Unless the free world stands up and fights for the freedoms all have taken for granted.
Then prepare for a world dominated by murderous genocidal Chinese, Russian dictatorships.
TokyoLiving
Russia will not invade Ukraine, it is only the rhetoric that US barks to appear strong and maintain chaos in the region for its own economic benefit.
Lord Putin knows how to do things..
Robert N
whatever. Putin must be shaking in his boots
The Avenger
Biden stood up to Putin.
Trump would have rolled over on his back and submitted like he did in Helsinki.
bass4funk
Biden is not going to do anything when there is a lot he can actually from imposing the harshest sanctions The Biden administration waived sanctions on the Nord Stream pipeline between Russia and Germany.
The US also lifted sanctions on Putin which helps Russia in seeking to extend its energy domination of the Europe and circumvent Ukraine as an energy transit station. He could arm Ukraine with the most powerful offensive weapons with devastating force to the Ukrainians as well imposing sanctions on the largest banks and the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
Biden also has the ability to restrict the investors from buying Russian debt on the secondary market, there’s a lot he can do, but overall Russia is not the real problem for the US. China is and that’s where the existential threats are resonating, that’s the real growing danger to the US and the rest of the world, but will Biden take action, unlikely.
ReasonandWisdomNippon
Russia will not attack Ukraine? ? ?
Comments like that shows the ignorance of reality from 2014 when Russia did attack Ukraine and took a big part of it called Crimea.
FizzBit
We sure could use Julian Assange right now to expose the US/NATO/EU propaganda. I happened to catch yesterday’s CNN presentation on the so called Russian build up. A guy with a marker circling some pics and telling us what this or that is for. I just love how corporate CNN beats the war drums every single time.
itsonlyrocknroll
Sanction are all but meaningless if the political will to enforce them fails to take effect.
The Government of China will just ignore them.
Putin has "previous"
Thirteen years on – 20% of Georgia is still occupied by Russia
https://www.euractiv.com/section/eastern-europe/opinion/thirteen-years-on-20-of-georgia-is-still-occupied-by-russia/
Crimea: Six years after illegal annexation
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/03/17/crimea-six-years-after-illegal-annexation/
Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia next?
U.S. and Baltic states oppose Russian 'rewriting of history'
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-baltics-russia-pompeo-idUSKCN24O1XQ
The European Union and NATO have accused Russia of waging a campaign of disinformation to try to destabilize the West by exploiting divisions in society. Russia denies any such tactics.
The European Commission said in January it would not tolerate the distortion of historic facts after Putin suggested Poland shared responsibility for starting World War Two because it connived in Nazi German plans in 1938 to dismember Czechoslovakia.
It is delusional to suggest that the huge military presence camped on Ukraine's boarder will not invade if the EU , UK, US do not appease Putin's will.
The most crucial and important aspect facing Europe is not what action Trump would have taken, it is an irrelevance,
It is the response and decisive actions the present US Government will take that matters.
Blacklabel
Weak response. Putin now knows he can proceed if he wants.
stormcrow
Arm the Ukrainians! That would be the best deterrent.
itsonlyrocknroll
The is no hiding place from the fact that Europe's dependence is beyond question.
How dependent are we from energy produced outside the EU?
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/infographs/energy/bloc-2c.html
As mentioned in the part dealing with energy imports, the EU mainly depends on Russia for imports of crude oil, natural gas and solid fuels, followed by Norway for crude oil and natural gas.
View the data set pull down menus and the whole sorry picture starts to emerge.
The best the EU and UK could conjure up is to blow raspberries.
The Avenger
War - what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
RegBilk
Well, in Jan/Feb 2014 Obama (with VP Biden) tried ringing up Putin and threw sanctions and threats at him to try and stop Moscow from annexing the Crimea.
It didn't work.
In March 2014 Russia formally annexed Crimea.
Gotta wait it out folks; the red wave is returning.
snowymountainhell
Looks like you’re cheering for “*Lord Putin” now** against “the U.S. & the West” @TokyoLiving 7:47am and not just* “The Great Red Dragon” any more ??**
And you were doing so well in the last 24hours, praising ‘Western’ young people:
Blacklabel
What has Biden done (not talk, but action) exactly to make this a true statement? Im curious.
Bob Fosse
A smart person would want to see all diplomatic and economic approaches exhausted before even considering war.
But as expected and entirely predictably the same people who not so long ago were claiming Biden would be a warmonger and dragging America into more pointless war are the first to be calling for troops on the ground.
I’d call them hypocrites but I know they don’t really believe what they say and are just getting the hits in before last orders.
Asakaze
Calm down Joe, the world got your point: with steely look and stern words you've just prevented an invasion nobody was going to start. Take a rest.
@ReasonandWisdomNippon
Comments like that shows the ignorance of reality when calling the peaceful return of Crimea (not a single shot fired, nobody hurt) an attack. Invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya (aerial bombings, artillery shellings, piles of dead bodies) - that were illegal attacks. I hope you can see the difference.
@itsonlyrocknroll
Not correct. These 20 % are now independent countries, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. By the way, how about to return to Serbia its inherent territory, Kosovo, illegally occupied by NATO and Albanian narcomafia?
Putin is correct. Poland actually did participate in the dismembering of Czechoslovakia. Google for what Churchill said about Poland's appetite of hyena in 1938. The European Commission does not know the history of Europe or is just lying.
The Russian troops on the border are just to prevent the delusional Ukrainian neonazi regime from start of a major offensive against Donbass - in clear violation of the Minsk peace agreements designed to finish the war. The Ukrainian regime signed the agreements but is unwilling to implement. Now it massed more then a hundred of thousand of troops and hundreds of tanks and APCs on the border with Donbass.
itsonlyrocknroll
Asakaze,
We can "what about", politically merry-go-round until hell freezes over.
What happens when the political musical chairs stop?
What will that mean your family?
And the millions that will ultimately perish?
Maybe that is a question you should direct to President Putin? Yes?
Some have and subsequently disappeared. So maybe not.
bass4funk
Ok, if you think so, that’s exactly what China wants, good job. Lol
Not even going to talk Trump, move on to the current President.
Then that means and once again, this guy is not going to do anything. But yeah, don’t focus on the real threat that is China, focus on Russia. 2022 is around the corner and salvation is on its way. It’s going to be a spectacular year for conservatives.
Kaerimashita
Seems he is better at getting Ukrainian officials fired than he is at protecting Ukraine from aggression.
Alex
Better ask the US administration, a world record holder when it comes to attacking other countries.
bass4funk
If I even have to tell you that then I would say, where have you been these past 16 years??
Nope, not to the average person, but to the nation and our ally’s, it means a lot.
bass4funk
China has always been the real and serious geopolitical adversary Biden needs to understand this and be more direct and verbally aggressive when he talks to his old friend. Russia overall was never as big threat the way the Democrats tried so hard to make them out to be and dropping that ball is going to to cost the US down the road.
Those means, he noted, include economic espionage, data hacking, intellectual property theft, bribery, blackmail and other coercive attempts “to sway our government’s policies, distort our country’s public discourse, and undermine confidence in our democratic processes and values.”
Just a small fraction and there’s more..
FBI Director Wray emphasized that these malign and pernicious actions are the work of the Chinese Communist Party:
https://editorials.voa.gov/a/china-poses-biggest-threat-to-u-s-national-security/5516031.html
bass4funk
I just did and FBI director Wray said the same.
Nice side-stepping, but that has nothing to do with China being the biggest and most dangerous geopolitical adversary.
bass4funk
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/1968704/china-poses-largest-long-term-threat-to-us-dod-policy-chief-says/
Biden is making things worse for the US.