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US Defense Minister warns Ukraine about the threat of an attack by the USSR
2021-12-03
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

There's no warrior like an old Cold Warrior.

We are being led by knaves and idiots. On both sides.
[Rusvesna] The head of the Pentagon Lloyd Austin hopes that the world "will not see the invasion of the Soviet Union in Ukraine."

This, of course, is about the notorious "Russian threat", simply, making a statement during his visit to South Korea, the US Secretary of Defense made a reservation and called Russia the USSR.

He noted that any response from Washington to Russia's actions towards Ukraine will be carried out jointly with the international community.

"Whatever we do, it will be done together with the international community. At best, we will not see a Soviet invasion of Ukraine," Austin said.

He also expressed the hope that the United States and Russia will be able to work together to "resolve issues and problems, as well as to reduce the temperature in the region," Austin was quoted as saying by Reuters.
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Posted by:badanov

#8  Tit tat
tit tat
tit tat

If we were led by intelligent and conscientious statesmen instead of poltroons and grifters, we'd end this stupid downward spiral and address the root issue: Ukraine can only and ever shall be a borderland that is next door to Russia's beating heart -- and therefore must be demilitarized and neutral. It cannot, should not, must never be part of a western or any other alliance.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-03 16:00  

#7  Hey, Russia then went on to sign the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, which they were happy to sign and watch the Ukraine give up its nuclear weapons and then continuously violate for the last twenty years, talking about how much we've humiliated them for disarming their victims for them the whole time.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2021-12-03 15:45  

#6  Desamtis is forming a new Florida national guard. Oklahoma national guard is sueing Biden and the Pentagon. The US Military is no longer cohesive and is showing cracks and Xi and Putin knows it.

Time and space are two of the factors that will determine their next step.

The Russians and Chinese both know it will take the US three months minimum to get an offensive force in place.

Providing they let the US build up forces.
Posted by: badanov   2021-12-03 15:01  

#5  Desamtis is forming a new Florida national guard. Oklahoma national guard is sueing Biden and the Pentagon. The US Military is no longer cohesive and is showing cracks and Xi and Putin knows it.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-12-03 13:32  

#4  ^ I agree somewhat. After the collapse of the Soviet Union we should have held a victory party and then dissolved NATO. A new alliance would have risen, but the old ways could have been declared dead and we could have engaged the Russians.

Instead, the Clintons wanted to humiliate them and expand NATO right up to Russia's border. A nation that had been invaded multiple times by Europe as was paranoid as hell about it happening again.

Well, now the US and the EU is weak and Russia knows it can push back now and there is little the west can do. Especially with the Russians supplying most of the natural gas to Europe. They have a twist on the west and they know it.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-12-03 12:18  

#3  If the US had honored Bush pere and Bajer's, and Kohl's and Genscher's, promises not to expand NATO "one inch eastward" as the core term of the deal ensuring German reunification, none of this tension in Ukraine would exist.

Joshua Shifrinson is not a shill for Putin or anyone. He examined all the diplomatic correspondence and statements and concluded that yes, we broke our promise to Gorbachev-- and yes, the essence of a contract is a spoken promise, even if it's not formally codified in a written treaty.

We f--led the Russians. We humiliated them. It's a scar that will not heal until we, finally, forswear any further encroachment by NATO.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-03 11:07  

#2  Seems kinda odd that some beltway jackwagon has to go tell the Ukes that they have a grumpy bear next door. I'da though they knew that already (artillery and all).
Sort of "Nice place you got here, shame if something was to happen to it."
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-12-03 09:57  

#1  Мы управляемы дураки
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-03 00:42  

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