[An Nahar] U.S. President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant. Just look at the competent way he dumped Afghanistan... on Friday vowed to make it "very, very difficult" for Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... to take military action in Ukraine, saying his administration is putting together a comprehensive set of initiatives to curb Russian aggression.
The president offered the measured warning to Putin amid growing concern about a Russian buildup of troops on the Ukrainian border and increasingly bellicose rhetoric from the Kremlin.
"What I am doing is putting together what I believe to be will be the most comprehensive and meaningful set of initiatives to make it very, very difficult for Mr. Putin to go ahead and do what people are worried he may do," Biden told news hounds.
There are signs that the White House and Kremlin are close to arranging a conversation next week between Biden and Putin. Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told news hounds Friday that arrangements have been made for a Putin-Biden call in the coming days, adding that the date will be announced after Moscow and Washington finalize details. The Russians say a date has been agreed upon, but declined to say when.
Biden did not detail what actions he was weighing. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who met Thursday with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Sweden, said the U.S. has threatened new sanctions. He did not detail the potential sanctions but suggested the effort would not be effective.
"If the new 'sanctions from hell' come, we will respond," Lavrov said. "We can't fail to respond."
Deep differences were on display during the Blinken-Lavrov meeting, with the Russia official charging the West was "playing with fire" by denying Russia a say in any further NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... expansion into countries of the former Soviet Union. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pushed for Ukraine to join the alliance, which holds out the promise of membership but hasn't set a a timeline.
Blinken this week said the U.S. has "made it clear to the Kremlin that we will respond resolutely, including with a range of high-impact economic measures that we've refrained from using in the past."
He did not detail what sanctions were being weighed, but one potentially could be to cut off Russia from the SWIFT system of international payments. The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's Parliament approved a nonbinding resolution in April to cut off Russia from SWIFT if its troops entered Ukraine.
Such a move would go far toward blocking Russian businesses from the global financial system. Western allies reportedly considered such a step in 2014 and 2015, during earlier Russian-led escalations of tensions over Ukraine.
Then-Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said it would be tantamount to "a declaration of war."
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Surely Putin realizes that if he invades Ukraine, we'll have the New York Times and the Washington Post print really nasty articles about him, doesn't he?
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If the article I just read is accurate, and there are over 180k trooks on the border, Putie is slow walking the invasion to see what the NATO response might look like. If there is lots of noise and but only token logistical/mobilization/transit action over the next 30 days he has seen the answer! Given the corrupt nature of many senior Uke's, I also wonder how much defection/cooperation has already been bought?
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Hey, Brandon, what about the ongoing invasion of random alien invaders from Mexico? Have never heard any "warnings" from you about this, and it continues.
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US Constitution, Article IV Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
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^ dereliction of duty. Impeach Brandon. And KamalHo. And Pelosi...
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] Russian fighters have escorted American reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea , the National Defense Control Center said.
So, on December 3, airspace control facilities detected targets over neutral waters approaching the state border of Russia .
To prevent violations, a Su-27 and an Su-30 were sortied.
"The crews of the Russian fighters identified the aerial targets as the US Air Force RC-135 strategic reconnaissance aircraft and the US Army's Artemis CL-600 reconnaissance and targeting aircraft," the department added.
They emphasized that after the turn of foreign military aircraft from the border, both SUs safely returned to the airfield. The flights of the Russian fighters took place in accordance with the international rules for the use of airspace.
Violations of the state border were not allowed, the National Center for Defense Management emphasized.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu pointed out the activation of NATO countries near the Russian borders at the end of November. He stressed that in such conditions, Moscow is forced to maintain the combat readiness of its nuclear forces and build up the potential of its non-nuclear deterrent forces.
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[REGNUM] The sale of a block of shares in VK (formerly Mail.ru Group), which belonged to the USM holding, to the SOGAZ group became a real bomb in the Russian information space. The news of the deal in social networks and blogs immediately overgrown with a number of conspiracy theories. However, they did not continue in any way on Telegram. The sale of shares by TG-channels was attributed primarily to economic reasons.
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As long as the Ukrainian military holds its fire, there will be no war
[Rusvesna] The most likely time for the escalation of the military conflict in Donbass will be the end of January 2022, when a Russian invasion becomes possible. This was stated today by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov, speaking today in the Rada.
He noted that Ukrainian intelligence is studying all scenarios for the development of the situation in Donbass, including the worst ones.
"She (intelligence, - approx. RV Razvedka)
notes that the likelihood of a large-scale escalation from Russia exists. The most reliable time to achieve readiness for escalation will be the end of January, ”the Defense Minister said.
According to Reznikov, escalation is a likely scenario, but not necessary.
"And our task is to turn it away," he added. Ukrainians simply should hold their fire. The Bear just loves fucking with its rivals.
:We do not consider the way of appeasing the aggressor. If necessary, Ukraine will fight back," the head of the defense department assures the deputies.
Note that earlier the discussion was mainly about February.
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That's all, folks. The Russian Duma has drawn its line in the sand. In the event of Ukrainian military action against Donetsk and Lugansk, the next scenario will be similar to the 2008 War in South Ossetia.
[Rusvesna] The power scenario of Kiev in Donbass may force Russia to actively intervene, it is possible that Moscow will eventually recognize the independence of the Lugansk (LPR) and Donetsk (DNR), according to representatives of the three largest factions of the State Duma and two specialized committees of the chamber interviewed by Interfax.
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