White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan gave a press conference today again emphasizing that an attack on Ukraine was likely. Sullivan also recommended that all U.S. citizens in Ukraine depart within the next 24 to 48 hours. However, for reference, the White House has been making this “imminent” claim for over a month.
When pushed by media for how these determinations were made, Sullivan reiterated his position that “it’s not his responsibility to convince anyone.” Overall, the entire situation still looks like a manufactured White House distraction from domestic criticism.
Russia has previously scheduled military exercises in the region. This could be cover for Russia for the increased military presence prior to a cross border incursion, or the exercises could be the justification, or cover story for the White House to pretend that an invasion into Ukraine is likely. The latter seems most likely.
Regardless of all of it, the White House has not made a case for why Americans should be worried about what happens between Russia and Ukraine, other than to say the financial interests of a lot of people and groups in Washington DC are connected to U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine.
WASHINGTON – National security adviser Jake Sullivan warned Friday that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could come before the conclusion of the Winter Olympics on Feb. 20, but he did not say whether U.S. officials had determined whether Russian President Vladimir Putin had made a final decision on a course of action.
“As we’ve said before, we are in the window when an invasion could begin at any time, should Vladimir Putin decide to order it,” Sullivan said at a White House news briefing. “I will not comment on the details of our intelligence information, but I do want to be clear: It could begin during the Olympics, despite a lot of speculation that it would only happen after the Olympics.”
[…] Sullivan also urged Americans still in Ukraine to depart the country within the next two days, saying President Joe Biden would not send troops into harm’s way to evacuate U.S. citizens who could have left the Eastern European country when they had the chance.
“We want to be crystal clear on this point: Any American in Ukraine should leave as soon as possible and, in any event, in the next 24 to 48 hours,” Sullivan said, adding: “If you stay, you are assuming risk with no guarantee that there will be any other opportunity to leave and no prospect of a U.S. military evacuation in the event of a Russian invasion.”
Sullivan went on to describe, seemingly for the first time, what the opening campaign of a Russian invasion would look like in Ukraine. Such an attack “is likely to begin with aerial bombing and missile attacks that could obviously kill civilians without regard to their nationality,” he said. (read more)
Why should the U.S. care about Ukraine?
The honest answer from the White House would be… The Biden and Obama administration are doing all this stuff in Ukraine, for Ukraine and under the auspices of protecting Ukraine, because a whole bunch of people from both political parties in/around the DC beltway – along with their families – receive massive amounts of personal financial wealth from the DC laundering operation of foreign aid money in/around Ukraine.
That’s the real answer, and NATO members also know that American politicians enrich themselves and their families through the laundry of foreign aid to their own bank accounts.
If Ukraine President Zelensky does not allow himself to be a proxy for the United States in Europe, the people who control U.S. policy will create a war with Russia to get rid of him. Biden is really a stammering stupid doofus and tool of the deep state, who isn’t strong enough to battle his own corrupt policy team; and Biden Inc, which includes his entire family, is paid by the DC manipulators to shut-up and just read.
Zelensky has to pretend like Joe Biden represents the U.S. interests, while knowing Biden doesn’t really have any control over U.S. policy.
The war mongering crew deep in the U.S. government are in control. The Fourth Branch of the U.S. government and the national security apparatus are in full operational control over the dynamic. Zelensky is stuck between Russia and the U.S. Deep State. Quite frankly, he’d be better off embracing Vladimir Putin and coming to terms.
However, the problem is Zelensky doesn’t want to end up being Ukraine to Russia like North Korea is to China.
If Zelensky refuses to allow U.S. interference in his country, then the U.S. system (writ large) will withdraw any support or assistance for Ukraine, and Russia will absorb his country quickly. That’s the unfortunate dynamic.
Zelensky wants to stop being a hostage to the West by joining NATO. However, Russia will not allow a formal NATO relationship.
It’s a mess.
At the White House press briefing, President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told the press it’s “not my job…to convince any of you of anything.”
Hmm, is this another “because I said so” moment?
Fools, the lot of them.
Do not believe anything the US “Intelligence Community” says about anything.
President Truman created the CIA. But in the 1970s, he told his biographer, Merle Miller:
“I think [creation of the CIA] was a mistake. And if I’d known what was going to happen, I never would have done it.
Why, they’ve got an organization over there in Virginia now that is practically the equal of the Pentagon in many ways. And I think I’ve told you, one Pentagon is one too many.
Now, as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in the CIA don’t just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own, and there’s nobody to keep track of what they’re up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they’ll have something to report on. They’ve become … it’s become a government all of its own and all secret. They don’t have to account to anybody.”
This is a factory built war just like a mobile home. Loses value pretty fast and attracts hurricanes.
Not anything? This looks pretty bankable:
If you stay, you are assuming risk with… no prospect of a U.S. military evacuation in the event of a Russian invasion.
Perhaps that should have been mentioned 6 months prior to the announcement made to flee Afghanistan.
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Fri, Apr 27th, 2018 by Sarah Jones (Note the date)
Adam Schiff Announces Democrats Have Evidence Of Trump/Russia Collusion
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/04/27/schiff-russia-collusion-evidence.html
And the corporate media couldn’t point it out enough of times that Trump would start a war with Russia.
Nauseating stuff.
The problem is that Trump would try to win a war for America, not try to maximize the war’s ROI for globalist media, defense corporations, and the DC Swamp.
It’s disgusting Schiff alright.
Is Schiff a leaker?
Depends,…
I see what you did there…
God help us.
Morons, backed by the 20% who still think Biden will end up a great President (also morons), are in charge.
There is no invasion planned. O’biden regime is hyping and when there is no invasion, they will claim they saved the world.
And change the narrative away from his disastrous policies…
Distraction from Canada and the disaster that is their covid policies, imho.
Could be during the Olympics. The DNC prevarication scientists are still assessing the situation to see what makes the most sense tactically and strategically to generate the highest propaganda impact to help bolster Joey the WH Occupant.
Olympics? Is it that time again?
Wow! Who knew?
Wow! Who CARES?
Fixed it
Thanks! 😉
The Bai Den Administration has TOP PEOPLE working on the Olympics and Russian war”opportunities” to assess how it impacts: A) Joey the WH occupant, 2) Joey’s ChiCom paymasters, and c) Joey’s DC Swamp co-conspirators including the Enemedia and 0bama, peace be upon him.
When pushed by media for how these determinations were made, Sullivan reiterated his position that “it’s not his responsibility to convince anyone.” Overall, the entire situation still looks like a manufactured White House distraction from domestic criticism.
Intelligence has now become whatever they want it to be, whenever they want it to be.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
“Intelligence” is the People knowing the difference between “bullshit” and “honey”.
lol – so very true.
Reports yesterday were coming out of the UK foreign secretary Liz Truss snookered Putin with threats of sanctions if they were to invade.
Liz Truss goes nuclear as new law to cripple Russia in explosive warning to Vladimir Putin | World | News | Express.co.uk
Like Sundance wrote, “It’s a mess.”
I expect Russia to invade just because of the clown show Putin sees in the West.
Liz ” let me pretend l am like Maggie Thatcher ” Truss got her arse kicked in the meeting with Lavrov, she came out with the standard stuff we are seeing in the MSM. Lavrov asked her a trick question and she fell right into the trap he set. He asked her what they would do if the Russians invaded two named areas, again Liz trots out the same threats etc – her advisors shuffled uncomfortably and one of them tells her that these two areas are in Russia and have been since year dot etc.
Epic fail. Lavrov walks off the stage.
Remember the film,” My Cousin Vinny ” when opposing counsel asks the girlfriend a question about the year and timing of a certain motor model ? She says she cannot answer the question because it is a trick question !
Of course, none of this was covered by the British media
Sanctions, threatened or otherwise, could have some blow backs effects in the sense that Germany is just about to get most of its energy supply from Nord Stream 2. China is also doing energy deals with Russia on three different pipelines.
Putin is sitting in a strong position, do nothing and let the headless chickens in DC/10 Downing Street run around screaming invasion, invasion and more invasion. Its so embarrassing !
Exactly. Two weeks ago all news was war. Then the state dept guy got rolled in his press conference, so all news went silent.
Now, bam… Russia Russia Russia. Like I wrote below, I full expect Russia to go, why not? Who stops them?
I expect Russia to invade just because of the clown show Putin sees in the West.
BAM!!! We, the west, are an embarrassment. Ukraine now. Taiwan later. Why wouldn’t Putin and Xi move? Rhetorical question.
“In fact, we found evidence of collusion in the abundant secret meetings and communications between Trump campaign officials and associates such as Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, George Papadopoulos, Donald Trump Jr., Michael Flynn, Carter Page, and others, with emissaries and officials from, or linked to the Russian government. The Trump campaign and Administration’s efforts to deny, conceal and, when discovered, misrepresent what took place in these interactions with the Russians is powerful evidence of a consciousness of wrongdoing.” Adam Schiff House Intelligence 4/27/2018
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/04/27/schiff-russia-collusion-evidence.html
Schiff must have missed the double-secret meetings candidate Trump was holding with Putin. That intelligence is unfolding now.
No “Russian Collusion” when Putin visited the Globalist traitor Bush Ranch or when Obama/Hillary criminals did the Uranium One treason
Of course, there was collusion with that very picture.
I do not for one minute believe Adam Schiff about squat, let alone his lies about our President Trump.
…and the termite is still drawing a paycheck from my taxes.
We need an exterminator!
Substitute “democracy” for “ intelligence” and it’s just as true
Russia Russia Russia.
If they use “Russia” in many Liberal project Monarch programmed slaves subconscious Russia is associated with PDJT.
Russia=President Donald J Trump
If it’s not Jake Sullivan’s job to convince the American people that Russia will invade Ukraine then who’s job is it???
Jake’s job is to appear before the cameras and inform America of BHO BOHICA.
They have never even attempted to provide the “data” or “science” to back up their claim they were following the science and data, for the last two years on Covid.
And, NOBODY asked them to.
Killed millions, destroyes millions of lives, and nobody ever challenged that basic assertion, that everything else depended on.
And, any who have trued have been silenced, suppressed, denigrated and disappeared.
So, why SHOULDN’T they think the same non questioning shouls occur, when they gin up rumors of war in Ukraine?
What a farce.
Nobody takes this ghoul seriously.
These Obama retreads are all the same.
Morally vacuous.
He’s a vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous retread!
“However, the problem is Zelensky doesn’t want to end up being Ukraine to Russia like North Korea is to China.”
If Zelensky chooses America, he will be like Kim is to China.
(I think this is very compatible with what Sundance has said).
And, its not like the US Gov has ever thrown someone under the bus, before.
I won’t bother to list the long list of peoples and executed government officials we have supported, right up until we didn’t,..from the brothers running South Viet nam, to the Afghan interpreters falling from airplanes, its a long, shameful history.
And don’t forget “Russia is behind the Truckers protest”, so FISA the hell out of everyone involved.
Russia Russia Russia
Putin is controlling Trump for sure.
I think you need to look at Ukraine more as a center of volatility, and Putin is seeking to tamp it down. Ukraine is not your typical American democracy. Far from it. There are multitudes of bad actors that, if not kept in check, will spoil the region. Vlad doesn’t need an empire, he needs stability.
I had read a while back forget where that Putin stated that the CIA was attempting to bring chemical weapons to Ukraine. I cannot verify, but I know that Obama/Hillary have run Ratlines to the ISIS & Al-Cia-Duh terrorists who we were told did 9/11 and we were supposed to be fighting in the illegal invasion occupation of Syria (and Iraq)
‘I had read a while back forget where that Putin stated that the CIA was attempting to bring chemical weapons to Ukraine.’
What did Putin state when Hillary was closing hyper sonic gap with Russia?
What did Putin state when Senator Obama pushed bill that helped destroy more than 15,000 TONS of ammunition, 400,000 small arms and 1,000 anti-aircraft missiles in Ukraine?
What did Putin state when Obama supported the WTO membership for Russia?
Does Putin want to overthrow Zelensky? Does KGBist Putin lie? How often?
‘I think you need to look at Ukraine more as a center of volatility, and Putin is seeking to tamp it down.’
Did Putin assist with the coup in Ukraine in 2014? Is he helping now?
“While the crisis in the Ukraine appears to be geopolitical maneuvering between Russia and the West, in truth,
Russia is working in cahoots with international elites from the West.”
https://thenewamerican.com/ukraine-unraveling-the-planned-chaos/
‘Vlad doesn’t need an empire, he needs stability.’
Depends on the meaning of this ‘stability’.
December 2021.
Closing Memorial which was dedicated to exposing the crimes of the COMMUNIST MONSTER Stalin.
‘In his defense of the organisation, Reznik said: “The Memorial Society promotes the health of the nation. To eliminate this from the history of the country now means to contribute to the idea of ‘the state is always right’.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/28/russian-court-memorial-human-rights-group-closure
January 2022.
Russia adds Putin critic Navalny and several of his allies to its list of “terrorists and extremists.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-adds-navalny-to-list-of-terrorists-/6411488.html
‘Ukraine is not your typical American democracy. Far from it.’
In Putin’s own words: ‘Russia has no borders.’
Who cares. Another desperate act by an illegitimate regime.
War against Russia…wow. Wag the dog.
The US government desperately needs a war – though they want one just big enough to end all criticism of the regime that they installed. To do otherwise would be treasonous, you see. But, what they are probably going to get is something much bigger – surprise.
Remember the Democrats’ “War on Poverty”? The war metaphor was necessary linguistic device because you can’t debate and waste time in a war. You have to listen to America’s uninvited and unwanted Democrat “leaders” (i.e., usurpers) and, “all pull together as a team.”
All of it makes me sick – because it could have turned out much differently. If Cankles didn’t start the Russia, Russia, Russia thing, PDJT, VSG would have solved the whole Russian question and there would have been peace. Instead, they set up Russia as the enemy, and here we are with Russia cast as the enemy again. This time, things will be different – I hope we all make it to the other side (well, I could live without Cankles – she doesn’t need to make it to the other side).
Russia COULD have allied with US, to counter CCP China.
Putin is a NATIONALIST; he has NO interest in CCP hegemony and world dominance.
China and Russia have a long history of conflict.
Hence, the “Trump/Putin connection” false narrative had several advantages, from the standpoint of the Globalists.
Spot on
Ditto, “War on drugs”
Everything the Feral Gov does, turns to sh*t, and if they declare a WAR on it, it inevitably becomes a sh*tshow.
“It’s not my job to be credible.”
You don’t say?
Suggested reply – “Well then, if it’s your job to avoid credibility, you’ve done very well.”
That appears to be the mission statement for the entire maladministration.
👍
The 1-2- wind up.
Ukranian neonazis start abusing/killing enough ethnic Russians in the Russian areas to provoke some reaction from Putin.
“Invasion”
WWIII. It part of how WWI and WWII started.
Brought to you by the makers of Obama the community organ…
You would think there would be a huge outcry from the anti-nazi community/media but they are strangely silent just like when the National Socialist Croatians ethnically cleansed Krajina of Serbs. Suspiciously so, like they only use the “Nazi” canards when it suits their satanic global agenda.
real “Nazi’s” are supported and show up, silence
“Zelensky wants to stop being a hostage to the West by joining NATO. However, Russia will not allow a formal NATO relationship.”
I don’t think we would have ever allowed Mexico or Canada to become a member of the Warsaw Pact.
“I don’t think we would have ever allowed Mexico or Canada to become a member of the Warsaw Pact.”
Don’t give Trudeau any ideas.
I don’t think that Jake Sullivan knows what The Warsaw Pact is!
Neither country is in Europe and thus anywhere near as vulnerable to a land-based Soviet attack for the purpose of pulling that country behind the iron curtain and adding it to the USSR landmass.
People also either forget or maybe younger folks never learned that Russia has longed for warm water ports for well over a century. Ukraine provides not only rich farmland but also many more warm water ports on the Black Sea.
https://paulgoldfield.wordpress.com/2018/07/23/russia-and-her-search-for-a-warm-water-port/
He’s doing a good job of not convincing anyone.
Well, he didn’t convince me!
Cleared by the DOD and given the green light to invade Ukraine in other words.
Sounds like this is another Deflection. If Mexico conducted anti-Cartel ops on the Texas border, would the lying neo-soviet media claim Mexico was going to invade Texas if it could be used to cover for Democrat criminality/treason and massive failure? You bet they would.
Frankly, they’re a bore
The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
George Orwell, 1984
Praying God’s tired of the rerun 🙏
Even if Russia is about to invade, who cares? How about the US Government try to protect the US border for a damn change?
See, the problem with that is we’d need truckers to protect the southern border. The gooberment wouldn’t be able to do it.
Maybe somebody can make that happen. If they can shut down the US Canada border, they can shut down the US Mexico border.
Headline News:
Russia invades Ukraine…Biden’s bank accounts hardest hit.
Even if it was true which its not, who cares? Ukraine is Orthodox Christian majority. Ukraine is not a NATO member and besides NATO should have been dismantled decades ago. Are the Democrats worried about their theft of US taxpayer paid for “Foreign Aid” that the Democrats & RINO’s have been stealing for years? The Clinton Administration & Madeline Albright illegally bombed Serbia, illegally annexed Kosovo and made billions on a grift of rebuilding what they illegally bombed. In addition those that they criminally helped were National Socialist and Islamic fundamentalist including future al-Cia-duh terrorists
Are there any adults left in any government in the west? It seems like a b grade movie with all the inept pansies running things. Maybe that is a requirement now to be a namby- pandy. From Triptoe to the north scolding us like a playground monitor to our feckless fools it is very sad the quality of so called leaders.
Just look at the clunkers those leaders put in the agencies and courts!
WEF choose their puppets very carefully, for their ease of manipulation and lack of any ethics.
“None of the former Obama administration officials who took to the airwaves immediately after Trump’s election to claim collusion had any evidence of it.”
Adam Schiff lied about the Trump investigation — and the media let him
https://nypost.com/2020/05/08/adam-schiff-lied-about-the-trump-probe-and-the-media-let-him/
Will CNN and MSNBC and all the others have the running daily count of soldier deaths on their screens 24/7 like they did when Bush started the mess in Afghanistan and Iraq, or no? 🤔🤔🤔
Jake Sullivan is a J@ckW@gon too!!
I’m so sick of our “government”.
I never thought I’d live to see a time when Russia had a better reputation than the United States.
Why should the U.S. care about Ukraine?
“The honest answer from the White House would be… The Biden and Obama administration are doing all this stuff in Ukraine, for Ukraine and under the auspices of protecting Ukraine, because a whole bunch of people from both political parties in/around the DC beltway – along with their families – receive massive amounts of personal financial wealth from the DC laundering operation of foreign aid money in/around Ukraine.”
We have a winner!!!
Spot on! They grifted Yugoslavia also. War criminal Madeline the butcher Albright was the point criminal on that bomb,loot, rebuild scam
And that laundering operation MUST remain hidden………. It’s at the core of why we now have Biden as president. Previous CTH articles did a wonderful job explaining the details of how Trump’s attempts at uncovering longstanding corruption regarding DC beltway ties with Ukraine caused the DNC to drag Biden out of the dumpster, pushing him to the head of the pack during the primaries. This made Biden appear to be a legitimate candidate, so Trump couldn’t investigate Biden’s ties to Ukraine because he would risk the democrat party’s threat of another impeachment based on election interference charges. Prior to all this Biden was just in the primaries to pacify him, and to give him another way to pad his speaking fees, as he could add “former presidential candidate” to his resume.
This reeks of “Look over here!”
Meh.
NBC would love to bail on the Genocide Games to provide wall to wall coverage of a war. There would be no “we are now returning you to curling”.
There are games? /s I wouldn’t have known except that I’ve seen controversy coverage. I have yet to see any sports reporting. Of course, we unplugged cable 20 years ago and have never missed it.
For some reason, this guy reminds me of a cartoon character…. I just can’t place which one. Oh, wait…. he’s Woody, the pull-string cowboy from Toy Story!
Off topic, but medical Murthy looks like a meerkat
Agreed. And meerkats everywhere are offended! 🙂
The Clinton Administrations “Grift Patch” Yugoslavia
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT got billion dollar PAYOUTS for her corp. clients when daughter ALICE ALBRIGHT was COO of the US Import-Export Bank under Obama – Biden
https://adarapress.com/2020/05/20/did-alice-albright-as-coo-of-the-us-import-export-bank-help-mommy-madeleine-receive-multi-billion-dollar-payouts-to-clients-siemens-ag-first-solar-and-dow-chemical-co/
Biden really wants a war…or his handlers and both sides of the aisle do. Too bad the AP’s Matt Lee wasn’t there. He’s been on fire lately. Sullivan would have reduced to jibbering. .
By the way…when did the Constitution change about a declaration of war being the sole purview of Congress?
Clinton did it with the illegal bombing and annexation of Kosovo to narco-human & ghastly organ trafficking Al-Cia-Duh linked terrorist scum as a big deflection to the Lewinsky psy-op to deflect & impeach him for not the real reasons, treason & a long list of high crimes & misdemeanors which should have knocked out Clinton/Gore much of their criminal administration & the Deemocrat Campaign Finance Committee. It would have done serious irreparable harm to the Democrat party and crippled it for a long time. But the CFR/RINO’s uniparty let them skate.
I remember it well, Colkitto. That it did not finish him told us at that point what was going on and showed us in black and white the whole cabal and its bipartisan complicity, which continues to this day. We weren’t paying attention. But we are now.
And in doing so, the obvious amateurish machinations of this whole play in 3 acts would be laughable, were it not for the criminal and corrupt putative sacrifice of our men and women in the armed forces.
More of our daughters and sons, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers who are useful for the sole purpose of maintaining power at all costs. The revulsion I feel at this moment can’t be expressed on this forum.
It hasn’t, but feckless Congress has not wanted to take any responsibility for an actual formal Declaration of War since June 5th, 1942-80 years ago.
Oaths ignored, piled onto a pyre, and set fire to…
These current administrative eunuchs are acting all revved up about a totally meaningless border in a country that’s only contribution to the US has been a sink hole of corrupt money pouring back to US politicians. Of course the real risk to America is China expanding their global control goals with the assistance of the same corrupt US politicians
Why are our athletes even participating in the China Olympics?
Maybe Nancy & Brandon have an answer that could never actually explain the reason, other than kiss-ass politics with their CCP incomes.
Allot of the Democrats like the chinese bribes, are blackmailed compliant, and are also into the swabbing. Corey spartacus Booker would be a big fan. One among many of Congressional criminals/perverts
NO………!
Just NO…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What if they plan on blowing up a few buildings where records of their corrupt financial shenanigans were stored and conveniently blaming it on the Russians? It’s not as if they haven’t used similar tactics before.
Murrough Building Gulf War Syndrome Veteran records of their military mandatory vaccine/medical records.
Here we go again.
Now $30 trillion in debt. We can no longer afford to be the world’s policeman. Let someone in the area deal with it.
What are we going to do? Move $70 of military equipment over there so that we can abandon it again and give to our enemy?
Bring the troops home. Protect our southern border.
Total nonsense.
We’ve already sent 50 million worth in missiles this month.
I love spending time on far-left blogs. They are convinced a war with Russia will save them in the elections this fall and that anybody who disagrees is a “Russian agent”.
If Biden somehow gets his war with Russia, he’s going to wind up fighting a two front war: one in Russia, and the other one in the form of blockades all around the USA because people are simply not going to put up with that sh**.
If he goes hard on Ukraine, China will go hard on Taiwan. Then US will have zero support abroad, and at home. They will get us decimated.
I think that is part of Russia-China’s plan, totally agree.
Biden has zero political capital to burn on a war with Russia over a country nobody cares about.
Where are the pink pu$$y hats?
Priceless
Biden and the MSM must take the attention off of Canada and the election.
Got an eMail from our IT group warning of their activation of the russia ukraine action plan.
F’ing idiots.
Can you share the details of the action plan? That would be interesting. Do I need to uninstall Kaspersky? or my JetBrains IDEs?
Yes, definitely yes, but don’t do anything with the Chinese stuff.
Consider us unconvinced.
Geez, openly lying about what he is trying to do.
I dont give 2 hoots in hell about Ukraine.
BULLSCHIFFT!! What a CROCK! They are Professional Pathological Liars. Stir up the fear in the sheeples.
Baloney…Putin doesn’t want the Ukraine, it’s a wreck..Russia will take it only if it joins NATO, which isn’t going to happen..
Distraction
Talking War topples a number of dominoes for both Biden and Putin. They are in cahoots.
Firstly war talk will lower the Russian ruble. I think Putin wants that.
War talk increases commodity prices. Again, I think Putin wants that. Europe doesn’t like increased commodity prices but there is little they can do. Strategically, Europe has loaded lots of taxes into energy use. With Oil/Gas prices going to the moon, they will be forced to cut their various energy taxes. Those lost taxes will need to be replaced or European budgets need to be trimmed.
Biden gets a distraction from domestic issues, plus 10 percent.
There seems to be a lot more fun for Putin to have, before invading. 😏