As the White House continues to escalate tensions in/around Ukraine, in order to create the self-fulfilling prophecy of Joe Biden as the magnanimous savior of all things Ukrainian, Russian President Vladimir Putin now starts positioning his own leverage against the western geopolitical narrative.
Delivering a national address today, Russian President Putin announced Russia would recognize the eastern Ukraine regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent breakaway territories. “I deem it necessary to make a decision that should have been made a long time ago — to immediately recognize the independence and sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic,” Putin said in his televised address.
Immediately following Putin’s remarks, the Joe Biden administration began organizing other allied governments to condemn Putin’s decision as a flagrant violation of the Minsk peace accords. The prior agreement of ‘limited political autonomy‘ paused a nearly eight-year-long regional fight in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. The people within the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine are favorable to Russia, supportive of Russia and do not align with the official government of Ukraine.
European leaders and the U.K. then vowed to trigger additional sanctions against Russia for Putin’s decision to support Donetsk and Luhansk as independent regions within Ukraine. However, the EU/UK did not outline what sanctions would be triggered, in part because the EU still wants to purchase energy from Russia, and in part because, well, meaningless prose is always the way the EU works.
This is, after all, a geopolitical exhibition of political theatre, you’ll see how below.
Following Putin’s remarks, the Kremlin also released a statement repeating their claims of western Ukraine military aggression that the government of Ukraine have repeatedly denied. The White House then released a statement saying Joe Biden called Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
WHITE HOUSE – President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke today with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine to reaffirm the commitment of the United States to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. President Biden strongly condemned Russian President Putin’s decision to purportedly recognize the “independence” of the so-called DNR and LNR regions of Ukraine.
He updated President Zelenskyy on the United States’ response, including our plan to issue sanctions. President Biden reiterated that the United States would respond swiftly and decisively, in lock-step with its Allies and partners, to further Russian aggression against Ukraine. (more)
The White House then tells us that Biden called French weasel Macron, who has been working as a narrative engineer on behalf of the people who control Joe Biden. Nothing happened, no actual sanctions were discussed, they just talked again and agreed to keep talking about what they have been discussing in their talks:
WHITE HOUSE – President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke with President Emmanuel Macron of France and Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany today about Russia’s ongoing escalation along the borders of Ukraine. The leaders strongly condemned President Putin’s decision to recognize the so-called DNR and LNR regions of Ukraine as “independent.” They discussed how they will continue to coordinate their response on next steps. (read more)
The White House then stomped their feet and turned a glaring stare toward the people in Eastern Ukraine who are favorable to Russia.
Instead of punishing Russia or issuing sanctions against Russia, Joe Biden signed an executive order [READ HERE] that targets the people who live in the eastern Ukraine regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Anyone from inside this DNR/LNR region of Ukraine is now blocked from any access to the U.S. financial system, banned from travel to the United States, and all U.S. assets and property of Ukrainian citizens in the disputed region are now frozen.
If you live in Eastern Ukraine and you do not align with the interests of Western Ukraine, Europe, NATO and the United States you are now being punished. The intent seems to be to make the Eastern Ukrainians suffer for supporting their independence. So much for that freedom thing.
The Executive Order outlines the punishment:
[…] “For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render those measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13660, expanded in Executive Orders 13661 and 13662, and further expanded by this order, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 2 of this order. (LINK)
Despite the public proclamations that Russia is to blame for all the ills in the region, Biden will punish Eastern Ukraine for being Eastern Ukraine and totally ignore Russia. Why? Because there’s no evidence Russia has anything to do with what’s going on in Eastern Ukraine other than their support.
Brandon is pitiful. Not meaning that I feel sorry for him. For he is evil. But rather that seeing this weak zero-character specimen of a man trying to act tough is beyond head shaking. And the way they put his full name in the sanction declaration as if he is somehow an important person doing something meaningful is also, well…pitiful.
My dog is more foreign policy savvy than Resident Potato Head.
You stole my line!
What your dog dropped in the yard this morning is too.
To be fair, he is not calling the shots.
He may not be in total command, but he’d do what he’s doing if he were, to gain another 15 minutes of infamy.
Piece of tripe!
It’s official, the uniparty government of Washington is more evil than Russia.
There is evidence that Russian troops have been involved with the separatists for years. Otherwise, the article is fine. Putin moved a pawn because of the hapless illegitimate occupant of the WH. If Putin attacks further into Ukraine he will have knocked all the pieces off the board and that will require a unified NATO response that involves providing lethal weapons to the Ukrainians. Of course with allies like Germany (which destroyed its nuclear energy industry) that covets Russian gas, it is not a sure bet that NATO will be unified. There are weak leaders all around except among our enemies.
“There is evidence that Russian troops have been involved with the separatists for years.”
Absolutely.
And the joke is that Putie waited to invade so Brandon would stock up the Ukrainians with US weaponry… to capture.
And how are you even going to sort that out when the citizens of both republics have Russian passports? It will be like Vietnam and trying to figure out who is Vietcong and who isn’t.
That’s a real possibility.
Brandon’s got recent experience in that cesspool.
Putin appears strong only because of Biden…..when Trump was in, Putin did NOT do what he is now doing.
He didn’t need to do anything because the ex-President was willing to work with him, a novel idea in foreign policy.
Yeah, all they have to do is shut off the gas line. Americans here do not have to worry about heating their homes or maybe just paying a higher price. But, those “foolish” Europeans will be using candles to keep them warm; no energy for economic activities either. Let’s see who will last longer? Who cares about Russia’s activities with its own people? Maybe they try to save the Russian people from ethnic cleansing. It is a novel idea in the US.
Context:
The map below is quite accurate.
Bigger point, two relatively small provinces were able to grab control over the country and install a President.
Sound familiar…
Very interesting. The areas with at least double digit Ruskie heritage are probably the areas Putie considers to be disputed which are not currently labeled as disputed territories.
After taking over the current disputed areas as he is doing, perhaps he’ll incite violence in the adjacent areas making them “disputed territories” thereby gradually taking over an even bigger proportion of Ukraine.
It will very likely end in a two state solution / partition, like India & Pakistan, the Czech Republic and Slovakia or in the worst case Yugoslavia. To keep states like that together, you need a very skilled politician and Zelensky seems about as skilled as Justin Trudeau.
The 2 dark blues look like they might want to connect.
So, Putin can take over a few provinces in Ukraine. Big Whoop
NO! NO! NO!
True story: I had a progressive neighbor who saw a similar map and told me that all of those Blue States (regions) prove that Putin isn’t welcome as they are bluer than California!!! I guess that is what they are showing on MSNBC and Rachel Maddow these days. (sigh)
Sounds familiar.
Am not versed in Ukrainian politics though, as have enough to concern myself with my own Country’s takeover.
So you would like the people of Donetsk and Luhansk to support the US ,rather than Russia. The procedure, then, is to sanction the people in those regions, so they cannot have any interaction with the US. Looks like this is the perfect action to get the people in those regions to look to another country for their finance, economy, imports, etc. You know, like Russia. I’m not sure that any directive could be more stupid in order to achieve your goal of turning these people away from Russia.
To understand the Biden regime’s policy wrt Ukraine, one must think like a gangster. In what’s left of Biden’s mind, the eastern Ukrainians are no longer “solid” and are therefore expendable. He must consolidate what’s left of the country to protect his future cash flow.
It could be meant to discourage other mixed regions of Ukraine from breaking away. It guarantees opposition in those regions from people who have commercial ties to the West. Fear based persuasion in other words; same as the EU tried with Brexit… they dropped “winning the hearts & minds” and are going with “winning the wallets“… IMHO. I am guessing Biden thinks the two breakaways are lost causes.
Biden ‘thinks’—Hush !,,,Who would have known
Hey, Biden has his first accomplishment in office!
He has created a whole new country.
“The people within the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine are favorable to Russia, supportive of Russia and do not align with the official government of Ukraine.”
It’s actually quite interesting (let’s just say revealing) that many of those viewed as /ourguys in the right’s alternate media are explicitly promoting the neocon message and falsehoods.
I won’t even attempt to present a list of the culprits, but you can immediately identify them on many of the aggregator sites, such as BadBlue. A trip over to NormalAmerican’s news aggregator presents en entirely different message.
So, who’s the /badguy when the communists are doing a hell of a lot better job in North America than Putin?
Be advised. You’ve been operating under multiple PsyOps for about 3 years now.
How about the last 100 years? Americans are so wilfully blinded, naive, or just plain stupid to know any better. Let’s see who had killed more innocent people in the last 40 years than the “great” US of A. Americans wonder why the world hates their gut. Yeah, because you trembled on their land, installed some puppet government, cleaned out their resources, destabilized anything, it appeared to be a challenge to its interest, regardless of human lives.
Biden wants a war to overshadow his failures. He needs to get the mess in his own house sorted out before worrying about what is happening some 5000 miles away.
So, how’s that Gay thing working, ask Vlad? Nit!
Gay as “merry” or being a homo, lol? I can’t wait to see the fight between real men and a bunch of trannies and homos in uniform. You know how that will turn out unless they use the briefcase. No way the US and NATO can win the traditional warfare. More sanctions, of course. But I am very sure there will be an exemption from the US buying Russia’s petroleum, lol.
Paving the way for Texas and Florida…….
Joe Biden to a T. Picked the wrong side of the issue, followed up with terrible policies that undermine his own position.
But Biden makes no decisions. The effect of this is to guarantee an escalating civil war in the Ukraine.
It is not “bumbling”.
Wait until the spring when only corporate farmers with long term chemical purchase contracts get chemicals And fields here like barren. All a result of “bumbling” policies that “somehow” never get corrected.
It is not a mistake, it is an effort to starve those who can not pay. The third world will erupt, borders will be crushed, the third world will be a mix and of well fed warlords and starving sheep.
Emergency facist powers will be inacted everywhere to protect us from the very real chaos.
Satan will smile. I hope I am alive to see God’s angels wreak the horrible vengeance on Satan’s evil, “bumbling” minions.
We Pray
God smote from this earth those who steal the food the possessions and the lives of gentle souls.
Raise up those under the boot of the oppressor. Ignore the mercy requests from the abused regarding their abuser. God we pray that those prayers go unanswered. We beseech you that they shall remain the unforgiven.
We pray that your vengeance will be swift and eternal for these vile souless creatures.
Amen.
It is all planned like the scamdemic.
The kabuki theater in DC continues …….. the Covid Fraud is coming undone around them…….inflation is killing America….
and brandon hides behind his buddy putin and his smoke screen………Canada is being turned into a dictatorship……………… while our main stream media are along for the ride complete sellouts to the communist in DC and the WEF……..
At least our truckers are making a stand ………….
And what’s to keep the Biden administration from using the truckers like Trudeau used them?
Here comes the Patriot Act, false flags, new draconian laws, food shortages, etc.
The truckers should just stay home, drink beer, and not deliver anything to DC or the blue states.
That way, no violence, no blockades of the convoy by the national guard or army, no more patriots locked up in the DC gulag, etc. Targeted protests are what we need. Keep the supporters of freedom on your side. It’s in every guerrilla war handbook.
Yeah, screw that , those truckers should stay home .
Stay home and have their trucks confiscated and used by national guard and UN forces. NOT
Good feelings are not a strategic plan to uproot “something.” But the people will get all riled up, and then it crashed and burned, and people will continue to bitch and moan about the rule of laws or lacks it. If we haven’t learned anything from 2020, then I don’t know what to say.
Silly, very silly and just plain wrong… Biden Admin weak and nearly always wrong. Putin has done the right thing. Now DND and LNR need elections to prove their desire for independence from corrupt Ukraine.
Expect continued rise in oil prices which is to Russia’s great benefit. Putin also considers far more than the current borders of the disputed territories to be part of the disputed territories. US stock market hardly reacting at all so far today.
Russia Warns Of “Brave New World” Of Higher Gas Prices After Germany Halts Nord Stream 2
FEB 22, 2022
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/germany-halts-nord-stream-2-major-sign-impending-russia-sanctions-will-be-tough
Poor European peasants will use candles to keep themselves warm. Russia already has a new “client.” A big one. In 5 years or less, there will be a new master of the universe unless the white men use the briefcase.
Putin’s face looks really puffed up since the last time I paid attention which was only a few years ago.
Congestive heart failure causes major face swelling and both the CCP Virus and the vaccines which cause the production of spike proteins can damage the heart.
Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine (Russian)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_V_COVID-19_vaccine
…is an adenovirus viral vector vaccine for COVID-19…Gam-COVID-Vac is a viral vector vaccine based on two recombinant replication-defective human adenoviruses: Ad26 (serotype 26) and Ad5 (serotype 5) replicated in HEK 293 cells. The viruses contain the gene that encodes the full-length spike protein (S) of SARS-CoV-2 to stimulate an immune response. It is similar to the approach used by the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
Could be this, too:
Moon Face Caused by Corticosteroid
January 22, 2022
https://www.verywellhealth.com/prednisone-facial-mooning-1942983
A round, full, and puffy face is sometimes referred to as “moon face.” If you’re taking high doses of prednisone or other steroids known as corticosteroid, this swelling is most likely a side effect of the medication.1 Moon face isn’t painful, but it can cause emotional stress.
Corticosteroid-related moon face is the unfortunate result of trying to treat a serious medical condition. It starts when your doctor prescribes a corticosteroid. These are used to treat a number of medical problems such as:
Skin disorders
Inflammatory diseases including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), asthma, ulcerative colitis, lupus, arthritis
Certain types of cancer
Autoimmune diseases like Addison’s disease
This is repayment for wests recognition of Kosovo and war on Serbia.
If I have to pick sides, Putin is looking better then the fake Biden administration. Just how it is.
They forced his hand , and he chose the people of those cities over money 🤔
Very true. Not a lot of people see that point. Regardless of your feeling toward Vlad, he shows that he is truly a statesman who cares about his heritage and people. I can’t say much about the West.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen —> Russia, China.
The whole thing is laid out in the video below. The video is 7 years old, but John Mearsheimer predicted exactly what we are seeing in Ukraine today.
Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault? ~ John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago
“Because our basic strategy is to topple regimes all over the world, not because we like democracy, but because we believe that who ever gets elected will be pro-Western.”
And we will make sure of that if there is any doubt:
2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election
Chomsky recalls being taken aback that “anyone could support the idea—offered by a national political leader, no less—that the U.S. should be in the business of fixing foreign elections.”
https://observer.com/2016/10/2006-audio-emerges-of-hillary-clinton-proposing-rigging-palestine-election/
There was a theory that if you engaged China & Russia they would naturally become more democratic. However, the reverse has happened.
I think that was explained by the 2020 election in the United States… the type of democracy the West now promotes is “corporate fortified”, “Google manipulated” and when that doesn’t work then you stop the vote counting and look for missing votes for your WEF sponsored candidate.
Russia & China have no choice… if they opened up and became democratic, George Soros & Charles Schwab would have the two countries in the bag in less than a decade and then Beijing & Moscow would be run from Davos, Switzerland. So, the only way to prevent that is to have a strong authoritarian government.
So, thanks to the WEF/Davos we in the West lose our freedom along with the Chinese & Russian people. IMHO
Read William Blum’s America’s Deadliest Export- Democracy. It is all a farce to sell to people. And we have bought it for the last 100 years. It is coming to an end soon.
We have no dog in that fight. In fact, if it wasn’t for the incessant “Russia Russia Russia” drumbeat of the past 6 years, logic would have us siding with the freedom-loving people of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the east rather than the former Nazi collaborators of the west in Ukraine. Bet if you asked the Canadians in the western parts, they might feel a pang of envy that at least some people in the world are allowed to break away from a country that is trying to crush them.
Whatever biden is doing in Ukrt now has to do with what the Biden’s were doing in Ukraine under Obama. Ukraine was under the Biden’s control back then and he wants them back under control for all the obvious reasons: money and covering up prior corruption in Ukraine.
Will hunter be placed on Ukraine boards again as war money flows into Ukraine? A bigger percentage of a smaller controlled Ukraine might be better than nothing, suiting Putin and Biden. Perhaps they are agreeing to divide Ukraine.
Hey everybody, we’re having a war.
Bigger and better than the one before.
Yellow ribbons and American flags.
And soon a whole lot of body bags.
Hey everybody, we’re havin’ a war
When will it end and what is it for?
Two weeks, six months, maybe a year
We’re gonna win but when’s not clear
We’re gonna take out the buildings, bridges and the roads
Concrete, flesh and bone explodes
And if good people have to die
That’s just the way war is, is why
Still some folks can’t understand
Why we kill good people – a whole lot of people…
with apologies to Louden Wainwright
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“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back”
Barack Insane Obamboozler
Clearly, there is reason to believe Putin can take Ukraine territory while US is governed by Obama/Biden. Also clear policies Obama/Biden pursue raise gas prices which further strengthen Russia?
And now the solution will be Americans will pay even more for gas to help Russia in its efforts?
We need to open our economy up to produce as much gas as we can.
I watched the speech in real time and there was nothing I disagreed with Putin. This situation has been a direct result of certain US factions wanting a war with Russia since the 1990s, people such as Bill Browder and Victoria Nuland, the Clinton’s et al. In 2006. Senate Bill 222 directly deals with Gazprom, only 3 Senators wrote it. Biden, Obama, and McCain.
Next we move to the Maidan, Obama’s overthrowing of the elected government and the installment of Biden as Viceroy. Azov Battalion, a former SS unit still operational, Right Sector (Charlottesville), Trident all currently being armed by us. The genocide Putin mentioned concerned these people and the de-Russianing of the Eastern Provinces. The reason Crimea voted 75% to return to Russia.
These actual Banderite Nazis are Biden’s people. I have said many times here that when Biden resurrected Nuland, I called this very situation. In April, Colonel Brittany Stewart was photographed saluting the grave of Vasyl Slipak while visiting Trident.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/12/31/mccain-visits-frontline-ukraine-troops-anti-putin-gesture/96036782/
We need to find out what Obama wants to see happen. In fact, Biden is not a President. He is only the sock puppet Obama uses to keep his own face out of the picture. Biden may be a fool but we better start finding out who’s fool, because our Republic will depend upon knowing who the enemy is following.
“If you do not know what you’re doing, neither does your enemy”
— Joe Tzu
Anyone know where Bolton is?
Interesting timing. Knocks events in Canada right off the front page.
Didn’t I read somewhere that Putin is another of Schwab’s WEF alumni?
I heard that too, but think it’s hard to believe. Problem is, nothing is what it seems to be. Putin could very well be a graduate. What that doesn’t tell us is what was Putin’s intent, if he indeed joined the class?
Could Putin please recognize the Olympic Peninsula as an independent break away territory?
The Republic of Clallam has a nice ring to it.
Ah, but Putin seems to have set up a no win for Ukraine. If Ukraine does anything, Putin will now protect these 2 regions and if necessary take more land as a buffer zone.
Joe being the king of stupid will probably call for Ukraine to shut off water to Crimea. That will result in pushing the residents closer to Russia and asking Russia to help protect the canal water supply. Done deal now. No invasion, putin gets more territory, the separatists get protection, and Joe spills his baby food all over himself.
This is all smoke and mirrors to hide the resident of the WH to keep him from doing the state of the union.
America’s Deadliest Export- Democracy by William Blum. One country has been on a “crusade” that had killed millions of innocent people worldwide with overthrew countless freely elected countries just in the name of “democracy.”
This is a genius stroke from Putin. He’s using NATO’s own rules against it to block NATO from taking over Ukraine. Countries with border disputes are not eligible to join NATO. As Biden refused to promise that NATO will not expand to Ukraine, Putin created a border dispute by acknowledging the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk. He didn’t even need to attack, he just called out the de facto separation situation which already existed and claimed it was a permanent division. If NATO follows its own rules, it can’t let Ukraine join NATO. Putin achieves his national security objective of not having NATO in Russia’s soft underbelly.
Hey Brandon!
GET OUR OWN SOUTHERN BORDER FIXED.
YOU WON’T THOUGH BECAUSE YOUR INDEBTED TO TOO MANY PEOPLE & PLACES HAULING DRUGS INTO THE USA!