Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture.org Dec 11, 2021
Following his set-piece video call with Vladimir Putin this week, U.S. President Joe Biden said there would be no American military forces sent to Ukraine to defend against alleged Russian invasion.
Answering media questions at the White House, Biden categorically dismissed any possibility of U.S. troops being deployed to Ukraine. The president pointedly noted that Ukraine is not a member of the NATO military alliance and therefore there was no legal obligation to defend that country.
“The idea the United States is going to unilaterally use force to confront Russia invading Ukraine is not in the cards right now,” said Biden. “We have a moral obligation and a legal obligation to our NATO allies under Article 5 [a collective defense provision]. It’s a sacred obligation. That obligation does not extend to Ukraine,” he added.
That restraint expressed by Biden is a rather curious anomaly. For several weeks, the Biden administration and U.S. intelligence have been broadcasting grave concerns that Russia was planning an imminent invasion of Ukraine. An incursion with up to 175,000 troops, armored divisions and aircraft might happen next month, according to American intelligence and dutiful media outlets.
Ukrainian military officials have been echoing the dire warnings. Defense minister Oleksii Reznikov has declared that Ukraine is “committed to defending Europe against Russian aggression”.
After all, the simmering tensions were the reason for the hastily organized video conference between Biden and Putin on Tuesday. Both leaders were engaged to reduce the danger of confrontation. Biden, according to the White House, warned the Russian president to de-escalate military threats towards Ukraine.
For its part, Russia has dismissed all Western media reports claiming it has a plan to invade its neighbor. Moscow says all such talk is baseless hysteria and actually a cynical distraction from the real danger of aggression from the buildup of Ukrainian and NATO forces in the region.
President Putin told Biden not to shift responsibility from NATO to Russia for the mounting tensions. The Kremlin leader also adamantly reiterated that Ukraine joining NATO or the installation of U.S. missiles is a red line that would necessitate a Russian military response to safeguard its existential security.
The following day, Biden then tells reporters that U.S. troops in Ukraine are “not an option on the table”. That suggests Biden got the stern message from Putin.
Biden’s legalistic argument about Ukraine not being presently a member of NATO and therefore not qualifying for military support sounds like the president is hiding behind a veneer. It doesn’t sound convincing as a stated reason for not sending American troops.
Ukraine is an official “partner” of NATO since 2008 – albeit not yet a full member. Ukrainian troops have joined NATO combat missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. For Biden to make a big deal about the propriety of the alliance’s Article 5 collective defense obligations and it not being applicable to Ukraine sounds excessively pedantic and prissy.
It also sounds jarring against the background of dire predictions of a Russian invasion. Think about it. On one hand, the Biden administration was only days ago rallying European allies with warnings about Russian tanks rolling across Ukraine. Then, on the other hand, Biden abruptly says the U.S. will not be sending troops to help its Ukrainian ally in its purported desperate hour of need. It doesn’t add up.
In other words, what we can conclude is the “Russian invasion” warnings are all hyped-up propaganda, as Moscow has been saying. If they had any substance, would Biden so easily and blithely rule out defending Ukraine?
But let’s dwell on that for a while. The American authorities and their corporate news media have for several weeks been peddling stories – psychological operations in the guise of “news reports” – that have ratcheted up explosive tensions with Russia that could have ignited a war if they had led to miscalculations. That in itself is a form of aggression that qualifies as a war crime.
In any case, while Biden is now saying there will be no American boots on the ground in Ukraine there are plenty of arms – tonnes of them – and more on the way.
This week the U.S. Congress passed a new annual military budget that includes $300 million in weaponry and other support to the Ukrainian armed forces. Since the Kiev regime was installed in 2014 by a CIA-backed coup d’état, Washington has already supplied it with $2.5 billion of military aid. That’s close to $3 billion total in less than eight years.
The new weaponry includes helicopters, warplanes, warships, artillery and Javelin anti-tank missiles.
As Russia’s top commander General Valery Gerasimov noted this week this funneling of war material to Ukraine by the United States and other NATO allies is the driving force behind the Kiev regime’s repudiation of the 2015 Minsk peace accord. Washington has emboldened the Ukrainian authorities to believe they can resolve the civil war against the Donbas region through force. If the Kiev regime launches a new offensive against the ethnic Russian people of the Donbas, Russia will be under pressure to intervene. It seems that the United States is trying its best to lure Russia into a quagmire conflict as commented on in a previous column.
So, Biden is not sending troops to defend Ukraine. He knows or his latest CIA briefers have told him that there is no such Russian threat. Biden knows too from Putin’s call that Russia is deadly serious about a red line in Ukraine. That’s why the U.S. president is suddenly coming over all proper about NATO’s legal limitations. It’s a handy get-out.
Nevertheless, simultaneously the U.S. weapons flow to Ukraine is being stepped up. NATO is already on the ground with trainers and special forces from the U.S., Britain and Canada, as well as in the air with aerial attack and surveillance drones from Turkey.
Biden appears to have taken onboard Putin’s security concerns for Russia stemming from NATO’s eastward expansion. The American president has said he will consult with other NATO allies on how to allay Russian apprehensions. However, if he were genuinely reciprocating with Russia, Biden would be calling off the dogs of war barking and snarling in Ukraine. The Kiev regime is not the proverbial tail wagging the dog. Washington is whistling Ukraine into a proxy war against Russia.
Ultimately, by sending massive shipments of offensive weapons to a rabidly Russophobic regime Washington is demonstrating its witting culpability.
the russians will get it like the taliban
got american equipment ! sooner or
later .
Since Ukraine AND the USA are both in the thrall of the jews,if a war takes place it will be another Jewish orchestrated conflict.
Possibly the ultimate objective is Iran since it is a neighbour of Ukraine.
Iran is the final obstacle for Israel and its plans to establish Greater Israel.
As I have been saying, there’s a difficult interpretation of where Ukraine stands, in NATO, on the NATO fence, or clearly outside NATO.
The last one we can discount out of hand. Israel is in NATO, that is, full-on in NATO. The only thing missing is some official declaration & fake news stories saying it is official, Israel is in NATO.
As for Ukraine, I think they are in NATO. Not like Israel, but they are in. Of course, Ukraine will get lots of weapons from the West, but no one is talking about mercenaries… used in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, & Libya. They were also used in the Balkans. Given the dismal performance of the Ukraine military, & specifically the failure of Ukrainians willing to fight the Russians, there must be significant numbers of mercenaries in Ukraine, or in camps somewhere, where they can be moved to Ukraine. Every year 1000s of military personal leave their military roles. We are talking about the US, UK, EU, Israel, Canada, Australia & New Zealand, all turning out Special Forces & high-end military types. MI6’s budget is big enough to employ and equip, & run training camps for 60,000/100,000 men. These mercenaries do not need to be in camps or in Ukraine full time. They can be on retainer, expected to maintain high levels of fitness, to go to fitness checks, to attend camps, meetings & even regular short deployments in Ukraine and various other potential theaters of conflict where they can acclimatise to the local conditions.
MI6 easily has this capability, & this isn’t even taking the US into account. This is why the UK has run most of its regular military into the ground while expanding its Special Forces and other elite troops.
I was on the private airside of Stanstead Airport one night at about 1 am. I was chatting to an ATC who worked on the private side. Suddenly, two brand new spanking Range Rovers (Vogue SE) appeared, followed by a large single decked coach and two regular ambulances following. The coach had interior lights on and so did the ambulances. You could see that the men in the coach were military, & I could see that people were moving about in the ambulances working on soldiers. This was pre-Iraq invasion, there were no obvious conflicts going on, but these guys had been somewhere outside the UK, & in a fight.
I knew what was going on, but I still asked the ATC what was going on, he said; “Oh, it’s just a training exercise”… being private airside, he must have been familiar with these movements.
The point I am making is that things are going on behind the scenes all the time. UK special forces are on operations outside the UK on a weekly basis, & this doesn’t even take into account Special forces who are on long-term missions in foreign countries or those who fly in the hold of regular passenger planes and wingsuits over the border into a foreign country. This is 20 odd years ago, & I would imagine things have moved on a lot in that time & so has MI6’s budget. Difficult to put a number on the budget, but my guess is that MI6 has access to around £6 billion, This doesn’t include slush funds, incomes from the many private companies owned by MI6, or funds from the regular military budgets.
The UK has moved away from standing armies, because of legal scrutiny and sheeple opinion, not they have many. We have seen a massive coverup of military criminality where the fake news has bent over double backward, to help our evil deep state continue with its criminal activities.
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If you haven’t figured it out yet–NATO, Russia, Ukraine are all directed by the same Zionist Cryptocrats behind their visible appointed puppets like Biden, Putin, Zelensky, Johnson (who just happen to be all Jews). Its all a staged act to mask their pervasive power, manipulate the goy masses into war & further their ethno-demographic transformation of Europe/North America/Oceania into nonwhite simian-mongrel societies (Kalergi Jew). But hey, this is what you destroyed Hitler for…
The whole effort to “rawhide” Russia and Putin comes from the fact that Putin stopped the Satanic European Ashkenazi Khazar Satanists from reclaiming their homelands (Khazaria) between the Black and Caspian Seas after the 2014 Maidan revolt. Vlad the Bad took Crimea with minimal force and essentially no violence. The “sour grapes” of the Satanic Khazars in the Ukraine and Wash DC will continue this problem until the Jew UkroNazis of cross the red line with Putin, and them presto/bingo, the UkroNazi
military of Ukraine will be decimated. You do realize, do you not, that all the leaders of Ukraine since Maidan have been Khazar Satanists, from Yats to the current clown.
@antisemit-
You’re right, Russia will get those weapons (real or imaginary) sooner or later. Look at how they got fake atomic and thermonuclear bombs after the Americans got their fake atomic and nuclear bombs. If you believe these weapons are real please provide one item of actual evidence for one instance of an actual bomb. Whether it’s ‘Little Boy’, ‘Fat Man’, ‘Tsar Bomba’, ‘Trinity’, ‘Ivey Mike’ or anything the fake “fathers of the atomic bomb” Robert Oppenheimer or Edward Teller “invented”. Every one of those were hoaxed. Veterans Today website lies like hell; conventional explosives were installed and detonated in those buildings. The “mini nukes” theory is to get you looking in the wrong direction. Follow the money.
If you believe in satellites, or the moon landings, or Mars landers, or space probes that fly past planets, or geosynchronous orbits, or the International Space Station, please tell us where we can find actual evidence. Show us an actual photo or video of the earth from space! Or an actual photo or video of an atomic detonation. You can’t.
The fakery is everywhere. I’m familiar with the site Nuke Lies that you mentioned but you gave the wrong url, it’s big-lies.org While the site promotes a disinfo agent like Miles Mathis, they have a lot of actual evidence of the fakery, much of it deleted by google and youtube and it would be very easy to give instances of atomic and thermonuclear detonations if they were real. If you really want to see how they fake, websites like worldwidetruthvideos and odysee are pretty good and if you can get past the flat earth Jewish psyop which is pure CIA disinfo, it’s all there. For instance, Eric Dubay is incapable of grasping Bernoulli’s Theorem or electrodynamic theories of gravitation and he is a good example of an actual disinfo agent.
Being able to grasp the abstract, making connections that others miss, noticing coincidences. Seeing how deliberate mistranslations are used by persistent frauds like Zecharia Sitchin is what should matter and that is difficult. It’s easy to tell a lie like “Jesus was a Jew” but it’s a lot of work to explain how translations from Aramaic dialect to Greek, Hebrew, Latin and English show how there was no word for Jew two thousand years ago, Then there is the thing about metaphor, then they will have it so that Jesus didn’t even exist. The point is I don’t waste time debating fools and liars who are obsessed with Jesus and Hitler and insist both were Jews and can’t grasp the gospel according to John. They can stick to tv shows about ancient aliens, dinosaurs and probes landing on Mars and mini nukes.
There are plenty of people who hate America and who would rather like to obtain similar arms from Russia. There are quite a lot of people in America itself who hate their own government too. As the Libyans funded and armed the IRA, the Russians – no doubt through suitably deniable channels – could do the same to the US.
@bob smith, you are full of BS, go peddle your rubbish somewhere else loser
@ BOB SMITH
THERE ARE enough nukes stored in USA ;
RUSSIA; CHINA;UK;FRANCE;ISRAEL.
others i dont know and the nukespecialists
on Veterans today are for me out of any
question . you can believe what you want !
SURELY THEY ALL ARE NOT SO CRAZY
TO SHOW THEM TO YOU .
@ BOB SMITH
btw i assure you : THERE IS NO ANY
german Reichs gold in fort Knox ANYMORE 1
@antisemit-
See what I mean, when challenged you don’t have even one piece of evidence, nothing at all proving that atomic bombs exist, have ever existed or were ever detonated or used. Once again, what do you base your opinion upon? Why do you believe they exist, because jewish tv, jewish newspapers, jewish magazines told you they were real? If such incredible devices actually existed, the proof that they existed would be overwhelming. They would have been used by Israel long ago. The Reichs gold? Huh? I didn’t mention that but I knew that was gone and spent by the Jewish fake federal reserve decades ago. Atomic bombs are as fake as the US Federal Reserve which is neither US Federal nor do they have reserves.
@kiwi-
I challenge you to give me one example of something I have written which is not true. For example, the most advanced rocket in December 2021 is apparently the “Blue Origin” dildo shaped rocket sent into space by Jeff Bezos, the “world’s wealthiest man” and it didn’t get any higher than 62 miles if we are to believe reports. Neil Armstrong supposedly went 8000 times the distance in 1969! Ha! What a laugh.
That “Blue Origin” dildo shaped rocket didn’t go into space and then there is the total joke rockets of Elon Musk that burned and crashed so many times that he just decided to fake it.
Do you really believe anything was sent higher than high altitude balloons? These ‘satellites’ are attacked to high altitude balloons, planes and drones https://duckduckgo.com/?q=satellite+balloons&iax=images&ia=images
Do you really believe that the Soviet Union set off a 50 megaton bomb (Tsar Bomba) in 1961 or landed probes on Venus in the same decade? It never happened.
Bob Smith: are you suggesting the nukes dropped on Japan were faked? Are you suggesting that the Taba Hilton had an entire wing demolished with conventional explosives? We’ve had relative peace for over 75 years because nukes exist. I think you need to go away and have a good think about what you claim to believe.
@Carl Jones-
A comment section like this is a gift to those seeking the truth, no matter how painful it is to those who have been fooled and I was one of them. Not to the extent that I ever believed that men went to the moon and drove around in a buggy but I did believe in satellites and atomic weapons. Actual reasearch led me to different conclusions and the implications of such massive fraud. Some will never learn or they prefer lies and to tell lies. Some simply can’t bear the truth.
If atomic and thermonuclear weapons were real and if men landed on the moon the evidence would be overwhelming and irrefutable and anyone like myself could be presented with actual images and videos of these incredible achievements. They wouldn’t have to fake 1/6th gravity for instance, huge craters would be left of the remains of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and they wouldn’t be able to clean up those cities and move back weeks later. Grass and flowers were growing soon after and they were driving around the streets within days. That’s a fact.
Do you really believe that NASA landed on the moon six times and had astronauts drive around the lunar surface in a stripped down 1948 Willies Jeep (that had the same grease stain on the same wheel even though they left the buggy on the moon each time?) that they strapped it to that piece of garbage lunar lander made out of cellophane wrapped tar-paper pretend space ship? Are you serious? Once again, I challenge you to present one actual photo or video of the “nukes dropped on Japan”. I’ve seen the fake photo of a column of smoke which is two photos stitched together. The twisted rail lines which were actually the result of an earthquake years earlier. The story of the ‘Enola Gay’ plane named after Tibbits Jewish mother and I could go on. The point is this: you will not show one piece of actual evidence of an atomic bomb. Some time ago you left a comment about men going to the moon and when corrected you replied that well actually there is a “secret space program”.
Once again, please provide some actual evidence, not some story about tactical nukes cribbed from some tribe website. Tell me, do you still believe men landed on the moon? Here is your moon lander: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mxXGBS_KtME/U7klezkcQSI/AAAAAAAANkw/MJcPCWMEiEs/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/Apollo-12-Lunar-Module-01.jpg
Here is your atomic bomb photo with one smoke column on top of the other: https://thebulletin.org/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_700px/public/7A_Nagasaki_Bomb_Cloud.jpg?itok=1A0-g196
Enjoy the images and please answer the question: What evidence do you have that atomic bombs were dropped on Japan and that men landed on the moon?
@ CARL JONES
LET HIM believe what he wants even
flat earth . it is here to far away to go
into detail . it would efford personal
presence, direct talk,books ,videos,
computer . but it never would change
his mind ! LET ALL IDIOTS BELIEVE
THAT THE BIOWEAPON VAX IS CURE .
let it be, let it be, mother mary said to me,
let it be !
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