Despite a slight reduction in number more than 100,000 Russian troops still remain near the border with Ukraine
David Smith – The Guardian Dec 30, 2021
Joe Biden and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have exchanged warnings over the crisis in Ukraine during a 50-minute phone call that did little to lower the political temperature, according to their governments.
Russia has alarmed the US and its allies by massing tens of thousands of troops near its border with Ukraine over the past two months. This follows its seizure of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in 2014 and its backing of separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Thursday’s talks, requested by Putin, were the leaders’ second conversation this month but, the White House said, consisted of both men restating their positions – including Biden warning of severe consequences if Putin decides to invade.
“President Biden urged Russia to de-escalate tensions with Ukraine,” said Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, in a statement. “He made clear that the United States and its allies and partners will respond decisively if Russia further invades Ukraine.”
In a conference call with reporters, a senior administration official added that Biden had laid out “two paths”: one of diplomacy and deescalation, the other of deterrence “including serious costs and consequences” such as economic sanctions, strengthening Nato’s force posture and military assistance to Ukraine.
The Kremlin, meanwhile, insisted that Putin had used the call to issue a threat of his own, telling Biden that new sanctions could totally rupture ties between Russia and the US and represent a colossal mistake.
Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s foreign policy adviser, was quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying: “Our president immediately responded that if the west decides in this or other circumstances to impose these unprecedented sanctions which have been mentioned then that could lead to a complete breakdown in ties between our countries and cause the most serious damage to relations between Russia and the west.”
Ushakov added: “Our president also mentioned that it would be a mistake that our descendants would see as a huge error.”
Biden, who is spending the week in his home state of Delaware, spoke to Putin from his home near Wilmington. The White House distributed a picture of the president speaking to the Russian leader from a desk lined with family photos.
The call came ahead of a US-Russia security meeting in Geneva on 9 and 10 January, followed by a Russia-Nato session on 12 January, and a broader conference including Moscow, Washington and other European countries on 13 January.
In the media conference call, a White House official described the conversation as “serious and substantive” but focused on setting the tone and tenor for the diplomatic engagements to come rather than breaking new ground.
The official also acknowledged that Putin offered little clarity as to whether he plans to invade or back down. “We’re not going to draw conclusions and there were certainly no declarations as to intentions from this conversation.
“But regardless, our focus is really on actions and on indicators, not on words at this point, so we’re going to continue to monitor very closely the movement and build-up of Russian forces on the Ukraine border and prepare ourselves for whatever decision ultimately is made by the Russian president.”
Putin, who held a video call with Biden on 7 December, has compared the current tensions to the cold-war era Cuban missile crisis in 1962. He denies planning to attack Ukraine and insists that Russia has the right to move its troops on its own soil.
Moscow has called for legally binding guarantees that Nato will not expand further eastwards and certain offensive weapons will not be deployed to Ukraine or other neighbouring countries. Washington regards some of the demands as non-starters.
Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, spoke on Wednesday with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy. State department spokesperson Ned Price said Blinken “reiterated the United States’ unwavering support for Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity in the face of Russia’s military buildup on Ukraine’s borders”.
The world needs Putin to step in again and save the people of syria from israeli terrorism
Keep in mind that for weeks, behind the scenes, the same bickering has been going on. The US has a skeletal staff in Moscow, & just as Obama dug the US into a hole that they are still in, because Russia has established new industries to make many things the EU (Germany) sold to Russia, and now we have this huge relationship between Russia and China. They support each other politically, they are in advanced weapons development, they have started a totally independent financial system that can’t be tampered with by the City or Wall Street, & they are building a huge energy infrastructure. Russia has also setup its own ‘SWIFT’ payments system.
But, Ruusia has the killer card. Russia produces 90% of the world’s Titanium. Boeing will be out of business, so will many military arms companies.
So once again, the waning US superpower just keeps stumbling into its own potholes. What we are seeing are the last desperate breaths of air before the collapse.
Now, I don’t know when the US will collapse. But I’ve seen enough info by fairly reputable sources who say it could be anytime.
I don’t think Biden or his deep state care about Main Street, but they do have some massive domestic issues, so they need some big distractions, bacause US domestic problems can’t be fixed.
The purpose of US, and satellite states sanctions isn’t just to hurt Russia and China. These sanctions are there so that the EU is damaged, so that 2.2 billion have their living standards damaged and their aspirations curtailed.
To support this, we need to go back to the 1990s when the Clinton regime repealed Glass Stegall & other protections, then they built the debt bubble which popped in 2007/8. Then we had massive QE, even more massive QE in China, because they had to protect themselves. Then we had currency wars which China did well, to the constination of Amerika. Then we had illegal sanctions, followed by trade wars. Brexit is a trade war against the EU. Note: Whitehall staff have been banned from using ‘Brexit’.
To cap off (maybe not), MI6 rolled out Porton Down made Covid as the City’s attidote to Brexit disaster and no trade deals, or deals that aren’t worth the paper they are written on, or are actually detrimental to UK interests, such as the Australian trade deal… which is completely diametrically opposed to the UK regimes green agenda.
So it is blindingly obvious that over the last 20/25 years, the City and Wall Street have been systematically destroying global trading systems. Not content with this, they are even destroying relationships between so called allies. The French have been kicked in the teeth, & the German economy is being collapsed by leaders who work for the US. We wait to see how the new Chancellor bat’s.
Russia must be brave and use all its economic weapons. The have gas, oil, titanium, grains, and many other commodities to hurt the West, & yes, at some point, the Russian regime will need to lockup 5th column trouble makers who want a lite Russian regime so the City can rape Russia of its vast resources, including those in the massive Russian controlled Arctic.
I think it is highly likely that we will see the release of more bioweapons which are more dangerous and more gene (race/region) specific.
Both are Rothschild pawns and foot soldiers. Putin is in bed with the Jew supremacist group Chabhad. Biden’s Cabinet positions are completely occupied by kikes or at the very least , some racial mongrel. All this saber rattling is plan B in case plan A, the phony pandemic does not pan out the way they want it.
Not to see this is blindness and a failure to deal with reality.
First words of Vladimir to Joe ?? “Lets Go Brandon” !
& last words as well …
To Carl Jones–Covid is not a reaction to anything, was 20 years in the planning.
The Jewisch people have not all the same way of thinking, they are intelligent people, but differend etniques, different cultures, so they are humans !
Its just some bloody rich psychopats who play the people, and people who may think to know howe everythings works, must reed our human history, greetings and best wisches for 2022 !