{"id":252738,"date":"2022-04-26T05:32:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T05:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252738"},"modified":"2022-04-27T07:16:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T07:16:56","slug":"we-want-to-see-russia-weakened-says-us-defense-secretary-lloyd-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252738","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We want to see Russia weakened&#8221;, says US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Introduction \u2013 April 25, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>We can only conclude that the U.S. is deliberately trying to stir conflict with Russia. Why else would the US Defense Secretary visit a neighbouring state that Russia is at war with pledges of support and armaments?<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin isn\u2019t even trying to hide the West\u2019s objectives with diplomatic platitudes. Instead in plain language he says, &#8220;We want to see Russia weakened&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This will undoubtedly be seen in Moscow as a deliberate provocation. To openly say that the West wants to see a weakened and diminished Russia will trigger alarm bells in the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we suspect that the visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Ukraine will only strengthen Russia\u2019s resolve to deal with the Nazis on its doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>Antony Blinken also appeared to be encouraging Ukraine to take on the Russians. Even though there is little to support his claim that &#8216;Russia is failing, Ukraine is succeeding,&#8217; he nonetheless pledged more funds and weaponry to add to the total of $3.7 billion in aid already promised by Washington to Ukraine\u2019s President Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p>In other words Washington is funding a military conflict in Russia\u2019s backyard<\/p>\n<p>In essence it looks as if the West is using Ukraine as a proxy against Russia. Just as it once used \u2018Syrian rebels\u2019, with covert support for ISIS and Islamic State, against President Assad\u2019s Syria<\/p>\n<p>Have Covid-19 and the supposed \u2018vaccine\u2019 failed to reduce the population as quickly as intended? That\u2019s not an idle question because it certainly looks as if Plan B is now underway and we are on a fast track to war with Russia. Ed.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8216;We want to see Russia weakened&#8217;: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says he wants Putin&#8217;s forces depleted so he cannot repeat what he has done in Ukraine during his Kyiv trip<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Austin said that the U.S. wanted &#8216;Ukraine remain a sovereign country, a democratic country, able to protect its sovereign territory&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Austin did not call for a peace settlement but rather stepped up his rhetoric against Russia as the conflict enters its third month\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The US is providing $713million in assistance to war-ravaged Ukraine after a meeting with officials in Kyiv<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Zelensky was promised more than $322million in new foreign military financing by Blinken and Austin<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ukraine will also receive $165million in non-U.S. made ammunition, they announced<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The US plans to gradually begin the return of diplomats to Ukraine next week but the embassy will stay closed<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Morgan Phillips, Natasha Anderson and Jack Anderson \u2013 Mail Online April 25, 2022<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin said Monday that the U.S.&#8217;s &#8216;goal&#8217; in Ukraine is to see Russia &#8216;weakened&#8217; so it no longer has the capacity to invade its neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary was asked by reporters to define &#8216;America&#8217;s goals for success.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He said that the U.S. wanted &#8216;Ukraine remain a sovereign country, a democratic country, able to protect its sovereign territory.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from an aircraft carrier in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/poland\/index.html\"><strong>Poland<\/strong><\/a>, Austin added:\u00a0&#8216;We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can&#8217;t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Austin did not call for a peace settlement but rather stepped up his rhetoric against Russia as the conflict enters its third month and Ukraine launched offensive attacks into Russia over the weekend, when missile strikes blew up two oil storage facilities supplying Putin&#8217;s troops fighting for control of Donbas.<\/p>\n<p>Austin said that U.S. officials believe Ukraine can win the conflict &#8216;if they have the right equipment&#8217; and the &#8216;right support.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The US has pledged another $713million for Ukraine as two top Biden officials visited Kyiv under the cover of darkness where they blasted Russia&#8217;s &#8216;failing&#8217; invasion.<\/p>\n<p>It brings the total amount of funding offered to Ukraine to $3.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In the highest-level meeting between the US and Ukraine since the war, Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin took a train from Poland to Kyiv where they met with Volodymyr Zelensky in an overnight trip shrouded by secrecy.<\/p>\n<p>There, the officials pledged military financing to Ukraine and its NATO partners and said diplomats would start returning to the country this week, although they will be stationed in Lviv rather than the Kyiv embassy which remains closed.<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting, Blinken said, &#8216;Russia is failing, Ukraine is succeeding,&#8217; and praised Zelensky and his country&#8217;s bravery in the face of Kremlin barbarism<\/p>\n<p>Speaking today in Poland near the Ukrainian border, the Secretary of State said: &#8216;We had an opportunity to demonstrate directly our strong ongoing support for the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people. This was, in our judgment, an important moment to be there to have face-to-face conversations in detail.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Austin added Zelensky&#8217;s response to the aid was deep appreciation for what was being given but &#8216;he has the mindset that they want to win and we have the mindset that we want to help them win&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists who travelled to Poland with Austin and Blinken were barred from reporting on the trip until it ended, were not allowed to accompany them on their overland journey into Ukraine, and were prohibited from specifying where in south-east Poland they waited for the Cabinet members to return, citing security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>There, the officials pledged military financing to Ukraine and its NATO partners and said diplomats would start returning to the country this week, although they will be stationed in Lviv rather than the Kyiv embassy which remains closed.<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting, Blinken said, &#8216;Russia is failing, Ukraine is succeeding,&#8217; and praised Zelensky and his country&#8217;s bravery in the face of Kremlin barbarism.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking today in Poland near the Ukrainian border, the Secretary of State said: &#8216;We had an opportunity to demonstrate directly our strong ongoing support for the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people. This was, in our judgment, an important moment to be there to have face-to-face conversations in detail.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Austin added Zelensky&#8217;s response to the aid was deep appreciation for what was being given but &#8216;he has the mindset that they want to win and we have the mindset that we want to help them win&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists who travelled to Poland with Austin and Blinken were barred from reporting on the trip until it ended, were not allowed to accompany them on their overland journey into Ukraine, and were prohibited from specifying where in south-east Poland they waited for the Cabinet members to return, citing security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10751233\/We-want-Russia-weakened-Defense-Secretary-Lloyd-Austin-says.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin\u2019s statement will only strengthen Russia\u2019s resolve to deal with the Western-backed Nazis on its doorstep. Was that the intention? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":228641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252739,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252738\/revisions\/252739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}