{"id":270172,"date":"2023-06-21T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270172"},"modified":"2023-06-22T05:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T05:48:04","slug":"u-s-admits-defeat-in-war-on-russia-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270172","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Admits Defeat In War On Russia And China"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Moon of Alabama \u2013 June 20, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Confronted with the realities of life the Biden administration has in the last days acknowledged defeat in two on its most egregious and delusional foreign policy games.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian counter-offensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/06\/on-the-failure-of-the-ukrainian-counterattack.html\">has failed<\/a>. Its army is getting slaughtered on the battlefield. The &#8216;counteroffensive&#8217; of the &#8216;NATO trained&#8217; Ukrainian brigades has made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/ukraine-may-be-pausing-counteroffensive-says-institute-for-the-study-of-war\/ar-AA1cJdQ3\">no real progress<\/a> on any front. The high level of losses of men and material make it impossible that it will ever again regain the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. aim was to integrate the Ukraine into NATO. It would then have been able to station U.S. troops in Ukraine and to put its weapons into reach of Moscow so that any independent Russian move could be countered with a threat of imminent annihilation.<\/p>\n<p>After more than 20 years of pursuing that aim the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/4055273-biden-wont-make-it-easier-for-ukraine-to-join-nato\/\">threw the towel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">President Biden on Saturday said he won\u2019t make it easier for Ukraine to join NATO, adding that the country at war with Russia has to meet the requirements to be a member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThey got to meet the same standards. So, I\u2019m not going to make it easier,\u201d Biden told reporters. \u201cI think they\u2019ve done everything relating to demonstrating the ability to coordinate militarily, but there\u2019s a whole issue of is their system secure? Is it noncorrupt? Does it meet all the standards \u2026 every other nation in NATO does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And yes, that is a change. A big one:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Biden has reportedly previously expressed that he is open to removing the Member Action Plan hurdle for Ukraine to join NATO, which requires countries that want to join the alliance make reforms militarily and democratically.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianpunchline.com\/biden-walks-back-on-ukraines-nato-accession\/\">not enough<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/06\/us-admits-defeat-in-war-on-russia-and-china.html#more\">Cont. reading: <em>U.S. Admits Defeat In War On Russia And China<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moon of Alabama maybe correct in his assessment but by its actions in Ukraine the West has lit a fuse with Russia. The blowback has yet to come but when it does the West will pay a heavy price <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"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":[19,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270172","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270173,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270172\/revisions\/270173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}