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Ukraine was part of the USSR, so it's no big deal if Russia gains control of it.
Biden was doddering around as usual and U.S. "intel" sources were silent.
Washington (CNN)The US has information that indicates Russia has prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct a false-flag operation in eastern Ukraine, a US official told CNN on Friday, in an attempt to create a pretext for an invasion.
The official said the US has evidence that the operatives are trained in urban warfare and in using explosives to carry out acts of sabotage against Russia's own proxy forces.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said the Defense Department has credible information indicating Russia has "prepositioned a group of operatives" to execute "an operation designed to look like an attack on them or Russian-speaking people in Ukraine" in order to create a reason for a potential invasion.
The allegation echoed a statement released by Ukraine's Ministry of Defense on Friday, which said that Russian special services are preparing provocations against Russian forces in an attempt to frame Ukraine. National security adviser Jake Sullivan hinted at the intelligence during a briefing with reporters on Thursday.
US warns Russia is sounding 'drumbeats of war' against Ukraine as crisis talks end with no breakthrough
"Our intelligence community has developed information, which has now been downgraded, that Russia is laying the groundwork to have the option of fabricating the pretext for an invasion," Sullivan said on Thursday. "We saw this playbook in 2014. They are preparing this playbook again."
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Friday that "the military units of the aggressor country and its satellites receive orders to prepare for such provocations."
www.cnn.com
US intelligence believes Russia has ordered Ukraine invasion – reports
Antony Blinken repeated the White House’s assessment that Russia will invade Ukraine. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/AFP/Getty Images
Ed Pilkington in New York
@edpilkington
Sun 20 Feb 2022 17.24 EST
US intelligence has detected evidence that Russian troops amassed close to the border with Ukraine have received actual orders to proceed with an invasion, according to news reports.
CBS News was the first to report on Sunday that the Kremlin had given the green light to commanders among the more than 150,000 troops in potential attack positions.
“Commanders on the ground are making specific plans for how they would manoeuvre in their sector of the battlefield,” Face the Nation reported.
The New York Times also said the Kremlin had ordered an invasion. That intelligence prompted Joe Biden to say this week that the Russian president Vladimir Putin had decided to go ahead with an attack, the newspaper said.
Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, told CBS the Biden administration remains convinced that Russia is pressing ahead with attack plans.
www.theguardian.com
Ukraine was part of the USSR, so it's no big deal if Russia gains control of it. It is a tragedy for the world when a country is invaded for no legitimate reasons.
There are plenty of wimmin in Russian forces.Putin believes that Ukraine is part of Russia. Always was, always will be. Should never have been allowed to break out when the USSR folded.
The U.S. respects the borders and sovereignty of OTHER COUNTRIES (not the U.S., unfortunately). It is in everyone's best interest if Russia is forced to reverse this invasion.
My question is, are there any wimmin in the Russian invasion force? Ukraine has said that no MEN between the ages of 18 and 60 can leave the country, so that they can be available to defend the homeland. Haven't they heard (from the U.S.) that wimmin are as effective as combat soldiers as men?
Stupid questions, stupid points, I know. Other countries can't be as progressive as we are.
Please get into the modern era. You are like the blacks, living in the past. Yours is a ridiculous pointAnd on a side note, Alaska was also once part of Russia. So should the US just roll over and allow them to take it if they decide that they now want it back?
Please get into the modern era. You are like the blacks, living in the past. Yours is a ridiculous point
You also discredit yourself by calling people racist when they are not. That is the most fake, overused term ever.Ahhh, got it Mr. Racist. I guess you think they should move back to the plantations and get to work.
Your idiocy is noticed, and your posts after this filed appropriately.
You also discredit yourself by calling people racist when they are not. That is the most fake, overused term ever.
You are like the blacks, living in the past.
Have you read the board black racist comments we have like 4 on this board? They constantly whine about the past and slavery. Blaming current whites for slavery and Jim Crow, Demanding reparations and that whites die in some cases. Claiming the skyrocketing Black crime rate is false and a lie or that whitey caused it. Like you they claim anyone that mentions poor black behavior or crime is racist.OK, fine, I will give you the benefit of the doubt.
Then kindly explain to me how that is not a racist comment. I would love to hear how that is not racist.
I imagine it is overused to you, as you are probably accused of that constantly I imagine.
Have you read the board black racist comments we have like 4 on this board?
Talking about Nazism, racism, and modern Ukraine:
Zelenskiy decides nothing. He is just a puppet. Resurrection of Nazism in Europe - that's a real problem.There are idiots like that in every nation. Do not take the ravings of the lunatics as the mainstream, either right or left.
Considering that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy is himself Jewish and that his grandfather and three uncles were murdered in the Holocaust, that is simple to prove bullshit.
Zelenskiy decides nothing. He is just a puppet. Resurrection of Nazism in Europe - that's a real problem.
He is an actor, and a good one. People know him, and most of them hate nazies. He don't need to make any decision. And, the modern European Nazism is not anti-Jewish. It is mostly anti-Russian.
Care to explain why a Jew would be put in charge as a puppet of a "Nazi government"?
He is an actor, and a good one.
People know him, and most of them hate nazies.
And, the modern European Nazism is not anti-Jewish. It is mostly anti-Russian.
Fascism and Freedom was founded in 1989 as a political movement inside the Italian Social Movement, centered around Senator Giorgio Pisanò and his weekly Candido. Finally, it separated from the MSI on 25 July 1991. In 2009, it added the words National Socialist Party (NSP) to its original name. The movement has been sued several times for alleged reconstitution of the dissolved National Fascist Party. It refuses agreements and / or alliances with other neo-fascist parties, stressing categorically not to be classified as a right-wing party, and that similar parties do not sufficiently adhere to Fascist ideology. The party makes explicit reference to the ideals of the Italian Social Republic as corporatism and the nationalization of the economy. Their ideology is based on the thought of fascist leader Benito Mussolini, and has as its main objective the realization of Mussolini's strongly hierarchical corporate democracy based on social credit. The party is also in favor of a presidential republic, and expresses a strong sense of anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism.
Several of the major international Jewish organizations have affiliates in Sweden. A Stockholm-based magazine, Jewish Chronicle, appears bi-monthly, as well as Tachless, the magazine of the Jewish Congregation. Shechita (Jewish ritual slaughter) is prohibited and kosher meat is imported from abroad.
By hosting the January 2000 Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust, attended by forty-five heads of state, who declared that the Holocaust “challenged the foundations of civilization,” Sweden became a leading force for raising awareness of the Shoah. Its Living History Project has become a model of Holocaust education. As an outcome of that parley, plans were announced to establish the European Institute of Jewish Studies in Sweden, Paideia. In January 2001, Stockholm was the venue for the Second International Forum for Combating Intolerance, which had as its goal “counteracting and preventing xenophobia, racism, antisemitism and other extremist ideas and movements.”
By hosting the January 2000 Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust, attended by forty-five heads of state, who declared that the Holocaust “challenged the foundations of civilization,” Sweden became a leading force for raising awareness of the Shoah. Its Living History Project has become a model of Holocaust education. As an outcome of that parley, plans were announced to establish the European Institute of Jewish Studies in Sweden, Paideia. In January 2001, Stockholm was the venue for the Second International Forum for Combating Intolerance, which had as its goal “counteracting and preventing xenophobia, racism, antisemitism and other extremist ideas and movements.”
A new study from the National Minority Rights Monitoring Group entitled Two Years of War: Xenophobia in Ukraine 2015 reports a dangerous increase in xenophobia only in Russian-occupied Crimea. Even in areas under Kremlin-backed militant control – the so-called ‘Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics’, there appears to have been a decrease since 2014. although at a press conference on Jan 20, the Director of the Congress of National Communities Josef Zisels left no room for illusions about the reasons for that drop. Over half of the members of the Jewish community, according to their estimates, have left Donbas, as have believers from Protestant, Greek-Catholic, Evangelical and other churches, and Orthodox believers attached to the Kyiv Patriarchate.
