The conflicting messages from Washington and Moscow are quite interesting.
The US is beating war drums, while Russia says it is withdrawing its troops.
Biden seems desperate for a war.
President Biden says "if Russia undertakes a further invasion of Ukraine, the United States together with our Allies and partners will respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs on Russia" and that while the United States remains prepared to engage in diplomacy, in full coordination with our Allies and partners, we are equally prepared for other scenarios.
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke today with President Vladimir Putin of Russia about Russia’s escalating military buildup on the borders of Ukraine. President Biden was clear that, if Russia undertakes a further invasion of Ukraine, the United States together with our Allies and partners...
www.whitehouse.gov
Russia's official Tass News Agency says ""There is no "Russian invasion" of Ukraine, which the US and its allies have been announcing officially since last fall, and it is not planned, therefore, statements about "Russia’s responsibility for escalation" can be regarded as an attempt to exert pressure and devalue Russia’s proposals for security guarantees,...The repeated claims in the US answer that Russia allegedly triggered a conflict in Donbass are groundless."
Russia stressed the need to de-escalate the situation around Ukraine by forcing Kiev to comply with the Minsk agreements, urging the West to refuse from military cooperation with this country
tass.com
'You will not turn this meeting into a circus': Russia slams Blinken at UN summit over his 'dangerous' claim that Putin might launch false flag chemical weapons attack before invading Ukraine - and insists Russian troops ARE retreating
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out Thursday the fullest account yet of Russia's plans to attack Ukraine
- He told the UN Security Council, that Russia could even use chemical weapons to build a pretext for invasion
- The morning brought a rapid series of diplomatic moves, as President Putin appeared to flex his muscles
- Russia told the US to withdraw troops from Central and Eastern Europe, a state news agency said on Thursday
- Washington has previously rejected the demand, but Moscow included it again in a new written response
- President Joe Biden said he feared an invasion could come 'within the next several days'
- Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels accused each other of shelling their positions in Eastern Ukraine
- And Moscow expelled the US deputy ambassador, which Washington said was an 'escalatory step'
- Ukraine's military said separatists hit a kindergarten on their side of the frontier with shells, before pro-Russian forces claimed the building was actually on their side and was hit by Kiev's men
- Shells were also fired at Popasna, on the Ukrainian side of the frontline, with a secondary school struck
- NATO and the UK have warned that Russia is staging a false flag operations aimed at justifying an attack
- Meanwhile satellite images revealed new pontoon bridge built north of Kiev and huge movement of vehicles across Belarus, Russia and Crimea amid warnings that Putin is moving his forces closer to the border
Today, Biden said that the invasion is very likely and Russia has not moved any troops out...
Meanwhile, Russia's Defense Minister said that troops are returning to bases....
If Biden keeps doing what he is doing, he just might get America involved in an unnecessary conflict.
Biden acquiesces to little Iran, but keeps pulling the Russian bear's tail...