Hinting that Moscow sees value in more talks with the U.S. on Ukraine, 72-year-old Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov suggested that the two superpowers keep talking, intrigued about the prospects of more limitations on missile defense. President Joe Biden, 79, has completely misunderstood 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intent in massing over 100,000 troops inside Russian near the Ukrainian border. Biden and his national security team, including 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken and 45-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, insisted for the past month that a Russia invasion of Ukraine was “imminent.” Biden hoped that a concerted disinformation and propaganda campaign would turn the world against the Russian Federation. Biden’s scheme backfired with China backing Putin’s right of forcing security concessions from the U.S.
So the Biden administration’s colossal bluff, threatening Moscow with crippling sanctions has failed, giving Putin the upper hand. White House strategists thought by overplaying the Russian invasion myth, it would make it look like threats of crippling sanctions would stop Putin from invading. U.S. officials and the press accused the Kremlin of information warfare when, in fact, they were the ones bluffing Putin into making concessions. Putin never intended to invade Ukraine, only get the U.S. and NATO attention that it was not OK to let Ukraine to join the trans-Atlantic alliance. By massing troops on the Ukrainian border, Putin put his foot down, telling the U.S. and NATO to stop supplying Ukraine with lethal weaponss. Putin concluded that the Ukrainian leadership manipulate the U.S. and NATO into fighting its battle to retake the Crimean Peninsula it lost March 1, 2014
Ukraine’s 43-year-old President Volodymr Zelensky won’t admit that if he didn’t initiate a CIA-backed coup Feb. 22, 2014 while Putin was hosting the Sochi Winter Olympics, Ukraine would still possess Crimea. But once the U.S. and NATO meddled into Ukraine’s sovereignty, backing a pro-Western government, they started the eight-year-old crisis that’s hit a fever’s pitch. But let there be no mistake, Biden and his national security team tried-and-failed with their information warfare campaign. Putin never intended to invade Ukraine. He wants the U.S. and NATO to stop supplying Ukraine lethal arms with which to eventually attack Russian fortifications in Crimea to reclaim the lost territory. Putin needs the Sevastopol naval base for Russian national security, something that could be easily solve. Zelensky could sit down with Putin and find an acceptable solution.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby continues applying Biden’s information warfare strategy, saying Putin “continues to add forces along that border with Ukraine and in Belarus, even just over the course of this weekend, he well north of 100,000.” Kirby’s statements divert attention away from White House propaganda, singling out Putin as the real enemy. Pentagon officials know that Putin will not invade Ukraine and the whole standoff is about Biden and NATO arming Ukraine to the teeth for the purpose of retaking Crimea from Russia. Otherwise dower Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov struck a rare optimistic tone as a Kremlin press conference with Putin. “I would suggest continuing,” Lavrov said with Putin at his side. “Fine,” said Putin, proving, that the foolish Americans and Europeans hves no clue about Moscow’s real motives, pretending it was about a Ukaine invasion.
Calling American and European fears of an invasion “hysteria,” the Western Alliance either misread Putin’s motives entirely or have been engaged in a deliberate, calculated and methodical disinformation and propaganda campaign. Spreading lies about a Russian invasion caused panic in Washington, Brussels and certainly Kiev. Now that no invasion happened, Biden can claim his deterrent strategy with the Kremlin worked. But did it really? Putin now gets all or most of the concessions on security he asked for yet was ignored by the Washington and Brussels. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomed the “offers of dialogue,” largely because Biden tried to use the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline as a bargaining chip with Putin. Scholz isn’t ready to chuck the $12 billion Nord Stream 2 Pipeline designed to ferry natural gas from Russia to Germany for the foreseeable future.
Biden’s false prophecy about an “imminent” Russian invasion was designed to sow panicn the West, hoping to create a strong Western front to confront Putin. But with all of Biden’s forecasts falling flat, Brussels can no longer trust U.S. intel, having bad track record for accuracy. All of Biden’s and his national security team’s threats of a Russian invasion turn out to be a disinformation strategy designed intimidate Putin into backing down about his requests for security concerns. Recent statements from Putin and Lavrov indicate that Moscow is finally getting, though under the table, the concessions it needs to move forward. Biden was bluffing from the outset about his plans to hit Russia with crippling new sanctions. Whether admitted to or not by the White House, Russia was not going to invade Ukraine, proving Biden’s propaganda campaign backfired.
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