Looking to shift blame to 69-year-old President Vladimir Putin for his war in Ukarine, 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken showed he’s White House chief smoke blower, telling the press that Putin is likely to go after other former Soviet satellite states. “When President Biden addressed the nation today, he said that Putin wants a new Soviet Union.” “Is there any intelligence to suggest that President Putin will advance beyond Ukraine?” CBS “Evening News” anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell asked Blinken Thursday night. Biden and Blinken said Putin would invade Ukraine “any time” for the last two months, all based on his troop deployments near the Ukraine border. Blinken didn’t like O’Donnell asking for facts, real intel that indicates that Putin plans to take the Ukraine campaign to other NATO countries. Blinken got defensive when asked for any facts.
White House officials have lost all credibility “crying wolf” for two months. When the invasion happened Feb. 23, the White said we told you so. But Blinken takes no responsibility for pushing Putin to invade because he ignored all of Putin’s requests to security talks over two months. “You don’t need intelligence to tell you that that’s exactly what President Putin wants,” Blinken said, saying to O’Donnell, take my word for it. “He’s made clear that he’d like to reconstitute the Soviet Empire. Short of that, he’d like reassert a sphere of influence around neighboring countires that were once part of the Soviet bloc. And short of that, he’d like to make sure that all of these countries are somehow neutral,” Blinken told O’Donnell. Putin’s beef with Ukraine directly involves the U.S. feeding the country arms, essentially bypassing NATO membership to get lethal weapons from the U.S.
Blinken wants to pretend that this is part of Putin’s vast plan to reinstate the defunct Soviet Union. Blinken’s statement are pure disinformation and propaganda, conjecturing about Putin’s motives. Wild speculation doesn’t help White House credibility only sows more anxiety in former Soviet satellites, now NATO countries. Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia don’t want to hear Putin is coming for them next. Besides, if Blinken relly believed what he’s saying, that all of Eastern Europe is threatened by Putin, why did the U.S. decide to not commit troops? Biden and Blinken told Ukrainian President Voldomyr Zelensky that the U.S. “had his back.” But when it comes to sending U.S. troops to push back Russia inside its own border, it’s off the table. Zelensky told the U.S. and NATO Ukraine needs more than lip service, it needs U.S. or NATO troops.
Biden, Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, don’t want to admit they pushed for the Ukraine War, largely because they refused to talk, discuss or negotiate an acceptable security deal with Putin. Putin’s attack on Ukraine is actually more directed to the U.S. because, as Putin says, Ukraine is a puppet U.S. regime. “Now, when it comes to a threat beyond Ukraine’s borders, there’s something very powerful standing in his way,” Blinken said. “That’s Article 5 of NATO—an attack on one is an a t tack on all. It’s exactly who we’ve been reinforcing NATO’s eastern flank,” Blinken said, not explaining why the vaunted trans-Atlantic alliance wouldn’t come to the rescue of Ukraine’s fledgling democracy. Blinken said that Putin’s authoritarian regime is a direct threat to Western democracies. Biden and Blinken said they had Ukraine’s back, then said they would commit no troops.
Biden, Blinken and Sullivan can’t get their talking points straight, saying they have Ukraine’s back but refuse to commit troops. All of the White House and EU’s sanctions won’t stop Putin’s invading army from massacring civilaisn, or a Zelensky said, going after him. Zelensky is convinced that his life is threatened by Putin’s invasion as Putin tries to change regimes in Kiev. Biden, Blinken and Sullivan mention nothing of how a Feb. 22, 2014 CIA-backed coup toppled the duly elected Kremlin-backed government of Viktor Yanukovych. When Putin talks of regime change in Kiev, he doesn’t see Zelensky’s government as anything more than a junta. Putin goes over the top calling Kiev’s regime “drug addicts and neo-Nazis.” Putin should stick to the facts that Zelensky’s regime was not legitimate because 50-year-old Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko chase him out of Kiev.
White House officials can’t explain why Ukraine can’t receive NATO military help to stop the bloodbath around the country, now honing in on Kiev. Whatever happens it Ukraine, Biden will have blood on his hands because he pushed Putin to invade the country. Putin got fed up with all the excuses why the U.S. couldn’t start talks on a new security arrangement. Putin finds Ukraine a puppet U.S. state totally unacceptable on the Russian border. Worried about a Ukraine invasion of Crimea, Putin wants recognition from Ukraine that Crimea is a legitimate part of Russia. Putin knows that Zelensky isn’t likely to hand over the deed to Crimea. “We’re concerned for the safety of all our friends in Ukraine, government officials and others,” Blinken said. “And we’re doing everything we can to stand with them to support them,” just not letting NATO defend the Ukraine.
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