US-led naval escort to break Russian blockade could risk wider war

Guest Post by Sam Fraser

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, relatively few in the Western commentariat have been willing to call for the United States to engage in direct war against Moscow. The reasons for this caution are obvious — Russia is a nuclear state, and has a military that, its recent underperformance notwithstanding, is still vastly more formidable than any recent target of U.S. military intervention.

Yet despite — or perhaps because of — this general resistance to direct U.S. involvement, many commentators and politicians have come up with more underhanded proposals for American military intervention.

Most notably, this began with widespread calls for the United States and NATO to establish a “no-fly zone” over Ukraine early in the war. In spite of its innocuous and legalistic name, the Biden administration soundly rejected this proposal as its enforcement would rather obviously entail shooting down Russian aircraft, which in turn would lead to a wider war.

More recently, as the danger of a global food crisis made worse by the loss of grain exports from Ukraine and Russia has increased, new calls have emerged for the United States and allies to use naval power to ensure that Ukrainian grain can safely transit the Black Sea.

Similar to demands for a no-fly zone, these ideas have been wrapped in humanitarian language. But in reality, they amount to a call for highly risky U.S.-led military action.

Versions of the proposal have been put forward by Lithuania’s foreign minister, retired U.S. military leaders including admiral James Stavridis, general Wesley Clark, and general Jack Keane, as well as Democratic representative Elissa Slotkin and the editorial boards of the Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal.

While these proposals vary in detail, all invoke the rhetoric of humanitarian intervention to justify and legitimize the action. The Wall Street Journal calls for a U.S.-led naval escort to be “planned and pitched as a humanitarian operation.” Stavridis referred to his plan as a “humanitarian grain mission” while Slotkin simply called for a “humanitarian escort.” The Boston Globe called its proposal a “human-rights mission” while the Lithuanian foreign minister deemed it a “non-military humanitarian mission.”

Most strikingly, both the Lithuanian foreign minister and the Wall Street Journal have referred to the nations participating in this hypothetical naval escort as a “coalition of the willing,” and odd choice given that phrase’s association with the U.S. war on Iraq and the Bush administration’s efforts to give a veneer of multilateral legitimacy to its illegal invasion.

Compared to the invasion of Iraq, these proposals have a much greater claim to humanitarian purpose. The growing global food crisis, exacerbated both by sanctions and the Russian blockade, threatens to cause famine and other dire consequences especially in the Middle East and North Africa. A successful effort to free up the Ukrainian grain trapped by Russia’s blockade could undoubtedly alleviate the crisis.

A naval escort, however, would by definition require significant military forces, both to carry out demining operations and to wield a serious threat of retaliation against any Russian attacks on shipping. Wall Street Journal opinion writer Seth Cropsey was particularly explicit on this point, calling for “an overwhelming naval task force consisting of small and large surface combatants with submarine and air support.” Whatever coalition was assembled for the operation, it is likely that the United States would have to provide the bulk of these capabilities.

As with past attempts at humanitarian intervention, it is impossible to disentangle these proposals’ military means from their humanitarian ends. While this tension may have been possible to ignore when intervening in failed states or against far weaker powers with limited ability to retaliate, to do so would be far more perilous in this case.

Proponents of a naval intervention like Cropsey correctly point out that the blockade and the pain it is causing are essential parts of Russia’s war strategy, intended to put pressure on Ukraine and its allies to seek an end to the war on terms more favorable to Moscow. For Russia to allow its blockade to be broken without interference would be to give up a great deal of leverage, and may, from Russia’s perspective, risk emboldening further U.S. and NATO intervention in other areas of the conflict. Under these circumstances, Russia might find it immensely difficult not to challenge such a U.S.-led operation as the above commentators advocate.

Furthermore, given Russia’s behavior in the war so far, its leadership is unlikely to care that such an operation has been framed as a “humanitarian action.” The presence of a Western naval flotilla in nearby waters for the expressed purpose of countering Moscow’s war strategy would no doubt be perceived as a military threat. That such a convoy would have an ultimate humanitarian objective will not negate these facts.

Even short of Russia directly and deliberately attacking coalition ships, the risk of accidental escalation would be high, as demonstrated by the 1988 U.S. downing of an Iranian civilian airliner while conducting a similar operation to protect oil shipments through the Persian Gulf.

In the face of these conditions, the contention that the U.S. and its allies can break Moscow’s blockade “without firing a shot” is dubious at best.

There may be better ways to circumvent the blockade. Of course, a negotiated end to the war itself would accomplish this. Short of that, though, others have offered less risky proposals to export the grain. These include transporting the grain on a short overland route to a Romanian port, achieving a limited agreement on grain exports with Russia, or supporting a naval escort led by some of the non-Western countries most dependent on Ukrainian wheat. While it is unclear that the latter operation would be workable, it would have the advantage of being both credibly multilateral and, by minimizing the military role of countries which have strongly taken sides in the war, less potentially escalatory.

The global food crisis exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens disastrous consequences for political stability and human welfare worldwide. Serious efforts to mitigate this crisis, including through vigorous diplomacy, must be considered. But a mission that seeks to achieve humanitarian objectives through military means is still a military operation, carrying all the risks that that entails. Advocates of this move should not use rosy language to pretend otherwise.

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flash

Any who joined the Navy in the age of hypersonic missiles really are a special kind of stupid.

Oldtoad of Green Acres
Oldtoad of Green Acres

Sure am glad my kids are out. 4 generations of Marines is enough.

Anonymous
Anonymous

You can’t blame young people. It’s up to their elders (all of us) to steer them straight.
They have been born into the most fouled up society imaginable, through no fault of their own.

GunnyHiWay
GunnyHiWay

Really… I see the “Under 35” group as the most lazy, spoiled, entitled, twinky and worthless group that this nation has ever spawned.

Rusty Shackleford
Rusty Shackleford

Who raised them to be that way?

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid

Tel Avi()sion?

Skoolz?

Soshul media?

Computers?

Many suspects for the crime…

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

Commies and Nazis, Aunty. They told us they were going to destroy us from the inside out…and WE LET THEM! Now we’ve got a shitload of wet work to deal with.

We gave an inch. They took our country.

laura ann
laura ann

Public schools and lazy parents who didn’t teach discipline and work ethics. Most young women today never learned to cook basic meals. Kids no longer have to clean their rooms or help out w/ household chores.

mickey d

The general society plus school indoctrination has more pull than we want to admit.

SwiftJustice
SwiftJustice

The Globalist Media, and parents that love the world rather than God.

eckbach
eckbach

Ultimately…Frankfurt School Jews and their German Communist Party lackeys. “We will make the west so corrupt it stinks.” Willie Munzenberg.

laura ann
laura ann

Most are, and they are also fence sitters (go with the flow w/ whoever runs this country) They are also nihilists like many older adults, incl retirees. I have dropped social contacts since the covid cult started, no time for these losers. I have less social interaction than ever now, am retired. We home church now since so many covid cult members in churches.

laura ann
laura ann

Young people and those being born will have a future of enslavement and A.I. control (zero privacy) like the Chinese, because there are very few patriots today who will stand up and take this country in the right path. Politicians are compromised and corrupt (both parties) . Not a time to start a family, married women need to stay in the work force to keep up with cost of living.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

“Their elders” are the ones who created this damned mess in the first place. Still…there comes an age of accountability wherein one must take responsibility for their own decisions and not blame others.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

Or just like long swims in the moonlight.

I’m forced to concur.

KJ
KJ

Russia is a nuclear state, and has a military that, its recent underperformance notwithstanding

Russia’s military hasn’t “underperformed,” it’s been restrained by the stupid political leadership in Moscow.

They really don’t seem to get it. Once it became obvious that Rabbi St. Zelensky wasn’t going to be permitted to negotiate a peace deal by his tribesmen in DC, they should’ve allowed the Russian military to surround Kiev, cut off all routes in and out, and bomb into rubble every single Ukrainian gov’t building. They should also have flown 24/7 heavy bomber sorties in western Ukraine, right up to the border, and destroyed anything that moved.

Instead, they’re allowing DC/NATO to stall for time, using the hapless, mentally deficient Ukrainians to absorb Russia’s blows while they (DC/NATO) position themselves for what comes next in this game. Russia has given DC/NATO time to absorb Finland and Sweden, so now they’ll have even more NATO on their border.

Much like Muhammed Ali, the US/NATO is playing rope-a-dope – except it’s the Ukrainians who are the ones being punched into oblivion.

KJ
KJ

I don’t know what’s up with the formatting and blockquoting situation, but I tried to fix my comment so only what I’m quoting is put in italics, but it makes my entire comment a blockquote. Not the first time it’s happened and I can’t fix it.

Apologies in advance.

Putin it where it counts
Putin it where it counts

Like Russia has the planes for that

KJ
KJ

They do have the planes for it.

AtildHun
AtildHun

They don’t need planes for that, just missiles and mines.

Backwoods Squirrel
Backwoods Squirrel

Let’s play a game, shall we?

Who is sending vast amounts of military equipment and ordinance to Ukraine during a time when the supply chain is busted and parts to make replacements are in short supply?

Who is draining their strategic oil reserves and actually shipping it out to foreign countries while blocking production within their own country?

Who’s food supplies seem to be running low due to nature AND man? (Think fuel costs and shortages in diesel for tractors and trucks.)

Who’s cut off their nose to spite their own face by sanctioning the very country who provides the majority of the fuel needed to survive the winter? (They are beginning to back track on that now!)

Who’s getting weaker as Russia’s B team is on the field?

Rope-a-Dope can be played by both sides and I do believe ours is going to run out of steam first.

People need to understand…We (USA/NATO) do NOT have a dog in that fight and should keep our collective noses OUT of it.

KJ
KJ

Let’s play a game, shall we?

This rope-a-dope shit goes on until December. Sweden and Finland are fast-track admitted into NATO, effectively cutting off Baltic Sea access to the Russian fleet – both military and maritime. Then another blockade is put onto Kalinigrad, this time by NATO itself.

Then what does Russia do? If they try to bum-rush their way thru a NATO blockade (not puny Lithuania on its own), then hot WWIII is on in earnest.

See, Squirrel – Russia is always reacting, never pro-acting. Their February invasion of Ukraine was a reactive event; it took place AFTER they allowed the 2014 DC-backed coup to take place in Ukraine – right in their front yard. They allowed massive amounts of weaponry to be shipped into Ukraine by DC/NATO long prior to the February 2022 invasion. They allowed Donbass to be shelled for 8 years, killing 15,000 people. They allowed Ukraine to amass and dig in a large force on the edge of Donbass and only acted when an invasion of Donbass by the Ukrainians was imminent.

They continue to allow DC/NATO to buy time and are still treating Rabbi St. Zelensky as a legitimate “leader,” instead of dropping an Iskander missile on his head, occupying and cleaning up Kiev, and asking DC/NATO, “Whatcha gonna do about it, limpdicks? Impose more ‘sanctions?’ Start WWIII for real?”

Backwoods Squirrel
Backwoods Squirrel

Donbas didn’t react to the 2014 coup the way Crimea did. Crimea voted to become part of Russia again. The Donbas region voted to become independent, neither Ukraine nor Russia. Russia had no part in that and didn’t act until formally ASKED to do so and only after becoming the first and only nation to recognize them as independent. Before that moment in time, it was a ‘civil war’ within Ukraine. Thus, legally, Russia didn’t ‘invade’ but sent military aid in the form of troops to regain and restore the Donbas region and kick Ukraine out of it.

Anything Russia does is seen as ‘illegitimate’ to NATO simply because ‘we’ need a war to cover their collective hairy arses and distract the sheep from the collapse of the money supply.

Would you have preferred they dropped a nuke? That option is still on the table for them as they reserve the right to first strike if they feel ‘threatened.’ They already have the co-ordinates for DC, London, etc…etc..etc..

You see, when you know you have the power to knock someone’s lights out, generally (if you’re not a bully) you tend to hold back until you simply can’t anymore. Then, you knock their block off.

KJ
KJ

Russia had no part in that and didn’t act until formally ASKED to do so and only after becoming the first and only nation to recognize them as independent. Before that moment in time, it was a ‘civil war’ within Ukraine. Thus, legally, Russia didn’t ‘invade’ but sent military aid in the form of troops to regain and restore the Donbas region and kick Ukraine out of it.

Nonsense. Russia knew what was up for years regarding Donbass and could’ve acted “illegally” and invaded to protect their own interest.

They knew Ukraine, acting as a proxy for DC/NATO, wanted to snuggle right up the that border and put missiles aimed at Moscow 3 feet west of the Russian border. If Russia wanted to move in and occupy Donbass after Donbass voted for their own “independence,” they could’ve easily made that happen – and I’m sure the Russian people of Donbass wouldn’t have objected.

When you know you have the power to knock someone’s lights out and they persist in agitating you and getting in your face, as well as provide other people around you with sticks and stones to throw at you (and they do, indeed, throw them), you knock their lights out.

Backwoods Squirrel
Backwoods Squirrel

But were they actually throwing the proverbial sticks and stones at Russia?

In martial arts training we were taught to never do more than was necessary to get out of a situation. Example: If you’re standing with your back to a brick wall and someone begins to rush at you going to pile drive into your gut. What do you do? There were a lot of different answers from the students but the trainer/teacher shook his head and smiled patiently and stated: “No, you are all wrong. You simply sidestep and let them hit the wall instead of you. You never do more than what is absolutely necessary to defend yourself or others. You do not kill when you can simply step out of the way and let them hurt themselves.”

KJ
KJ

They’re throwing them at Russia now and continue to do so. They were bombarding Russian-speaking people in Donbass for 8 years with them, and killed 15,000 of those Russian-speaking Donbassians.

Stop the sophism and semantics, Squirrel. you know I’m right.

Mr Numbertaker
Mr Numbertaker

@ Backwoods,

You are correct in your previous comments (and your martial arts anaolgy above is also correct as Putin is a Judo master and is using the weight of his opponents against them).

What is missed during these discussions is that in 2013 / 2014 when Ukraine was being pulled apart by the West, Russia was still rebuilding – socially, politically, economically, and militarily – from the greatest collapse of empire since the fall of Rome (which for the less well well informed readers was of course the collapse of the Soviet Union), and several internal wars (such as the very costly Chechen wars) followed along with the theft of state money to US, UK, and EU banks via the so called “Oligarcks”.

Back in 2014 Russia could not economically or militarily “afford” a direct confrontation with the West on the scale of this one, especially as they were involved in their first expeditionary war (Syria).

The Russians (with the Chinese and Iranians) have been preparing for a confrontation with the West for almost a decade since the Maiden Coup in Ukraine – and they are now more than ready.

Russia never set out to destroy Ukraine – the objectives were set out clearly last year and again in February this year – if Ukraine did not agree to become Neutral, did not impliment the Minsk 2 agreement (Donbass recognition), and did not remove the NAZIS from government, they Russia would take action to protect Russia and Russian minorities inside Ukraine by direct action.

The west has already lost this war – it is now just a matter of how much more they want to loose, ie – the global reserve currency, thier power grid, their industries, thier very citizens?

PS,
Dont argue with trolls, it only encourages them.

KJ
KJ

Hey Numbertaker – who are you calling a troll, dopey? First time I’ve seen you comment here.

Richard Bagg
Richard Bagg

Putin would do us all a favor by dropping a nuke on D.C and London.

Daddy Joe
Daddy Joe

Backwoods Squirrel, Right on. The fools we have for leaders haven’t a clue about Russia or the grave danger we are Placing the world in. When the history books are written I think it will be shown that Russia showed great restraint not only with Ukraine, but also with NATO/USA. Our fool leaders want war NOW before our collapse, but I think Putin is waiting to see if Americans can show some sanity and regime change via our elections. If the Dems steal our elections again (they will) then there’s no hope to avert war. Goodbye DC, London, and hopefully not too many other places. We need to start imagining our land without the pox of the federal overlords. How will your state fare if we are Balkanized and/or our immigrant fifth column rises up to its appointed task to eliminate us? Time to prep up, harden up, and get all the trivial crap out of your life. Make peace where you can, but prepare for war tooth and nail. Time is short–the seven fat years approach their sudden end.

Stucky

“Russia is always reacting, never pro-acting. “

I think you have PCR disease.

KJ
KJ

I agree with PCR on this, so no “diseases” here, buddy.

GunnyHiWay
GunnyHiWay

Yes… Start WW3 for real.
Humanity has run it’s course.
Time to start over again.
Russia is RIGHT. The WEST is WRONG and SICK.
I think a NUKE WAR would be a fitting end to the sickness that is the western society.

ken31
ken31

Well, who is it? The suspense is killing me.

SwiftJustice
SwiftJustice

… and would have killed ten times more civilians. But you would not know that yourself, since you need someone else to tell you what to think, is obvious. Ukraine is the most corrupt and depraved crap-hole of Marxist/Fascist/Nazi rule on earth now, since that is what they already were. Now they have an excuse. NATO would figure out whatever way they can, to provoke Putin and Russia, and have been for 25 years of dishonorable actions and encroachment of their own words. That is how this all began to begin with, when Jews got in bed with Nazis, who got in bed with Obama, and they overthrew the legitimate Govt. of Ukraine. They then began shelling and murdering the People in eastern Ukraine, ever since, in cold blood for no reason other than their hatred of Christians, as always – which Russia has been restored to – a CHRISTIAN Nation. One that kicks degenerate Faggs and Dykkes OUT, rather than allow them to teach, corrupt and molest their children. How is it you do not know that? Oh, I get it, you are unable to think for yourself, and need Globalist Media to tell you what to think. You do not realize that Nazis and Jews ALWAYS were in bed together, and that they are only “Name Stealer” Khazarian Fake Jews, and not real genetic ones – financed by the Rothschild/Vatican Banker cabal. Same Russia, Russia, Russia BS. You are HYPNOTIZED by the Rothschild/Vatican banker cabal Media, having no true source of intellect of discernment of your own. You are here REPEATING them, like a good little PROGRAM.

KJ
KJ

Swift Justice, who are you replying to? Me? Because I got your reply and it is has nothing to do with my comment.

Anonymous
Anonymous

US-led naval escort to break Russian blockade could risk wider war

Could? I can see no way it would not guarantee it.

Considering doing so on Russia’s doorstep? Not too bright.

Just how many ships would the US be willing to lose? Because if they try this, they will lose some. The missiles from land based units would overwhelm any defenses. That is assuming that the US ships stay functional at all. see: Donald Cook, Black Sea, 2014.

It would be one of the stupidest thing the US could do. So I expect it to be announced shortly……

ken31
ken31

It is a bullshit article, because Russia keeps trying to set this up, but Ukraine won’t de-mine their ports, and NATO can’t use those ports until they do, either.

AtildHun
AtildHun

“…as well as Democratic representative Elissa Slotkin and the editorial boards of the Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal.”
That should scare the crap out of Putin.

Backwoods Squirrel
Backwoods Squirrel

Poking the Bear in the eye with a stick and expecting it to ‘run’ is a harebrained idea if ever I heard one.

Russia’s ‘invasion?’ If Texas seceded and the US began attacking (for 8 years) then TX asks Mexico for aid (never gonna happen but you get the gist) Is Mexico ‘INVADING’ the US? Naw. Didn’t think so either. And better get a better source for what’s actually going on over there. Russia isn’t under performing. They’ve taken their objectives with less loss of life than when the US truly INVADED Iraq. One may call it weakness that Russia didn’t start off with utter ‘Shock and Awe’ as the US did but there was/is a different objective. But, keep pushing, poking and prodding and the real Russia is going to come out to ‘play.’

Backwoods Squirrel
Backwoods Squirrel

I am NOT a fan of Russia but….You know how they say that even a broke clock is right twice a day? Well, this just happens to be one of those times for Russia. Preventing a genocide is a worthy cause no matter who is doing the killing of whom.

KJ
KJ

The real Bear should’ve come out to play already, once it was clear that Rabbi St. Zelensky wasn’t being permitted by his DC/NATO puppetmasters to negotiate a peace agreement.

Backwoods Squirrel
Backwoods Squirrel

Nothing NATO has done so far is hurting Russia. On the contrary. NATO is looking like the bully it is and their people are also seeing it as well as feeling it. Think chess, not boxing. Sometimes you allow your opponent to take pieces off the board which then clears the way for the final attack. All the while your opponent is also losing pieces. Evidently military strategy is a dying or lost art. The US has become accustomed to simply ‘blowing shite up.’ BUT, on the off chance we DO decide to blow something up, Russia’s going to say “Here. Hold my beer.”

Stucky

“All the while your opponent is also losing pieces. “

Correct. Two of the four HIMARS have already been destroyed. See one of them go poof in the video below.

The Ukies haven’t used the other two yet because as soon as they do … the Russians will destroy them also.

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https://t.me/intelslava/32645

GunnyHiWay
GunnyHiWay

Stop with the JOO hate you NAZI scumbag.
Why don’t you go fight for Ukraine?
You seem like the brain-dead sort that would volunteer.
Till then, suck my circumcision.

KJ
KJ

You talking to me, GunnyHiRetard?

The Central scrutinizer
The Central scrutinizer

Looks to me like you had it coming. I, myself, have grown weary of asshats who can’t see past ethnicity and color. You want to spend all your time hating the wrong people, well, you’ll be known as the resident asshat. The choice was always your own.

KJ
KJ

Looks to me like you’re already the resident asshat, “Central Scrutinizer.” Do I have to fight you for the title now? You fking idiot. SMDH…

Capt Barty
Capt Barty

They really want that war, don’t they? And soon.

B_MC
B_MC

And if Russia won’t bite, maybe China will….

FBI Now Joins in China Warmongering in Bizarre Speech in London with MI5 About Taiwan, Intellectual Property Theft

The US is continuing to escalate with China, and as with Russia, both the logic and the pretexts are close to unhinged…

The US and its Western allies cannot hope to come out well in a conflict with China on top of its proxy war with Russia. The fact that the US and its allies are losing the conflict in Ukraine against Russia, where Russia has sent in a peacetime army which it is able to regularly rotate out for R&R, is deploying massive artillery barrages, day after day, with no apparent concern about supplies, has used long-range missiles to great effect, while the West is scraping the NATO supply cupboards dry and Ukraine is suffering massive troop losses in Donbass, ought to be focusing a few minds. But no! Because we are so convinced of our superiority, despite massive evidence otherwise (starting with not having won a war in decades), we’re now gonna go show China who’s boss too!…

Both Ritter and Larry Johnson believe if the US were to try to stop a Chinese intervention in China (which IMHO could take the form of a blockade rather than an invasion), China could easily and probably would sink one of the US aircraft carriers set to “defend” Taiwan. Sadly, I suspect the US would welcome such a counterattack. Most Americans don’t care enough about Taiwan, let alone US intellectual property, to go to war. But the loss of 6,000 American lives?

The wee problem is that Ritter thinks the US response would be a tactical nuclear strike on a secondary Chinese city, which would lead China to light up the US. Bye bye world.

FBI Now Joins in China Warmongering in Bizarre Speech in London with MI5 About Taiwan, Intellectual Property Theft

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

They can’t stay in power without it…and soon isn’t soon enough for them. You can tell by their numerous provocations.

And I don’t believe they care WHO they fight as long as they start one for the distraction. They’d be happy with Civil War II OR WW III. Just as long as they stay in power. They don’t care if they reign over a cesspool, just as long as they’re running the shit show.

“THEY” care nothing about anyone but themselves.

C.A.L.
C.A.L.

Invasion. Invasion. Invasion. This is just more American propaganda spew from western journalists who never say why Russia was compelled to act.

How is Russia underperforming? That restraint is grinding the Ukes and NATO to dust.
Who mined the waters? It wasn’t Russia.
Why would Russia allow any of the western nations to get involved? The west has demonstrated again and again that they are entirely untrustworthy.

The western journalists and military can rattle their little swords all they like but Russia is not backing off.
I look at the Ukraine/Russia conflict as a battle of a much bigger war that the west will insist on escalating.
The west is bluffing at Texas Hold ’em while the Russians are playing chess.

Cheers

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Stavridis was the NATO commander when Obama and Hillary decided to destroy Libya. That evil mistake was just more evidence (along with NATO bombing of Serbia) that NATO isn’t a “defensive alliance”. Now they hope to rope Asian countries into NATO? Their definition of “North Atlantic” is getting rather expansive.

Arthur
Arthur

More lies. It is the Ukraine that mined the Black Sea.

There is no humanitarian crisis. Ukraine does not feed the world.

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid

It’s all fun and games until someone sinks a capital ship or two.

Rooskies already lost the Moskva – who and what is next? A likely chain of unfortunate events caused by the retards at the Pentagram or Bruxelles. Perhaps.

Stay tuned.

B_MC
B_MC

Time to move to Alaska?

Russian politician threatens Alaska, says ‘we can claim it back’

Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin warned that Russia could demand Alaska back if the US continues to seize Russian resources abroad on Wednesday.

“Decency is not a weakness. We always have something a response. Let America always remember that there is part of its territory, Alaska. When they start trying to dispose of our resources abroad, before doing so, let them think that we also have something to claim back,” said Volodin.

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-711362

Stucky

When asked what he knows about America, Vyacheslav Volodin recently said he could see the USA from his dacha. I love that.

Jeannie
Jeannie

Ukrainian crops are nothing compared to what is being sanctioned out of Russia.
The Dutch are trying to destroy farmers, and the rest of the world’s farmers are suffering from the fertilizer sanctions, also.
But this is all Russia’s fault. Sure.

Elder Son
Elder Son

“…its recent underperformance notwithstanding…”

That is rich. Russia could have steam-rolled through Ukraine.

Some reasons why it didn’t.

To save lives.

To not completely destroy the infrastructure of Ukraine.

To prevent Western emotional crybabies from demanding an immediate NATO response due to the immediate mass destruction of Ukraine.

We’re not like Western Globohomo War Machine. (But we can be).

Anyhow, all these idiots looking through the lens of American… Warcraft.

Stucky

“Russia is a nuclear state, and has a military that, its recent underperformance notwithstanding, “

Underperforming???

Thank you for stating that very early on. Tells me everything I need to know about you ….. that you are truly and sincerely dumber than whale shit. Saved me time from reading the rest of your article …. which is no doubt More Crap. Hope I never see you again.

QOTD: Why are there so many retarded journalists?

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid

Those “journalists” you refer to get their all the news and information from CNN, MSNBC, Reuters, AP, WaPo or the Grey Whore.

That’s why.

olde reb
olde reb

Douglas Valentine, in his book CIA AS ORGANIZED CRIME, details the lengthy Ukraine provacation the USA has made in chapter 9.

olde reb
olde reb

A historical analysis of the founders of the Fed to be Rothschild Khazarian Mafia origin is detailed at https://stateofthenation.co/?p=52306. Genetic research of the Covid vaccines by doctor Lee Merritt has concluded Ashkenazi Jewish bloodline is practically immune to the toxic spike protein of Covid-19.

It appears this vaccine can be spread by shedding. Genocide by vaccine appears to be the object.

Anonymous
Anonymous

This is all just a distraction until Taiwan kicks off. If you were under the assumption that NATO are the good guys coming in to rescue people, you are completely delusional and should probably turn off MSDNC.

TLate
TLate

Underperforming is double speak for losing …. this guy is just another media hack giving an opinion. The US trying to break a Russian naval blockade is an act of war. The question is when does Russia get fed up and retaliate. That will be a bad day for all of us.

GunnyHiWay
GunnyHiWay

Russia is not “underperforming” you dope.
Russia is being very careful to avoid civilian casualties.
You sound more like CNN every day.
Dismissed,
E-7 Ret.
78-03

morongobill
morongobill

If the boys want to fight, you’d better let them.

Anonymous
Anonymous

That’s such a faggy song.

SwiftJustice
SwiftJustice

Putin withholding his hand, to facilitate the survival of the People, is not an “underperformance”, it is a humanitarian gesture. Is it not more of an “underperformance” to NOT grasp that fact?

Arizona Sentinel
Arizona Sentinel

Negotiate a deal? With Russia holding all the cards ? Dude, I would definitely NOT have you as a poker partner. Or even go to Vegas with you

Anonymous
Anonymous

If the Russians even consider a “deal” with the West, they deserve the severe ass fucking they will eventually receive for being such (repeatedly) gullible marks.

Several of their higher ups have stated, “America (the West) is not agreement capable”, so it is not like they are unaware that any agreement is worthless.

Not hopeful as I am repeatedly stunned by how naive the Russians seem when it comes to the Americans, their dishonesty and their self righteous arrogance. Maybe they have learned, but I am not optimistic.

august
august

Just for the record, the Russians are not blockading Ukrainian exports, though they claim the right to inspect any inbound shipping for war materials.

The Kiev government, in its wisdom, did mine Odessa’s harbor and the approaches thereto, and as a result commercial shipping has indeed become uninsurable.

Diogenes' Dung
Diogenes' Dung

I’ve seen this movie before. A Figure 8 Russian Officer launches her torpedos.

Jdog
Jdog

Putting senile FJB up against Putin in a war situation is about as smart as FJB’s energy and economic policies. The chances of him completely fuclking up are about 100%

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