Earlier this week CNN reported that the Biden administration is considering “dramatically” increasing its training of Ukrainian forces. The proposal would involve US advisers training “much larger groups of Ukrainian soldiers in more sophisticated battlefield tactics” at American installations in Germany, and possibly other locations in Europe. This could involve as many as 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers trained by US advisers a month, which over a half-year period would total 15,000 going through the proposed ramped-up US program.
This report and others, which have also detailed expanding military training programs for Ukrainians in Europe overseen by UK and other NATO-member militaries, has prompted a Friday response from the Kremlin. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov alleged Thursday that the US and NATO are now directly participating in the Ukraine war.
“You shouldn’t say that the US and NATO aren’t taking part in this war. You are directly participating in it,” Lavrov told a press briefing.
“And not just by providing weapons but also by training personnel. You are training their military on your territory, on the territories of Britain, Germany, Italy, and other countries,” he pointed out.
He reiterated prior Kremlin statements underscoring that war between nuclear powers is “unacceptable” but while highlighting that growing US-NATO involvement greatly heightens this risk.
“Even if someone plans to start it by conventional means, the risk of escalation into a nuclear war will be enormous,” Lavrov added.
Lavrov’s comments are hugely significant given up to this point Moscow slammed what it called “indirect” American involvement. Russian officials spoke of the growing proxy war nature of the conflict. But now it appears the Kremlin sees that there’s been an escalation to direct NATO involvement.
Meanwhile the ongoing British program at multiple UK bases continues to be large in size. The UK’s own infantry program for Ukraine forces has a stated goal of training at least 10,000 Ukrainian troops.
It remains that the Kremlin has warned repeatedly against such deepening Western involvement, which clearly is now going far beyond just weapons shipments. Russia this week walked away from New START nuclear arms reduction treaty negotiations with the US while citing its growing involvement in backing Kiev as a major reason for halting resumption of talks.
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Endgame Ukraine; Putin’s Battleplan
Ukraine Plunged Into Darkness—As of the morning of November 24, more than 70% of Kiev remains without electricity. There is no water in half of the capital. Power outages continue in all regions throughout the country….”Kiev goes Dark as NATO Sacrifices Ukraine”,Southfront
The widespread power outages are accompanied by freezing temperatures that will inevitably lead to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Millions of Ukrainians will be forced to flee across the border seeking refuge in Europe. Others will be left to hunker-down in makeshift emergency shelters that are sporadically heated by diesel-powered generators. There is no prospect that Ukraine’s dilapidated power-system will be fixed quickly if ever. And even if it could be cobbled-back together in some improvised capacity, it would only be a short-term fix. The fact is, the Russians have identified the main substations, terminals and auto-transformers across Ukraine and are picking them off one-by-one. Unable to defend itself against the daily barrage of precision-guided missiles, Ukraine is gradually being bombed into the Stone Age.
The objective of the Russian operation is to undermine Ukraine’s ability to wage war. The attacks on Ukraine’s power-grid, railway hubs, fuel deports, bridges and command-and-control centers are merely Phase 1 of a 2-phase operation that is designed to defeat the enemy and bring the war to swift end. Russia has gathered roughly 500,000 troops in a combat Strike-Force that will traverse the country along three main axes annihilating Ukrainian Forces wherever they are encountered and seizing key cities along the way. Critical supply-lines from Poland will be blocked, leaving troops at the front cut-off and vulnerable to attack. Eventually, the regime and their Right-bloc security forces will be killed or captured. Moscow will not allow a government that is openly hostile towards Russia to rule the country.
Endgame Ukraine; Putin’s Battleplan
Those are minuscule numbers of Ukie troops being trained in the UK and Western Europe. The bigger danger is that NATO starts to allow (and equip) Ukrainian forces to attack directly into what is indisputably Russia proper. Some of the Baltic states are demanding that. They’re also demanding that Russian missiles in Ukraine be targeted by anti-air defenses FROM NATO countries. If the latter happens, Russia will likely strike back onto those countries. Then we’re off to the races.
I am at the point of, GOOD!
The entire system has to be leveled. We are not going to do it, that much is clear now. With any luck, TPTB infighting will wipe themselves out. If anyone is left alive after, we can start over.
I feel the same way. Fuck around and find out. I just hope they take out DC first.
Get me some popcorn.
Economic suicide has to take it’s toll on the masses across Europe. They are eating dog food in England already. The fact is, the US has destroyed the EU with this war we started and funded. Putin tried to be patient for 8 years but we had a piece of shit named Biden installed and well son of a bitch, the world was fucked. This is what happens when you are ruled by criminals.
The Baltic states- Latvia to be precise.
As a Lithuanian, I am scared and ashamed.
Our gubbermint is as idiotic.
Our countries are WEF Petri dishes.
After 2016 I told people that even though Trump had once called a guy a Mexican, I had to vote for him because Hillary would probably get us into a nuclear war with Russia. They thought I was overwrought. Now Hillary’s right hand man is National Security Advisor and Biden is telling us we’re closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
See? I fucking told you.
That being said, I voted for Kanye in 2020, and in the last couple days he’s shown the exact worldview I’d been looking for.
Have you seen Kanye’s interview with Alex Jones? I didn’t watch, but he wore some kind of mask that obscured his whole face… Has Ye he been clintoned and we’re getting played?
Just watched a clip of ben shapiro being afraid of Ye killing himself. https://twitter.com/i/status/1598777536091242497
This should be a featured article. Lavrov is a serious person, from a serious land. When he says something, it means something. I respect and fear that man. People should really pay more attention to this
Hard for the average American to pay attention while sodomizing each other and waiting for a government check.
If poot’n & co. were ANYTHING but players they woulda removed
stiletto prancin’ z eons ago.
Now the innocent are starving and freezing. IF ANYTHING is to be believed.
Let’s see use a small kill squad or get into a costly ww2 style war? Did Russia do the same exact crap that the entire world did for the deadly pandemic? Is the Russian banking system any different than any other country? Yeah its all a stage show.
Russia basically has no national debt. The western world is bankrupt. Who started this banker war? Think hard.
ooooooo Thats a harsh and unfair requirement.
The forces of evil (us) are in a shambles, as usual. This doesn’t matter so much when you’re “fighting” goat herders in a desert, but it does when you’re fighting Ruskies on their own turf. Notice how the media has gone quiet on the ridiculous pro Ukraine propaganda in the last couple of weeks? Our criminal leaders are getting destroyed and of course being arrogant psychopaths all they know is to double down.
Hell is ready for them all.
Hardly surprising that Lavrov said this but it is surprising that he needed to say this. For anyone paying attention to this at all, it has been obvious even prior to day one of the SMO that the us and nato have been involved DIRECTLY in arming, training, and building fortifications, the latter primarily in donbass where the trenches, reinforced concrete positions have been on going almost since feb 2o14 if not before.
Recall that the same (((ones))) that are in control of US foreign policy and US military policy are also in the same positions in England … and they have a hatred for Russia that goes back more than 100 years …
As always, We The People will supply the money and weapons and filled body bags while they reap the profit$ …
Well I trust the words of the Russians about as much as I trust the words of the current Biden regime. Maybe even less because there are times the Biden regime admits straight to our faces what they intend to do with us.
Ukraine’s war the USA started years ago, details here.
“Neocons are NOT American, they are Internationalists with a global agenda to also rule the world.
They are exploiting the United States as they have always done just as they are doing to Ukraine.”