Authored by Kyle Anzalone & Will Porter,
The Kremlin’s top diplomat has warned that Western involvement in Ukraine is nearing “the point of no return,” accusing the United States and the NATO bloc of attempting to transform the country into a “Russophobic military stronghold.” Meanwhile, Moscow’s UN envoy declared that all of Russia’s “red lines” have already been crossed.
Addressing lawmakers at Russia’s State Duma on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov outlined the causes of the current conflict in Ukraine and the deterioration of US-Russia relations, saying Washington has a “maniacal desire to revive the neo-colonial unipolar world order.”
“An integral part of this policy is the long-term containment of Russia, including through the expansion of NATO towards our borders, as well as the transformation of fraternal Ukraine into a Russophobic military stronghold,” he said. “In recent years, this line of Washington and its European satellites has reached the point of no return.”
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Washington and several other Western states gave assurances to Moscow that the NATO alliance would not expand beyond Germany. However, in the years since, Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump have each allowed new members to join the alliance, all of them inching closer to Russia’s borders.
Starting in 2008, NATO has repeatedly declared its intention to someday allow Ukraine to become a member, again reiterating that pledge at a recent alliance summit. The move would cross the “brightest of all red lines” for Moscow, as was previously noted by then-State Department official and current CIA Director William Burns, who penned a 2008 memo warning of the geopolitical perils of extending membership to Kiev.
Still, President Joe Biden has refused to change course, insisting it is up to Ukraine whether it would like to join the US-led military bloc while effectively making Kiev a de facto member in the meantime. In an interview with Newsweek on Tuesday, Russia’s UN envoy Dmitry Polyanskiy argued that the West has not respected Moscow’s core security concerns, and has become directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine.
“All the red lines have already been crossed by Western countries. There is already semi-direct involvement of NATO in the conflict because it’s not only weaponry but it’s intelligence,” he said. “It’s the situation when the targets of certain artillery systems, in particular HIMARS, these targets can be hit only with the coordination with Washington.”
Last week, the Washington Post reported that Ukraine relies on American intelligence for selecting targets. Since the start of the year, the White House has authorized the shipment of main battle tanks and long-range rockets to Kiev. Additionally, NATO appears to be preparing to send Western-made warplanes to Ukraine.
“It means that NATO is not only providing weapons but also are choosing the targets for Ukrainian strikes,” Polyanskiy continued.
He went on to allege that citizens from NATO countries are already fighting – as well as getting captured and killed – in Ukraine. “We know this from the people that we capture and from the bodies that we see on the battlefield.” The ambassador said Western weapons would only escalate the conflict, even warning that foreign intervention could eventually trigger a nuclear war.
🚨#BREAKING: "NATO must be ready for long standoff with Russia" – Secretary General of NATO
And remember, in the last few days:
– Tanks sent to Ukraine
– NATO considering jets
– Possible US responsibility re Nordstream attackYet all we are talking about are balloons… pic.twitter.com/w2kMN96Tfw
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 16, 2023
“It’s absolutely clear that any deliveries of weapons to the zone of conflict, of course, is like pouring oil into the fire,” he said, adding “If you are dealing with a nuclear power and if you are citing the goal of inflicting defeat to this nuclear power, you should have all the options in mind of our possible response.”
In their remarks, both diplomats also pointed to potential American involvement in the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines. Last week, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a bombshell report claiming that Washington planned to bomb the pipelines. The White House has denied that it had any part sabotaging the line, though Senator Mike Lee later acknowledged that it was possible.
On Wednesday, Polyanskiy said that Moscow requested a UN meeting next week to address Hersh’s reporting. Lavrov rejected denials from the Biden administration, saying the West is “lying, hiding the truth about the terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines, just as they lied about the Minsk agreements.”
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel claimed the Minsk agreement, which ostensibly was meant to end the civil war in Ukraine, was really intended to give Kiev time to build up its military. In a December 1 interview with Der Spiegel, Merkel said that she believes that during the Minsk talks, she was able to buy the time Ukraine needed to better fend off a Russian attack.
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As far as I can tell, our government madmen hate Russia because they have an unusual alphabet.
The murikan govt hates its own People, so getting a foreign nation to retaliate against murikan involvement there is easy marketing wank to get the People emotionally into the efforts hook, line, sinker, boat, wharf, trailer and PU.
What they do not hate?
Thank for your patience
pink nail polish, green hair, tattoos and push up bras on hairy chested men
When it comes to war it’s all about the money. The USA has the biggest military industrial complex of any country by far.
“Biggest” doesn’t mean most competent or effective. In fact, I would argue that it’s size is a detriment to it’s effectiveness and efficiency.
I think AKJohn meant most expensive.
Maybe, but it would take years to ramp up production to become effective. Way too long. JIT does not work for war.
Ask Obama
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/did_obamas_trumphate_light_a_fuse_to_a_war_with_russia.html
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Auntie will tell you that the Russians are NOT bluffing yet the Chou Bi Din administration is playing with nuclear fire.
This sabre rattling and brinkmanship is getting way to dangerous and close; Bloody Caesars for today’s Happy Hour will take the edge off of the hysteria for today.
I would imagine Biden’s military advisors and some other war mongering hacks are goading him on in hopes Russia makes the first move therefore justifying retaliation. Hell, RINO hack Lindsey Graham was smiling when he said the other day that “Kiev with fight Russia to the last Ukrainian!”
Caesars?
Are you Canadian?
Cheers
Auntie loves that Clamato juice and vodka. Celery. Worcestershire sauce. Tabasco. .Pepper. Oh yeah.
Nostrovya
You should try it with gin instead of vodka.
yuck
на здоров’я — na zdroviya — ‘to your health’ — you’re welcome.
Vlad has been very patient…we will reap what we sow…bye, bye D.C. psychopaths.
He should be sure to schedule the launch when there is a joint session of Congress, maybe for something like the 17th impeachment of Trump.
If Russia declares war, I’m on their side.
The globohomos, if they push it that far, deserve to burn- one way or another.
True, OfftheHingeZ…. but in Peak Corruption lands like ours people get the opposite of what they “deserve.”
So, unfortunately you and I will burn, not the DC/EU Globalist 4th Reich Schwab-worshiping Nazis. We will be forced to pay for their sins while they hide in so-called DUMBS sanctuaries (bunkers).
And in the meantime, infinite FED welfare will continue to flow to billionaires (who killed free markets but claim to love them) until the entire middle class is destroyed – just as the blue collar jobs sector was exterminated long ago by SIFI banks feeding China with FED freebies since 2001.
War is just a method of killing off the surplus population at an accelerated rate. The elites on both sides skate through fine.
Trust the plan.
Oh, look at the big balloon.
Stay safe and prepare accordingly.
ICYMI – airnow, a government web site shows that the air quality in Ohio, specifically, in East Palestine, is cleaner that the air in my town, 1100 miles away. Still believe anything the US government says????
Explanation: all the Ohio cows are dead so there are no cow farts to foul the air and Joe’s gonna take all the credit for the clean air.
No chicken or fish farts either! So successful that AOC and Dementia Joe will order Phosgene gas (aka Mustard Gas) to be released everywhere. The WEF and their Uniparty minions can bugger a bunch of little kids at the same time and by God, the planet will be so damn clean you could eat off it!
Russia is wasting their time requesting a meeting with the Jewnited Nations.
We are on a collision course for an expanding regional war which could/will probably spin out of control and lead to a wider international nuclear conflagration. The corporatist propaganda machine is not reporting the facts about the US/NATO’s dangerously insane provocations. All they are reporting is their one sided narrative about Putin being evil (the new Hitler) and Ukraine being a bastion of democracy the home of noble and heroic freedom fighters instead of the demented Neo-Nazis and money grubbing politicians they are. Nothing is ever said about the real Ukraine; the corrupt failed state that is a conduit for US MIC profiteering, money laundering to grifters like Hunter and Joe Biden and a crucial part of US funded global gain of function biological and chemical weaponry labs. We are sleep walking into a serious war yet the miscreants and misanthropes in charge could care less!
They couldn’t care less is right.
It has been alluded to and one might pray modern super surveillance and satellite targeting might literally make it possible to get “the right people” and leave everyone else alone. The next question would be why, if this is true are they fighting WW1 style, killing and destroying everything? What level of evil is all this?
Fratricide- the second original sin.
Very well said Junious
Thank you hopefully more of us will spread the word and people will rouse from their induced stupor and help save the planet from theses psychopaths.
The US clowns are so out of touch with reality that they actually talk about ‘winning’ a nuke war. With that belief, they will not back off from fear for their own lives.
Russia seems to have FINALLY (fuck I hope they have) grasped that negotiating and signing treaties with the West is pointless as they will simply ignore them.
Nukes are inevitable now IMO.
Meanwhile, the Chinese keep stirring the pot, patiently waiting for their chance.
If the Russians attack us with the same vigor as Country 404, we have nothing to worry about. However the GAE is long overdue for some comeuppance.
Where is Satan’s Chaplin-Henry Kissinger-when we really need him?
Where he has always been. The current nutjobs don’t care to listen to his wisdom.
And yes, he is an evil fuck, but not stupid. He already has tried to get the US to back off and use some logic before acting. He was roundly rejected.
I too hate the K man but he was on the right side this time. And isn’t it time all the war-mongers like ‘lil Lindsay are removed from service?
Supposedly Kissinger is warning the plutocrats not to take on Russia but I think he has worn out his usefulness as far as the younger elites are concerned TPTB are not monolithic they think alike and they are psychopaths but they do have differing agendas, objectives or ways to accomplish their shared goal of world domination.
Yes , there are competing factions within the greater cabal . Identical to all the different crime families that made up the larger crime cyndicates and probably for all I know still do .
Putin says welcome to his nuclear family.
Mr. Putin, please aim for the DC homes of Biden, Blinken, Nuland, Sullivan and Lindsay Graham.
“I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.” — Buck Turgidson
“Multiply by 10 and we’ve got a deal, General.” — Pres. Brandon
My one request to Russia is that when nukes become the only option, that they try to surgically (as surgical as possible with a nuke) cut the head off the demented snake first. They can go all in after if it does not work.
We are not the enemy, we just happen to be in the same area as the enemy.
Seems to me this foreign policy against Russia is enough of a threat to the nation that exercising the option in the Constitution to fire the government and hire a new one is appropriate. Otherwise the result may be Armageddon.
Indeed.
But not doing it the last 100 or so times it should have, has kind of set precedence it seems.
Every time they get away with one, they are emboldened to try more.
Just a thought that has started to cross my mind this week. Maybe it’s already started? Maybe these “psyops” (balloons, explosions, ransomware attacks, etc) aren’t really psyops. Maybe these are real covert operations from the nations we continue to fuck with; Russia, China, etc.
The events over the past few weeks feel different to me. The responses don’t feel as smooth and organized. Psyops generally have the response planned in to project an appearance of competence. Recall that the first murderballoon became public only because an amateur photographer happened to be in the right place at the right time. Then it blew up into balloonageddon with F22s shooting shit down everywhere.
It almost feels like these most recent events have been catching the psychopaths in charge off guard. It’s like they freeze up for several days while they try to figure it out. Then the response is helter skelter, inconsistent, and frankly stupid.
Maybe the nation(s) we keep fucking with have finally said enough is enough and we’re already in the early stages of WW3.
Just a thought.
I too have had similar thoughts. Of course in my signature way of being blunt Ive been saying we we’re ripe for a takeover since Obama was sworn in . Not that The House Of Bush wasn’t a member of the club , just a bit more competent faction of evil .