Watch: Samantha Power Lets Slip The US Is At War With Russia, But “Ukrainians Doing The Fighting”

Via ZeroHedge

In a CNN panel last week, the head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Samantha Power issued some very revealing words on the Russia-Ukraine war, wherein she admitted that the US is at war with Russia but that it’s “Ukrainians doing the fighting”.

Her words came during a CNN ‘town hall’ event, which also featured Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan, marking the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion. She had specifically responded to a question from an audience member, who asked: “What vital interest does to the US have in Ukraine?” At one point in forming a response she actually gave what ranks among the most ridiculously simplistic clichés sometimes uttered by D.C. policymakersthat America stands up to “bullies”.

“I think Americans understand bullies and the importance of standing up to bullies,” she said. But here’s where she said the quiet part out loud, letting it slip that in some sense the US sees Ukraine as a pawn in the greater geostrategic game of ultimately defeating Russia: She explained the need for a broad coalition of countries in order to show “This isn’t just the United States and Russia, this in fact is Ukrainians on the front lines, Ukrainians doing the fighting…” The set of assumptions behind this statement by a top Biden admin official is very revealing, however casually she may have slipped it in. Watch the clip below:

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TN Patriot
TN Patriot
March 4, 2023 2:42 pm

In the 50’s, China had a proxy war with the US, using Koreans to do much of the fighting. I went into a stalemate that still exists today.
In the 60’s – 70’s China and Russia had a proxy war with the U S using the Vietnamese. It ended with the US running home with its tail between our legs
In the late 70’s and 80’s, the US had a proxy war with Russia, with the Afghani’s doing most of the fighting and it ended up with Russia running home with its tail between its legs and ended the USSR as a viable entity
In the ’00’s and ’10’s, the U S had a war with the muzzies in the sandbox with Russia and China being partners with Afghanistan and Iran. It ended with the U S running home with our tail between our legs.
In the ’20’s the U S is having a proxy war with the Russians and letting the Ukies do most of the fighting

Anyone else see a pattern of Proxy Wars for the last 70 years?

AKJOHN
AKJOHN
  TN Patriot
March 4, 2023 3:05 pm

Yes. We have become the evil empire.

BabbleOn
BabbleOn
  TN Patriot
March 4, 2023 3:05 pm

The funny thing whether win or lose, millions of people get killed. And that is the goal. Killing peeps that consume resources just to have moar sheets.

Moose
Moose
  TN Patriot
March 4, 2023 3:56 pm

Yeah TN, you mean the US is like Pontius Pilate, only the US never washes its dirty hands?

Yes. Yes 👁 do.
Yes. Yes 👁 do.
  TN Patriot
March 5, 2023 6:10 am

“Anyone else see a pattern of Proxy Wars for the last 70 years?”

1:9 The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun

They Could NOT hold a 🕯 to:

In a ‘good’ sense. However…

…”children” of their father…
John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

Been ’round for a minute. Too.

No ‘Allegiance’. To anything, or any group. Except for their own. “For the love of $$$$$$…” yada, yada. Or something like that.

Kljhg
Kljhg
March 4, 2023 3:31 pm

If this proxy war ends in fucking disaster for the evil on the acela corridor, their supporters and their evil proxies in kiev and lyov, than good fucking riddance. No Americans should die for nyc, dc and for that matter la and Chicago scumbags and psychopaths ever again.

kfg
kfg
March 4, 2023 4:22 pm

” . . . this in fact is Ukrainians on the front lines, Ukrainians doing the fighting…”

Yes. “Ukrainians” of the “Little Khanate” standing up to the US backed bullying of Kyiv.

lamont cranston
lamont cranston
March 4, 2023 4:40 pm

Not Ukies…Khazarians doing the fighting.

Empty
Empty
March 4, 2023 4:47 pm

I’m certainly for those of Ukraine nationality to die first before any Americans are brought into it. But if we keep allowing Obiden and Ozelensky to continue this horse shit, it’s certainly going to be WW3. Unfortunately without our own massive bunker and a few million dollars to throw at it, we’re about as prepared as we can be. Admittedly we haven’t rehearsed anything, no hiding under desks or any of that nonsense, but we have food aplenty, 2A, gas masks with myriad filters, cheap protective clothing and the will to punish those I can get to afterwards.

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid
March 4, 2023 4:49 pm

“America stands up to bullies…”
– Sam Powers

Pardonez moi, Sam; the USSA IS the world’s worst bully for a long time now – “Bringing Them Democracy (as well massive destruction and millions of body bags.)”

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  Aunt Acid
March 4, 2023 6:06 pm

It’s a “Nietzsche” thing…except that instead of staring into an abyss, they’ve been staring up their own assholes for a very long time.

Still wondering why everything is shit?

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  Aunt Acid
March 4, 2023 9:18 pm

projecting our superior morality with machine guns

Before Richard Jordan Gatling?
Before Richard Jordan Gatling?
  TN Patriot
March 5, 2023 6:24 am

“projecting our superior morality with machine guns”

Of course, many here prolly already knew the ‘History’…But thanks to algore? i can fake it. (Take THAT, too many women! 🤣)

A Brief History

“On May 15, 1718, Englishman James Puckle patented his machine gun, the world’s first! You may have thought the Gatling gun or the Maxim machine gun was the first machine gun, but depending on how you define “machine gun” James Puckle, Esq. (yes, he was a lawyer) got there first.”

Digging Deeper

“Puckle’s invention was a flintlock, the form of firearm ignition at the top of technology of the time. It consisted of a single barrel and a cylinder pre-loaded with 11 separate firing chambers of a musket ball and powder charge in each. Puckle intended regular musket balls for use against Christians, while for fighting Muslims a different cylinder would be used to fire special cubical bullets, which he perceived as extra deadly.”

May 15, 1718: First Machine Gun Patented by James Puckle!

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  TN Patriot
March 5, 2023 6:34 am

650 cliches per minute. Eat THAT, Commies!

musket
musket
March 4, 2023 5:42 pm

Twin sister of “War Pig” Nuland……

aka.attrition
aka.attrition
  musket
March 5, 2023 3:31 am

Triplet sister of “We Think The Price Is Worth It” war-whore Albright … half a million children …

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  aka.attrition
March 5, 2023 8:39 am

I think Madame Albright might be the mom or grandma in the family

TonyLV
TonyLV
  TN Patriot
March 5, 2023 12:44 pm

Not to mention that c*nt Killary Klinton: ” We came, we saw, he died… cackle cackle…”

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  TonyLV
March 5, 2023 3:58 pm

K*nt – FIFY

World War Zero
World War Zero
March 4, 2023 7:48 pm

Avē Imperātor, moritūrī tē salūtant
“Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you”

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Barbarians at the gates while our nation amuses itself with bloodsport in the Colosseum.

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 5, 2023 1:13 am

Samantha Powers ??? Speaks well , sounds intelligent and well educated ,
I’ve got it : SHES FULL OF SHIT
Like all the policy blunders coming from the ASSHOLE of America Washington DC all developed to screw average middle Americans while enriching a select few connected bags of shit !
Those feral cats scurrying about covering each other’s shit while masquerading as elected , appointed or hired public servants are destroying what was our nation !
Self Destruct Sequence engaged with Little chance of stopping

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
March 5, 2023 4:47 pm

Watch the video again.
She looks like Willem Dafoe in drag.

aka.attrition
aka.attrition
March 5, 2023 3:27 am

It is the same word-salad speech that was used for justifying invading Iraq, Afghanistan, and any other country that had something we wanted or could be used to enrich TPTB in some way. As a species we have short memory spans and are manipulated over and over again in exactly the same way. Manufacturing Consent … to kill tens of thousands because … “we think it was worth it”.

“But blessed [are] your eyes, for they see: ...
“But blessed [are] your eyes, for they see: ...
March 5, 2023 5:50 am

… and your ears, for they hear.”

Isaiah 3:12 “[As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.”

“Children … women”. Children and women were considered ill-suited for governmental leadership so they figuratively depicted the incompetent rulers.

This is not speaking in a factual sense, but is saying the rulers will behave as children and will be effeminate. These rulers did not have the characteristics of strong rulers, but acted as women and children. The blind leading the blind is what has gotten them into trouble.”
—————
The Gentleman was…” I am 83 years old (as of May of 2021)…” https://bible-studys.org/about-me-2/…And had been reading there for a minute, beforehand. “ye Olde Engrish” difficult to interpret, and i must say, He does an EXCELLENT Job, imho.
—————

Spoiler Alert! He then goes on…

“In our day, the Scripture above could be taken literally. Women should not rule over their husbands in the flesh; in their homes. The father should be the head of the house. Children should not be able to oppress their parents either, but both things are happening in our society.”

WilliamtheResolute
WilliamtheResolute
March 5, 2023 9:45 am

Funny, I don’t remember Congress voting to go to war…the neo-cons are in charge. Of course they work for the Central Banks…who answer to Satan.

TonyLV
TonyLV
March 5, 2023 1:01 pm

“…it’s so core to the United States, image just wanting your freedom and independence…”
Right Sammie, like the Patriot Act, the NDAA, or many of the other policies that have been put in place in our own USA to stifle those very things.

“…what it means when a dictator has shut down civil society, shut down independent media, shut down dissenting voices in his own country…”
Right Sammie, like cancel culture, government censorship on social media, demonizing entire groups of people because they don’t agree with your insane policies, “disinformation” tzars in every walk of life. Zelenskyy has done all those exact things and more including disappearing many a person. You are quite the piece of cake Sammie. Why don’t you and your idiot hubby Cass just move to Ukraine and rid us of your ignorant ways.