Zelensky Rips Biden for Weak Action and Even Lloyd Austin's Remarks Confirm It

[mystery-ak]

Zelensky Rips Biden for Weak Action and Even Lloyd Austin's Remarks Confirm It
By Nick Arama | Feb 20, 2022 1:00 PM ET

Joe Biden has said over and over again that Vladimir Putin intends to invade Ukraine and that if he does, the U.S. will hit him with crushing sanctions that he will feel.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin appeared on “This Week” with Martha Raddatz, and while he said he thought that the invasion was coming — and he didn’t think Putin was bluffing because he had assembled everything he would need for an invasion — Austin called into question how much effect the sanctions contemplated would have on Putin himself.

    The sanctions that we talked about, you know, we’re very serious about, and these are sanctions that will have effects that Mr. Putin has not realized before.

    You know, the sad part about this, Martha, is that it may not affect Mr. Putin to the degree that it’s going to affect the average Russian. And, you know, the decisions that he’s making now will bring about a lot of pain and suffering on his comrades in Russia.

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https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/02/20/zelensky-rips-biden-for-weak-action-and-even-lloyd-austins-remarks-confirm-it-n525206

[Cyber Liberty]

Zelenski is as poor an ally that has ever existed.  He should be cut loose and left to Putin's tender mercies.

[Hoodat]

Zelenski is as poor an ally that has ever existed.  He should be cut loose and left to Putin's tender mercies.

Funny.  A lot of people say the same thing about Joe Biden.

[Cyber Liberty]

Funny.  A lot of people say the same thing about Joe Biden.

The difference being, Putin has his troops massed on Ukraine's border.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram

Cruz on Fox: Joe Biden came to Capitol Hill and personally lobbied Democratic Senators to vote against Russian sanctions. That's why we're facing this invasion..Joe Biden becoming President is the best thing that ever happened, tragically, for Vladimir Putin.

12:30 PM · Feb 20, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

[Right_in_Virginia]

FTA  (and the more important points Zelinsky made, IMO:  (Emphasis added)

At the Munich Security Conference, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — who has also questioned the inevitability of a further invasion and previously called for pre-emptive sanctions — ripped the weak response of the Biden Administration, yet again, for refusing to resort to pre-emptive sanctions.

Zelensky, too, urged Western leaders to spend less time warning Kyiv about the number of Russian troops on Ukraine’s doorstep, and to instead break their “silence” about how their nations planned to respond. Speaking to CNN in Munich, Zelensky called on the United States and Europe to articulate what sanctions they would impose on Russia, to serve as a deterrent.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec

Reporter: Will sanctions deter Putin?

Kamala Harris: "Within the context then of the fact that that window is still opening, although, open, although it is absolutely narrowing, but within the context of a diplomatic path still being open"

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1:13 AM · Feb 21, 2022·Twitter Web App

[mystery-ak]

Joe Biden Again Chooses Putin over Zelensky: Seeks Russia Meeting After Ignoring Invite to Kyiv

Frances Martel 21 Feb 2022

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced in a statement late Sunday that President Joe Biden “accepted in principle a meeting” with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, a week after Biden completely ignored a personal invitation to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The Putin meeting, Psaki claimed, would occur “if an invasion hasn’t happened.”

Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 after the fall of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. Putin announced the illegal colonization of Ukraine’s Crimea region in March 2014 and extensive evidence has revealed Russian backing, including arming, of pro-Russia separatists in eastern Donbas, Ukraine. That support resulted in the separatists blasting a commercial airliner out of the sky, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, in July 2014, according to Dutch and Australian investigations of the incident.

Biden was vice president at the time of the start of the current Russian invasion.

Psaki’s statement did not mention the fact that Russia already invaded Ukraine.

“We are always ready for diplomacy. We are also ready to impose swift and severe consequences should Russia instead choose war,” Psaki’s statement erad. “And currently, Russia appears to be continuing preparations for a full-scale assault on Ukraine very soon.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/21/joe-biden-again-chooses-putin-over-zelensky-seeks-russia-meeting-after-ignoring-invite-to-kyiv/

[Kamaji]

Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec

Reporter: Will sanctions deter Putin?

Kamala Harris: "Within the context then of the fact that that window is still opening, although, open, although it is absolutely narrowing, but within the context of a diplomatic path still being open"

Actual quote

1:13 AM · Feb 21, 2022·Twitter Web App

WTF did she say?

[Kamaji]

Putin has rejected a meeting with Bidet for now:  https://nypost.com/2022/02/21/kremlin-pours-cold-water-on-summit-plan-for-biden-putin-on-ukraine/

[mountaineer]

Lawyerforlaws
@lawyer4laws
Biden's Blundering ~   The whole Russian Ukraine situation started when Lloyd Austin went to Ukraine on October 18th~
Advocating Ukraine's entry into NATO~
After Victoria Nuland gave Russia different assurances

9:13 AM · Feb 21, 2022·

[Hoodat]

The difference being, Putin has his troops massed on Ukraine's border.

For now.  By the end of the year, Putin will have his troops massed on the borders of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova.

[Hoodat]

Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec

Reporter: Will sanctions deter Putin?

Kamala Harris: "Within the context then of the fact that that window is still opening, although, open, although it is absolutely narrowing, but within the context of a diplomatic path still being open"

Actual quote

1:13 AM · Feb 21, 2022·Twitter Web App

We are so screwed.  Better to remain silent and have your enemies suspect you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.  This is especially true when it comes to diplomacy.