A good talking to!
President Biden is ready to warn Vladimir Putin during a video call today that Russia will face "economy-jarring" sanctions if it invades neighboring Ukraine as the U.S. president seeks a diplomatic solution to deal with the tens of thousands of Russian troops massed along the Ukraine border. Aside from the threat of sanctions, Biden has few cards to play and appears weak to everyone, especially to the man he once insulted. The man that Biden once said lacked a soul is now in the drivers seat. Putin can easily see what Biden lacks starting with backbone.
One thing Biden is sure to do is promise that the Ukraine will never be a NATO member. Putin has one goal and that seems to be restoring what disappeared from the face of the earth on Christmas day 1991 - The Soviet Union. That could be best described as an event of Biblical proportions. One we never thought we would see in our lifetimes. That single event seems to be what motivates Putin.
The coming invasion should be sweat for Putin, who I'm sure still recalls all the Biden insults, starting when Biden called him the "KGB thug in charge of Russia," and let us not forget that Biden has mocked President Trump, whom Putin greatly respects, as "Putin's puppy" and described his country as "the biggest threat to the United States." Yes, this is going to be a very satisfying exercise for Vladimir Putin.
All eyes are on Biden:
“Fellow authoritarians in Beijing and Tehran will be watching how the free world responds,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. “And President Biden has an opportunity to set the tone when he speaks with Putin.”
Former President Trump put it this way: the Biden-Putin conversation would not be a “fair match,” describing it as tantamount to the six-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots facing a high school football team.
Will Biden fail yet again in this, his biggest foreign policy test?
The leader-to-leader conversation - Biden speaking from the Situation Room, Putin from his residence in Sochi - is expected to be one of the toughest of Biden's presidency and I'm afraid that Joe Biden and the radicals who control him are ill-equipped to deal with somebody like Putin. It's too bad we will never know what's being said.
Has Putin made up his mind? Is that still in question?
Whether he has or not, Biden is only a spectator.
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This is a sad day for the Ukraine or Russia is about to regain it's "bread basket." It depends upon one's point of view.
Pressure is growing on Congress to act as Biden is scheduled to hold a video call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to warn against a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I suspect Putin is just providing a diversion for China so we're not singularly focused on China's bullshit. Odumbo should have never gotten involved with the Ukraine, they're of no use to us and it's only pushed Russia closer to China. It's almost as bad as Odumbo's Arab Spring which caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of religious minorities in the Middle East.
Yes Sir. Here's a thought: What if Russia moved on the Ukraine at the same time China moves on Taiwan?
Biden would Fold !
If military intervention is ruled out, what else can he do?
What Bismarck once said remains true: The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches or majority votes....but by blood and iron."
... but not by the blood and iron of armchair warriors.
No, the weak, the infirm and the old don't get to fight.
So, what about the weakling in the White House?
With words they do as Bismark proved. By the way the quote you provided was delivered to deal with the unification of Germany and other than that he sought peace between the stronger of European nations. How he would have dealt with Putin's gestures of aggrandizement can only be guessed at but it would come as no surprise to me that he would have detested the Ukraine as much as he did Poland and used them as pawns much as he did with the German Catholic Clergy of the time. That he was brilliant in his field I do not dispute but brilliance does not automatically make me a fan.
If Putin is using the Ukraine as a gambit it would be wise not to rush into the middle of the board with major pieces ... those are traps that amateur chess players fall into.
The weakling in the White House? He currently lives in Florida.
Jill is still trying to teach him the basics of junior checkers while Putin and Xi are playing expert level 3D chess.
"Odumbo" did not have an Arab Spring, 18 Arab countries did and each one resulted from different reasons. If the Arab Spring was one conflict it would have been much easier to deal with and no leader within or without Arab lands displayed any competence in dealing with the mainly localized issues. Post Obama, the 'Arab Spring' has devolved into an 'Arab Winter' ... a 'funny' marriage twixt ODS and TDS giving birth to BDS paving the way for S(ystemic)DS.
Yes he did. He supported the revolution in Egypt, He and top whitehouse staff members used influence to put pressure on Mubarak to resign, and on the Egyptian army to deliver on the demands of protesters. His influence helped the Egyptian military take over. In Libya it was NATO aircraft that blew up Gaddafi's convoy then the NTC killed him but that revolution was fomented by the CIA and of course assisted by NATO forces. Then there's Syria, that was all Obama and the CIA. The Idea that Religious Minorities could survive anywhere in the Middle East without Strong Arm Dictators keeping the Majority Muslims in line is laughable, yes Assad killed his own people but they were the same extremist Sunnis that we were killing and he was doing it for the same reasons we were. He didn't have the option of "fighting them over there, so he didn't have to fight them over here" because over there is where he lived. Remember at the time Obama had a lot of sway in the Middle east because we had so many Soldiers in Iraq, other countries were worried we could just roll into any other country in the area.
John Kirby:
“We continue to see a build-up of Russian military forces in the areas around northeastern and eastern Ukraine. […] This build-up is concerning to us. It is still not entirely clear what Mr. Putin’s intentions are."
He doesn't know?
Neither the U.S. administration, nor any of its predecessors in either party, has been willing to declare that we will directly intervene to defend Taiwan and/or Ukraine from the aggression of their large and powerful neighbors. America has no mutual security treaty with either, having terminated the pact with Taiwan in 1979 and never having executed one with Ukraine, either bilaterally or as part of NATO.
It's a high stakes Poker Game with one player holding 4 Aces, the other nothing but deuces....
And one Joker...
.. gratuitous, you are capable of more.
If you were a foreign leader, hostile to the US, how would you view the US under Biden?