Biden promises Western allies would respond if Russia uses chemical weapons : NPR

America's Senior Statesman - President Joe Biden 

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The Leader of the Free World - President Joe Biden 

Damn scary thought, isn't it?

If you are named Vlad and live in the Kremlin...

Doesn't seem to scare or deter Putin at all does it?

Damn scary for the rest of us though.

President Biden promised allies would respond if Russia uses chemical weapons against Ukraine. "It would trigger a response in-kind," Biden told reporters. "Whether or not you're asking whether NATO would cross, we'd make that decision at the time."

Fucking idiot's mouth is writing checks the rest us will have to cash. It isn't like he or his family will be sent to the meat grinder in the event of war with Russia. Just like he and his family aren't the ones suffering from his sanctions and fucked up policies (He wants us all to forget about the high gas prices and rising inflation before the war started. It is all Putin's fault now. Another Russian conspiracy to foil a moronic Democrat.)

He keeps yapping like an idiot; and he will take this thing nuclear yet. 

Only if you are in The Kremlin...

Or employed by the Kremlin.

Or employed by the Kremlin.

So....

Biden is scared of Biden?

 Ten years ago:

“We have been very clear to the Assad regime, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus.”

We had received reports about a month earlier that the regime was preparing to use chemical weapons against the opposition, or transfer them to the terrorist organization Hezbollah. We issued private warnings to Iran, Russia, and the Syrian government; it's clear to Assad that the world was watching, and that Assad would be held accountable by the international community should he use those weapons.

Then on August 21, 2013, news broke of a catastrophic chemical-weapons attack in Syria.  The calculus hadn't changed at all.  

President Biden promised allies would respond if Russia uses chemical weapons against Ukraine. "It would trigger a response in-kind," Biden told reporters. "Whether or not you're asking whether NATO would cross, we'd make that decision at the time."

He also gave himself an out when he also said that the type of response would depend on "the nature of the use."

"Sanctions never deter," he said, adding that keeping sanctions in place for the months ahead is "what will stop him."

But wasn't that the entire line before in that the sanctions were put in to deter Putin from his actions?  Could have sworn I heard both Harris and Blinken talk about the sanctions as being a tool to deter the actions of Putin.  

ut wasn't that the entire line before in that the sanctions were put in to deter Putin from his actions?

It depended on the day and who from the Biden admin was talking.  Mixed messages from the administration would be an understatement. 

Could have sworn I heard both Harris and Blinken talk about the sanctions as being a tool to deter the actions of Putin.  

Putin didn't get the message. Just like the US and NATO didn't get Putin's repeated warnings about continuing to flip former Soviet satellite states over to NATO.

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The warnings Russian President Vladimir Putin issued during his Munich address 15 years ago about the dangers of NATO expansion continue to reverberate across Europe, especially in light of the alliance military buildup that has helped fuel the crisis in Ukraine, experts told Sputnik.

On February 10, 2007, Putin delivered a landmark speech at the Munich Security Conference during which he criticized NATO’s post-Cold War push eastward as a serious provocation that risked fueling an arms race and violated Western promises not to expand.

Putin during the speech pointed to a statement made in 1990 by then-NATO General Secretary Manfred Woerner who said the fact the alliance was not prepared to place an army outside of German territory gave the Soviet Union a firm security guarantee. Putin, during the same speech, then asked: “Where are these guarantees?”

Fifteen years later Moscow is still raising the same question. In December, Russia unveiled draft proposals that sought to prevent NATO’s further enlargement in addition to enhancing US-Russian arms control arrangements. Although progress has been made in negotiations on some issues, Moscow feels the US has largely ignored its most critical demands, such as pushing NATO’s military infrastructure to the position of 1997 and a guarantee that Ukraine will never join the alliance.

The US and NATO still are not listening to him now. The rhetoric on both sides is getting thicker by the day. Only problem is Putin doesn't have anything to lose. Russia has nukes; and he has his nuclear force prepped and ready. The planet is full of dumbasses on all sides.

I suppose now we should expect to see Russian troops using tear gas to disperse protesters and civilians attempting to interfere with military operations.

Biden isn't leading the free world; Biden is leading the NATO bloc that the United States dominates.  NATO may be united but are still afraid to step across the red line that Putin has drawn in Ukraine.  Apparently the NATO bloc isn't too stupid to understand that Putin is provoking them to begin the real war.

Technically that is a chemical attack. 

I really hope that Biden and NATO aren't that stupid.

Technically that is a chemical attack. 

Technically tear gas is a chemical weapon banned by the Geneva protocols.  So, the political bullshitting will be over whether or not crowd control is a act of war.  Is the military in a battle zone also a civil authority?  There's all sorts of opportunities for political bloviating and bullshitting.