No, they did not make a serious effort at invading Kyiv. They made a feint there while focusing on their objectives closer to Russia to prevent Ukrainian forces from all moving to the one place, and furthermore, the original first three months were strictly to try to force negotiation after the US refused to negotiate in Dec. 2021 follow…
No, they did not make a serious effort at invading Kyiv. They made a feint there while focusing on their objectives closer to Russia to prevent Ukrainian forces from all moving to the one place, and furthermore, the original first three months were strictly to try to force negotiation after the US refused to negotiate in Dec. 2021 following their pulling Russia's chain with the strategic security agreement in fall 2021, which had crossed redlines long expressed by Russia and which Biden WELL KNEW would set off alarm in Russia.
Then when Jeffrey Sachs asked the Biden State Dept in Dec. 2021, they answered Jeffrey Sachs that the US wasn't interested in speaking with Russia about their security concerns. Sachs had told them they should talk to them.
Biden made calculated remarks just before the military operation in Feb. that the US would make sure Nordstream would go bye-bye, as though licking his chops planning it with his same old Nuland neocon gang from the 2014 coup.
In March/April, Russia and Ukraine negotiated; a key Ukrainian negotiator was assassinated by Ukrainian security forces; and the UK & US told Ukraine NOT to negotiate.
After THAT Russia finally started building a real force of the type needed for a serious longterm war, after seeing there was no one to negotiate with.
The original operation was NOT done with enough forces to do any sort of 'taking over" of all of Ukraine, and the intention was demanding negotiation after being frightened that NATO was going to place missiles in range of Moscow in the hand of Azov folks who sport tattoos of a type last seen in WW2 for Russia's opponent that killed 27 million of their people. A legit border security concern, and one the "Obama Doctrine" had claimed to understand but which Biden has never cared about.
We singlehandedly, misguidedly goaded and instigated Russia into building up its forces into a much larger force in order to defend their national border security interests. We have been lying about this non stop, which is why I am now an independent after stupidly voting for the instigator of this insanity.
Every calculation has been a miscalculation. Our "sanctions" strengthen the other side and cause other nations to flock to BRICS instead of us, out of fear we will pirate away their money too. We are weakening our ability to be the international currency backbone. We have strengthened their military by forcing them to BUILD IT UP by refusing to use ANY DIPLOMACY.
I have not seen such poor diplomatic policy and skills in an administration in my lifetime.
Even Nixon put a lot of effort into diplomacy abroad. It seems like we are going DOWNHILL since 2000 in the area of diplomacy and have only bully diplomacy. Bullying does NOT help a nation establish widespread international trust needed for leadership/hegemony - it weakens credibility. Trust comes from the strength of peacefulness -- showing the willingness to work together with other nations to build trade ties and peace, not the willingness to stoke chaos abroad and provoke war to sell missiles.
yes, they made a feint!!! OMG and all the letters of our alphabet. who could buy such an "explanation"? what kind of willful lack of normal reasoning does it take to say their tanks were a feint??
No, they did not make a serious effort at invading Kyiv. They made a feint there while focusing on their objectives closer to Russia to prevent Ukrainian forces from all moving to the one place, and furthermore, the original first three months were strictly to try to force negotiation after the US refused to negotiate in Dec. 2021 following their pulling Russia's chain with the strategic security agreement in fall 2021, which had crossed redlines long expressed by Russia and which Biden WELL KNEW would set off alarm in Russia.
Then when Jeffrey Sachs asked the Biden State Dept in Dec. 2021, they answered Jeffrey Sachs that the US wasn't interested in speaking with Russia about their security concerns. Sachs had told them they should talk to them.
Biden made calculated remarks just before the military operation in Feb. that the US would make sure Nordstream would go bye-bye, as though licking his chops planning it with his same old Nuland neocon gang from the 2014 coup.
In March/April, Russia and Ukraine negotiated; a key Ukrainian negotiator was assassinated by Ukrainian security forces; and the UK & US told Ukraine NOT to negotiate.
After THAT Russia finally started building a real force of the type needed for a serious longterm war, after seeing there was no one to negotiate with.
The original operation was NOT done with enough forces to do any sort of 'taking over" of all of Ukraine, and the intention was demanding negotiation after being frightened that NATO was going to place missiles in range of Moscow in the hand of Azov folks who sport tattoos of a type last seen in WW2 for Russia's opponent that killed 27 million of their people. A legit border security concern, and one the "Obama Doctrine" had claimed to understand but which Biden has never cared about.
We singlehandedly, misguidedly goaded and instigated Russia into building up its forces into a much larger force in order to defend their national border security interests. We have been lying about this non stop, which is why I am now an independent after stupidly voting for the instigator of this insanity.
Every calculation has been a miscalculation. Our "sanctions" strengthen the other side and cause other nations to flock to BRICS instead of us, out of fear we will pirate away their money too. We are weakening our ability to be the international currency backbone. We have strengthened their military by forcing them to BUILD IT UP by refusing to use ANY DIPLOMACY.
I have not seen such poor diplomatic policy and skills in an administration in my lifetime.
Even Nixon put a lot of effort into diplomacy abroad. It seems like we are going DOWNHILL since 2000 in the area of diplomacy and have only bully diplomacy. Bullying does NOT help a nation establish widespread international trust needed for leadership/hegemony - it weakens credibility. Trust comes from the strength of peacefulness -- showing the willingness to work together with other nations to build trade ties and peace, not the willingness to stoke chaos abroad and provoke war to sell missiles.
yes, they made a feint!!! OMG and all the letters of our alphabet. who could buy such an "explanation"? what kind of willful lack of normal reasoning does it take to say their tanks were a feint??