Posted on 04/15/2022 3:03:32 PM PDT by blam
Russia sent a formal diplomatic note to the US this week calling on Washington and NATO to stop arming Ukraine. The note, which was obtained by The Washington Post, said the Western campaign to pour weapons into Ukraine was “adding fuel” to the conflict and could lead to “unpredictable consequences.”
The diplomatic note was sent Tuesday, when news broke of a new massive US military aid package for Ukraine. President Biden announced the new aid on Wednesday, which is worth $800 million and includes howitzers for the first time. The package also includes helicopters, armed Switchblade drones, coastal defense drones, armored vehicles, radar systems, and thousands of Stinger and Javelin missiles.
The Russian note was sent to the State Department by the Russian Embassy in Washington. It said the US and its NATO allies were ignoring “rigorous principles” on the transfer of weapons into the conflict zone and said the Western powers are oblivious to “the threat of high-precision weapons falling into the hands of radical nationalists, extremists and bandit forces in Ukraine.”
The Russians accused NATO of pressuring Ukraine to “abandon” peace talks with Moscow “in order to continue the bloodshed.” The US and most of its NATO allies have shown little interest in supporting the negotiations between the warring sides. The Western powers are signaling that they don’t want Kyiv to make any concessions to Moscow.
The Post reported last week that for some NATO members “it’s better for the Ukrainians to keep fighting, and dying, than to achieve a peace that comes too early or at too high a cost to Kyiv and the rest of Europe.”
The formal Russian protest of the US arming Ukraine could be a precursor to Russia launching airstrikes on weapons shipments in Ukraine. On Wednesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned that Moscow would view US or NATO vehicles transporting arms inside Ukraine as “legitimate military targets.”
So far, the United States has committed more than $3.2B in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration. $2.6B of that has come just since the beginning of Russia’s unprovoked assault on February 24.
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— Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (@SecDef) April 14, 2022
It’s not clear if any US or NATO vehicles have actually brought weapons into Ukraine since Russia invaded. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby has said that Ukrainian troops bring the weapons into Ukraine after the US brings them to Eastern Europe. So far, there haven’t been reports of Russia targeting weapons shipments as they enter Ukraine, but Moscow has hit weapons depots. Earlier this week, Russia said it destroyed an S-300 missile defense system in Ukraine that was provided by a European country.
Russia’s protest highlights the danger of the US-led campaign to pour weapons into Ukraine and the risk of provoking Moscow. On top of arming the Ukrainians, the US is also providing them with intelligence for attacks on Russian forces. The huge amount of support raises questions about at what point Russia would consider the US a co-belligerent in the war.
If you don’t want none
Don’t bring none.
Russia wants to fight NATO? ON top of a Ukraine debacle?
So they might target wespons shipments in Ukraine? If any of our personnel are hit, I’d expect Ukraine to get a lot more air defense systems.
If you let Russia bully you, they will.
Who does time favor in this fight?
During our fight for independence, from Washington’s late-1776 victory in Trenton over the Hessians onward, time favored the “invadees”.
Different world now. Big price being paid by Ukrainian civilians. Who can say what is worth enduring and what isn’t. Russia may decide to scale back it’s goals even further as time goes by without a peace treaty in hand, in which case the Ukrainians will be rewarded for continuing to fight back.
It would be karma if one of those weapons were intercepted and landed on top of the Biden regime Pentagon itself. /crocodile tears
Only a Russian Nazi would wish an attack on our military and the pentagon regardless of your feelings about our military command.
Ut O!!!!
The strongly worded letter!!!!!
Duh, Duh duh duh ...
Biden is in big trouble now.
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The USA has no business in the Ukraine.
“So they might target weapons shipments in Ukraine?”
If the Russians really wanted to, they could interrupt shipments as far back as the supplies needed to build them. Hijacking a few shipments of IC’s here and there, stealing or destroying some long lead items, the possibilities are endless and depend on how deep they want to go. Some companies have a handful of key employees who could have accidents. A fire here or there could have a huge impact. sinking a ship carrying cargo or bombing a plane deep inside the US could all be effective. Do they have that kind of depth? Sure. They also have allies (useful idiots) in gay organizations they can activate. All of this would be relatively cheap and hard to trace back. Then, there’s cyber attacks, power outages...the list is endless.
Apparently we do.
Yeah you should wish for our pentagon to be attacked.
Idiot.
Go home and all this ends, Vladimir.
Pretty simple, really.
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You do realize that the “pentagon” is run by the transsexual woke agenda. The days of yore when the American military stood for righteous good in the world is long gone.
The greatest evil on the planet is the CIA. FBI, DHS and yes the Pentagon controlled completely by the Clinton/Obama/Biden axis of evil.
The USA is currently an occupied empire. The 2020 election blew away the bubble that we are a “free” country, ruled by the consent of the governed.
Welcome to the "new" FR.
The huge amount of support raises questions about at what point the US would consider Russia a co-belligerent in the Vietnam war.
The Russians can figure out the weak economic links Western nations have.
Nixon met with the Russian and Chinese leaders to size them up.
Putin is pushing a war.
Russia has no business being in Ukraine.
The oriental concept of ‘face’ probably applies here.
Here rests Vladimir Putin
Beaten by the efforts of Joe Biden in 2022
Russia has its hands full with Ukraine. There is no way they want a piece of anyone else right now.
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