Posted on 02/22/2022 11:50:44 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — In a series of top-secret meetings in October, President Joe Biden’s national security team presented grim intelligence that would soon trigger a fierce effort to prevent what could become the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, was preparing to invade Ukraine, top intelligence and military officials told Biden.
Over the course of 3 1/2 months, Biden made three critical decisions about how to handle Russia’s provocations, according to interviews with more than a dozen senior administration officials and others who requested anonymity to discuss confidential meetings. Early on, the president approved a recommendation to share intelligence far more broadly with allies than was typical, officials said. The idea was to avoid disagreements about tough economic sanctions by ensuring that everyone knew what the United States knew about Putin’s actions.
Biden also gave the green light for an unprecedented public information campaign against Putin.
And when it became clear this year that Putin was continuing to build up forces at Ukraine’s border, the president approved sending Ukraine more weapons.
In some ways, Biden was distinctly prepared for the moment. Having visited Ukraine a half-dozen times over the past decade, he knows the country better than any other U.S. president.
Aides also said Biden’s long history with Putin made him less susceptible to the Russian president’s tactics.
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Prevent war? He’s trying to start one!
NOTE: Source is The New York Times via Yahoo News
These folks should write for SNL. Or perhaps, another article on St. AOC.
Biden is, clearly, a strategic genius who has outfoxed all of his opponents, who tremble in fear before him.
He and his son were paid well for those visits.
Wow.
I’ll save this in case I ever need an emetic.
Biden is almost as effective as Neville Chamberlain at preventing war.
I bet he gets a MASSIVE WAR BOUNCE in his polling numbers.
OMG. What pure garbage.
some people say that you can’t learn anything about the truth from the mainstream media.
This is not true, you can learn what isn’t true from what they write, and this brings you closer to the truth.
Even Stevie Wonder could see this coming, the press hyping up Brandon, just because Putin didn’t do something he was never going to do in the first place.
Trump put sanctions on..Biden took them off. Are the new sanctions more than he took off?
Prevent war? He’s trying to start one!
2 posted on 2/22/2022, 11:52:21 AM by Disambiguator
Absolutely!!
Bahahahahaha…what a joke and not the Bee…
Lots of words can be summed up with “he lost the race.”
One financial group kept a tally on Senile Joe’s disgusting agenda in shutting down our oil industry and making us an IMPORTER of oil/ gas: it enabled Russia to amass billions of dollars in the oil export markets. It enriched Russia’s coffers to the tune of 30 plus billion dollars. Putin once again out smarted Senile Joe and makes me wonder if Senile Joe is just a plain idiot or is this just another plan to further destroy America?
Where is Trump when we need him? It took less than a year and a half to cripple the US, it is now obvious Senile Joe is on board with the left wing globalists and must be stopped…..anything he touches turns rotten.
Brandon is preventing war, is he?
Reportedly, the Chinese have containers stored on both coasts, with rockets/weapons inside. Push the right buttons and they will unfold like transformers. They are likely nuclear tipped and can be operated remotely. If true, they can send death from Miami to Boston, San Diego to Seattle, or more correctly, the District of Columbia, and there is nothing we can do about it.
If the CCP can do this, do we not think Russia has figured it out?
With that said, let Washington DC send its boys to war. Let them raise an army, finance it and live with the consequence. I for one do not support the ACP... first word is American.
Send Germans, Brits, Belgians, Poles and the French to die, I will not support this President or his misuse of the War Powers they have given themselves in any other foreign adventure. If you want a war, have Congress vote on it and declare it.
AP is the CNN of print. A BS factory
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