Posted on 05/26/2022 5:01:02 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
President Joe Biden’s administration has contemplated the lifting of sanctions on Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in a bid to secure the export of Ukrainian grain without risking the maritime confrontation with Russia that some other allies deem necessary to avert a horrific famine.
U.S. officials have broached the Belarus idea with European officials in recent weeks, as trans-Atlantic policymakers endeavor to escape a dilemma created by Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s ports on the Black Sea. Yet other members of NATO have a growing interest in a maritime operation to challenge that blockade, given the limited amount of grain that could be sent out of Ukraine by rail and the political risks of an appeal to Lukashenko, who allowed Russia to attack Ukraine from Belarusian territory, after presenting his own threats to neighboring NATO and European Union members.
“It is clear that no one wants to ask Lukashenko directly,” a senior European official involved in the conversations told the Washington Examiner. “There's only that we have bad options to relieve world hunger, which is looming in half a year.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
We did have a ship in the area...maybe a couple...and scooted them out of there when the attack was imminent.
LOL 😂
All of you that said Ukraine was of no strategic import, we have a situation where Europe can’t feed itself and has no fuel. What idiots they are in general (the Europeans).
Whenever you meet Europeans and mention the chance of Russia or China starting a war, they always look at you like you’re a fool and tell you that’s not going to happen.
It must be fun living in a fantasy world where you have no ability to defend yourself from belligerent superpowers, and you treat the one country keeping you afloat like a bunch of lunatics.
They make great coffee and awesome pastry.
Did they ask Biden to remove the Ukrainian mines free-floating in the Black Sea, or are we still in Daily Mail mode in saying that the Russians won’t allow access to (remaining) Ukrainian ports?
Russia would consider it an act of war
I suggest the nato stuffed shirts shove it up where the sun doesn't shine.
What a great place for a false flag sinking of a US ship. "Who, me?"
No. Wrong.
Every nutjob and moron in the world is in charge. This would be a National Lampoon movie if it didn’t suck so much.
I always thought that WWIII would start with a torpedo.
Zelensky is not worth a war with Russia. He and his socislist/LGBT fellow travelers in N. America and the EU are a bigger threat to America than Putin.
Yes.
“It must be fun living in a fantasy world where you have no ability to defend yourself from belligerent superpowers, and you treat the one country keeping you afloat like a bunch of lunatics.”
Com’on Man.
We all know that Europe, especially Western Europe is willing to fight to the last American to secure their freedom.
Congress & the American left similarly are willing to fight to the last Flyover American to secure Europe’s freedom.
I am permanently damaged.
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