Posted on 11/23/2021 3:19:25 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
The United States' and Russia's top military officers spoke over the phone on November 23, amid heightened Western concerns over Russian military moves near the Ukrainian border.
Kyiv and its Western backers have raised alarm bells in recent days over a Russian military buildup near Ukraine, whose military intelligence chief claimed on November 21 that Russia has amassed 92,000 troops near its borders and was readying an attack in early February.
The Kremlin has called such allegations “groundless.”
Russia seized Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in March 2014, and has been backing separatists in two of Ukraine's eastern provinces in an ongoing conflict that has claimed more than 13,200 lives since April 2014.
General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the Russian General Staff, and General Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussed "current questions of international security," Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement on November 23.
The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed the call, saying in a statement that Gerasimov and Milley discussed "security-related issues of concern."
"The phone call is a continuation of communication between both leaders to ensure risk reduction and operational de-confliction," it said.
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So, what’s that POS, Milley, going to give away this time?
The timing of this latest “Russia scare” is most likely related to the forthcoming Putin-Biden meeting, argues Nicolai Petro, professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island, specialising in Ukraine and Russia.
“President Biden, who is floundering in the polls, would very much like to be able to show his Republican critics that he can ‘subdue’ Putin,” Petro says. “As the late American political scientist Murray Edelman once pointed out, there is a long tradition in American politics of establishing leadership by concocting an imminent danger (he called this ‘the political spectacle’), and then making it go disappear.”
China, Russia and Iran have made threats in the last few weeks. It appears they see Biden as weak.
I do not feel safer when Milley talks to our enemies. He may be the worst officer in American history. I’m just not a fan of treason.
If they updated their iPhones to the latest ios, they will be able to display their Facetime conference calls in grid view.
What the heck is it about Ukraine that we’re so determined.
Oops, forgot….political money laundering.
Milley’s having a nice little chat - probably reassuring Russia we won’t do a thing without their permission, and not to forget the 10% to the big guy
With what? Pillows and blankets to the Ukranians? Putin has us checkmated there, and we need their energy, because Biden doesn’t want to use ours (and Hunter gets his $$$).
General Milleu Vanilley is on the case, surrendering preemptively.
Afghanistan is over. Need a new foreign adventure guaranteed to fail.
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