Posted on 03/29/2022 2:02:03 PM PDT by RummyChick
Top Military brass and administration officials contradicted Joe Biden's claim that U.S. forces are training Ukrainian troops in Poland as the president continues to face backlash following remarks claiming Vladimir Putin needs to be removed from power.
'I do not believe we are in the process of currently training military forces from Ukraine in Poland,' General Tod Wolters told the Senate Armed Services Committee during a Tuesday hearing.
Wolters, the Commander of the U.S. European Command and North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Supreme Allied Commander Europe continued: 'There are liaisons that are there. They're being given advice.'
'And that's different than I think [what] you're referring to with respect to training,' Wolters said during questioning from Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
During a press briefing proposing his Fiscal Year 2023 plan, Biden issued yet another gaffe when trying to recover from comments calling for Putin's ouster, which the White House quickly walked back on.
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The constant yammering about Russia's "fears" is baloney. In the past 250 years Russia has had two serious invasions from the West. In the same interval it has attacked its neighbors in Eastern Europe and around the Black and Baltic Seas at least 25 times.
see post 9
That would be too late; Putin has to worry before then.
I think you're either naïve or here with an agenda; there is no reason for NATO to have grown that close to Russia.
(If the Russian military was training the military of Puerto Rico, we both know that America would be running about and looking for the nearest shoulder to cry on.)
Ukraine gained it's independence in 1991. The US didn't even have military units stationed permanently in Poland or the Baltics until now.
Cuba has had Soviet and/or Russian military on it since Castro came to power 60 years ago. Venezuela also has a Russian presence there.
One of the ironies of history is that the Soviet's and Russia's allies seem to ruin their own countries far more effectively than any US invasion could.
What you are implicitly arguing for is a return to great power "spheres of influence" which might have made sense in the 19th century era of world spanning European empires. But running foreign policy on the basis of great power spheres of influence is what got us WWI and WWII, which is why the US has rejected it as a doctrine since 1945.
NATO was never just about protecting Western Europe: it was meant from the beginning to offer hope of democracy to the "captive nations" in Eastern Europe. That's the real threat Ukraine's integration with NATO and the EU offers to Putin: a culturally close Slavic neighbor that turns into an economically and politically successful democracy. Its very existence encourages Russians to do the same. I was there in 2016. It struck me as being like Poland was 20 years before.
Not true.
Our hands aren't clean here. We supported the coup of Ukraine's democratically-elected leader in 2014 because he was friendly to Russia and we've been provoking Russia with our NATO expansion and our military involvement with Ukraine.
Our government does this because our government does whatever it wants.
(And it gets away with it because millions of Americans simply refuse to believe that our government can do anything wrong.)
He was Putin's chosen puppet, just as Biden is our Deep State chosen puppet. If tens of thousands had shown up on Jan 6 and refused to leave the Capitol as the Ukrainians did on Maidan, we'd be a lot better off today.
What you call a "genuine popular movement" can easily be dismissed by a skeptic as nothing more than a rent-a-mob paid to do the bidding of the globalists. (Yours is simply a talking point, which means it really comes down to who can cover their ears and shout the loudest for a longer period of time.)
And I think you're terribly naïve to think that a large enough crowd at the Capitol for a long enough period of time was going to change anything that day. They wanted the Orange Man out, and they threw away any pretense of a legitimate election to have their way. And the same "press" who provided favorable images of the mob pushing the coup in Ukraine would have turned against the mob at the Capitol; they've been doing it until this very day.
Mike Huckabee had a great line on one of the cable shows the other night: “Joe Biden does more walking back than Michael Jackson did in his Billie Jean video.”
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