Senators Slam Biden’s ‘Green Light’ to Putin

Patricia N. · 2022-01-20T01:19:06Z

Republican senators blasted President Joe Biden after a press conference on Wednesday where he suggested the U.S. and European allies would do little if Russia conducted a “minor incursion” into Ukraine: Asked about whether there was U.S. and European unity on a response if Moscow invaded Ukraine, Biden suggested it would depend on if it was a “minor incursion” or something more. He said: … I think what you’re going to see is that Russia will be held accountable if it invades, and it depends on what it does. It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do, etc. But if they actually do what they’re capable of doing with the force amassed on the border, it is going to be a disaster for Russia if they further invade Ukraine, and that our allies and partners are ready to impose severe cost and significant harm on Russia and the Russian economy. He also added that if Russia invaded, it would “prevail over time,” and that it had “overwhelming superiority” over Ukraine. The remarks were widely seen as undercutting U.S. diplomacy that has tried to stave off any Russian incursion into Ukraine — “minor” or not. Biden also indicated that the U.S. could work with Russia on whether Ukraine would be able to join NATO — something U.S. diplomats have insisted was not negotiable. The reaction in Ukraine was reportedly “horror.” CNN’s Matthew Chance reported that Ukrainian officials watched those remarks “with horror.” He added: One Ukrainian official who I’ve been in close contact with while this marathon press conference was underway said that he was, I’m quoting here, “shocked” that President Biden would give a green light to Vladimir Putin in this way, that the U.S. president would distinguish between an incursion and an invasion, and then suggest that a minor incursion would elicit a lesser response than a more full invasion. The big concern, of course, which is what he was alluding to, is that it gives Putin — and this is another quote — it “gives the green light to Putin to enter Ukraine at his pleasure.” And that’s not just one Ukrainian official. Other Ukrainian officials have responded in a similar way. Kiev, in the words of another, is ‘stunned’ by what President Biden had to say. Reactions from Republican senators ranged from disgust to shock. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called Biden’s statements “unnerving.” “He would be better off not speaking,” he tweeted. “People in #Ukraine have to be stunned by what he just said. I’m stunned by it too.”

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The enemy also had Russia flooded with cults like the JWs after the breakup of the Soviet Union. :negative:

The Orthodox Church overreacted by effectively banning all non-Orthodox Christianity.

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