Russia attack on Ukraine expected in couple of weeks
Daily Mail:
Putin moves his elite paratroopers to Ukrainian border in Belarus in yet ANOTHER troop build-up amid invasion fears - while US sends Kiev 300 lethal Javelin anti-tank weapons and warns Russia is planning to go in by mid-February
I have still not seen a rational explanation of what Putin is going to war over.
See, also:
Biden Ignored Torrent of Warnings That Lifting Sanctions on Russia Could Lead to More War in Ukraine
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Last summer, Zelensky warned Biden the risk of invasion would soar if sanctions were lifted on Vladimir Putin’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, but that warning was ignored.
Zelensky said in a June interview that he was “unpleasantly surprised” by Biden’s unwillingness to continue the Trump administration’s opposition to Nord Stream 2, an $11 billion pipeline project running across the Baltic Sea from Siberia to Germany. The pipeline is scheduled to become operational sometime in the second half of 2022.
The pipeline will double the amount of gas Russia’s state energy company Gazprom can ship to Europe – and it bypasses current shipping routes that run through Ukraine. Transit fees for those shipments represent about $2 billion in annual revenue for Ukraine.
One reason the Trump administration opposed Nord Stream 2 is that it gives Russia enough economic leverage over Europe, and especially Germany, to realign the politics of the entire continent. Those warnings were prescient, as Germany is clearly drifting away from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and moving increasingly into Russia’s political orbit. France may not be far behind.
In June, Zelensky warned Nord Stream 2 is a potent geopolitical “weapon in the hands of the Russian Federation,” and said he was baffled by Biden’s seeming inability to appreciate the danger.
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Biden's ignorance should not be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.
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