Russia - USA Relations

auslander wrote:Statements from these two gentleman change nothing and unlike what Mercouris states, Mother will not wait a year or two years or five years or ten years to address this problem. In 6 months ukeland will be defacto, not officially but defacto, a nato member, ergo Mother will act long before that.

Our Flots have sailed, there are no military men on our local streets, heavy movements of units from the eastern and central military districts heading west. Last evening and afternoon our local shops were totally mobbed, everyone is stocking up. Calm, but stocking up.

andalusia wrote:I just found this article stating that their was no promise of NATO not enlarging and Gorbachev says no; I would like an analysis of this article.  

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-promise-not-to-enlarge-gorbachev-says-no/

auslander wrote:Statements from these two gentleman change nothing and unlike what Mercouris states, Mother will not wait a year or two years or five years or ten years to address this problem. In 6 months ukeland will be defacto, not officially but defacto, a nato member, ergo Mother will act long before that.

Our Flots have sailed, there are no military men on our local streets, heavy movements of units from the eastern and central military districts heading west. Last evening and afternoon our local shops were totally mobbed, everyone is stocking up. Calm, but stocking up.

Backman wrote:

auslander wrote:Statements from these two gentleman change nothing and unlike what Mercouris states, Mother will not wait a year or two years or five years or ten years to address this problem. In 6 months ukeland will be defacto, not officially but defacto, a nato member, ergo Mother will act long before that.

Our Flots have sailed, there are no military men on our local streets, heavy movements of units from the eastern and central military districts heading west. Last evening and afternoon our local shops were totally mobbed, everyone is stocking up. Calm, but stocking up.

But why did Putin wait all these years since 2014 ? I don't buy the idea that they were waiting to develop better weapons. Russia didn't need to develop better weapons to devastate Ukraine.

Honestly , I don't know. What was the last 8 years all about ? Why didn't Russia demand these guarantees in 2015 or 16 ?

Backman wrote:But why did Putin wait all these years since 2014 ? I don't buy the idea that they were waiting to develop better weapons. Russia didn't need to develop better weapons to devastate Ukraine.

Honestly, I don't know. What was the last 8 years all about ? Why didn't Russia demand these guarantees in 2015 or 16 ?

Backman wrote:But why did Putin wait all these years since 2014 ? I don't buy the idea that they were waiting to develop better weapons. Russia didn't need to develop better weapons to devastate Ukraine....

Backman wrote:But why did Putin wait all these years since 2014 ? I don't buy the idea that they were waiting to develop better weapons. Russia didn't need to develop better weapons to devastate Ukraine. Honestly , I don't know. What was the last 8 years all about ? Why didn't Russia demand these guarantees in 2015 or 16 ?

auslander wrote:Cat seems to be out of the bag, complements of Spain.

https://elpais.com/infografias/2022/02/respuesta_otan/respuesta_otan_eeuu.pdf

auslander wrote:Cat seems to be out of the bag, complements of Spain.

https://elpais.com/infografias/2022/02/respuesta_otan/respuesta_otan_eeuu.pdf

magnumcromagnon wrote:

auslander wrote:Cat seems to be out of the bag, complements of Spain.

https://elpais.com/infografias/2022/02/respuesta_otan/respuesta_otan_eeuu.pdf

...It's as we thought, it was a complete Nothing Burger, with a side of non-existent Freedom Fries, complimented with a large Bilk Shake.

US warns China against helping Russia

State Department spokesperson Ned Price threatened Chinese businesses with economic punishment if they decide to work with Russia through any hypothetical sanctions imposed by US President Joe Biden.

During a press conference on Thursday, Price claimed the US has “an array of tools that we can deploy if we see foreign companies, including those in China, doing their best to backfill US export control actions, to evade them, to get around them.”

“If Russia thinks that it will be in a position... to mitigate some of those consequences, by a closer relationship with [China], that is not the case. It will actually make the Russian economy, in many ways, more brittle,” Price warned, in reference to hypothetical US sanctions against Moscow over a hypothetical Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Price continued to warn Russia it cannot survive without the West, claiming that “if you deny yourself the ability to transact with the West, to import with the West, from Europe, from the United States, you are going to significantly degrade your productive capacity and your innovative potential.”

In the same press conference, Price claimed to have US intelligence evidence that Russia was planning a false flag attack in Ukraine to justify an invasion of the country. Price was berated, however, by an AP journalist for refusing to provide a single piece of evidence to the public to justify such claims.

Moscow has repeatedly dismissed accusations that it’s planning an invasion of Ukraine as “hysteria” and "fake news," and even Kiev at one point has criticized Western officials and media for damaging its economy with constant fear mongering about an “imminent” war.

https://www.rt.com/russia/548266-us-warns-china-russia/