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Russia is 'one step from war' with Ukraine, state TV has warned in the latest bout of sabre-rattling between Moscow and Kiev that has jangled nerves across Europe.
Dmitry Kiselyov, a Russian news anchor who has been called a 'Putin propagandist' in the past, issued the warning during a primetime broadcast in Russia on Sunday.
He branded Ukraine a 'Nazi' state, saying that Russia may be forced to 'de-Nazify' it buy force - a process he said would bring about its 'economic and military collapse
The Kremlin has denied ignoring requests from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to hold a crisis summit after days of bloody escalations in the war-torn Donbass region, insisting it hasn’t actually been invited to take part.
On Monday morning, a government spokeswoman in Kiev claimed that an appeal for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin had gone unacknowledged. Yulia Mendel told journalists from Reuters that “we have not received an answer yet and we very much hope that this is not a refusal of dialogue.”
However, later that day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that he was unaware of the request, and had not seen any such contact from Ukrainian officials in recent days.
Since Biden’s inauspicious rise to power, the world has become littered with hotspots from Ukraine to China where a major conflict could erupt at any time. Is the US deep state desperate to make up for four warless years?
Coincidence or otherwise, the world feels like a much more dangerous place since Joe Biden formally entered the White House on January 20. Now that the ‘Make America Great Again’ bumper sticker has been removed from the US juggernaut, early indicators point to a global joyride riddled with dangerous standoffs and even full-blown hostilities that could spark the mother of all conflagrations. One of the most dangerous stops along this highway to possible oblivion is playing out right now on Russia’s doorstep.
For the average consumer of Western media junk food, the simmering standoff between Ukraine and Russia has been reduced to snack-size bites, popularly sold to unsuspecting consumers as ‘Russian aggression’. Toss away the greasy bag, however, and the more discerning shopper will discover that Moscow has in fact steadfastly supported the conditions for peace in Donbass, where a civil war has been raging for seven years between pro-Russian forces and Kiev. Meanwhile, it is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky who has abandoned the Minsk Protocol, the 2014 peace treaty, while signing a decree on March 24 that practically places Ukraine on a war footing with Russia.
Another statement made by Ukraine's President Zelensky was that Ukraine wanted to become a "card carrying" member of NATO now too...
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: pravdaseeker
Another statement made by Ukraine's President Zelensky was that Ukraine wanted to become a "card carrying" member of NATO now too...
. Plus, I don't much see the point, we have a treaty where we defend their sovereignty anyways (not that I want to honor it at this point given the ramifications).
originally posted by: Vector99
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: pravdaseeker
Another statement made by Ukraine's President Zelensky was that Ukraine wanted to become a "card carrying" member of NATO now too...
. Plus, I don't much see the point, we have a treaty where we defend their sovereignty anyways (not that I want to honor it at this point given the ramifications).
We didn't honor that treaty in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea.
Fun fact, Russia is also a signatory on that treaty.
It is another proxy war somewhat.... USA has been "egging" Ukraine forward with the rhetoric.
But, if and when the shooting starts, Ukraine will suffer terribly.
originally posted by: Vector99
a reply to: pravdaseeker
It's because Putin knows he can do whatever he wants in eastern Ukraine now that Biden is president.
He annexed Crimea under Obama, when Biden was the soggy soiled diaper there to catch all the crap.
Now Biden is president...and things aren't looking good.
Meanwhile Russia claims it never even got an invitation to have urgent peace talks with Ukraine!
originally posted by: beyondknowledge
The question is what do the democrats have on Putin that is worth going to war over to cover up the investigation of the Biden Ukraine scandal?
Democrats working with Russians again?
All-out cyberwarfare, nation-wide forced blackouts, and the targeted disruption of internet services—for one of the Kremlin’s top propagandists, all of those tactics are fair game in what she describes as a fated war-to-come against the U.S. “War [with the U.S.] is inevitable,” declared Margarita Simonyan, editor in chief of the state-funded Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik, who believes the conflict will break out when, not if, Vladimir Putin moves to seize more territory from Ukraine.
As Russia’s military buildup on Ukraine’s doorstep mounts, Kremlin loyalists have been urging for even more overt aggression and bloodshed in the campaign to annex Ukraine’s Donbas region.
The only thing standing in the way, they say, is U.S. support for their beleaguered neighbor.
The current battle is not over geographical conquest, but rather for access to Europe’s lucrative energy sector. Washington refuses to sit by idly as Moscow and Berlin put the final touches on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which, if fulfilled, will see natural gas supplies flowing from Russia to Germany – without the highly unpredictable Ukrainian middleman – across the Baltic Sea.
Washington’s determination to play spoiler was made clear last month when US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on the sidelines of a meeting with NATO’s Stoltenberg that the pipeline “is in contradiction to the EU’s own security goals.” Interesting how Washington understands the EU’s “security goals” even better than Brussels does.
And lest Germany failed to take the hint, Blinken warned Berlin of “possible sanctions” should the project go to the joyous ribbon-cutting phase. In other words, ‘free markets’ were only designed primarily with US corporations in mind; all other contenders, especially Russia, need not apply.
Not only would Nord Stream 2 preclude the necessity of expensive US liquefied natural gas (LNG) from being imported by the EU, it would turn Brussels and Moscow into Washington’s worst nightmare, that is, bona-fide partners with a real incentive to remain on good terms.
Such a geopolitical turn of events has all the potential to eventually render NATO obsolete.
Thus, we find Zelensky doing the dirty and extremely dangerous work of Washington, militarizing the Donbass while making aggressive overtures to Moscow.
Amid high tensions between Russia and Ukraine, the United States reportedly cancelled this week’s planned deployment of two warships to the Black Sea.
Anadolu state news agency reported that Turkish officials informed that the passage of the first ship through the Bosphorous due on Wednesday did not take place. They added that both deployments, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, have been cancelled and Ankara has not yet been informed of any possible rescheduling.