On Friday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark "White Rage" Milley held a press conference about the "Crisis" in Ukraine.
As this comes on the heels of a disputed "Readout" of a phone call between Joey SoftServe and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky that seemed to show Biden chomping at the bit to go to war -better "Prepare for impact," he told them-and deliberately inflating the nature of the Russian threat and a news conference by Zelensky earlier on Friday that tried to show that someone sane was still involved in NATO's Ukraine response even if that person was not Biden, a rational observer would be excused from asking "Wtf are they thinking?" Unfortunately, they did not fail to deliver.
Via PBS:. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said during a news briefing Friday that there was still "Time and space for diplomacy" with Russia over Ukraine.
For the past several months, Russia has been building forces in the western parts of Russia near Ukraine and in Belarus, north of Ukraine.
From CNN:. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley warned a Russian invasion of Ukraine would be "Horrific" for the country and would result in "Significant" casualties as he urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to choose a diplomatic path instead. "Given the type of forces that are arrayed if that was unleashed on Ukraine, it would be significant, very significant, and it would result in a significant amount of casualties," Milley said at a Pentagon press briefing Friday.
Zelesnky spoke to US President Joe Biden by phone Thursday, where the two leaders disagreed on the urgency of the threat Russia poses, and Zelensky reiterated his view speaking in Ukraine Friday that the rhetoric risks causing panic and destabilizing his country's economy.
When the dichotomy between what Austin and Milley are saying to the world and the message Ukraine President Zelensky wants to send is so different that even CNN notices, well, there is a real problem.
Friday, January 28, 2022
Why Today's Austin-Milley Press Conference Convinces Me That Joe Biden Wants Conflict With Russia in Ukraine
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