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US Stands Up to Russia
By Micah Halpern

Thursday December 2, 2021
I've Been Thinking:

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Eastern Europe. He is in Riga, the capital of Latvia. He is there meeting with his NATO colleagues burning issues on the international agenda.

The elephant in the room is Russia.
Russia has amassed troops on the border of Ukraine. Everyone is asking if or when Russia will invade. The answer is dependent on the United States.

In 2014, Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. At the time, the United States response was lukewarm.

Seven years later, Blinken is doing his best to sound intimidating. He is proclaiming that the United States must stop Russia.

Here are Blinken’s comments:
“Now, we’ve seen this playbook before in 2014, when Russia last invaded Ukraine. Then as now they significantly increased combat forces along the border. Then as now they intensified disinformation to paint Ukraine as the aggressor to justify pre-planned military action.”

“Now, we don’t know whether President Putin has made the decision to invade," he said. "We do know that he’s putting in place the capacity to do so in short order should he so decide. So despite uncertainty about intentions, and time, we must prepare for all contingencies while working to see to it that Russia reverses course."

“We’ve made it clear to the Kremlin that we will respond resolutely, including with a range of high impact economic measures that we have refrained from pursuing in the past.”

“We’ve made it clear to the Kremlin that we will respond resolutely, including with a range of high impact economic measures that we have refrained from pursuing in the past.”

Russia will evaluate – and then Russia will act.

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5 December 2021 04:26 PM in Thoughts


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