From:
slider@anashram.com
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top military officer has sternly warned Ukraine against trying to reclaim control over separatist areas by force. He said Thursday that Moscow will “suppress” any such attempt.
Thursday’s statement from the chief of the Russian military’s General
Staff comes amid soaring tensions over a Russian troop buildup near the
border with Ukraine that stoked Ukrainian and Western fears of a possible invasion. U.S. President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin
in a video call Tuesday that the West will impose unprecedented economic sanctions on Moscow if it invades Ukraine.
Russia has rejected Ukrainian and Western claims it’s plotting an attack. Moscow describes them as a cover-up for a possible attempt by Ukraine to
retake the rebel-held areas.
https://abc17news.com/news/ap-national-business/2021/12/09/russia-military-chief-warns-ukraine-against-attacking-rebels-2/
### - there ya go... had to really 'search' for this one heh, but found
it...
the 'real' explanation for why russia's there building up its forces:
they're 'expecting' to be attacked!
plus, going by that earlier report: it's actually going down!
perforce russia will push back if/when attacked (they always do, usually grabbing more land in the process by way of a punishment for fucking with them...)
and then... it's ALL down to what everyone ELSE does or doesn't DO...
about it??
that if we (the west) comes-in on ukraine's side, in any form whatsoever, russia will then take that as being an escalation and respond accordingly
by upping the anti...
plus once started neither side is then likely to back down?
in the past russia has merely supplied arms and support to the rebels in
the south and that's always been enough every time to repel all and any attacks, so unless ukraine has some 'new' weapons, or the west helps them
out like they keep asking for, then they just can't win!
so is anything gonna be different THIS time then?? (and that's the worry!)
i.e., ONLY having more powerful weapons, and/or the backup of western
powers, can possibly make ukraine a threat to russia enough to get them to actually invade ukraine!
that until russia NEEDS to do so they'll just have their rebels do it for
them!
so then... what does ukraine 'know' THIS time that's any different??
(must be summat or they's just be pissin' in the wind again heh) :)
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