The Russia Ukraine issue is getting more intense by the hour. Late yesterday afternoon British Intelligence let the world know that Russia is planning to install a pro-Russian leader in the Ukraine.

The British government said Saturday that the Kremlin was developing plans to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine — and had already chosen a potential candidate — as President Vladimir V. Putin weighs whether to order the Russian forces amassed on Ukraine’s border to attack.

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“The information being released today shines a light on the extent of Russian activity designed to subvert Ukraine, and is an insight into Kremlin thinking,” Liz Truss, Britain’s foreign secretary, said in a statement. “Russia must de-escalate, end its campaigns of aggression and disinformation, and pursue a path of diplomacy.”

The British announcement was the second time in just over a week that a Western power had publicly accused Russia of meddling in Ukraine’s internal affairs, part of a concerted effort to pressure Mr. Putin to de-escalate. On Jan. 14, the United States accused the Kremlin of sending saboteurs into eastern Ukraine to create a provocation that could serve as a pretext for invasion.

Of course, as you read further into the New York Times article, they lament that the British don’t provide details to back up their assertions. Seriously, why should they? That would give away the game and their sources. 

One: Russia has amped up their game regarding Ukraine big time since early this summer. In fact, some of their massing of military, armament, and more happened during the Afghanistan debacle. While all eyes were on Afghanistan, Russia made multiple strategic moves. 

Two: What has the Biden Administration done to stop Russia from rolling right on into Ukraine? Not one damned thing. Instead, what Biden did the other day is give Putin a F***ing green light! Biden can take his “minor incursion” comments and stick them WAY up where the sun never shines. 

Three: The incredible strategic importance of where Ukraine is. 

Angela Merkel realized that the seeds of potential international conflict had been planted by a supposedly internal affair. “It’s not just about Ukraine. It’s about Moldova, about Georgia — if it continues like this, we would have to ask about Serbia; we would have to ask about the Western Balkan states,” she added, according to German news agency DPA.

Worse, geography means Ukraine is inevitably about Poland, the Baltics, and the future of NATO too. These NATO members, directly to the west of Belarus, where Russian forces now threaten to move south on Kiev parallel to the Dneiper River, are linked like a dumbbell only by a narrow section of Poland called the Suwalki corridor. Because they can be so easily cut in two, Poland recently announced it would double the size of its army. It is this linkage that makes the current crisis so fraught with imponderables because even if Biden does nothing in response to an incursion into Ukraine, geopolitics will guarantee that there will be economic, political, and potentially military consequences to any attempt by Putin to reconstitute the USSR.

Quite honestly, if we don’t help defend the Ukraine, then Russia has LOTS of territory to play with. Russia is moving more and more troops and munitions to the Ukraine border has everyone worried. Rightly so. If THEY are working on fortifying their position while engaging in military games with China and Iran… 

The other part of this is, yes, Putin is a gambler AND he wants his power back. By that, I mean, he wants the original Soviet Union back up and running. 

Even as Britain, many other NATO countries such as Spain, and the United States are flying in in thousands and millions of dollars of military hardware and ammo, how will that help?

https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1484687601843986432?s=20

WILL it help? Only if all the military and those willing to step up have time to train, which they don’t. 

Here’s the other thing about all the military/ammo armament power? THANK YOU OBAMA! 

Back in August 2005, when Obama was a junior senator, he was involved in getting $48 million in U.S. funding to help Ukraine get rid of a lot of their weapons, including a lot of conventional weapons. Not only did we talk them into getting rid of them, but we also used our own money to do it. They expanded the agreement that had just been for nuclear weapons to include artillery, small arms, anti-aircraft weapons, and conventional ammunition of all kinds.

And…then Obama did the same in 2014. Is it any wonder that Ukraine is now scrambling for means and weaponry to defend themselves? Biden with a side of Obama, along with all the Democrats who have left Ukraine twisting in the wind, sure as hell built this! 

My man lost two countries in 6 months. https://t.co/0pngSCUEkn

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) January 22, 2022

https://twitter.com/MFA_Ukraine/status/1484858551570939904

Two major, and I mean MAJOR foreign policy failures in less than a year. The recovery time for this will take years, if not decades, and it doesn’t matter if Ukraine is invaded by Russia or not. The U.S., thanks to the Biden Administration has squandered all foreign policy credibility. 

Feature Photo Credit: Ukraine caught in middle of US and Russia via Shutterstock, cropped and modified