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Originally published on ZeroHedge
President Joe Biden on Friday told a donors conference in Los Angeles, California on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky brushed aside US warnings saying a Russian invasion of Ukraine was imminent. He described the situation ahead of the Feb.24 invasion and his communications with Zelensky, according to The Associated Press:
“Nothing like this has happened since World War II. I know a lot of people thought I was maybe exaggerating,” Biden said, according to the outlet. He added the US had data that showed Russian President Vladimir Putin was going to invade.
“There was no doubt,” Biden continued. “And Zelenskyy didn’t want to hear it.”
In his latest remarks, Biden admitted that the possibility of Putin launching a full-scale invasion may have seemed far-fetched at the time, acknowledging, “I understand why they didn’t want to hear it.”
Top Ukrainian officials in the days and weeks prior to the invasion had pushed back against Washington, blaming the repeat warnings from US intelligence agencies for sowing “panic”.
At that time, Zelensky had even personally told Biden to “calm down the messaging” on the invasion fears. Rarely does US intelligence take its classified assessments public in order to preemptively warn of action it predicts will occur. This highly unusual public stance also fueled widespread skepticism of the constant invasion warnings from the administration even among longtime Russia experts and observers. It has since been revealed in recent testimony by US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines that Biden had taken the rare step of declassifying intelligence related to the prepared invasion in order to convince skeptical allies that it was likely going to happen.
Down to the last days before the invasion, there was hope among many Western officials of an “off ramp” that might quickly de-escalate the situation amid the Russian and Belarusian troop build-up along Ukraine’s eastern and northern borders. Indeed this “off-ramp” might have come in the form of Ukraine and its backers pledging that the ex-Soviet state would never join NATO.
Many weeks after the invasion, Zelensky revealed in damning statements issued during an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that all during the Russian troop build-up crisis, NATO leadership was pushing him to hold a firm public line that Ukraine is seeking NATO membership.
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However, Zelensky confessed that he was assured in private that NATO membership for Ukraine was in reality never going to happen. Below is the transcript of that part of the March 20 interview:
But everyone in the West told me that we do not have any chance of NATO or E.U. membership. I asked them not to drive the Ukrainian people into a corner because our people are brave and the West should also be brave in telling directly to the Ukrainian people that, well, you are not going to be a NATO-E.U. member. They do not have a consolidated position and I requested that personally.
I requested them personally to say directly that we are going to accept you into NATO in a year or two or five. Just say it directly and clearly or just say no, and the response was very clear, you are not going to be a NATO or E.U. member, but publicly the doors will remain open. I asked them about preemptive sanctions, I talked about Nord Stream 2, we were discussing all of it, and simultaneously we were strengthening our army because with neighbors like this, like we have, this is the only way out.
Zelensky had followed with, “We are paying with our people.” He added, describing the situation as somewhat of a betrayal: “So my rhetoric is absolutely true and I’m just — I’m not mentioning explicitly what countries said that Ukraine is not going to be a NATO member. I think that this is a very righteous position. It has to remain behind the scenes, but that is true.”
Thus Washington can’t exactly pretend it was all along taking the moral high ground while Biden is now throwing Zelensky under the bus. Essentially, the administration pushed Kiev to “stand up to Russia” – while publicly making empty promises that insiders knew would never be fulfilled. And still, the US and UK and particular are pushing a ‘no compromise’ approach that will only ensure a protracted conflict, and tragically more deaths. Or as Professor John Mearsheimer put it in a now famous 2015 address at the University of Chicago: “The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked.”
The narrative of Ukrainian victory with mild losses is breaking apart rapidly under the weight of the reality of crushing Russian tactical and material superiority.
They themselves admit to losing a hundred-plus soldiers killed in action daily.https://t.co/GRQFg0Yq3H
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) June 10, 2022
The timing of Biden Friday’s comments describing Zelensky as essentially ‘brushing off’ warnings are also notable given they come as there’s increasing widespread acknowledgement for the first time that Ukraine is losing in the Donbas.
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The narrative is shifting fast, and Zelensky may soon see his ‘superstar’ status in the West on the decline.
It’s a typical “Rats are fleeing the sinking ship situation”! 😁
they are now triying to soft the inminent defeat with mems 😁
Don’t underestimate the unending evil of British bastards and Zionist scum, they are doing everything possible to continue this fratricide. The best thing to save Slavic lives is to kill Zelensky and let real Ukrainians work out a modus vivendi with their Russian kin. The Jews have done enough damage to both Russia and Ukraine, let alone Palestine and the Arabs.
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The flushing of the stooges and patsies begins.
There was never any question in any rational mature mind that Russia, a prime SUPERPOWER will have any problem rolling the corrupt Zionist clown regime in Kiev. But now the real issue is to get rid of Zelensky is a Jew living in Slavic lands and hell bent on continuing this one sided Slavic fratricide for his Anglo-Zionist masters who have a delusional agenda of “weakening Russia”. It is time of Ukrainian Orthodox patriot nationalists to come together and get rid of Zelensky and the Jew cabal and start negotiations with their Russian kin. Russia has won and let’s accept that FACT as even senile diaper Biden now acknowledges. The British bastards are adding fuel by supplying long range rockets which will make no difference. As the US DOD acknowledged, for every 1 artillery shell the AFU fires, the Russians respond with 500. With these odds there is need to stop the bloodshed.
In light of steady gains made in Donbass by the DPR and LPR, US officials have started to realise that Ukraine’s prospects for peace will rely on diplomacy, according to a leaked CIA report.
So what are US Officials going to do, order a book online called Diplomacy4Idiots and hope they can figure out what diplomacy is before it’s too late?
The American ruling class is full of dipshits that can’t pronounce diphthongs to save their lives, let along engage in anything called diplomacy.
How can you take a simple name like Mariupol and make merrypole out of it, just dropping that pesky u? The Poles might be flattered but the rest of us break out in laughter.
Never throw a triphthong at them. Their brains will short circuit. Probably why Guaido was forgotten faster than a burnt tortilla.
Russia is ruled by Jewish oligarchs, more than Ukraine ever was.
Russia got the smart ones. Ukraine got the leftovers.
Yes, the best ones to suck blood of white Slavs, and who send Mongol hordes and Muslims to kill white Slavs of Ukraine. And Jewtin is the smartest of them (Jews) all.
Jewtin and Jewish oligarchs are ruling Russia, Jewtin is best buddy with Israeli leaders.
Exactly, the blame-game has started! 🤣
All they need is Colin Powell chiming in……..”Those bastards. They misled us…!”
It’s almost sad to see how the US is throwing Ukraine away like a used-up condom. Then I think about all the lies Zelensky and friends have been spouting and I think of the Joker’s iconic line.
many countries don’t learn how the anglo way of working is, even after decades…
They come bearing roses and leave all the thorns?
I believe what is going on is the beginning of a grand bargain, a compromise, as this conflict dragging on is not benefitting the US and EU. Yes there are two players – Poland and UK that have other Agendas, but the major parties want to draw things to a conclusion, including Russia (after the territorial goals are met. The Facts are that the US is distancing itself now in terms of statements and high level of arms supplies. Also EU candidacy looks on the cards for Ukraine and 3 major EU statesmen are imminently visiting Kiev. So what could be in the air is a peace deal that sees Ukraine have clear path to EU membership – something that can be sold as a real victory for Ukraine – as EU was pushing them out. As part of this deal they would need accept all territory taken from them as final. For Russia it would have a EU next to them, which is better than NATO, the EU would also at least moderate the NAZI behaviour in Ukraine. The risk of course to Russia would be NATO down the line.
This logic is very correct. The fake jew zionist JUSA cabal will not cede so easily without NOT forcing Russia to do a compromise. I highly bet on a clear COMPROMISE, the sort one you commented above or something like that. If Russia is not clever enough, all its victories will be ZEROED in a matter of a short time in other ways, because was clear this war was concocted long ago not for the sake of Ukraine but to disable Russia and create it as a puppet state, with a puppet jew president, for the globalist agenda, like so many others including Ukraine,and of course, to get Russia’s vast natural resources. Someone like the drunken straw-puppet Eltin. The West hidden terms of an EU Ukraine is almost a NATO Ukraine in my opinion on medium and long term. Russia was fooled once with this kind of concessions and MUST not believe a damn word from the anglo-zioNAZIST fake jew planet government. They will not renounce to try destroy Russia as this is one of the MOST important chapter in theirs evil global neo-liberal satanist agenda.
“……the EU would also at least moderate the NAZI behaviour in Ukraine.”
The way the EU’s been operating lately, it’ll be Ukraine’s NAZI behavior that modifies the EU.
That’s how it works if you EVER trust US or UK political gangsters. You may lose your country and life if you try to deal with the devil. All governments in the world should take this example to their hearts. The problem is that governments in the world are mostly populated by traitors, freemason scumbags or woke/green agenda idiots. Nowadays, you do not have country leaders (like Orban in Hungary or Assad in Syria) but merely bureaucrat queenies, petty politicians and cowards. My country have such government too most sane people are disgusted of (Andrej Plenkovic aka Brussels sissy). The most Croats are truly ashamed of our treacherous government. What a prick! F.ck them!
Not only used up but defective as well. Now they’re blaming the pregnancy with only 6 fingers and toes and a cleft pallet on the defective condom of Ukraine.
A smart person learns from others mistakes and Zelensky should have learned from the Afghans ordeal. It seems he is neither smart nor he care for his countrymen.
I actually think he hates his countrymen and want them dead
As a Jew he is just so happy to see white goyim men killing other white goyim men. He will get a big reward from Israel for his outstanding service to world Jewery!
He won’t let them retreat to save their lives so you may be correct.
A jew in Hi Heels, what else can go wrong?
Zelinsky tried to keep it the low profile to avoid general panic in Ukraine. If there was a general panic in Ukraine then the Ukrainian forces couldn’t have crushed and humiliated the shitty Russian army in Kiev the way they did.
in which planet or Dimension have the ukros won a shit? 😁. No doubt russia is now the most efficient army on the terrain in the world. Much more than US, wasting thousand of millions in “soldiers” who mix “Counter Strike” with reality and only are able to kill thousands of civilians during years for being defeated by sheepards with ak 47 in the end. Criminals, cowards and losers, like the ukros.
The planet where the Putin cockroaches were obliterated when they tried to topple Zelensky. It’s the planet where the rest of the world is living in. Unless you’re a Putin terrorist. If you’re a Putin terrorist then you’re living in the Lunga Lunga People’s Republic in Dombass.
so when you going back?
Oh someone must inform US inteligence that they are mistaken, that Ukraine is not losing this war and that whoever you are, is the enlightened one lol
How’s your asshole buddy Zelensky? You just love sucking kike cock.
He does win a collective prize for jackassery and a special “Retard” sash to match his evening dress
Dear Prophet,
You are ridiculous
nothing has changed in 1400 years
You really know master… I don’t know how you are not in Ukraine training more elite troops, as a “volunteer” of course… because mercenary sounds ugly…
You should know all about it. Ask the 300 hundred Wagner mercenary freaks who incinerated to death at the depot in Kadiivka the other day.
Oh, no… Muhammad would never joins those brutes, he is too afraid of being Gang Sodomized by the whole gang.
Kyiv diversion was to divide the AFU so they went to old tanks
Kiev diversion is the part where the Putin cockroaches were destroyed in Kiev and now they’re in a state of denial. That says all the is to say about the absolute morons running the state of Russia and its idiotic propaganda. Morons and loving it.
They sat there for a month with a 40 mile convoy. How is that not gangster? How do you wanna convince anybody besides your small brain that they were destroyed? How do you destroy something you can’t even shake? Russian troops literally went on vacation around Kiev
OK Mossad pretend Muslim troll fag!
Haven’t you heard?
You are disgraceful Jew scum.
Check it out. We another antisemite cockroach here. It’s been a while since we’ve seen one of these freaks around here. Probably because there hasn’t been many good news reaching Moscow lately. Most of them have run for the hills by now.
So lets get this straight. One Mossad Jew using biggest antisemite name in history to obfuscate reality and distort facts is upset because he is sussed out as being a shit posting shekel loving kosher head banging dead Sea pedestrian who posts less reality than mohammad did in the toilet paper book ( a replication of the torah toilet paper scroll.) you sound a bit like a wet fish crying like a little 12yr girl there Mo! gonna need to evolve a backbone like all the other Humans, you wont survive with that paper thin skin. Oy Gevalt!
Ha Ha… when called out for being a ‘jew’ and without exception..
you non-semitic jewish imbeciles always reach for the anti-semitism ‘trope’… one must also question the reality of the much vaunted jewish lQ.. when of course most of its intel operators easily deciphered user names are ‘hitler was right’… ‘crusader johnny’.. or even ‘muhammad the moslem’.. etc etc
it must be tough being a ‘jew’… when your own worst enemy is actually yourself..
followed closely by the rest of mankind..
I like your irony.
What drugs do you use man? That addiction is doing you bad, you need help.
Don’t do Torah kids. Just say Nyet!
Maybe, real Tora kids say Nyet, however Talmudian kids don’t know that such a word exists.
Actually, russians gave plenty of warnings before they attacked. But the ukro-idiots chose to ignore them. I wonder, what exactly the ukies expected to happen? That the russians would allow the ukies to bombard the people in Donbas with impunity? That the US and UK are going to throw themselves to die for ukies benefit? This is not how it works – for the anglos, the rest of NATO and the countries that allied themselves with US/UK, are just useful idiots.
I’m Italian and since 2014 have been thinking that sooner or later something would happen. I guess everyone in the world with just a normal QI could expect so, unless the Ukraine government changed its mind. But the so called experts in the West have no intelligence (in both meanings) at all. For example, two days after Biden was elected while everyone on medias cheerished for Trump’s defeat and neocon win, I wrote to a friend we were near a world war and he thought I was paranoid. He might have changed his idea lately but that is a cold comfort.
9 yrs of warnings ignored. The west will not even admit that their plans put forth for peace have been ignored by their signatory, Ukraine since the day they were agreed upon. Normandy 4 demilitarization program of the Minsk deal has been refused by every single ukrainian politician asked about it. Refused point blank. Lets see them refuse now its out of their hands. now everyday forward is land they would NOT have lost. great entertainment
Two congenital liars tell stories.
wonder how you say “Corn Pop” in nazi ukropese?
Coo Coo Rudzy go Bang
When idiots deal with other idiots, the results are never good. A sniff of cocaine a day, keeps reality at bay.
biden sniffing prophets pubic hair when sodomized by Zelensky—these low budget soap operas only entertain half wits
The Jew scum Zelensky has caused the death of thousands of innocent Slavs who had no interest in fighting their Russian kin who lived with them since the founding of Kievan-Rus in 863 A.D. These Khazar pretend Jews are a cancer for Russia, Ukraine and the world in general. The British devious bastards created Zionism with Balfour declaration in London to divide the Arabs and then loot their OIL, now the scum are doing the same to Ukraine. The best thing to save lives is to kill this bastard Zelensky and his ilk and then create a confederation with Russia like Crimea and Don Bas have done. Ukraine is now being sold off to the Jew controlled Pollacks as a further cancer for Russia. Militarily the AFU is on its knees and its officers know it. Russia is a magnanimous victor and should encourage a Slavic pro-Russian government via nationalistic takeover in Kiev.
Scumbag Khazar fucks. They are Jews who are not Jews. Barbarian pretenders from the north of caucasia. They are not even Hebrew, let alone Semantic. The Jews/Isrealites are Hebrew from the twelve tribes of Israel. (That’s why you see quite a bunch of Georgian fighting as foreign mercenaries for Zelensky.)
“I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” – Revelation 2:9
“Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.” – Revelation 3:9
The talmud is not the Word of God.
And the stupid christian zionists in NA(John Hagee) worship them as God’s chosen people, which they are not, and they claim God gave them back the promised land. Fools. It wasn’t God, it was man, like you mentioned through the Balfour declaration, and that is why this land has been cursed with wars & endless violence since the Zionist State of Israel was founded.
Let the Ukrainians and America come to a mutual hatred as strong as the Nazis and Russians have for one another. Let NATO be despised for its deceptions, false promises and bad, callous, idiotic leadership. Let the shareholders of the arms industries in the world be universally despised as pimps, murderers, thieves and slave traders should be.
I’m willing to pay 5 klopecks for video of said bus accident, with sound of course.
it is a war comedy … and US and Nato wrote the Script … while Zelensky as the main comedian and the people of Ukraine, who played the movie for a while now realise they are all in deep deep shit …
So..? Zelensky is a british evil crown company TM actor and a british puppet, an actor. Just as Biden is, when he has a good day and can put a sentence together. It is a company that employs these scumbags
BIDEN AND HIS BS
Biden and his puppets had planned the final invasion of Donbass for March of 2022. Donbass was dug in with 8 years of fortifications in the Donbass Region.
Everything was prepared for the invasion of Russian troops except the right outcome. If Biden does not wind this conflict down now, this shit is going to turn into a real war. Russia has had enough of Bidens bullshit.
Everyone needs to remember that it only takes one nuclear strike on one nuclear power facility to trigger a mass extinction event and one conventional strike on a cooling pond to trigger a dead zone half the size of Ukraine.
Whoever convinced them that Ukraine could win a, war against Russia, are morons
Trump would’ve huffed and puffed and scared Russia into submission.
Putin and Russia MUST not believe any proposals from the anglo-zioNAZI JUSA hunta as it is 100% a poison apple. Point.
That turnip truck left the garage long ago.
Zelensnky knows if he goes against nazi battalioan and US he will be killed immediatly Zelensky himself want to declare ceasfire and talk to russia . But his nato and white supermist nazi thugs are not allowing him
I don’t think Zelensky knows from one snort of coke to the next what he wants, other than to have never run for office.
China Joe blames all his failures on someone else; in this case it sounds like Biden and the boys are realizing that they have backed the losing horse in this race.
They backed a jackass and got kicked in the nuts for their efforts. But that’s OK, they always wanted to be she and her pronouns anyway.
I, too, was skeptical of the Russian invasion warnings. I mean, the USG claiming that something will or won’t happen – that hasn’t meant anything for a while now. Their credibility is in the gutter. If anything, I was inclined to believe the opposite of whatever they claimed. I was also misled by Russia’s long-time passive stance towards NATO encroachment.
I was dead wrong, but in my defense, Russia’s attack on Ukraine was a major break with previous patterns. It was a total reversal of the 30-year trend towards a unipolar world where elites everywhere (including Russia) were trying to cozy up to the US. But in retrospective, it makes sense. Putin has been signaling for a while that he believes the West to be in rapid decline, so it stands to reason that he’d be willing to take his chances with cutting the cord.
The Russian state may have been mistaken on the fragility of the Ukrainian puppet regime, but otherwise their assessment of Western leaders’ stupidity and fecklessness has been proven mostly correct.
Personally, I think they were just fed up to the gills and reached that point where all hell breaks loose….One of those perfect storm moments. It happens.
Do not rejoice quickly about the lying MSM acceptance that Ukraine is loosing. This is to prepare their robots/people that their governments should enter into the war to save Ukraine. Hence all these admissions. End July or August you will hear them talking about a big crime committed by Russia, that they have to go and remove Russia from the country.
Exactly
How’ll they do that? The entire territory is covered by S-400/500’s. NATO doesn’t go anywhere without owning the skies first.
and Biden did nothing to defuse the situation. Instead, threatened Putin and gave him the finger..
That’s a dangerous thing to do with Putin. Does he still have the finger?
People in the west are waking up and seeing that Zelenskyy has masterfully manipulated the media and the west to come to his rescue..
I’m not so sure I agree with you.
IMO, Zelensky is, and always has been, a tool of US/NATO statesmen and the Western propaganda mill.
The propaganda is coming directly from the Western. The Nazis just feed into that stream of rhetoric.
So what exactly is the purpose of this latest Biden revelation. Is it…….. ?
1) “You should have caved to Minsk II publicly before they had a chance to invade and we would have supported your decision, thereby avoiding a war”
or
2) “If you’d listened to us, you could have ordered Yatsenyuk to quickly erect that chicken wire fence of his along the entire Ukrainian-Russian border and have dispatched a few tanks to reinforce it, thereby avoiding a war.”
Which is it, Mr. Biden? Only 2 choices here, otherwise it’s just more buck-passing grifter gobbledegook coming out of your mouth, as usual.
It doesn’t look as the Ukraine “brushed off” warnings of Russia’s (necessary) pending invasion.
Clearly, the Nazi army was well prepared for war. That’s obvious because it survived Russia’s initial offensives in the north. This couldn’t have happened unless the Nazis worked long and hard with US/NATO on strategy, tactics, and operations. That’s in addition to US/NATO providing them with an abundance of weaponry well suited for defensive warfare.
For six weeks the Nazi army fought well. But since then, the tide has turned, and Russia in now in the process of destroying them. I get the impression US/NATO realizes the Ukraine is sinking, and wants to abandon ship sooner rather than later.
Biden is just trying to hedge against the possibility of American helicopters fleeing from the roofs of Kiev as Russian troops close in. He needs to save face.
That’s the price of being a U.S ‘ally’. Zelensky didn’t get the memo i guess.
Biden, nor the US for that matters, never “knew” that Russia was going to “invade” Eastern Ukraine. All the babble prior to Russia’s special operation was to form a base of self delusion in reaction to Russian troop movements on its own territory. The US as a pretext for attacking Iraq used the same method of fabricating the scenario of WMD. This “throwing under the bus” of Zelensky by Biden in therefore an act that should have been expected as soon as the Kiev Nazi regime’s loosing the war sank in.
I think it was another judo move. The Russians used the American habit of crying wolf over every little thing to its advantage, knowing that its credibility on such matters was teetering at 2%.
Quite a masterful judo move too, if that was in fact their plan.