Russia warns U.S. to stay away for its "own good" as Ukraine standoff intensifies

[B00Mer]

Russia warns U.S. to stay away for its "own good" as Ukraine standoff intensifies​

Russia warns U.S. to stay away for its "own good" as Ukraine standoff intensifies

U.S. and Russia both reportedly sending warships into Black Sea amid fast-escalating standoff that Ukraine calls a struggle "between democracies and authoritarianism."

www.cbsnews.com

 

[B00Mer]

CIA says Russia’s military build-up now enough to launch incursions into Ukraine

CIA says Russia’s military build-up now enough to launch incursions into Ukraine

William Burns says President Biden has called Vladimir Putin to 'register very clearly the seriousness of our concern'

www.thenationalnews.com

Russia invades Ukraine and China, Taiwan ... in the senile feckless moron in the White House does nothing. ?? Or is it WWIII ??

 

[petros]

WWIII started a few years back.

 

[Twin_Moose]

Black Sea standoff: How Russian and American naval forces compare ​

Black Sea fleet

The Black Sea Fleet is one of Russia's largest and most formidable, thought to comprise a total of 47 ships, seven submarines and some 25,000 troops - mostly Marines.
Today, five of those vessels are taking part in live-fire drills in the Black Sea, as Moscow warns Washington to stay away 'for your own good'.
The Vyshny Volochek is a 900-tonne, 240ft corvette with a state-of-the-art missile system. It performs anti-surface warfare combat missions with secondary air defense capability thanks to its surface-to-air missiles. The ship protects Russia's offshore economic zones and engages enemy warships. It has 52 crew and was launched in 2017.
The Graivoron is the fourth 'small missile ship' of the Black Sea Fleet and was launched in 2020. It is armed with the land attack cruise missile 'Kalibr-NK' and has 52 crew members on board. It has four surface-to-air missiles and is also armed with 14.5mm and 7.62mm machine guns.
The Admiral Makarov is a third frigate of the Admiral Grigorovich class of the navy in the Black Sea Fleet. Launched in 2015, the vessel is 409ft long, weighing 4,035 tonnes and has 200 crew on board. It is armed with a 100mm naval cannon, Kalibur anti-cruise missiles, surface-to-air missiles and a rocket launcher.
The Samum is a guided missile corvette used for coast defense operations. The hovercraft carries out missile attacks on ships and claims to be the largest military hovercraft in the world. It has a displacement of 1,000 tonnes and a top speed of 100kmh. The vessel is armed with eight Mosquito missiles and 20 anti-aircraft missiles, an artillery complex, a machine-gun and an interference creating device. The 210ft Samum has 68 people on board and was launched in 1992.
The Ivan Golubets is a minesweeper that was launched in 1973 that was originally built for the Soviet navy. With 68 crew on board, the 200ft vessel has 32 depth charges and underwater mine-detector radar systems.

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US Navy
Washington is thought to have deployed two destroyers to the Black Sea as a warning to Moscow that it is watching events on the Ukraine border and stands ready to respond.
Turkey's foreign ministry says the US Navy requested permission for two destroyers to pass through the straits which enter the ocean.
The Donald Cook is an Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyer which was launched in 1997. The 505ft vessel has 281 crew members and claims to be equipped with one of the most advanced naval weapons systems in the world. It possesses a quick reaction air and ballistic missile defense system that automatically detects and tracks virtually everything in the air. The USS Donald Cook also has an advanced underwater surveillance system and a helicopter landing pad. Its vertical launching system can launch long-range surface-to-surface Tomahawk cruise missiles, surface-to-air Standard missile variants, and anti-ballistic missile Standard missile variants. It is also armed with a five-inch gun mount, 20mm Phalanz mounts and hull mounted crew-served weaons.
The Roosevelt is also an Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyer which was launched in 1999. The 510ft ship has 380 crew members and an integrated radar and missile system that can defend against advanced air, surface, and subsurface threats. It is armed with the same weaponry as the USS Donald Cook.

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[B00Mer]

I'm sorry but before those ships can't go into action.. the woke idiots have to change their names.. they are Racist and the Russians might be offended.

 

[Twin_Moose]

I'm sorry but before those ships can go into action.. the woke idiots have to change their names.. they are Racist and the Russians might be offended.

Could be why Biden had them turn around to not inflate the situation

 

[petros]

A friend is tired of the tyranny in Canada...

[04-15, 11:18 a.m.] Svetlana: They will close the borders soon probably

[04-15, 11:18 a.m.] Svetlana: Russia is opened! Maybe I should go

 

[B00Mer]

JUST IN - Biden declares "national security emergency" over Russia.

 

[B00Mer]

...and China to Taiwan? Oh guess the Big Guy doesn't want to upset Xi (The Puppet Master)

 

[spaminator]

U.S. imposes wide array of sanctions on Russia for 'malign' actions
Author of the article:Reuters
Reuters
Trevor Hunnicutt and Arshad Mohammed
Publishing date:Apr 15, 2021 • 10 hours ago • 2 minute read • Join the conversation
This combination of pictures created March 17, 2021 shows
U.S. President Joe Biden (left) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin. /)
This combination of pictures created March 17, 2021 shows U.S. President Joe Biden (left) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin. /) PHOTO BY ERIC BARADAT AND ALEXEY NIKOLSKY /Sputnik / AFP via Getty Images / Files
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WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia to punish it for alleged interference in the U.S. election, cyber-hacking, bullying Ukraine and other “malign” acts.

The measures blacklisted Russian companies, expelled Russian diplomats and placed limits on the Russian sovereign debt market. More penalties could come, although Washington did not want to escalate matters, the Biden administration said.


Moscow reacted angrily, saying this dangerously raised the temperature between the two countries. It summoned the U.S. ambassador for what it said would be a tough conversation.

Among the actions, President Joe Biden issue an executive order authorizing the U.S. government to sanction any sector of the Russian economy and used it to restrict Russia’s ability to issue sovereign debt to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2020 U.S. election.

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Biden barred U.S. financial institutions from taking part in the primary market for rouble-denominated Russian sovereign bonds from June 14. U.S. banks have been barred from taking part in the primary market for non-rouble sovereign bonds since 2019.

The U.S. Treasury also blacklisted 32 entities and individuals which it said had carried out Russian government-directed attempts to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election and other “acts of disinformation and interference.”

In concert with the European Union, Britain, Australia and Canada, the Treasury also sanctioned eight individuals associated with Russia’s ongoing occupation and repression in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

The Kremlin, speaking ahead of the publication of the executive order, said the sanctions would reduce the chances of a summit between Biden and President Vladimir Putin taking place.


Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman said Moscow would respond to the sanctions in the near future.

Russia denies meddling in U.S. elections and orchestrating a cyber hack that used U.S. tech company SolarWinds Corp SWI.N to penetrate U.S. government networks. It also denies using a nerve agent to poison Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

It has also brushed off allegations that it put bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.

The White House said it was expelling 10 Russian diplomats in Washington D.C., including representatives of the Russian intelligence services and for the first time, formally named the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) as the perpetrator of the SolarWinds Corp hack.

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Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, described the sanctions as “proportionate measures to defend American interests in response to harmful Russian actions.”


“His (Biden’s) goal is to provide a significant and credible response but not to escalate the situation,” Sullivan told CNN

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner said the sanctions were a “good first step” to showing that such actions were not acceptable.

“The scale and scope of this hack are beyond any that we’ve seen before, and (the sanctions) should make clear that we will hold Russia and other adversaries accountable for committing this kind of malicious cyber activity against American targets,” he said in a statement.

The actions initially sent the Russian rouble down more than 2% against the dollar and to a more than five-month low against the euro before clawing back some losses.

U.S. imposes wide array of sanctions on Russia for 'malign' actions

WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia to punish it for alleged interference in the U.S. election,…

torontosun.com

 

[petros]

How do I use my UN Indigenous Rights to fight the Neo Bolsheviks from taking my land?

 

[Danbones]

Bribe "them"...

...or join "them".

 

[taxslave]

Funny how all these problems crop up as soon as Trump leaves. Must be because everyone that isn't too busy laughing at Biden and his socialist cohorts is taking advantage of his incompetence.

 

[petros]

How big of a bribe does the UN want? How for you get a UN membership? Do I get a bi monthly magazine printed on real paper? Hand delivered by a Govt employee?

 

[B00Mer]

U.S. imposes wide array of sanctions on Russia for 'malign' actions
Author of the article:Reuters
Reuters
Trevor Hunnicutt and Arshad Mohammed
Publishing date:Apr 15, 2021 • 10 hours ago • 2 minute read • Join the conversation
This combination of pictures created March 17, 2021 shows
U.S. President Joe Biden (left) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin. /)
This combination of pictures created March 17, 2021 shows U.S. President Joe Biden (left) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin. /) PHOTO BY ERIC BARADAT AND ALEXEY NIKOLSKY /Sputnik / AFP via Getty Images / Files
Article content
WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia to punish it for alleged interference in the U.S. election, cyber-hacking, bullying Ukraine and other “malign” acts.

The measures blacklisted Russian companies, expelled Russian diplomats and placed limits on the Russian sovereign debt market. More penalties could come, although Washington did not want to escalate matters, the Biden administration said.


Moscow reacted angrily, saying this dangerously raised the temperature between the two countries. It summoned the U.S. ambassador for what it said would be a tough conversation.

Among the actions, President Joe Biden issue an executive order authorizing the U.S. government to sanction any sector of the Russian economy and used it to restrict Russia’s ability to issue sovereign debt to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2020 U.S. election.

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Biden barred U.S. financial institutions from taking part in the primary market for rouble-denominated Russian sovereign bonds from June 14. U.S. banks have been barred from taking part in the primary market for non-rouble sovereign bonds since 2019.

The U.S. Treasury also blacklisted 32 entities and individuals which it said had carried out Russian government-directed attempts to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election and other “acts of disinformation and interference.”

In concert with the European Union, Britain, Australia and Canada, the Treasury also sanctioned eight individuals associated with Russia’s ongoing occupation and repression in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

The Kremlin, speaking ahead of the publication of the executive order, said the sanctions would reduce the chances of a summit between Biden and President Vladimir Putin taking place.


Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman said Moscow would respond to the sanctions in the near future.

Russia denies meddling in U.S. elections and orchestrating a cyber hack that used U.S. tech company SolarWinds Corp SWI.N to penetrate U.S. government networks. It also denies using a nerve agent to poison Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

It has also brushed off allegations that it put bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.

The White House said it was expelling 10 Russian diplomats in Washington D.C., including representatives of the Russian intelligence services and for the first time, formally named the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) as the perpetrator of the SolarWinds Corp hack.

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Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, described the sanctions as “proportionate measures to defend American interests in response to harmful Russian actions.”


“His (Biden’s) goal is to provide a significant and credible response but not to escalate the situation,” Sullivan told CNN

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner said the sanctions were a “good first step” to showing that such actions were not acceptable.

“The scale and scope of this hack are beyond any that we’ve seen before, and (the sanctions) should make clear that we will hold Russia and other adversaries accountable for committing this kind of malicious cyber activity against American targets,” he said in a statement.

The actions initially sent the Russian rouble down more than 2% against the dollar and to a more than five-month low against the euro before clawing back some losses.

U.S. imposes wide array of sanctions on Russia for 'malign' actions

WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia to punish it for alleged interference in the U.S. election,…

torontosun.com

Sanctions only work if you have the main currency of the world.

This is why China, Russia and Iran have teamed up

 

[Twin_Moose]

Will Russia invade? The world tries to decode signs of a possible attack on Ukraine​

The international community is immersed in a multipronged effort to assess the likelihood and outcomes of war.

Amid increasing alarm over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, the international security community is immersed in a multipronged effort to decode the signs, lodge protest, and assess possible outcomes of war.

In addition to a mounting buildup of Russian forces along the border with Ukraine, provocative portents include so-called "battle stripes" painted in broad strokes atop Russian tanks, and satellite images that are alleged to depict concealed registration numbers on Russian armor. Additionally, Ukraine on Thursday announced that Russia planned to block foreign warships from entering the Black Sea via the Kerch Strait.

Within the Pentagon, the battle stripes drew particular attention because the markings — meant to distinguish friendly from enemy tanks — are best viewed from above. The markings prompted analysts to consider whether Moscow placed the markings in preparation for an air assault, Pentagon sources told Just the News.

After the Biden administration announced it would expel Russian diplomats and impose sanctions on Russian entities over numerous infractions, officials from other countries expressed outrage and demanded action.

The United Kingdom on Thursday summoned the Russian Ambassador to meet with officials from the British Foreign Office.

"The UK Government is deeply concerned about a pattern of malign behaviour by the Russian State," a Foreign Office spokesperson said in a statement.....Much More

 

[Danbones]

How big of a bribe does the UN want? How for you get a UN membership? Do I get a bi monthly magazine printed on real paper? Hand delivered by a Govt employee?

'Chaz' your yard.

 

[Blackleaf]

PETER HITCHENS: Don't blame Russia... WE are the ones pushing for a war​

By Peter Hitchens for The Mail on Sunday
17 Apr 2021

At last we are to get out of Afghanistan, a country to which we should never have sent a single soldier.

I am still full of fury at the shallow and ignorant politicians of all the main parties who sent young men and women into that futile war, to die or to be maimed, for absolutely no purpose.

But as this long-overdue moment arrives, a frantic lobby in this country and in the USA wants to get us into a new and equally pointless war against Russia. As I know a bit about Russia, and once lived there, I'd like to warn against this.

Yes, Russia is ruled by nasty, sinister despots. But it is not a major threat to us. We have no disputes about territory or trade. Its leaders and people care little about us. It is a defeated, poor country with an economy about the same size as Italy's, which has been in headlong retreat and decline since the 1980s.

Once it ruled a vast empire that began at Marienborn in the middle of Germany, less than 500 miles from Calais. Now it is almost 1,500 miles from the Channel to Russia's western frontier. It controlled a vast military alliance and an economic bloc, now both very dead.

At last we are to get out of Afghanistan, a country to which we should never have sent a single soldier

It maintained a global navy, most of which was long ago turned into fridges and washing machines. Much of the rest is so decrepit it can barely leave harbour. It was the headquarters of a stupid dogma, now finished and gone, which it tried to spread throughout the world.

All this is over. Moscow has abandoned control of tens of thousands of square miles of territory in Europe and Asia and knows it lacks the power to get it back.

Let me explain how this feels to Russians by asking you to imagine a mirror image. Imagine that the USA had lost the Cold War and the USSR had won it. Think how it might be if Moscow had then treated the USA as Washington has treated Russia. This is what you might have seen:

US President Joe Biden speaks from the Treaty Room in the White House

Instead of Ukraine being detached from Moscow rule, and slowly reeled into Nato and the EU, imagine that an equally huge, fertile, productive and strategic chunk of the USA, including Texas and California, was encouraged to declare independence and form a new Spanish-speaking nation hostile to the USA.

Impossible? Hardly. This part of the US was seized by armed force from Mexico in the 1840s, and it is only the USA's superpower status which prevents this grab from being questioned in the same way that Russia's former hold over Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Baltic states was questioned after 1989.

Imagine constant efforts to get this new North American nation to join the Warsaw Pact military alliance, and Comecon, Moscow's economic and trading bloc. And picture at the same time the spread of the Warsaw Pact and Comecon into most central and South American countries, along with major gifts of modern Soviet weapons and aircraft.

Vladimir Putin could turn out to be mild compared with what we get if we stir up the true spirit of Russian nationalism

Imagine that Nato has been abolished under Soviet pressure, as the Warsaw Pact was wound up under US pressure. And imagine also that almost all of Nato's non-US members have not stayed neutral, but have been gathered into the Warsaw Pact under the ultimate command of Moscow.

The permanent stationing of large numbers of well-armed Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops and warships in Cuba would undoubtedly follow. And to add to the mix, think how it might be if Quebec finally broke away from Canada, with Moscow's encouragement, and allowed Warsaw Pact troops to be based along the USA's northern border.

At 335 miles from New York City, this is nothing like as close as Nato troops (often to be seen in Narva, Estonia) now are to Russia's second city St Petersburg, 99 miles from the Estonian frontier. I think the people of what was left of the USA, and its political leaders, would chafe quite a lot at such an arrangement. In fact they would be fearful and angry and perhaps inclined to lash out.

Militant American nationalists would sweep to power in the Capitol and the White House. They might even re-annexe Texas, if they got the chance, in the face of international disapproval.

They would ask which country the Warsaw Pact was aimed at. They would object to every move which brought Moscow's military power and alliances closer to the borders of a diminished USA. They would wonder what the ultimate aim of these actions was. And they would be quite within their rights to do so.

The best test of whether your own policy is good or bad is to imagine how it would feel if your foes did the same thing to you. On this basis, our policies towards Russia are dangerous and aggressive.

If we want a peaceful and friendly Russia, then our actions are stupid, ignorant and counter-productive. Vladimir Putin could turn out to be mild compared with what we get if we stir up the true spirit of Russian nationalism. Please don't be seduced into supporting this folly.

A war on European territory could be a truly terrible thing.

PETER HITCHENS: Don't blame Russia... WE are the ones pushing for war

PETER HITCHENS: At last we are to get out of Afghanistan, a country to which we should never have sent a single soldier.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Twin_Moose]

UK sending warships to the Black sea

 

[Twin_Moose]

Russia Ukraine conflict: Fact-checking Russian TV's Ukraine claims​

By Reality Check and BBC Monitoring
BBC News

Published15 hours ago

Russia has played down accusations of a military build-up near Ukraine's border - a view amplified by a state television channel, which has broadcast misleading footage about US tanks and planes.
We've fact-checked claims from one of the country's most well-known pro-government news shows - Vesti Nedeli ("News of the week").
The weekly news programme on Rossiya 1, Russia's most popular TV channel, is presented by Dmitry Kiselyov, a controversial media personality known for his anti-Western views......Read on