BREAKING. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Says He Expects Russia to Invade Ukraine Tonight – Opinion

A few minutes ago, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made a rather astonishing announcement in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt. Blinken claimed that Russia would invade Ukraine by tonight.

Once you have responded to @LesterHoltNBCIn the affirmative, if Secretary of State Antony Blinken believes Russia will attack Ukraine in full tonight’s invasion, he says that although he is unable to give an exact time or date, everything seems in place.

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— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) February 24, 2022

This warning is necessary because I believe the landscape has significantly changed over the last three days.

On Monday, Vladimir Putin took Joe Biden’s lunch money and gave him a swirly. The two rebel areas of Ukraine, Donetsk & Luhansk were declared independent by him. Russian Parliament approved his declaration (Vladimir Putin runs the table in Ukraine and shows Joe Biden to be a feckless and unreliable security partner), and he sent Russian peacekeepers into those areas; see Vladimir Putin orders Russian peacekeeping troops into Eastern Ukraine. Yesterday Biden made a shocking announcement about non-sanctions. One of the banks he “sanctioned” has been under US sanctions since 2014. Russia has not been allowed to sell its sovereign debts on the primary markets since 2021. Many of those he sanctioned were already in violation of sanctions. Biden took the chance to be indifferent and did so. Potemkin Sanctions made by a Potemkin president; one of the banks sanctioned by Biden was sanctioned in 2014.

Today the Biden-junta declared the Russian energy industry off limits to any sanctions.

(Reuters) – The Biden administration is not expected to target Russia’s crude oil and refined fuel sector with sanctions cutting off trade, due to concerns about inflation and the harm it could do to its European allies, global oil markets and U.S. consumers, officials say.

— Phil Stewart (@phildstewart) February 23, 2022

Biden did nothing when Putin acted on Monday, and he’s announcing he will do nothing if Putin invades.

The new independent republics requested Russian military support, while Ukraine declared an emergency.

BREAKING NEWS: At the request of Ukraine, the U.N. Security Council scheduled Wednesday’s emergency meeting to discuss the Russian invasion threat. https://t.co/dtoB3FEO4i

— The Associated Press (@AP) February 24, 2022

Some media reports explosions within Ukraine.

Explosions are heard in Ukraine port city of Mariupol https://t.co/GelhgCfvaB pic.twitter.com/n5d8pQFfnw

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) February 24, 2022

The House GOP got this exactly right; House GOP Criticism of Biden Causes an Immense Triggering — for All the Wrong Reasons.

Here’s what it looks like to be weak on the international stage. pic.twitter.com/0Krq48gbIy

— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) February 22, 2022

Ineptitude and weakness invite aggression.