ABC News Senior Foreign Correspondent Ian Pannell describes the mood in the Ukraine as Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to the Eastern region amid fears of an imminent Russian invasion.
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The Donbas, which is important for both Ukraine and Russia, was the lifeblood of the Ukrainian economy. The coal reserves in Europe's 4th largest mining region are estimated to be around 100 million tons. 20 percent of Kiev's gross national product was provided from this region.
they sense the weakness of American leaders
Thanks to Biden
I am amazed that the 15 billionaires which Forbes Magazine reported own US news media and control what we see are still desperately attacking President Biden for merely telling the truth. The Russians already know that if they did a minor incursion, such as merely sending more arms into the Donbass, the other members of NATA that have strong economic ties with Russia, like Germany, Austria, etc., would try to block the US from imposing severe sanctions on Russia, like cutting them from the SWIFT system.
Our allies already know that also. It is the US (with help from a few, close allies, like Poland, the UK, and Baltic countries) that has been strongly, repeatedly pressuring Germany, Austria, and other countries to sanction Russia since its initial invasion and annexation of the Crimea and now, to threaten sanctions if they invade.
Thus, the only people that the billionaires are pressuring President Biden to lie to are the American people. Unlike our former leader, President Biden is instinctively honest. That is much, much better than our prior president, apparently a pathological liar, just from the lies that I have heard.
I suspect that they are really trying to bring President Biden down because he had the courage to propose steep raises on the taxes paid by those billionaires and the trillionaire families that own the world: rises in estate taxes, rises in corporate taxes, and rises in income taxes on the ultra rich, who do not pay taxes currently due to loopholes, like the exclusion of foreign income from US taxation loophole that the billionaires and trillionaires have used to evade paying taxes for decades. Watch “Britain’s Second Empire: The Spider’s Web†which estimated that many years ago, the trillionaire families already had 55 TRILLION British pounds hidden away just in commonwealth tax shelters. Read about how Apple avoided paying $50,000,000,000 in US income taxes in Gizmodo's website.
Why do people vote Democrat? I mean they are wimps especially in dealing in foreign policy. The is Neville Chamberlain and why Putin took Crimea under Obama. Why? Because Putin like Xi in China knows that when the US is ran by the DNC it is weak and feckless. You idiots with the doctorate degrees and the like need to ask yourself why the US and the world is always in peril when the DNC is in charge. But Trump right?
You have to pray for all the peaple dead in irak and Afghanistan for dUS troops.
dUS dream with another war, so they try to create one, as they did it with irak and Afghanistan, they use propaganda to see if they could bullying other countries, we are not stupid.
Why is the U.S. getting involved in another country’s Business. I see another Proxy War coming soon
Obama said, Joe's not smart enough to be president. Guess he was right………….
So far the only thing Biden hasn't fucked up is getting us into a war.
Wag the Dog !
Let’s stay out of this mess , you can’t help The Whole world .
I can stop this escalation in one move; put the family members of ALL the politicians (NATO, Russia and the Ukraine) on the front line. Problem solved.
Are we really going to just put sanctions?
That's so awful.
I don't want war either, and I don't want innocent people attacked.
Russia is being very aggressive, and we should protect Ukraine in the event of invasion.
In regards to China and Taiwan- we should defend Taiwan too.
I don't like interfering- but protecting countries from aggressors is what we should do.
Russia and China didn't even think about invasion when Trump was in office.
Biden is likely willing to let freedom die in Ukraine and Taiwan.
Big bullies attacking the much smaller neighbors while the strongest country in the world watches.
Sound familiar?
WW1? Austria invading Serbia, & France & Britain hesitating to actually defend anywhere but the home-front- while Woodrow Wilson refusing to interfere until much later.
WW2? Germany absorbing Austria and other surrounding countries such as sections of Czechoslovakia allowed to be taken thanks to awful British Appeasement strategy, which was later followed up by France and Britain doing the same as last time until the invasion of France, and the US doing the same until practically forced.
This has happened so many times throughout history, and it looks like it's ready to rhyme…
Biden will draw that red line in the sand.
Just like obame did when Russia took the Crimea
Guys relax, Russia will not invade Ukraine!!!
And can you imagine if Putin invades Ukraine AND China attacks Taiwan AND North Korea attacks Japan/South Korea ALL AT THE SAME TIME ON THE SAME DATE?
Putin has a "Stalin Complex"
PRESIDENT BIDEN WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THIS TO PROCEED ON.WHY ARE YOU ASLEEP WHY ARE YOU NOT CALLING IN AMETI AN TROOPS TO HELP THE UKRAINE TROOPS AND UKRAINE..WHAT ARE YOU DOING RIGHT
WHY HAVE YOU NOT SENT HELP OVER THERE???YOU ARE NOT HELPING UKRAINE??? WHY NOT???
they didnt try this stunt under trump!!! biden is a puss and wont do anything about it. whats next after ukraine ????
World War 3 incoming
No worries, Obiden is sending blankets to Ukraine to discourage Russian aggression
With sleepy Joe we are in trouble.
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It really looks like 1950s black and white Television at the ukrain-russia border
What North Korea use this moment to try and get South Korea back
I hate to say this but, Russia has more Christians per capita than all of the world. Secondly, Ukraine should have turned down the money it received from the USA by paying off tribute of millions to Biden's son. Honor is better than money. Thirdly The USA failed to incarcerate Joe Biden and his son for embezzling money from the Ukraine. NOW we have the balls to ask God for a favor. My neighbors are blind to justice.
I'll consider myself very lucky if in my lifetime I can witness the third world war. I request world leaders to please consider my request. Thank you.
Have we learned nothing from the past ??? 🤨😩ðŸ’â€
yay fear vids!
Democrats desperately trying to twist the narrative and distract America from what a mess they are making of our country
I think Russia will act and the west will not fight
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The U.S. needs to keep their nose out of this!!
This is what happens when Crimea expansion and western country did NOTHING. Of course, Russia knows west won’t do ANYTHING if Ukraine is fully taken over.
Kamala is concerned about the sovereignty and borders of Ukraine but US sovereignty and southern borders NOT SO MUCH, Russia should demand the right to vote and ask for social security after the invasion
Mark my words: nothing will happen
Has anyone conducted a poll on how Americans feel about another war, even if it is Russia possibly invading Russia, or also attacking toward the Baltic states, even Poland or Finland? Conduct a poll. See what results.
"My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams, this wasted land. To understand this time, you have to go back to an earlier time – when the world was powered by the black fuel. Gone, now. Swept away. Long ago – for reasons now forgotten – two great warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Their leaders talked and talked and talked but nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. – Road Warrior: Mad Max 2 (1981).
George Steponallofus.
First more words
Now glimpses.
Stop wasting my time.
Seems possible the Russian forces will push to the Dniepa river from the east, hold the ground, and wait for a diplomatic concession from Kiev. If they do not receive the response they desire, Russian forces will push also from southern Belarus from the western side of the river with the intention of taking Kiev. In addition, Russian special forces will attempt to take the dam and waterworks north of Crimea since that peninsula is running out of water. Bare in mind also that any point of attack could also be to distract and commit Ukrainian forces in a decoy scenario while higher value targets are engaged.
Things are so bleak, I thought that tank footage was black and white…
When did Ukraine become a front burner national interest? We do lots of trade with Taiwan, almost none with Ukraine. Unless you include a few million in bribes to the Biden family.