To: Qone0 who wrote (1391530 ) 2/16/2023 1:06:49 PM From: Broken_Clock Read Replies (2) | Respond to Gee, acording to you, Zelensky will be in Moscow shoving a knife up Putin's ass in a couple of months.Politico reports of his words that "A Ukrainian attempt to retake Crimea would be a red line for Vladimir Putin that could lead to a wider Russian response , Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a Zoom call with a group of experts Wednesday."not "actively encouraging" Ukraine to liberate Crimea from Russia, the Wednesday report said.Via Google Maps Instead, any potential future Crimea offensive will be "Kyiv's decision alone" - this despite a recent past history of rhetoric out of both Republican and Democratic administrations which have continually asserted over the years that "Crimea is Ukraine."Politico details more of Blinken's response as follows : Blinken, according to two of the people, gave the impression that the U.S. doesn’t consider a push to retake Crimea to be a wise move at this time . He didn’t say those words explicitly, they underscored. Two other people didn’t take Blinken’s comments that way. The secretary remarked that it is solely the Ukrainians’ decision as to what they try to take by force, not America’s. That signaled to them that Blinken was more open to a potential Ukrainian play for Crimea. has been going on since 2014 - which appears to validate a key aspect of Russia's framing of the conflict narrative and why Putin ordered the invasion:
