It’s surprising that anyone in the Biden Admin has the gall to say this to Russia. But after Russia made an outlandish demand telling NATO to get out of Ukraine and Eastern Europe or else, a Senior Biden Admin Official told Russia if they invade Ukraine, their sons are coming home in body bags.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin will bear the blame for Russian soldiers “coming home in body bags” if he orders a new invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden’s administration said in response to the Kremlin’s latest high-stakes maneuver.
“The Russian people don’t need a war with Ukraine,” a senior administration official told reporters Friday. “They don’t need their sons coming home in body bags. They don’t need another foreign adventure. … So we hope that President Putin will take this opportunity for diplomacy and will also listen to the needs of his own people.”
That stark warning followed the release of a “draft treaty” proposal from Moscow that Russian officials portray as a resolution to the standoff, which has intensified as Russian forces amass near Ukraine’s borders. Yet the Russian document demands not only that NATO promise never to admit Ukraine to the alliance, but it also goes so far as to demand the removal of U.S. and Western European forces from Central and Eastern Europe — a rollback that would amount to a practical breakup of NATO.
“It’s not even valid to consider it,” a Baltic official told the Washington Examiner on condition of anonymity. “If a country wants to leave NATO, then, of course, it’s a sovereign decision by any democratic country. … It’s not a decision that’s up to Russia.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov urged U.S. officials “to regard the Russian proposals with the utmost seriousness” to mitigate the risk of violence.
“The global situation remains rather tense, and it is in our best interests to find ways to resolve this,” he said, per state media. “We are interested in peace and stability on the European continent. Russian President [Vladimir] Putin has repeatedly stated that we do not need conflicts.”
Russia has already shown us how they operate when they took over Crimea, and they have almost 200k troops along the Ukrainian border right now. It seems like Russia wants NATO to back off so they can take over Ukraine. So we may soon have a conflict with Russia.
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