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Antony Blinken has been foraging around for Russian weapons for Ukraine. He even asked Cyprus.
Antony Blinken has been foraging around for Russian weapons for Ukraine. He even asked Cyprus.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during foreign travel in May. (State Department, Ron Przysucha)
Foreign policy is complicated. There are a lot of moving parts and because human beings are making the policy, and feelings and egos are at stake, it's that much more difficult.
Some policymakers take a long-term view, others are myopic. Couple all that with the problem that I witnessed countless times over the course of my career at the C.I.A. and at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — the insistence of American diplomats, intelligence professionals and White House staff members that they are literally the smartest people in the world and that they know best.
Former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser once famously said,
"The genius of you Americans is that you never make a clear-cut stupid move. You always make complicated stupid moves, which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something."He was right. But rest assured that most of the time, the moves are just plain stupid ones.
Blinken's 'Migration' Trip
I was reminded of Nasser's comment two weeks ago when Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that he would travel to Colombia, Chile and Peru to discuss "migration." The announcement seemed odd to me because there aren’t a huge number of Colombians, Chileans or Peruvians in the United States illegally.
None of the countries are on the "front line" of the immigration debate. The Blinken trip made no sense.
It wasn't until after Blinken returned that an obscure military publication gave us a hint of what the trip was about. The Army Technology Newsletter reported that Blinken had secured a promise from the Colombians to help Ukrainian troops clear landmines.
In Peru, President Pedro Castillo agreed to push a condemnation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine through parliament. He declined to impose sanctions on Russia, which he said would have been a violation of international law.
But he criticized both sides in the conflict, saying that the war has cut off grain supplies to the countries and people who need it the most.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo and Foreign Minister Cesar Landa in Lima, Peru, on Oct. 6. (State Department, Ron Przysucha)
The Chileans, for their part, were happy to do whatever Blinken wanted them to do.
But that wasn't all that Blinken was up to. He was also interested in gauging interest in swapping out whatever Russian or old Soviet equipment those countries may have in their possession that they could send them to Ukraine and then have them replaced with state-of-the-art American munitions.
The problem the Ukrainians are facing is that American weapons are difficult to use. They're sophisticated and complicated. And there just isn't any time for Americans to train Ukrainians in how to use them.
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This is serious. The US weapons and munitions being sent to the regime in Kiev are being used to kill civilians and destroy civilian infrastructure. It is being very well documented as war crimes that are being ignored by the US regime and the UN. The western media are deafeningly silent as expected. By every definition under international law these are war crimes with the regime in Kiev backed by their lawless US weapons brokers who get a free pass.
Is the US Army's 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" with an alleged 4,700 soldiers located on the border with Ukraine in Romania being positioned in the event the criminal regime in Kiev deploys a dirty bomb in eastern Ukraine? Russia knows exactly where these US soldiers are located. Just imagine them being hit with a barrage of missiles by Russia the moment they move across the border into Ukraine? As the US uses Ukraine as a vassal to move NATO right up to Ukraine, there are a few Romanians who have objected. Unfortunately, they are quickly removed from power.
This is what Neocons (with their oligarchy overlords) do:
From Russia's foreign ministry:
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