Russia says it won't start a war as Ukraine tensions mount
Source: AP
MOSCOW (AP) Russias top diplomat said Friday that Moscow will not start a war but warned that it wouldnt allow the West to trample on its security interests amid fears it is planning to invade Ukraine.
U.S. President Joe Biden warned Ukraines president a day earlier that there is a distinct possibility that Russia could take military action against its neighbor in February.
There wont be a war as far as it depends on the Russian Federation, we dont want a war, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a live interview with Russian radio stations. But we wont let our interests be rudely trampled on and ignored.
Tensions have soared in recent weeks, and the United States and its NATO allies worry that the concentration of about 100,000 Russian troops near Ukraine heralds Moscows intention to attack the ex-Soviet state. Russia has repeatedly denied having any such plans, but has demanded that NATO promise Ukraine will never be allowed to join and that the alliance roll back deployments of troops and military equipment in Eastern Europe.
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Scrivener7
(50,935 posts)hlthe2b
(102,197 posts)FOff, Lavrov. Your Trump buddies aren't around to deal with you or listen to your propaganda.
Lovie777
(12,227 posts)China would be pissed.
dalton99a
(81,427 posts)https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-possible-invasion-ukraine
sanatanadharma
(3,694 posts)"But we wont let our interests be rudely trampled on and ignored.
Ukraine's interests, however, will be ignored by Russia.
oldsoftie
(12,517 posts)videohead5
(2,171 posts)We are sending Ukraine a bunch of stinger missiles. They will do heavy damage to the Russian military. The stinger missile is what ran the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan. This will not be a walk in the park for Putin so hopefully he will think twice.
msfiddlestix
(7,275 posts)when that certain evil cretin told Chamberlin he had no intentions of going to war against Britain.
Beastly Boy
(9,283 posts)In related news, when Russia's top diplomat was asked if Russia will finish the war in Ukraine, his response was "No comment..."
Midnight Writer
(21,737 posts)dalton99a
(81,427 posts)January 1935: "No country can feel the need for peace more profoundly than Germany."
May 1935: "Our love of peace is perhaps greater than that of the other nations."
January 1936: "There is not a single German who desires war."
March 1936: "My aim is Peace, Peace founded on an equality of rights amongst the peoples."
September 1936: "The German people has no other wish than to live in peace and friendship."
June 1937: "The German in his whole character is not only peaceable and peace-loving."
...
January 1939: "[W]e have always only one wish, that in the coming year, too, we may succeed in contributing to the general pacification of the world."
April 1939: "... the Czech people will have more freedom than the down-trodden peoples of the virtuous nations! I have thus, I believe, done a great service to the cause of peace."
etc. etc.
rockfordfile
(8,701 posts)blue-wave
(4,347 posts)was talking the same line as Russia today. That is, right up to the moment they bombed Pearl Harbor. If the Russians don't plan on invading Ukraine again, then they should draw down their troops.
EndlessWire
(6,486 posts)North Korea shoots off missiles in an effort to get our attention and end sanctions. So, they are trying to make us afraid of them by bullying.
Russia amasses thousands of troops near the Ukraine border, moves in hardware, deploys medical units, and sends ships out. They want NATO to ban Ukraine and remove weapons from wherever we have stashed them. So, they are trying to make us afraid of WWIII by bullying.
They can't be trusted. Show us you won't start war by pulling your troops back. Otherwise, what you did as opposed to what you say will be the order of the day.
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Behind the Aegis
(53,938 posts)I hear the Brooklyn Bridge is up for sale again.
imavoter
(646 posts)must be good or he wouldn't warn
Ukraine.
Off topic a bit, but how does this affect
our space/science relationship with the
Russians, space station etc?
I've wondered about this...I've missed it
if it's been discussed here or main stream
media. thoughts? which DU member is
in the know?
TexasTowelie
(112,070 posts)I haven't read anything suggesting that the space/science interests are being affected by the political situation.
ck4829
(35,042 posts)Not LBN anymore. Is there something about this you'd like to discuss?
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)yardwork
(61,588 posts)Biden's warning to Ukraine was invaluable. Have them time to prepare.