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Originally posted by sharps2r800: ↑

Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia at UN debate.

“The discussions about a threat of war is provocative in and of itself,”

Turning to US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, he continued, “You are almost pulling for this. You want it to happen. You’re waiting for it to happen, as if you want to make your words become a reality.”

“This despite the fact that no threat of a planned invasion into Ukraine from the lips of any Russian politician or public figure over all of this period has been made. No threat has been made. All along we’ve been categorically rejecting such plans, and we are going to do this right now. Everybody who claims the opposite is misleading you.”

He went on to argue that the Western powers had instigated the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, when they “provoked and supported the 2014 bloody anti-constitutional coup bringing to power nationalists, Russophobes, fascists, nazis. … They are making heroes out of people who fought on the side of Hitler, who destroyed Jews, Poles, Ukrainians and Russians.”

“Since our American colleagues convened us today let them show us any evidence apart from this narrative that Russia is intending to attack Ukraine. We do recall this since the Secretary of State Colin Powell in this very room waved around a file with an unidentified substance as so-called evidence of the presence of WMDs in Iraq. They didn’t find any weapons but what happened in that country is well known to one and all.”

“The Americans hold the record for having troop presence outside their territory,” he said sarcastically. “American troops, advisers and weapons including nuclear weapons are frequently deployed thousands of kilometers, and we’re not even talking about the fact that the military centers of the US have killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in places where they were supposed to be bringing peace.”

He cited the routine US use of force against other countries without the authorization of the Security Council and widespread deployment of American military forces around the world: “There is incontrovertible evidence on the internet that there are 750 US bases in more than 80 countries of the world. The overall number deployed of US troops, this is 175,000 troops deployed abroad.”

U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield was clearly on the defensive when she addressed the Security Council, arguing that the Russian ambassador was engaged in “false equivalency.” She claimed, “there are no plans to weaken Russia,” although such plans are openly discussed in the American media and in the U.S. Congress.

Thomas-Greenfield made no effort to rebut Nebenzia’s sallies about US lies before the invasion of Iraq or its massive international military deployment, since the facts are unassailable.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/02/01/unsc-f01.html

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do you believe Nebenzia sharps?

I've been thinking how Russian denials of their position is so close to Morrison's strategy of denial it almost looks like the went to the same classes on political spin.

sure, I don't trust the US either, but if the Putin mouthpieces were fair dinkum they would pull back their military and prove they weren't trying to intimidate Ukraine.
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