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Biden claims “Putin has made the decision” to invade Ukraine

19/02/2022

At an extraordinary press conference Friday afternoon, US President Joe Biden declared that he was “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin had made “the decision to invade” Ukraine and advance on the country’s capital Kiev. Biden said that the White House “expected” such a move “within the coming week, within the coming days.”

In a 10-minute speech, Biden warned that “such a decision” would mean that Russia will be “responsible” for a “catastrophic and needless war of choice.” Russia would have to pay a “steep price” for such a war, he threatened, as the US and NATO were prepared to “defend any inch of NATO territory.”

“There are many issues that divide our nation and our world but standing up to Russian aggression is not one of them. The American people are united. The European Union is united. The transatlantic community is united. Our political parties [in the US] are united. The entire free world is united.”

Biden’s remarks were the utterings of a ruling class that has completely lost its head.
After effectively declaring that the US is preparing for a war with nuclear-armed Russia within the next week, he left the room after just a handful of questions by journalists, none of which challenged his baseless allegations.

Biden’s speech came one day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave a speech of lies at the UN, reminiscent of Colin Powell’s notorious 2003 speech about “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, and hours after the US announced it would send 250 tanks to Poland, which directly borders Ukraine.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/02/19/204b-f19.html