Page 257 - Pretext News Today

So that he cant argue that there was some pretext and he was provoked and he didnt start the war. put it on him, number one and numbertwo, be united in the punishment that is going to come. the other part of it, of course, is we are reinforcing in poland, in the baltics, we are moving more troops, more nato. and thats. .. you know, putin has said he wants us out. his actions are bringing us more in. yeah, to defend nato countries, but not to defend other countries in europe that arent part of na...

The context that you can give us guidance of how to think about the shelling of that kindergarten in ukraine? >> i think that it is outrageous. i wont comment about the specifics, but there has been relative calm over the last few weeks on that border between where the separatists are and ukranian forces. im speculating, this is not based on intelligence, but the idea that the russians would take that aggressive of an action almost trying to lure the ukranians into firing back in a more major wa...

Solutions. all they are saying every time theres a problem is that we just need to go to war. at the past of the military-industrial complex what they should be doing is offering truth and saying we have other options here. we have economic power that we can use. they should be doing every thing to prevent us from going to war as opposed to every time defaulting to the one thing that has never worked and will be absolutely destructive for not just our country but for every country, and that is w...

Have that that kind of heavy artillery flying back and forth you could be moments from a serious escalation. president putin has said over and over not just in this conflict but others before in 2008 and georgia he has said he will always protect russian people, ethnic russians, russian speakers. he has been handing out passports like candy in the russian backed separatist regions. 600,000. it would be very easy for him to use something like this if it did escalate further. if there was a strike...

But a high probability that there could be something tomorrow, given what you have seen in the intelligence? i think it is very important to just describe the facts. the facts are that we have russian armed forces amassed at the border of ukraine, that are ready to invade without any warning time. and that is a very dangerous situation. a great danger lies here, eastern ukraine, now a wasteland along russias border, where russian—backed separatists exchange fire with ukrainian forces. last nig...

Situation in eastern ukraine. the kremlin saying the situation looks potentially very dangerous. that is the sort of language that makes people in the west worried that russia is creating a pretext. yes. but we have _ russia is creating a pretext. yes. but we have heard _ russia is creating a pretext. yes. but we have heard this _ russia is creating a pretext. yes. but we have heard this kind - russia is creating a pretext. yes but we have heard this kind of language before. this is not the firs...

The trafficking of african greys. we set up a meeting with faiz ahmed, a trader whose social media led us to investigate possible illegal activity alongside his legitimate business. we operated under the pretext of wanting to start a breeding farm. the conversation started over legal captive—bred parrots but faiz was also prepared to sell us wild african greys. he was confident that he would be able to get around customs import restrictions,

The kind of provocation, the kind of false flag operation that ukraine is facing that could be a pretext to some kind of russian invasion of ukrainian territory. so, they welcome that and they agree with it. on the other side of the dispute, if you like, with the russians, well, theyve -- as you might expect -- distanced themselves from any kind of operation like this. theyve also said that they have no plan. theyve said this again and again. they have no plan to invade ukraine, and certainly wo...

Is emerging inside russia, in russian media that russians in donbass are being mistreated by ukrainians, i heard from a russian ambassador that 18,000 russians had been killed by ukrainians in donbass. this is the narrative that they want to put out there which i think is part of a pretext for them eventually having to come in. >> lieutenant general ben hodges, matt bradley, matt wagner, and julia yafey, thank you to all of you. up next, president biden giving the green light for more informat...

Reality always aimed at the shrugging of responsibility and putting this responsibility on ukraines shoulders to justify russian actions, and to give it additional pretext for escalation. thats why we are conducting very swift and high quality work in order to ensure that any russian attempt to ensure that any russian attempt to distort the reality will not be fruitful. we have to get ready for any course of the event, with the recent days and months, in order to prepare ukraine for any scenario...