Senior Biden aide, on press call, declined to say whether more Russian troops entering eastern Ukraine would constitute an invasion. Because Russia has had forces there since 2014, it “would not itself be a new step."
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the official said to expect further steps tomorrow (Tuesday), most likely sanctions. This on top of Biden's executive order taking aim at the economies of the two pro-Russian separatist regions of Ukraine after Moscow recognized them as independent.
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They will keep moving the goal post.
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Secretary of State Blinken had said this in a Jan 20 interview with Germany's ZDF: "If a Russian soldier crosses into Ukraine, then we have a profound problem, a clear attack on Ukraine, whether it’s one soldier or a thousand soldiers."
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Donetsk/Luhansk is sovereign Ukrainian soil. That does constitute invasion!
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Putin: “basically, all those countries around us are puppet states and shouldn’t exist. We’ll proceed to invade one rn”
The West: “we’re not sure that’s an invasion. More assessment is needed. There’s room for diplomacy”
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If they push beyond the front line, where Ukrainian troops are, the media needs to be all over the administration.
that is definitely a logic. the next implication is: “as we recognize eastern ukraine as a part of whole ukraine, there would no a new step to find russian tanks anywhere near lviv. go home jurnos nothing to see here”
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