The United States handed over to Russia a response to proposals for security guarantees. Misha Komadovsky , correspondent for the Voice of America, reports this.
The answer was delivered to the Russian Foreign Ministry by US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will make an official statement at noon Washington time (20:00 Moscow time). An hour later, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will hold a press conference.
Update. The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that Ambassador Sullivan conveyed the US response to the Russian proposals.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed at a meeting in Geneva on January 21 that the United States would provide Russia with a written response to proposals for security guarantees.
Lavrov stated that he considered the publication of the answer correct, and said that he would discuss this with the United States. Washington asked to refrain from publishing.
Russia made demands on the US and NATO in mid-December. It demands that the alliance refuse to accept new members, primarily Ukraine, and also not to deploy its troops on the territory of the countries that joined it after 1997.
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The response should consist of 4 words. Go fuck yourself shorty. But the U.S. will not make its responses public, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a press conference. What have they got to hide?
In effect, that is probably what it will be.
But where does that leave Ukraine?
The US is saying no dice to putler, but simultaneously giving the cue that the nazi rodent is waiting for to invade.
Sanctions rarely stop dictatorships. Military power does.
As Biden has ruled out force, he would have to something huge. Such as :
1/ cancellation of all commercial flights between putlerstan, the US and the UK.
2/ The complete withdrawal of all tech companies, such as Apple, Boeing etc, from Russia.
3/ disconnection from SWIFT.
4/ freezing of all Russian assets in the UK and North America.
5/ the above ought to do it.
It now looks like nothing changed, but why the secrecy about the response?
“Everything is on the table” when it comes to U.S. sanctions that would target Russia if it invaded Ukraine, Blinken said.
Yeah, and at the top of the list the White House decided to deny access to the entire cabinet in Moscow of going to Disneyland for 4 years……..
Surreal ruSSian demands must be discarded, this includes Ukraine’s Nato membership.
I think Biden has capitulated. He’s asked Russia not to publish details, and he’s also said the US won’t publish details. Something smells rotten.
IMPEACH NOW!!!
Why would you keep it a secret, don’t Ukrainians deserve to know the truth?
If RuSSia would have asked the US not to publish details first, i would have been suspecting a ruSSian defeat. But with the US asking RuSSia not to, we can assume Ukraine is under the bus now.
He has never shown any sense of urgency or determination to resolve this putler-manufactured crisis. Every step of the way he has bent over backwards for the rodent.
It seems the WH has resigned itself to a further invasion of some sort. It is now advising US citizens to leave.
What a disgrace.
It is now no longer viable to refuse to send troops or provide air power for Ukraine using the “they are not members of Nato” excuse. It is now a humanitarian and moral issue.
Will the Budapest signatories still stand aside if and when a putler blitzkrieg starts? Surely they should be formulating some sort of contingency plan, instead of that soulless, cold bastard Biden speculating half-admiringly about “the biggest invasion since WW2?”
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U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan leaves the Russian Foreign Ministry after delivering Washington’s response to Moscow’s draft security proposals.
Peace in our Time!
Here are the latest updates:
9:09 p.m.: “The ball is in their court,” Blinken says of Russia, closing his press conference.
9:07 p.m.: NATO said it had delivered its own set of written “proposals” to Russia in response to Moscow’s demands.
9:05 p.m.: “Everything is on the table” when it comes to U.S. sanctions that would target Russia if it invaded Ukraine, Blinken said.
8:59 p.m.: “What we do in this document… is lay out areas where we believe we can advance security together,” Blinken said, including arms control, greater transparency and risk reduction measures. There are “very positive things in this document that should be pursued,” but that decision is up to Putin, he added.
8:55 p.m.: “We will uphold NATO’s open-door policy… This is a commitment that we are bound to,” Blinken said.
8:53 p.m.: Blinken reiterated the U.S. embassy in Ukraine’s message advising American citizens in Ukraine to consider leaving the country now.
8:50 p.m.: The U.S. set out a “serious diplomatic path” that Russia can choose to resolve the standoff and told Russia that Ukraine can choose its own allies, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a press conference.
“We make clear that there are core principles that we are committed to uphold and defend, including Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and the right of states to choose their own security arrangements and alliances,” Blinken said.
8:47 p.m.: The U.S. will not make its responses public, Blinken said.
8:22 p.m.: U.S. Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan has delivered Washington’s response to Russia’s demands to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the ministry said.