Things aren’t looking too good for Ukraine at the moment. But hey, at least President Volodymyr Zelensky can take comfort in knowing that Joe Biden’s got his eye on the situation:
President Biden on possible Russian invasion into Ukraine:
• "My sense is it will happen in the next several days."
• "They have not moved any of their troops out. They've moved more troops in."
• "I have no plans to call Putin right now." pic.twitter.com/D04Yy4KeNz— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 17, 2022
You’ve been an enormous help, Joe.
Biden told reporters this morning that "we have reason to believe that [Russia is] engaged in a false flag operation to have an excuse to go in [to Ukraine]," and that "my sense it will happen in the next several days." pic.twitter.com/apAGA81SMY
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 17, 2022
Maybe the White House has reason to believe it because Russia has effectively just come out and confirmed it:
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Kremlin spox Dmitry Peskov: Ukraine's army has taken "provocative actions that have only intensified in the last day"
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) February 17, 2022
Ukraine’s army has taken provocative actions? Really?
oh really ? https://t.co/1nCaKJdv64
— Marcin Dobosz (@MDobosz_) February 17, 2022
https://twitter.com/CompanyHooch/status/1494333388768956421
Now seems like as good a time as any to be concerned about Ukraine.
So: preparing to defend themselves is "provocation" now?
— Elon Queeg, Parody Paranoiac 🇺🇦😷 (@nofish_nonuts) February 17, 2022
https://twitter.com/edgeoforever/status/1494312698137530376
— Look at what you made me do — Peskov 🇷🇺 pic.twitter.com/BaOLnEoeof
— La Gaceta Conservadora 📜 ❤️ 🇺🇦 (@GacConservadora) February 17, 2022
https://twitter.com/noonanjo/status/1494322632803504128
This was exactly the same statement word for word that the Russians used prior to invading Georgia on 2008 https://t.co/D1XZyQ505X
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) February 17, 2022
Déjà vu seems to be a recurring theme in the Biden administration.
