The US is pushing the envelope with Russia with no end in sight. Russia is not Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria or Libya. It is a nuclear weapons superpower capable of inflicting nuclear annihilation on the US if Russia's existence as a country is threatened. This seems lost on the neo-con leadership in Washington.

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The US is pushing the envelope with Russia with no end in sight.

Biden in a surprise visit to Kiev on Monday met with Ukraine President Zelensky saying the US will support Ukraine however long it takes to defeat Russia.

Biden announced a new aid package to Kiev including "more artillery ammunition, more javelin missiles, anti-armor systems and air-surveillance radars". [1] It would be worth "another half a billion dollars".

He also said there would be new sanctions on "elites and companies that are trying to evade or backfill Russia's war machine".

Meanwhile today Russian President Vladimir Putin in his annual address to the Russian parliament said, The West is using Ukraine both as a battering ram against Russia and as a training ground". [2]

"One thing must be clear to everyone. The longer the range of the Western systems that arrive in Ukraine, the further we will be forced to push the threat away from our borders. It's obvious."

The west is "playing with a stacked deck". [3] They are almost proud of and revel in their treacherousness...the entire time as Donbass was burning and blood being spilled, while Russia sincerely sought...a peaceful solution, they were playing with people's lives. They were playing as they say in certain circles, with a stacked deck. They use a despicable method of deceit "and believe they can get away with anything."

Regarding the 2014-15 Minsk agreements that were never implemented-which was a primary reason Russia invaded Ukraine last February. That's because they were never intended to be implemented as former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President Francois Hollande have publically acknowledged. The agreements were "an attempt to give Ukraine time for its military to get stronger."

Putin also announced today a temporary withdrawal from the New Start Treaty. [4] He explained, "the agreement was initially drawn up under completely different circumstances, when Russia and the US did not perceive each other as adversaries. Now, however...not only is the US using ultimatums to Russia, but NATO itself has essentially made an application to become part of the treaty as well."

"They are demanding an inspection of Russia's strategic facilities. He noted, "Moscow's requests to inspect Western nuclear facilities under the treaty are systematically denied with only formal explanations for the rejection."

The US has continued to insist on maintaining hegemony, while its NATO partners openly admit they want to inflict a strategic defeat of Russia."

"Russia cannot ignore this. We cannot allow ourselves to ignore this."

NATO helped Ukraine conduct drone attacks on Russian airfields that have long-distance nuclear capable bombers". [5]

"We know that the West was directly involved in the attempts by the Kiev regime to strike bases that house our strategic aircraft."

The drones used (in the raids) were equipped and upgraded with the help from NATO experts."

Bases located over "310 and 435 miles from Ukraine-held territory" were attacked.

Also today Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned US Ambassador to Moscow Lynne Tracy saying, "It was protesting the growing involvement of the United States in hostilities on the side of the Kiev regime." [6]

The Ministry went on to say, "The US was pumping the Ukrainian military with arms and providing it with targeting information for strikes on Russian military and civilian infrastructure."

"Such policies clearly prove that assertions of the American side that the US is not party to the conflict are inadequate and false".

As to the explosions of the Nord Stream 1and 2 pipelines last September, "Washington should not hinder an objective investigation to identify the culprits."

Reading the above it seems the US and Russia are on a collision course.

Russia is not Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria or Libya. It is a nuclear weapons superpower that is capable of inflicting nuclear annihilation on the US if Russia's existence as a country is threatened.

This seems lost on the neo-con leadership in Washington.

Hello? Is anyone there?

[1] "Biden makes weapons pledge in Kiev", RT, February 20, 2023

[2] "Putin reveals conditions for widening Ukraine operation", RT, February 21, 2023

[3] "West playing with a stacked deck", RT, February 21, 2023

[4] "Russia suspends last nuclear treaty with US, RT, February 21, 2023

[5] Putin accuses NATO of direct involvement in attacks on Russia", RT, February 21, 2023

[6] Moscow summons US ambassador", RT, 2023.

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Retired. The author of "DECEIT AND EXCESS IN AMERICA, HOW THE MONEYED INTERESTS HAVE STOLEN AMERICA AND HOW WE CAN GET IT BACK", Authorhouse, 2009