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Ukraine Invasion 16.2.22: The Day Came And Went...no Shot Fired by owagbeba: 7:16am On Feb 17, 2022
www.thesaker.is

As always, it western “free and democratic” media has proven two things:

It will parrot whatever “message” the US PSYOPs want it to parrot
It lies with a quasi perfect record
I suppose, now we are going to hear about how the “western resolve” stopped Putin in his tracks.

We need to remember that the window for a false flag attack has not closed yet.

So while we can all rejoice that the date, and even time, of the long promised Russian invasion passed, with also need to remember that nothing has been solved yet.

But yes, the western corporate media looks stupid.

May I suggest that those taking it seriously look even dumber than the talking heads they are listening to.

I stop here and leave you with an open thread on the topic of what might happen next and where all this might lead us too. After all, since nothing is going on, we can take some time off and try to discern what might happen next.

Andrei
thesaker.is

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Re: Ukraine Invasion 16.2.22: The Day Came And Went...no Shot Fired by owagbeba: 7:32am On Feb 17, 2022
Meanwhile, US extending her sphere of influence wants to disrupt El-Salvador’s adoption of crypto currency to herself from the strangling hand of US federal reserve.

According to US Senators:

El Salvador’s adoption of the cryptocurrency “raises significant concerns about the economic stability and financial integrity” of the Central American country, and “has the potential to weaken US sanctions policy, empowering malign actors like China and organized criminal organizations,” argued Senator Risch.

El-Salvador Is a sovereign nation just like Ukraine. Should choose any financial alliance fit for her

Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) joined Republicans Jim Risch of Idaho and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana in proposing the Accountability for Cryptocurrency in El Salvador (ACES) Act, demanding that the US State Department produce a report and a plan to address Bukele’s embrace of Bitcoin.

“If the United States wishes to combat money laundering and preserve the role of the dollar as a reserve currency of the world, we must tackle this issue head on,” said Cassidy, adding that Bukele’s policy “opens the door for money laundering cartels and undermines US interests.”



The response from El-Salvador’s president

Bukele followed up by posting a 10-second video of US President Joe Biden talking about sovereignty and freedom on Tuesday in a speech about Ukraine. “This includes El Salvador? Right?”


El Salvador is a sovereign country and not a colony of Washington, which has no right to meddle in its decision to adopt Bitcoin, President Nayib Bukele said on Wednesday in response to a bill proposed by several US senators alarmed at the prospect.

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Re: Ukraine Invasion 16.2.22: The Day Came And Went...no Shot Fired by owagbeba: 10:39am On Feb 17, 2022
Russia’s non-invasion was latest CIA blunder – Czech president

Czech President Milos Zeman lashed out at the US intelligence community for their claim that Russia would invade Ukraine, which so far has failed to materialize. It adds to their track record of making wrong predictions about crucial events, he argued in an interview published by the newspaper MF DNES on Thursday.

“The first was in Iraq, where no weapons of mass destruction were found. The second was in Afghanistan, when they claimed that the Taliban would never conquer Kabul. And the third is now,” the president explained.

The politician was referring to the US justification for the 2003 invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and the assessment that the American-backed national government of Afghanistan would be able to defend against the militant Taliban movement after a scheduled withdrawal of foreign troops. On both counts American intelligence was seriously mistaken.

Washington has been warning for months that Russia was preparing a military invasion of Ukraine, and for weeks has been claiming that the attack was imminent. Some Western media went further and named Tuesday or Wednesday this week as the days Russia could have attacked Ukraine.

Ukraine’s President Volodymir Zelensky, who otherwise voiced skepticism about the purported Russian threat, made Wednesday a holiday celebrating Ukrainian national unity.

Russia denied having any aggressive plans for Ukraine since the accusations were first made public in November 2021.

The Czech president said he was informed about a pending Russian attack against Ukraine based on intelligence from the US, and that the tip proved to be wrong.

“I am not asking the CIA what sources of information it had. But based on the three cases I mentioned, I doubt the quality of these sources,” he said.

He predicted that there would be no Russian-Ukrainian war, arguing that Moscow didn’t have much to win and had a lot to lose, if one were to happen. Some sort of border conflict involving Ukraine’s breakaway region of Donbas may happen, but not a full-scale war, he believes.

He rejected the idea that Russia canceled its aggression due to deterrence mounted by the US and its allies, saying he saw such reasoning as a US attempt “to cover up the embarrassment” of being proven wrong again.

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Re: Ukraine Invasion 16.2.22: The Day Came And Went...no Shot Fired by Nobody: 8:18pm On Feb 17, 2022
They are getting awake.
Re: Ukraine Invasion 16.2.22: The Day Came And Went...no Shot Fired by basilico: 8:33pm On Feb 17, 2022
Joe Biden wants to to show the whole world that his foreign diplomacy skills are top notch.
Putin is not about to invade Ukraine.
Joe Biden media wants to create the impression that his skills have deterred Putin from invading Ukraine.
All smokes and mirrors from a failed President with 30 percent approval rates.

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Re: Ukraine Invasion 16.2.22: The Day Came And Went...no Shot Fired by owagbeba: 9:14am On Feb 22, 2022
basilico:
Joe Biden wants to to show the whole world that his foreign diplomacy skills are top notch.
Putin is not about to invade Ukraine.
Joe Biden media wants to create the impression that his skills have deterred Putin from invading Ukraine.
All smokes and mirrors from a failed President with 30 percent approval rates.

Honestly, the Russian know how to execute a strategic checkmate on the west. Rather than invade as the western media howled, they intervened as peace keepers - a sort of invasion but not ominous sounding. Isn’t it interesting! They used the same reason Americans used to intervene in Syria and Libya to protect the people and bring peace... stunning!

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