{"id":1511957,"date":"2025-01-06T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1511957"},"modified":"2025-01-06T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T06:25:00","slug":"us-quietly-sent-heavy-weapons-to-ukraine-well-before-invasion-started-blinken-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/us-quietly-sent-heavy-weapons-to-ukraine-well-before-invasion-started-blinken-reveals\/1511957\/","title":{"rendered":"US ‘Quietly’ Sent Heavy Weapons To Ukraine Well Before Invasion Started, Blinken Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

US ‘Quietly’ Sent Heavy Weapons To Ukraine Well Before Invasion Started, Blinken Reveals<\/span><\/p>\n

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The United States is currently dealing with conflicts in multiple hot spots from Eastern Europe to Gaza to dealing with a collapsed Syrian state and continued standoff with Iran over its nuclear program.<\/p>\n

But the Biden administration regrets nothing<\/strong> – so says Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a major end of term interview given to the NY Times and published this weekend. Among the more interesting pieces of new information from the interview is Blinken’s direct admission that Washington was covertly shipping heavy weapons to Ukraine even months before the Russian invasion of February 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“We made sure that well before [Russia’s ‘special military operation’] happened, starting in September and then again in December, we quietly got a lot of weapons to Ukraine,”<\/strong> he said in the interview<\/a> published Saturday. “Things like Stingers, Javelins.”<\/p>\n

AFP\/Getty Images<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Kremlin at the time cited such covert transfers, which were perhaps an ‘open secret’, as justification for the invasion based on ‘demilitarizing’ Ukraine and keeping NATO military infrastructure out. Moscow had issued many warnings over its ‘red lines’ in the weeks and months leading up to the war.<\/p>\n

Below is the full section from the NY Times interview transcript where Blinken boasts of the pre-invasion transfers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

QUESTION:\u00a0 You made two early strategic decisions on Ukraine.\u00a0 The first \u2013 because of that fear of direct conflict \u2013 was to restrict Ukraine\u2019s use of American weapons within Russia.\u00a0 The second was to support Ukraine\u2019s military offensive without a parallel diplomatic track to try and end the conflict.\u00a0 How do you look back on those decisions now?<\/em><\/p>\n

SECRETARY BLINKEN:\u00a0 So first, if you look at the trajectory of the conflict, because we saw it coming, we were able to make sure that not only were we prepared, and allies and partners were prepared, but that Ukraine was prepared.\u00a0 We made sure that well before the Russian aggression happened<\/strong>, starting in September \u2013 the Russian aggression happened in February<\/strong>.\u00a0 Starting in September and then again in December, we quietly got a lot of weapons to Ukraine to make sure that they had in hand what they needed<\/strong> to defended themselves \u2013 things like Stingers, Javelins that they could use that were instrumental in preventing Russia from taking Kyiv, from rolling over the country, erasing it from the map, and indeed pushing the Russians back.<\/em><\/p>\n

Blinken claims elsewhere in the interview that the Biden White House kept diplomacy going the whole time, and tried to engage Moscow, but explains that this basically involved keeping the Western allies and backers of Kiev unified and on the same track.<\/p>\n

Interestingly when asked about whether its time to end the war, Biden’s top diplomat basically dodged the question…<\/p>\n

QUESTION:\u00a0 Do you think it\u2019s time to end the war, though?<\/em><\/p>\n

SECRETARY BLINKEN:\u00a0 These are decisions for Ukrainians to make.\u00a0 They have to decide where their future is and how they want to get there.\u00a0 Where the line is drawn on the map, at this point, I don\u2019t think is fundamentally going to change very much.\u00a0 The real question is:\u00a0 Can we make sure that Ukraine is a position to move forward strongly?<\/em><\/p>\n

QUESTION:\u00a0 You mean use \u2013 that the areas that Russia controls you feel \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n

SECRETARY BLINKEN:\u00a0 In \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n

QUESTION:\u00a0 \u2014 will have to be ceded?<\/em><\/p>\n

SECRETARY BLINKEN:\u00a0 Ceded is not the question.\u00a0 The question is \u2013 the line as a practical matter in the foreseeable future is unlikely to move very much.\u00a0 Ukraine\u2019s claim on that territory will always be there.\u00a0 And the question is:\u00a0 Will they find ways \u2013 with the support of others \u2013 to regain territory that\u2019s been lost?<\/em><\/p>\n

Blinken in the above essentially gives his view that\u00a0no<\/em>… it is not time to end the war, despite the majority of the war-weary publics in Europe and the US thinking the opposite. There’s some evidence that much or most of the common Ukrainian populace wants it to end as fast as possible as well.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, with the world now on the brink of WW3, it’s clear this White House regrets nothing, which even the title of the interview piece strongly suggests: Antony Blinken Insists He and Biden Made the Right Calls<\/em><\/strong>. But we think history will not look kindly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 01\/05\/2025 – 20:25<\/span><\/p>\n

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