The Biden administration is racing to head off what it says could be a dangerous assault on Russia’s neighbor.
to reverse a major military buildup around Ukraine and abandon preparations for a possible assault. Since then, the Biden administration says, the Kremlin has only positioned more weaponry and troops around its neighbor. It has put forces in Belarus this week for what Moscow has described as routine exercises but which Washington says could represent an additional military front.
In Berlin on Thursday, Blinken warned that a new Russian attack on Ukraine, following its 2014 annexation of Crimea, would undermine the global rule of law and signal to autocrats everywhere that borders can be redrawn by force.“It’s bigger than Russia and NATO,” he said. “It’s a crisis with global consequences, and it requires global attention and action.”
Moscow, which has accused Ukraine of threatening Russian security by procuring foreign weaponry and aspiring to join NATO, has said Washington must provide formal responses to recent proposals that would limit the Western military alliance’s presence and activities in Eastern Europe. While Blinken was holding crisis talks in European capitals this week, the White House deployed senior officials to clarify remarks President Biden made on Wednesday that appeared to cast a Russian assault as inevitable andThe statement appeared undercut the deterrent message that Blinken and others have been making for weeks: that the United States and its allies will not tolerate any further aggression.from Republican lawmakers and from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“We want to remind the great powers that there are no minor incursions and small nations. Just as there are no minor casualties and little grief from the loss of loved ones,” he wrote on Twitter.The Biden administration has promised to impose far-reaching sanctions if Russia moves into Ukraine, including possible steps to cut off Russia’s access to the international financial system.
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