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thanks are as worthless as thots and prayers tho
Ukraine has captured more thanks than it’s lost
thanks are as worthless as thots and prayers tho
Damn, Brandon securing the cocaine supply while fighting evil...
Biden names Colombia ‘major non-NATO ally,’ countering Putin’s influence in Latin America
WASHINGTON — President Biden announced Thursday that he will name Colombia as a major non-NATO ally, a significant recognition as the United States tries to undercut Russian President Vladimir Putin’s influence in Latin America after his invasion of Ukraine.
The special status has been given to only two other Latin American nations — Argentina and Brazil — and signals a very close relationship between the United States and countries not part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The designation provides Colombia with certain trade benefits and boosts opportunities for security cooperation between the two countries— including Colombia’s potential eligibility to purchase depleted uranium ammunition, according to the State Department.
It also comes as the Biden administration weighs lifting sanctions on Colombia’s oil-rich neighbor Venezuela, in an effort to make up for any gap left by the U.S. ban on Russian energy imports — a move Colombia strongly opposes.
Ahead of a 45-minute meeting with Colombian President Iván Duque at the White House, Biden said the recognition signals the “unique and close relationship” between the countries and said the South American nation is the “linchpin” of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. “Colombia is a keystone to our shared efforts to build a hemisphere as prosperous, secure and democratic,” Biden said.
Duque, whose term ends in August, later thanked Biden and said the designation recognizes “the principles and values that we have shared.”
Colombia has long been a close ally for both Democratic and Republican administrations; it is championed as a relatively stable and prosperous nation in a region with numerous corrupt or pro-Russia leaders.
At the United Nations General Assembly vote calling on Russia to withdraw from Ukraine, Nicaragua and Cuba abstained. Venezuela did not vote because it has fallen behind on member dues. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said his country would remain neutral but denigrated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose wartime leadership has drawn international acclaim.
At the White House, Duque was much more forceful in strongly condemning Putin, saying that the invasion of Ukraine “has been a very horrifying moment for the world” and that “nothing justifies the bloodbath.”
“We also have to say that in the times we are facing, we have made a strong stand against the brutal, unjustified attack from Russia to Ukraine,” Duque told reporters after his meeting.
Duque’s conservative government has also been especially useful to Washington as a counterbalance to Venezuela. Colombia has been a haven for American diplomats who have either been withdrawn or expelled from Caracas, and for Venezuelan politicians opposed to President Nicolas Maduro, who consolidated power after a 2018 election widely condemned as fraudulent.
Duque has objected to the possibility that the Biden administration would lift punitive sanctions on Venezuela, which is sitting on one of the world’s largest oil reserves.
“If you’ve just banned oil from what they call the Russian dictator, it’s difficult to explain why are you going to be buying oil from the Venezuelan dictator,” Colombia’s minister of energy and mining, Diego Mesa Puyo, told the Financial Times.
During their meeting, the presidents discussed topics including COVID-19 and migration.
Colombia bore the brunt of a mass exodus of refugees from Venezuela following its economic collapse after the 2018 presidential election and won praise in many circles for accommodating the new arrivals, a move that also helped reduce their flow northward to the United States. In February, Duque was applauded internationally after granting more than 1.8 million Venezuelans temporary protected status for a decade.
At the White House, the presidents said they would work toward a regional declaration on migration and protection at the Summit of the Americas, which is expected to take place in June in Los Angeles.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/sto...-latin-america
tee, hee. They learned their lesson, the hard way, not once, but twice.
No more Sunday morning wake up calls outta them, by God.
But, like Germany they ain't had to send a child into a slaughter since (twice). We send our children in their stead.
Pays sometimes to have a Hitler, not so much (twice)...Truman: "Again."
..."though CNN cannot independently verify that claim at this time, back to Wolf in the Situation Room!"
Should have added a Cope Cage v2.0
Finally a sane head:
Relying on sanctions to stop Russia could go 'terribly wrong,' says Niall Ferguson
The Russians have sustained more casualties than expected, but are still "advancing steadily," said Niall Ferguson of the Hoover Ins ution.
"The assumption that this is going to drag out, that the United States can sit back and watch the economic sanctions do their work may be gravely mistaken," Ferguson said.
Sanctions may be able to change Putin's behavior down the road, but cannot be used to stop the violence, said Anna Ohanyan of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The strategy of sitting back and waiting for Russia's war machine to grind to a halt because of sanctions could go "terribly wrong," according to Niall Ferguson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Ins ution at Stanford University.
"It's a highly risky strategy," he said.
The Ukrainian resistance cannot hold the fort for much longer, and sanctions by the West won't be able to stop Russia in time, he told CNBC's "Squawk Box Asia" on Friday.
He said the U.S. is relying heavily on sanctions and "very belated arms deliveries" to Ukraine, but he's concerned that those fighting for Ukraine won't be able to defend the country for long.
"There's no guarantee that Ukraine holds out, and what I dread is steadily worse news from Ukraine, and the breakdown of Ukraine's defenses," Ferguson said.
"We'll sit there saying, oh, well the sanctions have really hurt Russia — but it won't matter to Putin because he will be able to claim victory. That for me is the nightmare scenario," he added.
He said he believes that a deal can be made between Russia and Ukraine if Kyiv is willing to accept neutrality and take NATO membership off the table.
He pointed to a 2014 proposal that former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger published, presenting the idea of Ukraine being a neutral country instead of attempting to join NATO.
"It is clear that President Zelenskyy is open to that idea, which is a major shift in Ukraine's position for the sake of trying to save his country from further destruction," he said.
Peace is "urgently needed" to avoid continued bloodshed and the destruction of Ukraine, which Ferguson said seems to be the Russian plan for now.
"The goal was to prevent Ukraine being a successful democracy oriented towards the West, whether in NATO or the EU," he said. "You can achieve that just by destroying Ukraine's infrastructure and turning it into a smoking pile of rubble and unfortunately, every passing day allows President Putin to do more of that," he said.
MSNBC
World Peace
Jacobin
Hunter will be his new Go-to guy for Colombia.
Dum dum dum
The tears
Israel and Russia must be doing some back office dealings
World peace
Get ready for $10 gas
should have been wearing a cope cage
Real footage of NATO preparing for a Russian attack
Famers showcasing new crop of vehicles.
So get your new auto from Zelensky's auto and parts on ebay!
lol redrmy having trouble against little girls
Hater to post more on this later today.
Probably working on his next call
You can run but you cannot hide from Ukrainian anti-tank missiles.
Some places are dangerous. This is what happens when you end up in wrong neighborhood country.
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