Antony Blinken’s U.N. Speech: Clever But Not Wise

Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave a speech before the U.N. Security Council this morning about the current tensions regarding Ukraine and Russia. After bombarding the world with assertions of false flag attacks and an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine — even offering dates — that never materialized, the Biden administration has decided to double down, with Blinken claiming that Russia could invade Ukraine “at any time” and “in coming days.”

Blinken also mentioned the need to protect national sovereignty. That’s right, the nation that bombed Yugoslavia and invaded Iraq without UN sanction and violated its UN mandate to facilitate regime change in Libya suddenly wants to bust out their harmonica and sing us all a sad song about the inviolability of national sovereignty.

Blinken has set up his story so that if Ukrainian forces were to attack the Donbas — if this happened it would likely be forces not directly under Zelensky’s control as he certainly realizes by now that it’s not in his interest to invite a Russian military attack — any Russian military assistance to the Donbas would be framed as aggression based on Russia lying or having executed a false flag. Blinken even frames any attempts by Russia under those circumstances to attempt diplomatic action, by calling meetings of the UN Security Council, as “insincere.”

As is customary for the US government in the post-Cold War era, no evidence was presented to back up any of this. After babies in incubators, WMD’s, Viagra-pumped Qaddafi mass rape forces, and moderate rebels in Syria, we’re supposed to just take all of this on faith.

Of course, if none of this comes to pass in the next couple of weeks, Biden can go into his State of the Union and into the mid-term election season with a political win by claiming that he stared down Putin and Putin blinked.

The Biden administration obviously thinks they’re being clever with this stunt, but they sure aren’t being wise.