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Anonymous ID: ffb96a Jan. 27, 2022, 9:55 p.m. No.15480964   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0984 >>1031 >>1254 >>1274 >>1288 >>1307

Can’t make this up… MSNBC trots out a DIFFERENT Brzezinski to tell us we need to “stomach” Ukraine…

https://www.revolver.news/2022/01/cant-make-this-up-msnbc-trots-out-a-different-brzezinski-to-tell-us-we-need-to-stomach-ukraine/

 

'Morning Joe' Panelist Argues U.S. Must Demonstrate It Has "Stomach" To Fight For Ukraine

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/01/27/morning_joe_panelist_argues_us_must_demonstrate_it_has_stomach_to_fight_for_ukraine.html

 

Atlantic Council fellow and former assistant secretary of defense in the Bush administration Ian Brzezinski told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the NATO alliance has to demonstrate that it has "the stomach for a fight" to deter a Russian attack on Ukraine.

 

He said President Biden needs to "seize the initiative" from Russian President Vladimir Putin and "assert more control on the dynamics of the crisis" in Ukraine.

 

"We are seeing a game-changing deployment" of Russian troops in Belarus, he explained. "We are seeing cyber attacks, false flag operations. There needs to be a fundamental change in Biden's strategy… to a posture of active deterrence."

 

Biden "has to make sure that the force deployment on the Eastern frontier has both mass and cross-border punch, including strike aircraft, long-range artillery, and air-missile defense capabilities."

 

"A small deployment of 1,000 personnel and a handful of aircraft and shifts NATO is sending to the region could almost be counterproductive, in the face of 120,000 Russians poised to invade Ukraine," he explained.

 

"With deployment, if you want to change the game and cause Putin to change his calculus, has to demonstrate we have the stomach for a fight."

 

His brother Mark is the current United States Ambassador to Poland, his father was Carter administration National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, and his sister is MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski.

 

Transcript:

 

MSNBC PANELIST: Ian, we are certainly seeing ominous signs the last couple of days, the uUS. ordering embassy personnel to evacuate, we are seeing troops and warships headed to the region, but still there's a path for diplomacy here. The White House told me in the last couple of days there's no appetite for Biden and Putin face-to-face but [foreign minister and secretary of state, respectively] Lavrov and Blinken are scheduled to meet again in just a couple of days.

 

What is a different diplomatic off-ramp that could be offered to Putin to get him to back down?

 

IAN BRZEZINSKI: You know, I don't think it is going to be a diplomatic off-ramp that gets Putin to back down.

 

You know, the Biden administration has been emphasizing these last weeks a strategy that calls for more diplomacy and a posture after-the-fact economic sanctions and it hasn't worked.

 

Look, the Russians continued to increase their offensive presence on Ukraine's frontiers. We are seeing a game-changing deployment [of Russian troops] in Belarus, we are seeing cyber attacks, false flag operations. There needs to be a fundamental change in Biden's strategy and it has to be something that shifts from basically, passive deterrence and pleas for diplomacy, to a posture of active deterrence.

 

One [that is] designed to seize the initiative from Putin and assert more control on the dynamics of the crisis.

 

It is not going to be an off-ramp. It will be four key elements.

 

- Escalatory economic sanctions in response to what Russia has already imposed on the region.

 

- More assertive efforts to take control of the narrative of this crisis, not only before western audiences but the Russian public.

 

- Intensify military engagement with the Ukrainians, including accelerated transfer of lethal military equipment so Ukrainians can better defend themselves.

 

And what we are talking about today.

 

- Deployment of forces to southeastern Poland and Romania.

 

That will be key because it will complicate Russian military planning.

 

I have got to say one last point, if Biden is heading down this route which he should, he has to make sure that the force deployment on the Eastern frontiers has both mass and cross-border punch, including strike aircraft, long-range artillery, and air-missile defense capabilities.

 

A small deployment of 1,000 personnel and a handful of aircraft and shifts NATO is sending to the region could almost be counterproductive, in the face of 120,000 Russians poised to invade Ukraine.

 

So with deployment, if you want to change the game and cause Putin to change his calculus, has to demonstrate we have the stomach for a fight.