Blinken: The assault continues by land, by air, by sea…Russian strikes are hitting schools, hospitals, residences…Buses, cars, ambulances, being shelled.
Blinken: Hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians have been killed or wounded.
Blinken: USAID [CIA front] has deployed a disaster response team.
Blinken calling Belarus a 'co-belligerent' in President Putin's 'war of choice'.
Blinken: This is a threat to stability in Europe, and the entire Rules-Based Order, which has been the foundation of security and prosperity for people around the world for nearly 80 years.
>what will Putin present to the world to gain acceptance?
Whatever it is will be irrefutable.
"Senior US government officials knew as far back as 2008 that the possibility of adding Ukraine to NATO was seen as a serious “military threat” by Russia, one that crosses Moscow’s security “redlines” and could force it to intervene. Yet Western leaders continued insisting that Ukraine would join the US-led military alliance, right up until Russia did indeed intervene in February 2022. At the annual NATO summit back in 2008, the George W. Bush administration publicly called for adding Russia’s neighbors Ukraine and Georgia to the military alliance. NATO’s secretary-general declared that the two countries would eventually become members. But privately, US diplomats knew that this move would be seen as an existential threat by Moscow, and could provoke Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
The former US ambassador to Russia, William J. Burns, who is now director of the CIA, warned in a February 2008 embassy cable that Ukraine constituted a security “redline” for Moscow. The confidential State Department cable was titled “Nyet Means Nyet: Russia’s NATO Enlargement Redlines”. Burns cautioned that the issue of NATO membership for Ukraine “could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene.”
In 1990, the US, Britain, and France repeatedly promised the Soviet Union that they would not expand NATO “one inch eastward” after the reunification of Germany. This is an undeniable historical fact, a matter of public record confirmed by numerous internal documents from Western governments. But NATO later broke that promise, and not once or twice but 14 times. All 14 new member states that it admitted were east of Germany, and many had previously been Soviet allies in Moscow’s former security alliance, the Warsaw Pact. NATO has militarily encircled Russia more and more by the year."
https://multipolarista.com/2022/02/27/us-nato-expansion-ukraine-russia-intervene/
>The Russian caravan to Kiev is stuck 18 miles away because they ran out of gas?
They have plenty of supplies. That particular caravan likely has many fuel trucks.