It’s Afghanistan withdrawal 2.0 for the Biden administration, except this time they’re pulling the plug completely. The cowardly commander in chief says that American citizens left behind in Ukraine, once mass transit, closes are on their own.
Echoing similar warnings from the United Kingdom and European Union, Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan urged “any Americans in Ukraine” to “leave as soon as possible… the next 24 to 48 hours” because “the risk is now high enough and the threat is now immediate enough.” More ominously, Sullivan told U.S. citizens “if you stay, you are assuming risk with no guarantee that there will be any other opportunity to leave” and there is “no prospect of a U.S. military evacuation” to retrieve Americans.
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National security adviser Jake Sullivan warned Sunday morning on “Face the Nation” that Russian President Vladimir Putin could give the orders for an invasion “essentially at any time.”
“We have seen over the course of the past 10 days a dramatic acceleration in the build-up of Russian forces and the disposition of those forces in such a way that they could launch a military action essentially at any time,” Sullivan said. “They could do so this coming week, but of course, it still awaits the go-order” from Putin.
Sullivan acknowledged that there is a distinct possibility that Russia may launch a false-flag attack, perhaps in the Donbas region of Ukraine, in order to justify an invasion, and he said that the U.S. is “watching very carefully.” In that scenario, Russian intelligence services might “conduct some kind of attack on Russian proxy forces in eastern Ukraine or on Russian citizens, and then blame it on the Ukrainians,” Sullivan said Sunday.
Further U.S.-Russia tensions arose on Saturday when the Defense Ministry summoned the U.S. embassy’s military attache after it said the navy detected an American submarine in Russian waters near the Kuril Islands in the Pacific. The submarine declined orders to leave, but departed after the navy used unspecified “appropriate means,” the ministry said.