Joe Biden warns Russia could attack next month

The last few weeks the United States of America is once again interfering with political and strategic matters of other countries. In the Weekly World Watch Andy Walton analyses:

The White House says President Joe Biden warned Ukraine’s president on Thursday that there is a “distinct possibility” Russia could take military action against Ukraine next month. The Kremlin likewise sounded a grim note, saying it saw “little ground for optimism” in resolving the crisis after the US this week again rejected Russia’s main demands. Russian officials said dialogue was still possible to end the crisis, but Mr Biden again offered a stark warning amid growing concerns that Russian President Vladimir Putin will give the go-ahead for a further invasion of Ukrainian territory in the not-so-distant future. The White House said Mr Biden’s comments to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a phone call amplified concerns that administration officials have been making for some time. said.

Biden has been saying for several weeks that he believes Putin will order an invasion of Ukraine. He has said this week that it could happen in the month of February. Russia needs the harder ground of winter to ensure its troops do not get bogged down. One of the key signs that apparently show if war is imminent is the movement of hospital facilities and blood supplies to the border. Reuters repored on January 28 that Russia has now added blood and other medical supplies to its military buildup near Ukraine.. Such supplies could be used to treat casualties in the event of a Russian military incursion into Ukraine. The Bible says that Gog will be successful in all he does until he comes to his end on the mountains of Israel. We can expect therefore if Putin does invade that he will succeed. Expect maximum lethal force and objectives secured with speed.

The Russian army today is far better organised and equipped than it has been for decades. It has a motivated and disciplined officer class and a high-readiness structure based around “tactical groups” — multiple battalions adept at combined arms operations and able to operate independently or as part of a larger force. Andrew Krepinevich, a former senior Pentagon official with 20 years of experience in the US Army, said that Russia’s capabilities had soared since the “embarrassing” 1990s operations in Chechnya after the end of the Cold War, which failed to suppress an insurgency despite massive loss of civilian life. “Things began improving when the military showed its ability to employ cyberweapons against Estonia in 2007, and again against Georgia along with some conventional forces a year later,” he said, referencing Russia’s attack on its neighbour in support of two self-proclaimed republics.

When Putin came to power as president on May 7, 2000, his first ambition was to revive and rebuild the military. He made it clear that he wanted Russia once again to be a force to be reckoned with. He converted the Russian army from an organisation that was reliant on underpaid, badly equipped and often bullied conscripts into a largely professional volunteer force of 400,000 soldiers, on much-improved wages. Putin had a dream of resuscitating even a small part of what used to be the mighty Soviet empire, and to achieve that he needed a military behind him. We are now finally at the stage where decades of preparation are coming to a fulfilment. Putin has built his forces to a point when he knows he can overpower his enemies. Putin’s plan to resurrect the Russian empire is now about to begin. Gog’s move will ultimately lead to Armageddon.

‘Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them. After many days you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate.(Ezekiel 38:7-7 NIV)

I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign Lord. Every man’s sword will be against his brother. I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him. This is the end of Gog…. (Ezekiel 38:21-22 NIV)

Andy Walton

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