It’s just another Manic Monday at the State Department.
And the UN, apparently.
(This was a Sunday show interview, technically, but no one watches any of those Sunday shows anymore like at all – maybe a few boomers, I don’t know – so they mostly exist for the Monday news cycle.
RT:
The US is to keep its planned sanctions against Russia completely secret, so Moscow doesn’t have the opportunity to mitigate them in advance, a senior American official said on Sunday.
Speaking to CBS, US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland explained that Washington was working on a set of measures that would be imposed were Russia to invade Ukraine, but would not be letting the Kremlin know what they were beforehand.
“With regard to this package of sanctions … deterrence is best when there’s a little bit of strategic ambiguity around exactly what we are going to do,” Nuland explained. “So, we’ve said financial measures, we’ve said export controls, we’ve said new sanctions on Russian elites. But if we put them on the table now, then Russia will be able to start mitigating, and that doesn’t make any sense to us.”
Nuland’s statement came as a group of US lawmakers from both the Democratic and Republican parties, led by Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), reported that they were close to agreeing on a set of sanctions that could be implemented immediately after any Russian invasion.
These are kind of retarded statements. Everyone knows the list of things they can do to Russia, and they are preparing to do all of them. Plus, you don’t announce secret plans.
This is just weird behavior, which seems to be part of some narrative formation that I’m not clear on. Maybe it’s just an excuse for not explaining to the American people why the entire American government is now singularly fixated on war with Russia – which they are openly saying could lead to nuclear war – ostensibly to protect the arbitrary 1991 borders of a Russian colony with a GDP half the size of that of Bangladesh.