National Security
Report: Russian Commanders have received orders to launch invasion into Ukraine
In an appearance on Face the Nation Sunday, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin confirmed that Russian officers have received order to launch an invasion into Ukraine. Martin said intelligence suggests Russian commanders are making all military preparations and “doing everything that American commanders would do once they got the order to proceed.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russian President Vladimir Putin is following “the script almost to the letter” in positioning forces along Ukraine’s border.
“Everything we’re seeing tells us that the decision we believe President Putin has made to invade is moving forward,” Blinken said.
“We’ve seen that with provocations created by the Russians or separatist forces over the weekend, false flag operations, now the news just this morning that the ‘exercises’ Russia was engaged in in Belarus with 30,000 Russian forces that was supposed to end this weekend will now continue because of tensions in eastern Ukraine, tensions created by Russia and the separatist forces it backs there.”
On Friday, President Biden told reporters he was confident Putin had decided to invade in the “coming days.” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said Sunday that the U.S. was running a “full-court press” to deter Putin, attempting to exhaust all negotiation avenues.
President Biden has also agreed to meet with Putin “in principle” so long as Russia has not begun an invasion, the White House said Sunday night.
The U.S. Army’s first transgender officer and his wife, a Maryland doctor, are making headlines. No, not for breaking any ideological woke barriers; for “allegedly attempting to transfer confidential military medical information to Russia.”
The two were charged in an eight-count indictment on conspiracy charges Wednesday. Major Jamie Lee Henry, who lived with his anesthesiologist wife Anna Gabrielian, was granted his request to officially change his name in accordance with his gender preference in 2015.
Henry and Gabrielian allegedly volunteered to “retrieve private medical records from the United States Army and Johns Hopkins in order to assist the Russian government.”
National Review reports:
The pair are accused of stealing patient health files from Johns Hopkins and Fort Bragg and giving them to an individual they believed to be working for the Russian government. They aimed to show that they could access classified information and readily provide it to Moscow to demonstrate their allegiance, according to the indictment.
However, the individual to whom they hoped to deliver the information was an undercover FBI agent. At a covert August 17 meeting, Gabrielian told the agent that she was devoted to helping Russia’s cause even if it cost her her job or landed her in prison. She arranged a subsequent meeting with Henry and the agent, still believing him to be affiliated with the Kremlin.
That evening, in the agent’s hotel room, Henry expressed that he was committed to supporting Russia and had considered enlisting in the Russian army after the invasion of Ukraine. However, he told the agent he was disqualified because he didn’t have any “combat experience.”
“The way I am viewing what is going on in Ukraine now, is that the United States is using Ukrainians as a proxy for their own hatred toward Russia,” Henry reportedly told the agent.
“Prior to Henry’s case, identifying as a sex different than the one on one’s birth certificate made a soldier unfit for military service, warranting discharge” writes National Review.
Gabrielian worked at the Johns Hopkins school of medicine, and Henry worked as a staff internist stationed at Fort Bragg.
If convicted, the two could face up to five years in federal prison for the conspiracy charge, and a maximum of ten years in federal prison for each count of publishing secret military medical records.
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Fredrick Colke
February 21, 2022 at 9:04 am
Here it is President’s day and the U.S. does Not Have a President, This would not have happened if Trump was still President !!
L Diane Peterson
February 21, 2022 at 9:24 am
You are quoting a reporter from CBS???? This is disinformation. In other words, lies!! I thought you were better than this. Biden and his minions want a war! They, along with all of Klaus Schwab’s stoolies are the ones pushing this agenda. All to distract from what is happening. People are protesting these dystopian government mandates all over the world. A war would allow the global elites to have their “Great Reset”.
JC
February 21, 2022 at 10:51 am
Who did they get the orders from Biden? He wants to get rid of all the Evidence!
Steven
February 21, 2022 at 12:04 pm
Does the Budapest agreement have any relevance at all? (Nonproliferation of nuclear weapons)
What it amounts to is if a country wants any security, develop nuclear weapons for your own protection because nuclear powers will take you over or abandon you at the earliest opportunity.
Peter
February 21, 2022 at 2:27 pm
America should be putting troops in Ukraine.
Vassiliki
February 21, 2022 at 6:13 pm
I don’t believe a word from this administration. They want war and will do anything to get it.
michelle
February 26, 2022 at 5:27 pm
Putin needs to be tried for war crimes..He is nothing but a short little thug.