“Not What We Are Seeing” – US Intel Officials Reject Biden’s “Genocide” Claims

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By Zero Hedge

Earlier this week, President Biden appeared to veer off script in the middle of his ‘blame Putin, not our idiotic policies, for your collapsing cost of living’ speech, when he dropped the ‘g’ word…

“Your family budget, your ability to fill up your tank, none of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide half a world away.”

As the world waited for another rapid walk-back by White House staffers of another Biden gaffe, the 79-year-old doubled-down…

“Yes, I called it genocide. Because it has become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of being able to be Ukrainian.”

The comments sparked reactions from around the diplomatic world.
 

French President Emmanuel Macron was the most outspokenrefusing to back Biden’s claim that Russia is committing “genocide” in Ukraine. The French leader instead warned that an escalation of rhetoric wouldn’t bring peace.

 

On the same day Biden accused Russia of genocideNewsweek published an article quoting a senior official from the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency who said the civilian casualties in Ukraine are typical of modern warfare and “hardly” amount to genocide.

 

The DIA official: said “I am not for a second excusing Russia’s war crimes, nor forgetting that Russia invaded the country.”

But the number of actual deaths is hardly genocide. If Russia had that objective or was intentionally killing civilians, we’d see a lot more than less than .01 percent in places like Bucha,” the official emphasized.

As expected, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov responded, according to Reuters, emphasizing the hypocrisy of a US military machine which has committed “well-known crimes” in the recent past.

“This is hardly acceptable from a president of the United States, a country that has committed well-known crimes in recent times,” Peskov described.

All of which leads to the weekend and a rather shocking report from no lessor mainstream media outlet than NBC News.

 
NBC News reported on Friday, citing senior government officials, that President Biden’s accusation made earlier this week that Moscow was committing “genocide” in Ukraine has raised concerns among officials in the White House and has not been confirmed by US intelligence agencies.

The claim of genocide “has so far not been corroborated by information collected by US intelligence agencies,” the report said.

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Worse still, NBC quoted two State Department officials as saying that Biden’s remarks “made it harder for the agency to credibly do its job.”

“Genocide includes a goal of destroying an ethnic group or nation and, so far, that is not what we are seeing,” a U.S. intelligence official said.

NBC did provide some cover however in a later paragraph, claiming that there is concern within the intelligence community that Russia’s actions in the next phase of the war could amount to genocide, and one official said that assessment could be part of what prompted Biden to take a public position that’s ahead of his own government.

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This guy… is such a monumentally stupid idiot. I am not articulate enough to adequately describe how STUPID this guy is. Idiot Biden repeatedly said that what the President says matters, but this moronic idiot says whatever dribbles out of his atrophied brain.

If you voted for this stupid idiot, kick yourself in the ass. NOW. YOU have hurt this country more than anyone can possibly know or measure.

gen·o·cide – noun

the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group

That is precisely what Vladimir Putin is doing. What do you think President Biden should have called it?

Should he tell you that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine hasn’t caused higher gas prices, when it actually has? He’s telling you the truth on that point, too.

Maybe you don’t like his statement that a tyrant on the other side of the world shouldn’t be able to affect your pump price. This suggests that you think the opposite.

Last edited 1 year ago by Greg

Correct, we dont like being lied to about gas prices.
His ignorant remarks are not helping diplomatic means to end the conflict. He is a stupid old fool that most times has no idea where he is or what he is doing there. His people think that opening up the leasing but strangling the actual production is fooling anyone except you and your Nazi lovin’ ilk.

Putin can’t have what he wants, but won’t settle for less. Lots of luck extracting any genuine diplomatic settlement from that.

I did not know you were in on all the talks, or any of your sources. Perhaps being shaken down for hundreds of millions of tax payers money when we have to borrow to give it to a Nazi regime isnt playing well with the voter base. Trying to blame insane domestic policies failures on Putin only morons fall for that crap.

Last edited 1 year ago by kitt

I blame four years of Trump, the corrupted GOP, and over two years of a global COVID pandemic, too. Everything isn’t Putin’s fault. Putin is just the latest plague visited upon us, though he’s been a lot worse than random gun violence and bird flu.

Last edited 1 year ago by Greg

I blame four years of Trump, the corrupted GOP, and over two years of a global COVID pandemic, too. 

Of course you do. Every ignoramus does. Everyone too cowardly to face the truth of their failed leftist ideology blames Trump. Do you blame idiot Biden for lying about “shutting down the virus” as well? Do you blame idiot Biden for the deaths, far more than under Trump, that he caused by his policies? No, because you would have to abandon chickenshit to face such reality.

Putin committed his onerous acts, indeed, but he was enabled by idiot Biden. Without idiot Biden using fraud to unseat Trump, there would be no war.

The GOP is paid by the same people paying the Democrats.

Trump’s achievements are many, and not easily talked away with blather. Trump did more in 3 years than any President in my lifetime did in 8.

Then they released Covid and rigged an election.

Can’t have the People actually thinking they decide things, now can we.

The existence of a failing and dictatorial regime on American soil is going to have real repercussions moving forward. It’s unlikely we’ll get our democracy back as it was, but should the Democrats/Deep State/Globalists rig things in November, there will be open civil war.

We don’t suffer tyrants. Biden is a tyrant, and has no right to represent the seal of the president of the United States of America.

Let the People decide their representatives. Not Pfizer. Not Soros or Schwab. Not Zuckerberg. Not CNN.

Term limits. Prohibitions on owning stock and trading whilst in office. Limits on campaign contributions and a ban on companies giving money to ANY representative.

Democracy isn’t complex, but it does require constant renewal and diligent guarding.

As Reagan said, “Freedom is a fragile thing.” I in earnest fell bad for Biden, to be used in such a way as all shadow-governments have installed their puppets throughout history.

So is life better for you now under Biden than it was under Trump? Biden has handled what so well? Crime? Inflation? Border? Drugs? Food costs? Fuel costs?

Putin can’t have what he wants, but won’t settle for less. Lots of luck extracting any genuine diplomatic settlement from that.

Putin is winning in Ukraine. Despite the propaganda, it’s rather easy to see.

gen·o·cide – noun

the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group

This drone footage believed to be from Xinjiang in China, shows Muslim Uighurs kneeling and blindfolded, waiting to be led onto trains. It is unknown where the trains are heading.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/china/video-2213322/Video-Uighurs-caught-drone-footage-boarded-trains-China.html
That’s what genocide looks like.
Ended up the Uighur men are being worked to death in sweat shops making American shoes and clothes.*
The Uighur women have been married off to Chinese men who didn’t have a wife.
The Uighur children are being raised by Chinese couples who were childless, as Chinese, not Muslim.
The Uighurs will not be having any more children or raising any more Muslim Uighurs because the males and females are being kept apart.
That’s genocide.

What Russia and Ukraine are doing to one another is war, yes, Russia invaded, but both sides are killing people from the other side.

*For this reason American Leftists are silent on Uighur genocide, they are totally in Commie China’s pocket.

To people like Greg and those he supports, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity are, just like racism and gun violence, nothing but political terms that, when the politics demand, either arise or disappear completely.

Greg the Red had no problems when Saddam Hussein was carrying out well documented genocide against his own people. I guess it’s not genocide when the people being killed by a tyrant are brown. But hey, lefties aren’t racist. Just ask them.

That is precisely what Vladimir Putin is doing. What do you think President Biden should have called it?

What group is he trying to destroy? What large group is he trying to totally kill? What proof do you have of his motive? You have none. Putin is carrying out a brutal war, attacking in the same way Soviet and Russian forces ALWAYS attack. Idiot Biden needs to keep his mouth shut because everything he says and does just makes to problem worse.

Idiot Biden has made the price at the pump worse. He simply has Putin helping him now.

I’m curious. Given there’s a genocide going on in China, do you also feel the same about that and that we should, as free people of the world, do something to end it?

Sanction China? Fight China?

You seem to suddenly care about one side of a war that is a proxy between the US/NATO and Russia, parroting the weak umbrage of the Leftist propaganda network, but do you really care?

Do you care about Uygurs? Is not Xi an unelected, genocidal madman just like Putin?

ANSWER ME!

Last edited 1 year ago by Nathan Blue

So, joe ran ahead of the facts…..again.
Remember in May of 2012 when obama “pivoted” on gay marriage?
The Sunday before he did so joe went on “Meet the Press” and said that he is “absolutely comfortable” with men marrying men and women marrying women.
Joe forced obama to pivot.
Now will joe force the intel departments to call what is happening in Ukraine “genocide?”

There is a song by the late Buddy Holly That,ll Be the Day