{"id":86861,"date":"2022-01-07T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/01\/07\/blinken-warns-russia-ahead-of-talks-on-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:08:47","slug":"blinken-warns-russia-ahead-of-talks-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/flashpoints\/2022\/01\/07\/blinken-warns-russia-ahead-of-talks-on-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken warns Russia ahead of talks on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 Ahead of U.S.-Russia talks next week to deescalate tensions following Russia\u2019s military build-up along Ukraine\u2019s borders, Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/flashpoints\/2021\/03\/25\/us-europe-nato-close-ranks-to-counter-aggressive-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">Antony Blinken<\/a> warned Friday that the West was ready to respond \u201cforcefully\u201d if Russia steps up its aggressive actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re prepared to respond forcefully to further Russian aggression, but a diplomatic solution is still possible and preferable \u2015 if Russia chooses it,\u201d Blinken said at a State Department press conference. \u201cThat\u2019s what we, together with our allies and partners, will continue to pursue intently next week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When pressed on what the Western military response would be if Russian invaded Ukraine, Blinken emphasized the \u201cmassive consequences\u201d for Moscow would include including stiff sanctions, adding that \u201cNATO\u2019s defensive posture will have to strengthen even further, assistance to Ukraine to defend itself will continue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden administration has already committed more than $450 million in security assistance to Ukraine this year, but former U.S. officials say the Biden administration must do more militarily to deter Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst criticized the Biden administration on Thursday for threatening to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s military and NATO force posture only after an invasion, calling it a \u201cserious mistake.\u201d Man-portable Stinger missiles and anti-ship Harpoons should already be in Ukrainian hands, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe sequence is wrong. The weapons should be sent now, and the force posture should be enhanced now, telling Moscow we can always pull them back once you stop your buildup along Ukraine\u2019s borders,\u201d Herbst said at an Atlantic Council event. \u201cThe administration seems to be wary of sending weapons to Ukraine now that would in fact increase the pain of a Russian conventional invasion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/2021\/11\/09\/romanian-official-pitched-blinken-on-black-sea-troop-boost\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1236442758.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Romanian official pitched Blinken on Black Sea troop boost<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Romanian Foreign Minister H.E. Bogdan Aurescu.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia, as its massed of some 100,000 troops on its border with Ukraine, has demanded that Ukraine and other former Soviet countries be excluded from any future expansion of NATO and demanded that the alliance remove offensive weaponry from countries in the Russian neighborhood. But the Biden administration and NATO allies have made clear that the Russian demands are non-starters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian foreign minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/02\/02\/russia-hints-it-may-return-to-open-skies-treaty-if-us-does\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sergey Lavrov<\/a> made a threat of his own last week, telling a Russian news agency: \u201cIf a constructive response does not follow within a reasonable time and the West continues its aggressive line, then Russia will be forced to take all necessary measures to ensure a strategic balance and eliminate unacceptable threats to our security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the two sides far apart, Blinken wouldn\u2019t rule out the possibility that Russia could use its non-starter conditions to stymie the talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s certainly part of [Russia\u2019s] playbook, to put out a list of absolutely non-started demands and to claim the other side is not engaging, and then use them as justification for aggressive actions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt will be very difficult to make actual progress if Russia continues to escalate its military buildup, and it\u2019s inflammatory rhetoric,\u201d Blinken said. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve been clear with Russia about what it will face if it continues on this path, including economic measures that we haven\u2019t used before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next week, Deputy Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2021\/08\/03\/no-2-us-diplomat-says-to-repeal-iraq-war-authorization-biden-doesnt-need-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Sherman<\/a>, the State Department\u2019s No. 2 official, will meet with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/2020\/10\/14\/russia-denies-new-start-gentlemans-agreement-with-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sergei Ryabkov<\/a> in Geneva. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2021\/04\/15\/eucom-chief-warns-nato-ready-to-respond-to-aggression\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Cooper <\/a>and Lt. Gen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2021\/10\/21\/uncharted-waters-with-no-hyten-successor-in-sight-dod-prepares-to-delegate-vice-chair-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Mingus<\/a>, the Joint Staff\u2019s operations director, will represent the Defense Department in the talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/11\/05\/send-ukraine-us-troops-weapons-key-republicans-tell-biden\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Air-Romania_web.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Send troops to Black Sea and weapons to Ukraine, key Republicans tell Biden<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Republican Reps. Mike Rogers and Mike Turner are urging U.S. President Joe Biden to further arm Ukraine and \u201cdeploy a U.S. military presence in the Black Sea\u201d to warn off a renewed invasion threat from Russian forces.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sherman will go to Brussels to meet with NATO and European Union officials in Brussels first, followed by a NATO-Russia meeting Wednesday and then a meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Ahead of those talks, U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/reagan-defense-forum\/2021\/12\/05\/what-biden-should-tell-putin-when-it-comes-to-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Biden<\/a> is scheduled to speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, former NATO supreme allied commander Europe, said he sees Putin as using the military escalation to force Russia back into a central role in world affairs and with the hope of intimidating and shattering the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUkraine is like a punching bag. You have an an audience of your future opponents, but you don\u2019t fight them, you fight the punching bag. You punch and punch it and show them how powerful you are,\u201d Clark said at an Atlantic Council event Thursday. \u201cHe may not succeed, he may decide, \u2018I won\u2019t look that good against tough resistance.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One complicating factor is that a Russia-led military alliance is dispatching peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan, at the request of its president, to quell violent protests in its capital. That will force Putin to decide whether he wants to juggle both crises, Herbst said this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf this number of troops [in Kazakhstan] doesn\u2019t do it and they need to send in tens of thousands more, I\u2019m not sure Putin can sustain the current number of troops on Russia\u2019s borders, and Ukraine may get a reprieve, and the current crisis Moscow has manufactured may dissipate, at least for a few months,\u201d Herbst said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/space\/2021\/12\/28\/satellite-images-track-new-russian-military-deployments-near-ukraine\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/amored-unit-near-vauyki_russia_20dec2021_wv2.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Satellite images track new Russian military deployments near Ukraine<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Maxar Technologies is monitoring the military developments surrounding tensions and cites several new Russian deployments in Crimea and in western Russia near the Ukraine border.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clark favors immediately sending NATO battalions to Romania and Poland, both front-line states. He also recommended NATO send to Romania an air expeditionary force with the mission of Black Sea training and surveillance, as well as cooperation with Ukrainian forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAir power is what\u2019s needed,\u201d Clark said. \u201cPutting 50 or 150 troops, or 20 tanks in Romania or Slovakia does nothing. Put that Air Force there; the Russians respect it, they know how good we are and how flexible and agile it is. It raises doubts among Putin\u2019s advisors about whether the United States actually might intervene if they did something in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>With reporting by the Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Friday that the west is ready to respond \u201cforcefully\u201d if Russia steps up its 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