{"id":1297113,"date":"2022-02-14T17:37:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T22:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1297113"},"modified":"2022-02-14T17:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T22:37:48","slug":"biden-admin-has-no-idea-whether-ukrainian-president-was-joking-about-invasion-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-has-no-idea-whether-ukrainian-president-was-joking-about-invasion-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Has No Idea Whether Ukrainian President Was Joking About Invasion Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-has-no-idea-whether-ukrainian-president-was-joking-about-invasion-day%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1297113&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>White House Deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday that President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is unsure if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was joking about the supposed date of a Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/20\/ukraine-zelensky-biden-no-minor-incursions-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zelensky<\/a>, in what appeared to be sarcasm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zelenskiy.official\/posts\/3010798182503871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remarked<\/a> Monday that Russia will invade Ukraine on Feb. 16. At a press briefing, a reporter questioned Jean-Pierre if the White House and the National Security Council (NSC) interpreted Zalensky\u2019s statement to be \u201csarcasm or irony.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8Ukraine\u2019s Zelenskiy spooks markets with what appeared to be a sarcastic comment about the rest of the world predicting a date for a Russian attack, which he said should be a day of unity instead, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/business?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@business<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenniferJJacobs\/status\/1493307237170925568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo, I don\u2019t have a read on that. Here\u2019s what I can tell you about that,\u201d Jean-Pierre replied. \u201cI heard the statement but I haven\u2019t actually heard it in its full context, so the irony of all of it I couldn\u2019t speak to. But I\u2019ll say this. While I am not going to speak to intelligence matters as I\u2019ve said multiplies it already, our intelligence or intelligence sharing with [the] Ukrainians as we\u2019ve said before, we are in the window when an invasion could begin at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cIt remains unclear which path Russia will choose to take because we do not know, it is his [Putin\u2019s] decision to make. We remain engaged with the Russian government in full coordination with our allies and partners. The path to diplomacy remains available if Russia chooses to engage again constructively but we are clear-eyed about the prospects on the ground and are ready to impose severe costs on Russia in coordination of our allies and partners if they attack Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden communicated with Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/12\/joe-biden-vladimir-putin-call-no-fundamental-change-russia-ukraine-tensions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Vladimir Putin<\/a> on a 62-minute phone call Saturday, which led to no major changes in the country\u2019s conflict with Ukraine. The U.S. continues to fear Russian invasion amid the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/27\/state-department-says-nord-stream-2-will-not-move-forward-if-russia-invades-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deployment<\/a> of over 130,000 troops along Ukraine\u2019s border. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/12\/ukrainians-protest-against-russian-invasion-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Several Thousand Ukrainians Gather In Protest Of Russian Invasion)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/02\/joe-biden-approves-troops-deployments-eastern-europe-russia-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved<\/a> the deployment of over 3,000 U.S. troops in early February to assist the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies. The first <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/05\/us-troops-poland-ukraine-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. troops<\/a> landed at a military base near the Poland-Ukraine border on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday that President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is unsure if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was joking about the supposed date of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}