{"id":1959461,"date":"2023-06-28T15:35:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-backs-exerting-pressure-on-russia-despite-nuclear-instability-fears\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T19:35:45","slug":"blinken-backs-exerting-pressure-on-russia-despite-nuclear-instability-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-backs-exerting-pressure-on-russia-despite-nuclear-instability-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken supports pressuring Russia despite nuclear instability concerns."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fblinken-backs-exerting-pressure-on-russia-despite-nuclear-instability-fears%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=1959461&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--><h2>Secretary of State Antony Blinken: Sticking with Support for Ukraine<\/h2>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken is resolute in his commitment to supporting Ukraine, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/female-athletes-denounce-biden-executive-order-on-gender-identity\/\" title=\"Female athletes denounce Biden executive order on gender identity\">growing concerns<\/a> about Russia&#8217;s instability and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-orders-military-wide-stand-down-to-address-white-supremacy-extremism-in-ranks\/\" title=\"Pentagon Orders Military-Wide \u2018Stand-Down\u2019 To Address \u2018White Supremacy,\u2019 Extremism In Ranks\">potential threat<\/a> to Western allies.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-border-threat-so-taboo-that-few-dare-speak-of-it\/\" title=\"A Border Threat So Taboo That Few Dare Speak Of It\">short answer<\/a> is no,\u201d Blinken said Wednesday when asked about changing U.S. policy in light of the Wagner Group\u2019s aborted march on Moscow. \u201cIn terms of its support for Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-colleges-violate-anti-terrorism-laws-by-hosting-palestinian-terrorist-lawmaker-warns\/\" title=\"California Colleges Violate Anti-Terrorism Laws by Hosting Palestinian Terrorist, Lawmaker Warns\">exerting pressure<\/a> on Russia, strengthening our own defensive alliance \u2014 we&#8217;re sticking with that program.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blinken&#8217;s statement serves as a firm response to the doubts expressed by Western nations following the Wagner Group&#8217;s failed attempt to march on Moscow. This brief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-backs-exerting-pressure-on-russia-despite-nuclear-instability-fears\/\" title=\"Blinken supports pressuring Russia despite nuclear instability concerns.\">uprising sparked discussions<\/a> about whether the U.S. and European allies should fear the possibility of a Russian defeat in the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not in agreement on the outcomes of what will happen if Ukraine wins this war and what that will do to Russia,\u201d an unnamed Western official told Financial Times. Meanwhile, a European Union diplomat warned that \u201cnobody wins from civil war in Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These warnings highlight the underlying disagreement that has characterized trans-Atlantic debates about the war in Ukraine. While Central and Eastern European states, which gained independence after the Soviet Union&#8217;s collapse, argue that yielding to Russian President Vladimir Putin would make NATO more vulnerable to Russian attacks, larger Western allies suggest that Putin might become more dangerous in defeat or be replaced by someone even more aggressive.<\/p>\n<p>However, the more assertive stance of smaller NATO allies, along with the United States and the United Kingdom, has outweighed the more passive impulses of some NATO leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a situation that we\u2019ve been monitoring for some time, in the instability that will be caused by Russia\u2019s illegal invasion of Ukraine,\u201d said British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who became the first Western European leader to provide Ukraine with NATO-designed main battle tanks. \u201cOf course, we are prepared, as we always would be, for a range of scenarios.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has also voiced support for continuing Western aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not underestimate the Russians,\u201d Stoltenberg emphasized. \u201cSo, we need to continue to provide support to Ukraine, and that is exactly what NATO and NATO allies are doing with military support, but also support for the long term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Blinken made it clear that the U.S. has more modest aspirations for the outcome of the conflict compared to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s goal of reclaiming all Ukrainian territory from Russian forces. Blinken believes that peace talks will eventually be necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re also working in a sustainable way to help Ukraine build up its deterrent and defense capacity for the medium- and long-term so that Putin could not repeat this exercise in a year or two years or five years,&#8221; Blinken explained. &#8220;The biggest impediment right now to finding peace, a just and durable peace &#8230; is President Putin&#8217;s conviction that he can outlast Ukraine and [that] he can outlast all of us. The more we are able to disabuse him of that notion, the more likely it is that [at] some point, he&#8217;ll come to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>support for Ukraine, we will continue with the program,&#8221; Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated. Despite concerns over Russia&#8217;s instability, he emphasized that U.S. policy will not change. Blinken&#8217;s response came after the Wagner Group&#8217;s failed attempt to march on Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1959462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959461","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=1959461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}