The summits held this Thursday by the heads of state and government of the G7, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU) show this: continuing to articulate supposed containment responses to “an aggressor country”.
As Britain’s Reuters agency detailed, NATO insisted on not intervening directly in the war; however, he plans to send more troops to countries on the eastern flank and, with his trademark threatening language – including remarks by Joe Biden himself – left open the possibility of an alliance response should Russia use chemical weapons in Ukraine.
The warning comes across as a provocation, an old US script previously rehearsed to justify his aggression. Russia has been warning for some time that Ukrainian nationalists are preparing chemical attacks against their people, and then blames the Russians.
Meanwhile, the sanctions continue to “rain”. The G7 and EU decided to further restrict Moscow’s use of its international reserves, and the US made it clear that any transaction involving gold related to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation would be subject to existing sanctions.
But as its military offensive advances, Russia continues to find evidence, and this Thursday it released a plan for foreign control over biological laboratories in Ukraine. He was also given documents on a US experiment testing previously untested drugs at the Ukrainian military, RT said.