Among the many curious statements that are associated with the name of the former White House spokesman, there is also an absurd threat from the point of view of geography. We checked whether Jen Psaki said anything like this.
It is usually reported that in May 2014, Jen Psaki, at that time, the official representative of the US State Department, said: “If Belarus invades Ukraine, the sixth US fleet will be immediately transferred to the shores of Belarus” [a country that has no exit to the sea - approx. Avt.].
The authorship of this statement firmly entrenched in the psaki in the public consciousness thanks to numerous references to such Russian media as ""Channel One","Russia 1","RIA Novosti","News","Radio Sputnik","Russian newspaper","Fifth channel","Free press","Arguments and facts" And "Parliamentary newspaper". The director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation mentioned this quote Sergey Naryshkin.
The top of the career of the American political adviser Jen Psaki was the position of the 34th White House spokesman, which she held in 2021–2022 in the administration of President Biden. However, in the post -Soviet space, Psaki brought work as an official representative of the US State Department in 2013-2015, during the presidency of Barack Obama. The main role in this was not always played by the neat statements of the American at briefings, which, to one degree or another, related to the conflict in Ukraine. So, in April 2014, she She saidthat "natural gas is transported through a gas pipeline from Western Europe through Ukraine to Russia." A month later I admitted To journalists that are not familiar with the referendum she had just used in the context of the Donbass with the term “carousel voting”. And in August of the same year expressed anxiety about the exercises of the Russian Air Force in the regions bordering Ukraine, while speech Walked About the Astrakhan region. These and some other bloopers of Psaki instantly were replicated by the Russian media and became memes, and TV presenter Dmitry Kiselev on the air of the Russia 1 channel told On the neologism of the "psaking", supposedly widely used to designate such reservations.
However, Jen Psaki was the author of far from all the remarks attributed to her by Russian propaganda. So, in June 2014 "Russian Newspaper" reportedthat the psaki, answering the question of the journalist AP Matt Lee about Ukrainian refugees in the Rostov region, allegedly called them tourists, who attracted "beautiful mountain air in the Rostov mountains." Matt Lee Refuted This news on his Twitter, saying that he had never spoke to the Speaker of the State Department on this topic.
“Verified” did not find traces of Psaki’s statement about the sixth fleet either in the transcripts of her performances, or on the pages of authoritative American media. It should be noted that in Russian sources this phrase was never accompanied by accurate dating - at best, May 2014 was indicated.
As the search showed, the statement began to spread on the network, indeed, early in the morning of May 13, but at first it was part of a large humorous text under the heading of the State Department: the United States did not agree with the results of the hockey match. It was about it about the real on the eve of the real Victory The Russian team over the US team with a score of 6: 1 as part of the World Hockey Championship, which was held in Minsk. The text described the fictitious reaction of Jen Psaki to this event: the American allegedly criticized the “imperial” game of Russians and “blocking democratic goals on their own,” and also promised to impose economic sanctions against the opponent’s hockey players. At the end, Psaki seemed to report that "the sixth US fleet would be immediately transferred to the shores of Belarus to strengthen security during the World Cup."
Judging by the mention in the text of the “dirty puck carousel”, the second reason for the appearance of the parody was already mentioned above embarrassment With Psaki about a referendum, which also occurred the day before, May 12. Who exactly composed the comic news in fresh traces is unknown for certain. In VKontakte, the news dispersed on the morning of May 13 thanks publications Evgenia Pukhov, who appeared at 06:08 Moscow time and also contained a link to a night demotivator with the words “We do not recognize the victory of the Russians” and the photograph of Jen Psaki. At 08:48 the same text on the portal "Yaplakal" Placed The user Boombarashka - this post has become very popular and collected 15 comments. However, Putting A little later, this text is on Picabu, the user did not put it in the category "My", To which he marked his own texts. In the most popular post with this Facebook joke from Igor Maslov. It was indicatedthat the author is unknown. Some also referred to the now remote fast In the social networks of the user Ozonizer2008.
Thus, the phrase about the American fleet off the coast of Belarus does not belong to Jen Psaki, but was taken from a parody text about a hockey match. At the same time, it later in a slightly changed form - as a result of an error either intentionally - was quoted with serious media.
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