As France and Germany push for an end to the Ukrainian civil war, the Obama Administration seems to be poised to throw a bunch of additional arms at the conflict, with an eye toward shifting it in favor of the military.
Secretary of State John Kerry is the latest to go on record as being in favor of such shipments, with the Pentagon’s leadership, Vice President Biden, and Defense Secretary-nominee Ash Carter have all backed the shipments, claiming the war could be resolved if the US gave the Ukrainian government an overwhelming advantage in armament.
Susan Rice seems to be the last holdout, though a lot of experts and international officials are expressing fears that adding more arms to a war is just going to escalate it, and force Russia to add their own arms shipments on the rebel side, escalating the proxy war.
The arms shipments also put the US, despite claims they support a resolution of the war, at odds with the ceasefire efforts, and they’ve complained that since the September-January ceasefire collapsed the rebels have gained territory, so a new ceasefire will put them in a better bargaining position. Their long-term goal is to force an unconditional rebel surrender, which means keeping the war going in hopes of changing the situation on the ground.
Nuclear fallout — Why suffer the folly of Empire?
Empire USA, Russia and China, when in history has any nation used military force against such nuclear super powers? Never before, not until our Empire ordered their puppet coup dictatorship in Ukraine to embark on a course of absolute futility.
For Georgia did the exact same thing a few years back, whereupon, Russia did a quick invasion of Georgia, established occupancy over a big chunk of their land and to this very day Russia exhibits no desire to ever give up such an occupancy that so well establishes Russia’s supremacy.
For Merkel and Hollande are expressing the sentiments of not only Germany and France, but all of Europe by stating that sanctions against Russia are one thing, but to join fascist Ukraine as it fires live bullets and artillery shells at Russian troops, when Russia has nuclear warheads loaded and ready to fire, surely it is high time for Europe to vacate the battlefield and let the nuclear fallout be confined to that which falls between New York and California.
Abkhsia and Ossetia were already out of Georgia. Russia did not occupy Georgia.
The US wanting to arm the Ukrainian military is no more "at odds" with ceasefire effeots than is Putin's arming of the supposed "rebels". Keeping the war going is certainly in the Ukrainians' interest and not in Putin's. The mercenaries are costing somebody a fortune and as long as they are unable to capture the railway line, Putin is defeated. He seems to be unwilling to invade, probably because he believes that the conscripts would simply throw up their hands and shout "Green card!" and, as during the Chechen war, there would be mass desertions and probably an anti-war movement. After all, we are constantly being told by Putin's supporters that Ukrainians don't want to fight, Americans don't want to fight, Germans don't want to fight etc. so why would Russians want to fight? Why would they fight to steal the land of a country they don't give a damn about and that for the benefit of the crooked oligarchs who have been robbing them blind for the last 23 years?
Poroshenko has a big factory in Russia,pay taxes there and make money there.
Good for Ukraine, bad for Russia.
Yay America.