Even though the situation in the Ukraine appears to be nearing some sort of resolution, the Obama Administration is confirmed to be in the process of readying new sanctions against Ukraine’s government and protest leaders if the situation doesn’t go the way the US wants.
The protests in Ukraine have centered around opposition figures wanting closer ties to the European Union, and a government that is dependent on Russian aid for solvency, and fears that the shift to the West could harm that relationship.
Nominally the US is upset over some violence and arrests of protesters, but with the government passing an amnesty law and the prime minister resigning, it seems the escalation of US threats is more about pushing Ukraine into the EU deals than anything happening on the ground.
Russia, for its part, is also wielding its financial influence, temporarily halting their aid package to the Ukraine over the PM’s resignation, and saying they don’t intend to restart it until it’s clear that the new government intends to honor the agreements that sparked that aid.
Obama: "I'm going to foment unrest in Ukraine and use sanctions to topple the regime that won't do my bidding. Then Ukraine enters NATO as a useful puppet. Game over, Putin."
Putin: "Mobilize the Southwest Front- Objective: Kiev. Strategic Rocket Forces on high alert – Objective: Washington, DC. What were you saying, Obama?"
"Nominally the US is upset over some violence and arrests of protesters"
VERY nominally. US ally, family dictatorship, and host of navy fifth fleet, Bahrain, is systematically torturing children as part of keeping the population repressed.
Obama, alone on earth, backed the 2009 fascist military coup to overthrow Honduras' democracy.
Obama shipped 60 billion dollars of lethal weapons to Saudi Arabia in 2013.
Now he's backing neo-Nazi linked opposition in Ukraine.
Odd how the US always sides with the fascists, until and unless, as with Hitler, they start doing the USA's job of dominating the world for themselves. That's Washington's racket.
Today at Democracy Now it was pointed out that Europe has offered nothing but the same austerity measures to Ukraine that have been imposed on other financially impaired EU members in contrast to the $15 billion in aid offered by Russia. As in Egypt it is likely the capitalist West is behind these ultra right protests in order to gain control of Ukraine.
Sanctions on Ukraine for what? US-sponsored infiltrators starting the process of regime change?
Please sanction the rest of the world as well. And hurry up. The dollar's true value of three truck loads per loaf of bread is at stake…
The so-called opposition is led by fascists. Supported by the US/Nato, of course. Gladio East, maybe.