Fresh off his visit to the United States, Ukraine’s interim Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk hyped the “unprecedented support” offered by the Obama Administration during the ongoing standoff with Russia.
Yatseniuk said the US and the rest of “the civilized world” is offering Ukraine’s military massive amounts of technical help and support, as the Crimean Peninsula moves closer to joining Russia.
The Pentagon said they were sending 25,000 cases of meals-ready-to-eat to Ukraine at some point in the future, though this is likely only a fraction of the overall US “aid” to Ukraine’s newly installed government.
The US and other Western countries played a significant role in backing violent protesters against the pro-Russia government in Ukraine, leading to the recent regime change that brought Yatseniuk and others into power.
Since then, the Crimean Peninsula has moved to secede, and the US has insisted that such secession would be a “violation of international law.” They have also moved to start a sanction war against Russia for supporting Crimea’s secession.
Don't worry, if their way of dealing with you people of USG-EU choice not go through, they will kill you as a partner of their civilization, sooner then you think. Like they did with Saddam Hussein, Kaddafi and all other of their time in civilization.
Yes, this is going to turn somewhat sour once the first Jews are offed with no investigations forthcoming.
COMING NEXT: WILL AIPAC WITHOLD BROWN ENVELOPES? After this message…
25K MREs is certainly "unprecedented". Perhaps Hopey McChange might divert some of those to the millions of homeless living under America's soon to be condemned (should have been already) 144,000 soon to collapse bridges, or the million odd tent cities and tornado-bait trailer parks?
Do Ukrainian Nazi Fascists even LIKE dehydrated chicken fried steak???
The distinction Mr Ditz draws as regards "violent" protesters is perfectly correct, at least as far as the US in concerned. The peaceful protests were hijacked by Nuland and her rent-a-rioters. Admittedly, sending food to one of Europe's biggest foor producing-countries is a bit daft. Like snow ploughs to Africa (the Soviets actually did that!). The big question is will the US allow Putin to grab the whole of Ukraine and I think we all know that the answer is yes. Of course, Putin won't be there for ever. Amusingly, the astrologers are predicting his downfall for this year or next! We shall see!
> The big question is will the US allow Putin to grab the whole of Ukraine and I think we all know that the answer is yes
How is that "we"?
Seriously, why would Putin grab the whole of Ukraine? That would be a dumb manoeuver. He isn't dumb.
Does Ukraine have any value to the West, or is it merely to weaken Russian influence? If the West is looking to exploit the country in the short term, surely the Russians are looking at their interests in the extreme long term. Crazy how the west touts western democracy only to disregard it later when their interests are being implemented.
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/03/ukraine…
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/03/ukraine…
Tremendous strategic value. NATO/the US/"the west" have never stopped prosecuting the Cold War. They've simply used the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and then the Soviet Union to continue driving the encirclement of Russia ever closer to the gates of Moscow. Having the Ukraine in their back pocket gives that effort a huge boost. The US anti-ballistic missile system can now be installed within a few hundred kilometers of the major Russian launch aites. Secondly, and clearly the reason the US is so bent out of shape about the Crimea, is that the great Russian naval base at Sevastopol would serve admirably as a home port for the US Sixth Fleet, in perfect strike position as to Iran for instance, and there is little doubt that one of the immediate benefits of a US client state in Kiev would be to make this happen promptly.
Bitchslapping Saakashvily in Georgia took Russians 5 days. And Georgia was US and Israel pumped up for a few years before the attempt. I guess the strategic interest and the millions of Russians in several parts of Ukraine might incite a proportionate reaction from Russia. Given the distances I'd say it might take a bit more than 5 days though.
But we certainly can count on US paradropping Nuland with cookies directly into Yats bunker under Maidan.
They should para drop Nuland, Nuland's husband, brother in law, father, and father in law, and all those other neocons, and, McCain (so that he'll break his neck this time), Lindsey Graham (so he'll break his 'wrist' ), Pyatt, the Brzezinski clan, and….. the whole Bush entourage, including Papa GHW and Jimmy Baker, who broke the agreement with Gorbachev, and instead kept expanding NATO eastward. Time to let all these bastards sink in their own sh………t. Otherwise, book them on the next flight from Malaysia.