The Thursday Geneva “joint statement” was met with a lot of fanfare as a path out of the endless escalation of acrimony in eastern Ukraine, but it is now apparent that the pact hasn’t amounted to much at all.
The problems with the Geneva Accord are two-fold: the eastern protesters weren’t a party to the deal, and therefore don’t feel obliged to abide by it, and the Ukrainian interim government, which was a party to it, has interpreted it as only applying to the eastern protesters.
The call to disarm various militias in the country is thus going totally unheeded, as the eastern protesters have no intention of disarming unilaterally in the midst of an invasion, and the interim government isn’t even attempting to disarm anyone else, notably letting the neo-Nazi Right Sector continue its operations with impunity, including an apparent attack on eastern protesters today in Slovyansk.
Indeed, at this point it seems the only material result of the deal is for Russia to complain about Ukraine not abiding by it, and the United States blaming Russia for the eastern protesters not abiding by it. Those two didn’t really need an excuse to trade condemnation, but that and a trip to Geneva is all they got out of the talks.
There isn't a word coming out of USG that are based on honesty or is about keeping its promise, they even don't study and investigate a accusation before their words of blablablabla already have done the damages, like when Kerry using the words as grotesque blaming eastern Ukrainian about that phony letter sent to Jewish people, now they have created a government in Kiev repeating what USG been saying for years blablablabla.
Don't you just love Kerry? Full of it from the moment he was born. From the time of the Vietnam War, I knew this filth was all about personal ambition and all he's ever done since is to prove that to be true I still hope for the day when a victorious Peoples' Republic of America publicly tries this dismal little lizard together with David Gregory.
There really never were any expectations for resolution of the real problems. It was all for the cameras – showing that all these "diplomats" and "statesmen" were busy writing memos and "joint statements" to "solve" the issues. They're not trying to solve anything because they're part of the problem. It takes much more time to devise a "workable" plan that everyone can agree to than a weekend in Geneva…was the fact it took place in "Geneva" supposed to lend some sort of gravitas or respectability that the attendees themselves couldn't provide? Apparently so. Oooo it was done in Geneva, CH so it MUST be righteous and just. Pure BS.
Devising an "agreement" without all the relevant players would be like trying to make bread without flour or to create a "homeland" for a people after diaspora without inviting the indigenous people that will be displaced…oh, wait…that's already been done…and poorly, I might add.
Indeed. I would go even further and say that the Geneva talks are yet another piece of agitprop by DC and its henchmen to fool the American masses that it's all Russia's fault when the "accords" are "violated." They were obviously designed to fail.
Geneva further wrongfooted Putin and painted him further into a corner. He comes accross as the one who is threatening to invade a sovereign state if that state's government doesn't do what he orders. That was precisely the trap the US set for him in Geneva and he fell into it.
Mr Kenny the Sovereign state has already been invaded . And the elected president fled to escape possible injury .