After Ukrainian troops killed five protesters today in Slovyansk, the odds of the protesters simply giving up and embracing the pro-US government are slim to none, and the Obama Administration is still holding out hope Russia can somehow “order” the protesters to stop their protesting.
It’s not so much a hope as a demand, really, as the White House and the State Department are both presenting it as an obligation Russia has under the terms of last week’s Geneva deal, at least near as the US sees it.
President Obama insists the next round of anti-Russia sanctions are all “teed up” and ready to go, saying Russia needs to publicly condemn the “malicious” protesters seeking autonomy in Ukraine’s east.
Secretary of State John Kerry also insisted Russia was obliged to force an end to the protests, saying their refusal to do so would be an “expensive mistake” and would leave the US with no choice but to enact more sanctions.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel also claimed Russia was violating the deal by holding military exercises near Ukraine’s border, though the joint public statement issued at the end of those talks made no mention at all of Russian troops.
Russia has insisted that they don’t have the authority to order the protesters to abandon their calls for autonomy, and has chided the US for endorsing military action against them as an acceptable solution.
Suddenly Henry Kissinger's Nobel Peace Prize looks appropriate by way of comparison. I'm old and sick and poor, so I have no where else to go, but it truly shames me that this lunatic, out of control bellicose imperial state purports to act in my name.
If I had a magic wand, I would give you health and wealth and long life in an America that is brought back to its roots and constitution. As it is, I am helpless and can only wish you good fortune and a tolerance for the maniacal, vicious, mass murdering, police state America has become.
Ok let face your sanction, and then what, you will send another of your clueless diplomat to Ukraine with another 100 kilo rice bags full with 100 dollars, people’s money encouraging the Neo fascism in Ukraine to send another of what is left of Ukrainian army to fight Ukrainian people! This is 2014 and Ukraine have no money nor a government, nor is Iraq or Yugoslavia, it is so corrupt that even a brain damaged boxer can abuse the system.
Shhhhhh, the Oligarchs have spoken, that is, the lawless Obama Regime.
Lets see, holding pre notified military exercises in ones own country s provocation but sending paratroops half way around the world to a country just over the border isn't Provocation. Providing money to fascist Nazi groups and overthrowing elected governments on Russia's Borders isn't provocation either.
Obama has not ended the burning MAIDAN square and storming the parliament ! Russia should have intervened this time alraedy. Keeping the rules of non-Intervention now turns into the treat of a war between US-NAZI-controlled self-declare Terrorist-"Government" and Russia !
USA is the intervening specialist organizing uprises and fake Revolution in countries they want to rule and exploit. Ist called US Army unconventional warfare, read about it in the Syria article at http://enk894.wix.com/us-wars
Obama has not ended the burning MAIDAN square and storming the parliament ! Russia should have intervened this time alraedy. Keeping the rules of non-Intervention now turns into the treat of a war between US-NAZI-controlled self-declare Terrorist-"Government" and Russia !
USA is the intervening specialist organizing uprises and fake Revolution in countries they want to rule and exploit. Ist called US Army unconventional warfare, read about it in the Syria article at http://enk894.wix.com/us-wars
Antiwar – please stop posting those disgusting photos of war criminals in your articles.
How can this fit to an real antiwar Website?
Antiwar – please stop posting those disgusting photos of war criminals in your articles.
How can this fit to an real antiwar Website?
I disagree. I think its very appropriate to see their faces and the evil that lurks behind them.
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The problem is that USA are behaving like a school teacher who loves one of his pupils and dislike another one, even he is sometimes right.So the loved one can do bad things,nothing will happen.The bad one will always be responsible for the bad behaviour of the good one.This attitude has no consequences in the everyday life but is very dangerous in the real politic.The maydan guys may occupy official buildings during riots and burn policeman with molotov cocktails.They are the good one.The people living in the south of Ukraine bored by an forced ukrainization are the bad guys.They have no rights and if they protest the army is sent against them (like inSyria).What is very dangerous is the trend to cut the info in the press.The Kerry hate of the russian press is inapropriate for democratic us state.I do not speak about the frequent visits of us official to Kiev to give instructions : it is at least not polite towards ukrainian citizen.They are adults who do not need permanent instructions.
Playing games with sanction and embargoes was the root cause of ww2. I suppose we want to repeat a scaled up version of that. Hum wake up neoconservatives.
If O'bummer mis-calculates this could go Thermo 'nukler'..real fast…Do NYC,Philly, Miami. LA and Seattle know this????