Russian President Vladimir Putin says that despite objections about the way the last government ended, his nation will “respect the choice of the Ukrainian people” in Sunday’s presidential election.
Speaking at a business conference in St. Petersburg, Putin expressed hope that the next elected government would work with them on stabilization of the region, after several months of unrest.
Putin was also particularly critical of the US policy toward Ukraine, saying they had backed what amounted to a coup d’etat against the last elected government, and were now threatening sanctions unless Russia, in effect, “cleaned up the mess they created.”
Putin said his hope was to see calm return to their border with Ukraine, and that their goal was a negotiated settlement in the eastern portion of the country, where ethnic Russians have been calling for increased autonomy.
All Kabuki theater, same with China. Putin and the Chinese reds can't come off to their people as bowing prostrate to Uncle Sam so they feign being an opposition block to keep the ruse going til it is too late. What happens when NATO comes in with nukes pointed at Russia in a first strike stance? Is Putin going to sit back and let that happen?
Sounds like Putin is capitulating. If so, so much the better. Note that he blames the US for the mess, not the EU. The EU is in fact the big winner in all this. Putin is discredited and the US is discredited, thereby undermining NATO and damaging Israel. The EU was set up after populist nationalism of the Putin/Le Pen/Farage variety had set off two world wars and a string of vile dictatorships, not least the one Putin used to work for, that killed something like 200 million people between 1914 and 1991. Now, Putin has demonstrated to his fellow Europeans what a good idea the EU was. Nationalism is bad for your health! It gets people killed! That lesson has been learned and will be quietly applied in Europe over the next few years, not least by Russia itself.
Yes, the first signs that Putin was caving came when the Peoples' Republics needed support for their referendum and Putin left them slowly twisting in the wind. The leaders of the various Peoples' Republics have done reasonably well giving an account of themselves since, however, but they will owe Putin nothing going forward. One is reminded of the deal Stalin cut with Churchill regarding the Balkans which eventually caused him to abandon the Greek freedom fighters after WWII. Has Putin cut a deal too that might explain this cowardice or is it that he's just been intimidated? Its hardly enough to gripe about Western sponsored coups and then endorse their implementation.
Reading all this it is evident that you have never been in Russia. You don't know that the wall has fallen in Berlin,and that there is no more communism in Russia.
When russian troups were in Chechnia they found russian (and other nationalities) detained by chechen famillies from the soviet times.These guys were kidnapped a long time ago,when they were drunk in train stations ans kept as slaves in chechen farms.When delivered these person did not know about the fall of communism in Russia.It seems that you are like chechen prisonners.
The politic of Stalin has nothing to do with politics of Putin.Stalin was following the idea of class struggle and the internationalization of communism.This line was also directed against pariotism in Russia.The soviet patriotism is quite different.Do you know that after bolchevic revolution russian national writers were forbidden ?The idea was to oppose cosmopolitism against patriotism.Even the understanding of soviet people is like to call french people republican and not french and belgian people royalist and not belgian.The european idea is following the cosmopolitism.It means that European bureaucrats try to convience people that love its own country is dangerous for peace.The fact is that you can be patriot and respect the patriotism of your neighbour,as he has to respect your patriotism.It means also that the is no country higher than yours.It means also that you have not to impose your patriotism to others. Isolating Putin is simply a part of US politics because he is not playing the game written by Washington. It started with Pussy riots,then Syria,then Olympic games,then the Ukrainian affair.USA wants a return to a Eltsin situation were you could dismantle the russian economy.If you like history,you can see that every time that Russia started to stand up from its knees there are some good "friendly" countries trying to put Russia on its knees again(usually anglo saxons).The politic of China (even communistic) is to follow the old Conficius system of balance : to support a weaker country in order to maintain a world balance.China is a neighbour of Russia which is looking for years on Siberia.Russia has to preserv good relations with this country.The situation in Ukraine remind this to Putin.More over West has invented the argument of the gas.Even during the war in Afganistan and communism the gas was always delivered to the west.Now for years Ukraine used the pipe line in politics.One one side Ukraine receive money from Russia for the gas passing through the pipe but on the other side try not to pay for the gaz delivered.There were also moments were Ukraine simply stealed the gaz (remember the demand of Russia for an expert conclusion of a private company which confirmed that fact).I would be curious to see how would react an american-half owned by us state- company if a client refuse to pay its debts arguing that paying a bill is a horrible political blackmail and following that some russian Nuland will immediatly make a press conference saying that is indeed incredible and this should be punished.As far as I can remember for that kind of behaviour the six sisters had very aggressive arguments for solving such situations.(not based on dialog).
Now about he peacefull Europ -some people forget about bombing of Serbia,and Lybia (pacefull Europ is member of Nato).Peacefull Europ has not pressed on the ukrainian governement for finding the responsible(s) of the snipers killing on Maydan (a team of german tv showed that there is no real investigation about that),etc,…