Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced that he is abandoning the eastern ceasefire outright today, and ordering new attacks on the secessionist rebels in the region.
“We will attack and free our lands,” vowed Poroshenko, claiming there was no point in continuing the ceasefire because the rebels had shown they weren’t going to support his “peace plan.”
That plan involved unilateral disarmament and surrender to the Ukrainian military in return for a promised amnesty. The rebels said they didn’t believe the amnesty would happen, and didn’t trust the Poroshenko government to negotiate after their surrender.
With Ukraine looking to restart its eastern war, NATO announced plans to move more US troops to Eastern Europe in the months to come to “response to Russian aggression in Ukraine.” Russia had sought an extension of the ceasefire and had been pushing for negotiations with the rebels.
Russia may have no choice but war at this point. And while they are at it, they may as well take the Baltic states.
Par for the course. "Surrender and trust us." Never worked, never will. Isn't meant to work.
So Poroshenko plans to resume the massacring of his own people. And Washington does not invoke Responsibility to Protect (“R2P”) but will offer financial and other forms of support to the putsch regime in Kiev as it resumes these criminal actions.
The hypocrisy and depravity of our leaders is sickening. They should be placed on trial for their continuing violations of the Nuremberg Principles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_principles
Indeed, indeed. Breedlove sure is stirring the pot. I wonder whether they want a reenactment of "The Guns of August"?
Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, supreme allied commander of the Western military alliance, said the U.S.-based troops will buttress American forces that have already been moved in recent months from Germany, Italy and elsewhere in Europe for stepped-up ground and air patrols in the three Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, plus Poland and Romania.
I don't even understand what Poroshenko is trying to achieve with absolutist measures.
Poroshenko seems emboldened with the new association agreement that he signed with the EU. Or maybe he is just acting on orders from his bosses from the west. Either way, the irony is that the association agreement doesn't change Ukraine dependency on Russia. He doesn't seem to realize that. The same people that he is calling "terrorists" are the ones that he is asking for gas discounts and on whom Ukraine depends economically. If Russia shuts down the trade with Ukraine, it's very hard to see Europe jumping in and filling the void by buying Ukraine third world quality products. I don't know what's wrong with those people in Kiev, I suspect Chernobyl might have something to do with it. Maybe the radiation has affected their ability to think straight or something. How else can the stupification of the entire new ruling class be explained? Association agreement or not, Ukraine is not going to be ready to join EU maybe for decades, and even if they did, the standard of living they'll be looking at will not be comparable to that of Germany or France or UK. Most likely they'll join the ranks of Bulgaria and Romania, or maybe in the best case scenario they'll match Greece's economic achievements.
One of the problems with Ukraine is that many western Ukrainians have been indoctrinated with a largely fictitious account of Ukrainian and Russian history. Stirring up hatred towards the Russians was a fairly obvious ploy by the NATO countries during the cold war. This policy was enthusiastically supported by Ukrainian ex-pats, many of whom were exiles who fought for the Nazis in WW2. Even after the fall of the Soviet Union, the anti-Russian hatred and indoctrination has been encouraged and supported by 'the West' for purposes which have become clear recently. Essentially the $5,000,000,000 was spent on paramilitary training and anti- Russian brainwashing.
World, meet your frontrunner for next year's Nobel peace prize.
Free our lands from own people : It is usually called genocide.Next step Nato involved in murders ?
Poroshenko's offer was ludicrous from the word go, disarm and surrender first and then negotiate afterwards – unconditional surrender in all but name.
This whole affair has two main purposes:-
1) To expand NATO in order to subject Russia to nuclear blackmail or eventual attack.
2) To sour relations between Europe and the Russian Federation to keep Eurasia divided, in order to maintain US influence on the continent (ie the Brzezinski doctrine)
If European leaders were not treasonous puppets they would not be supporting the US position on this one.
to free south-eastern ukraine from ukrainians??? it's a lot better to talk with southeast ukraine and find out what its population want?
if it [and russia] only wants a new constitution, an autonomy, [con] federated status, then there is no need to wage war!!!!
A logical move. Putin having supplied Maliki with jets to put down his rebellion, he can't object to Ukraine's much milder measures to put down the rebellion in its territory. If Putin's intention in sending those jets was really to upstage the US, as the NYT claimed, then the plan has blown up in his face! Anything Maliki can do, Poroshenko can do.
So you can't see the difference between offering military support to a Syrian regime that, however imperfect, in battling hard-core maniacal, bloodthirsty, expansionist jiihadis, and supporting militarily the popular resistance of the inhabitants in a region of a European country, who seek only
self-determination, independence, and democracy, for themselves?
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