With the loss of Slovyansk, large numbers of east Ukrainian rebels are falling back to Donetsk, digging in at their de facto capital and preparing to barricade the streets against a military invasion.
The route from Slovyansk to Donetsk isn’t an easy one today, as three bridges on primary routes to Donetsk were blown up today. Both sides are trading blame for the bombings.
The military claimed to have seen rebels blow them up, aiming to slow the military advance, while the rebels say that pro-government “saboteurs” blew them up trying to break the rebels’ supply lines.
Either way, the military insists their strategy is not to launch an immediate invasion of Donetsk or Luhansk, but rather for the military to impose a full-scale “blockade” on those cities until the rebels surrender.
A shame Putin won't do for Donetsk and Luhansk what he did for South Ossetia and give that Ukrainian oligarch neocon tool a good slapping.
The difference is that in South Ossetia, the Ossetians are the native inhabitants and the Georgians are the colonists. In Donetsk and Lugansk, as in all the other Ukrainian provinces, the ethnic Ukrainian majority are the native inhabitants and the Russians are the colonists. European ethnic nationalism always favours the native inhabitants, so that the same sympathy that went to the Ossetians now goes to the Ukrainians.
Is it that simple?
What are Russian "colonists"?
There are two kind of fascism that people in Europe and Middle East are facing, on is ISIS, a Stone Age savage barbarians and in Ukraine, or should I say entire Europe, a modernized well educated Neo fascism with hooliganism and mercenaries as their weapon. You can always place Israel somewhere in between these two. Both system should thank Barack Hussein Obama, McCain and AIPAC for moral, weapon and Toyota trucks which delivered ISIS to Iraq.
Logical strategy. It will turn the population against the rebels. At this point, everyone can see that the rebellion is a failure and prople will just want to see it over with the least damage.
Maybe Mossad and the IDF can give Yatsenyuk some help with turning Donetsk and Luhansk into the European version of the Gaza Ghetto.