The Ukrainian government has offered a package of concessions to eastern rebels aimed at ending the ongoing civil war in the nation, declaring a three year “special status” for the eastern oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk.
The special status would grant the region increased autonomy, amnesty for the rebels, the right to use Russian as an official language, and the right to form local police forces independent of the national government.
The three year window, according to President Poroshenko, is meant to cover the period it will take before changes to the constitution usher in “profound decentralization” of the entire nation, granting similar levels of autonomy to everyone.
Over the weekend, Poroshenko confirmed the rebels released 73 Ukrainian troops as part of the ceasefire deal. Though there are questions about whether the ceasefire would last, there appears to be momentum in favor of it.
A fascist being one who fanaticizes that his superior ability to kill gives him the right to be enriched upon the misery of others, here we see the fascists of Western Ukraine driving the nation’s economy into bankruptcy in order to establish dictatorial power over all of society.
For the bankers of Ukraine desire to plunder the nation of it’s wealth by a sever austerity, but to accomplish this a high degree of fearful submission must first be established.
This will make the neocons very unhappy.
Three years, eh? Is that how long the neocons (Nuland) are promising it to take to get Ukraine into NATO? And once in NATO, the Russian purge of the eastern oblasts re-engages, only this time with full NATO support to rout out the Russian spies and insurrectionists?
"…usher in “profound decentralization” of the entire nation, granting similar levels of autonomy to everyone…."
Yeah, like they really want this to happen. If everyone is autonomous there is no control and for control freaks, that's bad news.
Every time the US interferes with the internal politics of a country there is a war by the extremists it creates, in the case of Ukraine it will be a nuclear war! unless of course the Neo-Nazi extremists cannot wait patiently enough and they play their hand early, and start their rampage before Ukraine become NATO! Just remember we are getting closer to the date of fire on suspicion, the Joint chiefs stupidly think that they can win a nuclear war, they have the technology to stop Russian missiles, just think it only takes a few missiles with Mirv capability to get through, and major US cities are wiped out Glowing slag heaps in NYC, LA, DC but hey We still won right!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This skips over two elephants in the room – the Ukraian Nazis and their corrupt oligarch enablers.
his peace plan is about as credible as the Middle East Peace Process.
pragmatism rules!
EU Observer – Halya Conyash, an analyst at KHPG, an NGO based in Kharkiv in north east
Ukraine, accused the EU of railroarding Kiev into the deal so that Russia
does not stop EU gas supplies…
Kiev and Brussels were forced to defend a recent decision to suspend
implementation of the trade pact until 2016, however…
EU officials said Russia would have crippled Ukraine with trade penalties if
the pact entered into force now… http://euobserver.com/foreign/125642
MSM i hear are mentioning the MH17 bit, as if any agreement to the deal by the rebels will suggest they accept responsibility for the downing of the plane.
Excluded from the amnesty would be those who committed "grave crimes" and those who were involved in the downing in July of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17… http://www.voanews.com/content/ukraine-parliament…