Russian officials, with support from the European Union, are continuing to try to get the ceasefire in Ukraine back in place, after it collapsed over the weekend with a full-scale Ukrainian military offensive in the east.
Ukraine’s government doesn’t seem interested with this, however, and is rather unveiling plans to dramatically increase military conscription with an eye toward a bigger war.
The ceasefire began faltering last week when the eastern rebels pressed into the Donetsk Airport, and the Ukrainian military blamed Russia, then followed up with an offensive against Donetsk and other rebel cities.
The Ukrainian parliament is now talking up a “full-scale continental war” against Russia as the reason for their increased conscription, and is back to lobbying the West for military aid for a massive war they assume will begin at any moment.
President Poroshenko sought to conscript up to 50,000 people, give them 10-15 days of combat training, and send them toward the front.
The murderer Poro has lost it finally.
The party of war in Kiev is only the pupet of Obama.Today they killed again civilian in Donetsk,Separatists are fighting against an army,Kiev is fighting against civilians.
Just as crazy as the disaster in Georgia. Putin will likely crush Ukraine similar to the way he smashed Ukraine in the southeast last year.
The whole idea is absurd. Hopefully it is a dumb bluff. They have zero leverage with the nat. gas pipeline to Europe shut down.
"to the way he smashed Ukraine in the southeast last year"
OK. One more time. No body smashed anybody in Crimea. The Russian population of Crimea voted to not be colonized by anti-Russian EU neo-nazis and rejoined Russia. Russian military stationed in Crimea for decades, was their legally by treaty. If you keep saying Russia smashed Ukraine I will call you ignorant.
"Ukraine’s government doesn’t seem interested with this,"
No, because the US installed Nazi-junta would loose power immediately if it where to agree upon anything of the sort.
This 5 billion us tax-money worth regime of Nazis- neo-nazis, nationalists and various other freaks is installed for one purpose only: An aggressive proxy war against Russia. Against it´s own interests US is set out to destroy Russia and will fight to the last Ukrainian to do so. Because Russia is the only country on earth that can and are threatening the US-Anglo-Zionist world order on decline. A futile task since no one in history has ever won such an endevour, not Karl XII of Sweden, not Napoleon and certainly not Hitler. This is an existential threat to every Russian and that spirit can´t be defeated.
oh, you forgot to add the money spent on the cookies Victoria Nuland was handing out to the violent coup groups posing as protesters.
The boys in the picture look like children Why don't the oligarchs pick up a gun and stand in the front line!!
They also look malnourished.
No gas for heating OR COOKING…Just lousy US MRE's..
Why don't the politicians do so.
they are his bastard kids, it is a cover up attempt
It's a funny thing about war. No matter how much the Dear Leaders want to kill and destroy, if there's no grunts, there's no war.
I'm guessing the grunts they've already conscripted are not sticking around. They're probably not getting paid or fed properly, either.
No doubt some are standing up against conscription into the meatgrinder of a stupid war of attrition against their own people. Russia overtly standing down makes the idiot gov't. of Kiev look even more corrupt, murderous and insane.
Actually the US people really in charge of these Quislings probably are giving the go ahead to ramp up the violence.
It won't end well.
This suggests to me that quiet studies by DC thinktanks have shown that the US people can be whipped up into war fever backing obvious Ukrainian aggression and expansion of the conflict into "continental war".
Good for Ukraine.
How good? The end result is more dead kids, further impoverishment and a further reduction in the Ukrainian landmass. If they keep this up they will be lucky to have Galicia to fight over with the Poles when all is said and done. And what will the US, EU, or anyone else do to stop it, besides blowing hot air? NOTHING.
Exactly, Who is going to pay for this fiasco? Not the EU/ not the USA. Hell, we won't even bail out Detroit or Greece. The bankers running the West had figured on pulling money out of Ukraine not dumping money in. Poor Ukraine, counting on a bankrupt Empire to save them like poor relatives thinking that their rich crooked Uncle is going to bail them out. Haven't they figured out by now that they were suckered into breaking with Russia for a whole lot of other reasons rather than what is good for Ukraine. What is actually good for Ukraine was the last thing on some neocon like Ms Nuland's mind.
gee, you must be some sort of super genius, I'm sure if you'd just tell the Ukrainians, the Americans and the Europeans how hopelessly doomed they all are, they'll see the light, fall to their knees and hail your obvious perspicacity.
In the meantime it seems the Ukrainians understand no one will fight for them if they won't fight for themselves.
Be careful what you wish for. Russia would rollover Ukraine and the JEU like a hot knife through butter Killing tens of millions in the process …
If warmonger NATO-Amerika continue on their insane path–this could very well HAPPEN!
This seems like a sensible move by Poroshenko. The Ukrainian military currently stands at 200,000 which is the same size as Spains which is around the same size as Ukraine. So that would be an appropriate size if Ukraine were at peace.
However Ukraine is currently in a state of war so its common sense that they should ratchet that number up.
Hope they have the corresponding amount of body bags also..
I guess they could copy the Russian example of taking their bodies away in secret, transporting them back home in anonymous transports and burying them secretly in the middle of the night and then denying that the deaths have occurred at all or that in fact they had no soldiers there at all in the first place.
Has the U.S. given any war guarantee to Ukraine, similar to the war guarantee that England gave to Poland prior to WW II?
Why should they?
Good question. I think we should find out.
Give them a few weeks training and sent them off to the slaughter ?Mmmmh maybe they should also give two persons one rifle , and have some machinegun units behind them so they can't retreat..
Maybe it's time the Ukrainian people refused to do what those psychopats (they 'elected') want , dispose of them and hold talks with the other side to find a peaceful solution , before their whole country will be destroyed.
In first lessons of Macroeconomy we learn that there is a choice to do : buy guns or butter.From the beginning Kiev authorities prefered guns.With they gonna feed their people ?
I've read that the Ukrainian army has a high desertion rate and that many young men are fleeing to Russia to avoid conscription. I sure hope it's true. I wonder if Jason Ditz could provide any stats?
It will take half the new conscripts to keep the other half from deserting.