After the on-again, off-again fighting over the Donetsk Airport finally went south for the Ukrainian government, President Petro Poroshenko was inconsolable, talking up a full-scale military offensive across the rebel frontier.
After a week of fighting that’s gone exceedingly poorly, the rebels are now the ones on the offensive, and Poroshenko is once again insisting that the Minsk ceasefire deal is the only game in town, and that it is the rebels who really violated it.
Poroshenko insists he is going to return “calm” to the situation, and is echoing calls from Russian officials to get back to the bargaining table, while blaming Russia for the ceasefire faltering in the first place.
Obama, as usual, is backing whatever Poroshenko says at any given time, and while the administration was averse to the ceasefire a few days ago now they’re insisting it needs to be saved from “Russian aggression,” and that all options are on the table to harm Russia because, once again, the Ukrainian civil war isn’t going the way they wanted.
Poro was ordered to launch this offensive by his owners in Washington, for the simple reason that his controllers had become uneasily aware that Europe bar the British colony were frantic to resume normal relations with Russia and were having second thoughts about the sanctions. Washington needed some way of sabotaging these thoughts, and a resumption of fighting – which was to be blamed on Russia – was the only way out.
Poro, at this stage, has no choice. He can either continue the war and lose; or he can go to the negotiating table, where his position is desperately weak. Either way his Nazi frenemies are already sharpening their knives and will be on him. It's unlikely that Poro will last much longer, whatever happens.
Very obviously a propaganda construct! Putin is clearly in deep trouble! By the way, nobody in Europe is having "second thoughts" about sanctions. That myth has been invented by US neocons using cherrypicked quotes, which are then distorted and misrepresented. In fact, nobody here in Europe even notices the sanctions, which consist only of travel bans on specified persons. Russian gas is still flowing as always and Russian importers are still buying what they always did in the rest of Europe.
Wait—are you saying that the people opposed to US intervention in Ukraine are neocons?
Omidyar must come to Poro's rescue
The attacks on the airport and the port of Mariupol suggest that the merceneries are having supply difficulties. That will greatly encourage the Ukrainians and, of course, forcing the merceneries to stop their attacks is just one way of keeping them out of Mariupol. As for Obama always backing Proroshenko, I don't see any sign yet of the weapons that Obama has been repeatedly asked for, nor any real prospect of NATO membership, which has also been asked for.
"The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." … "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
-Ron Suskind
Karl Rove is that you?
How did you ever survive all those years when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union?
Only a few days ago Poroshenko was announcing mass conscription for a 'continental war' and a new full scale offensive (complete with rhetoric about smashing teeth). Its obvious that the Kiev junta is only interested in 'calm' when its cowardly fascist bully boys are losing in the field and they want a chance to regroup and re-arm.
How come Antiwar.com never explains War Party executive Pierre Omidyar's role in the Kiev coup? Is it because you dare not anger fellow Libertarian Glenn Greenwald? Or is it because you really aren't anti-war and actually back the rick political elite?
From a long time reader –
Amazing that Antiwar.com has only ONE brief article about the civil war in Ukraine. This is WAR in EUROPE. Ukraine should have its own heading.
So many other news sites are carrying much more indepth info on this hotbed of violence which has the greatest potential of any conflict in the world right now of erupting into a nuclear war.
Antiwar you are no longer worth my time.
Google lists 24,000 articles, not one, about Ukraine at Antiwar.com. But I'm sure many of those are duplicates.
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