Just two weeks into its implementation, the Ukraine ceasefire is holding beyond all expectations, with casualties grinding to almost a complete halt over the past few days.
Both sides continue to withdraw their heavy weaponry from the front lines, one of the terms of the last ceasefire that neither side ever really complied with, and one that both were hesitant to begin this time.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko continued to condemn the rebels for “violation” of the ceasefire today, despite the progress, and said he was ready to return heavy weapons to the front lines and restart the war at a moment’s notice.
The comments were made at a military cadet graduation, and were likely bellicosity for its own sake. The civil war was going increasingly poorly for Ukraine, and resolving the conflict through reforms seems dramatically preferable to continuing to try, and fail, to crush the ethnic Russian east.
Oh no! Peace in the Ukraine is at hand. The people do not want to fight. What is the U.S.A. oligarchy going to do now?
And as soon as Poro publicly states that his intention is "resolving the conflict through reforms" his semi-leashed jackbooters will be knocking at his door and they won't be asking him to donate to the United Way.
The ultimate goal of the Western backed coop in Ukraine being to destroy the economy of Russia, to start by totally destroying all of Ukraine, unless the people rise up to overthrow such fascism, this battle could be an unending repeat of the Korean War.
I don't see what sort of "reforms" could resolve a conflict caused by the invasion of a country's territory by mercenaries from a foreign country who are being supplied openly from that country. My friend in Kharkov has no idea what "reforms" the neocons are trying to impose or what supposed "problems" they are supposed to resolve. In all probability, Putin wants a ceasefire to "dig in" and ethnically cleanse the enclave. Typical Israeli tactic. He will now sit back and do nothing and see how long he gets away with it. When he thinks the pressure to arm Ukraine has died down in the US, he'll claim that Ukraine has broken the ceasefire and will just start up the fight again. Since Israel has taught us all that trick many times over, I doubt if anyone is fooled, so the arming of Ukraine will continue quietly. Without the railway line, Putin is defeated. So he has to re-start the fight at some point.
Be quite and stop
Crimea was not invaded and Occupied
If Russia installed a regime in Mexico you would be sure the US would intervene Militarily thousands would be killed and long lasting Occupation would be the result
neither happened in Crimea
On the road to peace
The United States will be very disappointed and hope to provoke and continue its strategy for a continuation of War
War will restart again once Ukraine receives its IMF loan. Until then, they need to keep a lid on it.