White House officials say President Trump had a “very good call” with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko over the weekend, during which hew promised to work to restore peace along Ukraine’s eastern border with Russia, an area which has faced years of civil war.
According to a read-out of the call, Trump promised to work with Ukraine, Russia, and all other parties on the issue, with an eye toward restoring peace along the border. Trump and Poroshenko also discussed the possibility of meeting in the near future.
Trump’s comments suggest a diplomatic approach to the situation, and won’t sit well with Senate hawks, as Sens. Lindsey Graham (R – SC) and John McCain (R – AZ) were in Ukraine just days ago meeting with Poroshenko and Ukrainian troops on the front line, urging a military offensive and pledging US support for a fight against Russia.
The latest flareup in fighting in Eastern Ukraine threatens a ceasefire that’s been in place (mostly) for the last two years. The Minsk ceasefire was negotiated with the help of Russia, France, and Germany, though some US officials have expressed annoyance at the idea, since it doesn’t support the narrative that Russia is wholly behind the fighting and opposed to ceasefires.
Both sides of combatants have blamed the other for the recent fighting, and while Western officials are eager to blame Russia for the latest fighting, Russian officials have said they believe Poroshenko wants the flareup to try to curry favor with the US.
This is good news. The political changes are needed for Minsk II to
move forward. I am afraid that Potosenko has many ways to ignore, stretch, svoid and plain old act dumb. Trump may have other priorities, and Poroshenko is counting on this.
Russia has been saying–and i paraphrase– that warfare in Ukraine and in Syria would not solve obvious and not so obvious problems in both countries.
But i add that also warfare in Iraq will not lessen interethnic and inter-religious hatreds, ignorance, misogyny, poverty, abuses of power, blood lusts, tit for tats, miseducation, misinformation/etc.
Thus, i suggest, that even US stays out of that area let alone Russia, Iran, Syrian Kurds and Syria.
If US wages warfare against Iraqi sunnis, no betterment accrues from it to most Americans.
It may assuage some hatreds, anger of most supremacists [clergy, congress, MSM, CIA, judges, generals] but nothing good happens for the non-elitic or non-supremacistic people and not just of the US but also of the world.
And that is the only reason why US wages terror, demonization, fake news and wars against much of the world.
Trumps voters seeing some of what was said above?!!
Please relegate ” Sens. Lindsey Graham (R – SC) and John McCain (R – AZ)” to the retirement village where they now belong. McCain has spent at least thirty years misleading the public and Lindsey, like their former colleague Joe Lieberman, has done enough damage for a lifetime.
I agree with you 100%. “Sens. Lindsey Graham (R – SC) and John McCain (R – AZ)” must be relegated to some retirement community where they now belong. Both suffer some form of dementia (perhaps, Alzheimer’s) and failing to serve their constituencies. McCain, as you said, has spent at least 30 years misleading the public; and Lindsey, like their former colleague Joe Lieberman, has done enough damage for a lifetime.
Lindsey Graham – at least before dementia set in – was at least doing what he was elected to do; i.e., serving his constituents. As for John McCain, however, he was a nutjob from the get go. He graduated from the Naval Academy next to the bottom of his class (the only reason he was accepted in the first place was that his father was an Admiral). He wasn’t a good pilot (he crashed 5 jets) .. And when he was stationed aboard the USS Forrestal, he performed a “wet-start” prank that resulted in a massive explosion/fire when a missile ejected from his own jet backfired into the jet behind him.
The ensuing explosions/fire resulted in massive casualties and the young McCain was speedily transferred to another aircraft carrier. In a bombing run over Hanoi (Vietnam), he was shot down and captured by the North Vietnamese. While imprisoned in the compound known as the “Hanoi Hilton”, he was interrogated by his captors, and that’s when he spilled the beans, singing like a canary and giving them the bombing run schedules and other information that they wanted .. Thus, he earned the moniker “Songbird” and the hatred and contempt of his fellow POW’s.
NATO north American terrorist organization is protecting three Nazi democracies The Baltic countries that refuse to allow anyone to vote that cant trace their ancestory in the Baltic countries before 1940 . Some democracy we are protecting . With out this law the Baltic NAXIs would loose total control .. Are you sure NATO is not NAZI ? Russia is more of a free democracy than the Baltic countries and even Ukraine that we are assisting and protecting .