The massive Russian aid convoy has finally made its way to the Ukrainian border, aiming to bring humanitarian aid to the civilians trapped in the middle of the Ukrainian invasion of the eastern, rebel-held region.
And there it sits, as Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministry officials discuss the terms under which it might be allowed in, and Ukrainian officials suggest that it might not be allowed in at all.
Ukrainian officials insist sending humanitarian aid in would be “an act of open aggression,” and they should know something about open aggression, heavily shelling the rebel city of Donetsk.
Even the US, which has been loudly cheering Ukraine’s attacks and downplaying civilian deaths for weeks, is finally urging “restraint” by the Ukrainian military as it moves against Donetsk, a massive city. The comments came amid another reiteration of support for their war against the rebels, but were still unprecedented.
You are dealing with a Neo fascism, fascism in general, no matter their color or their uniform don't have the brain capacity to understand humanitarians nor the word logic means anything to them. They are simply a psychopath, a sick mentality with uniform or no uniform. Now that Canada helping out with weapon and they have Berzinski and Victoria Nuland with 5billion dollars and chevron contract in hand, they have lost the very last healthy cel in their brain, that is to say if they had any to begin with.
Pretty sure it will turn out Obama has never been told Ukraine was in Europe, he thought it was on the Mexican border.
“Stalled” — Not hardly
And may the fascist coup anarchy that calls itself a government shake and quiver, for Putin is with great care and precision building up a massive amount of global support for his fast approaching humanitarian intervention, namely a peace keeping force of sufficient fire power that no Mickey mouse Ukraine army dare oppose.
In short, East Ukraine will shortly be called Russia.
This convoy is turning into another major Putin blunder! If he was genuinely interested in providing humanitarian aid, he would have done whatever the Ukrainians asked. Indeed, he would have airlifted the aid down to Rostov, not sent a travelling circus trundling down the motorways. His refusal to Co-operate with the Ukrainian government and the Red Cross indicates that he is merely trying to hijack other people's misery to pull a cheap political stunt. No Soviet leader ever did anything so stupid!
Even setting aside the question of why Putin would "cooperate with the Ukrainian government" rather than with the government of the country the aid is going to (Donetsk People's Republic), you're still apparently mainlining hallucinogens on the subject of airlift.
The airports in DPR are contested. Multiple aircraft, including a commercial passenger jet, have been shot down in the airspace over DPR and or neighboring Ukraine.
The only way an airlift of aid would become reasonably possible is if the Russian army went in first, secured air landing facilities, took complete control of surrounding areas to ensure security of aircraft landing and taking off, etc. What do you think the Ukrainians would think about THAT?
And even if airlift was made reasonably possible in that manner it would still be insanely inefficient compared to trucks or rail.
The classic aid airlift example was the Berlin Airlift which was expensive and difficult. The only reason they did it was because the alternatives to it were 1) surrendering Berlin to the Soviet Union or 2) going to war with the Soviet Union. At the time, both of those options seemed more expensive than airlift. But there were some who thought (1) the better option.