Saturday, February 14, 2015

Why "Ukraine peace" is an oxymoron.


Why the Ukraine can not be put back together again in the foreseeable future.

The following is a remarkable article published in the Financial Times. It is remarkable for two reasons. One, the Times is a conservative, staid newspaper. But two, the newspaper makes two acknowledgements that the near-entirety of Western mainstream media cannot bring itself to report—that the armed forces of the Kyiv governing regime have been ruthlessly shelling and attacking the people of the Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples Republics for the past six months, and two, the people do not like this and have turned against the ‘Ukraine’ that Kyiv represents. A revelation! It is truly remarkable that such simple reporting of facts in this war becomes something so noteworthy and, well, remarkable.
The New Cold War
School lessons and shelling forge new identity in eastern Ukraine
Courtney Weaver, Financial Times

And now this just in:
Donetsk is subjected to the most powerful attack in the entire war for independence of Donbass.

The city is shaking from explosions and is under fire from exploding ammunition of Ukrainian terrorists. Emergency vehicles are rushing through the streets…
"I have a feeling as if all the "fascist dogs" got a command to attack", - reports from the scene our military correspondent. "Many Donetsk residents, who are not easily scared anymore, doubt they will survive this night and are saying goodbye to loved ones."

It is hard to imagine how many will be wounded and killed in the fire of hell, organized by the Ukrainian army.
P. S. Simultaneously with frenzied bombardment of cities of Donbass, Poroshenko is putting on a show - now live from the General staff issuing an order for ceasefire. First, in Ukrainian, then in English - for TV picture.
Fort Russ
Poroshenko goes out with a bang for Valentines day
Dima Pitersky, Rusvesna
Translated by Kristina Rus

In both the conflict between the eurocrats and Syriza, and also the parties to the Minsk agreement, the leaders have to look like they are seriously trying in good faith for a resolution, but the facts belie resolution.

10 comments:

Malmo's Ghost said...

Ceasefire failure compliments of the CIA.

Ryan Harris said...

I love how Putin called for the UA troops surrounded by the not-Russian troops to surrender or die while the top US diplomat in Ukraine (51st US State) showed pictures of Russian units on the ground and gathering on the borders. But those were discounted as not real.

All the while the UA troops are referred to by mainstream media as Pro-US troops. And Crimea? All is forgiven and forgotten.

Nebris said...

In Every Single Narrative regarding the Ukraine Crisis I have read and/or heard, there is a Single Fundamental Flaw that runs through all of them; the need to advance a moral and philosophical justification for the side the various authors support. In other words, to portray one side as the 'good guys' and the other as the 'bad guys'.

But here's the problem, kids; there are NO Good Guys here. They're ALL Bad Guys. The regimes in Moscow and Kyiv are both post-Soviet kleptocracies, brutal, greedy and criminal in nature. The thugs in the Eastern Ukraine 'people's republic' are no better and probably worse.

The Ukraine Crisis is really a 'turf war' between political gangs. All the rhetoric about 'self determination' and/or 'national sovereignty' is pure propaganda. Those supporting or opposing one side or the other are either being deluded or are merely using this debacle to grind their own tangentially related axes.

This is The Bloodlands. There are no good guys here. Just gangsters and warlords of various flavors [ideological, nationalistic, etc] and the poor bastards caught in the middle. And no, there is not a fucking thing you can do about that.

Tom Hickey said...

Is there anywhere ever that's not the case? It's their thugs against our thugs — and the cannon fodder that believe the BS.

The Vietnamese have a saying that sums it up. Dung heap same, only flies change.

Nebris said...

I side against Putin because he's using Christian Fascism and homophobia to under pin his regime. Those are my 'tangentially related axes' to grind.

Peter Pan said...

Maybe Russians are not swayed by Hope and Change, like they are in the US.

Matt Franko said...

This must be a Democrat and State department thing as it has virtually no following on the political right in the US imo... neither does Greece btw.... the right and DoD are focused 99% on ISIS... rsp

Ryan Harris said...

I've sort of been fascinated about that too Matt. This world event unlike any in recent memory has captured the attention of the progressives and liberal media and they actually are both incredibly hawkish and have been playing Ukraine over and over with extraordinary hype, I think Tom pretty much posts the mainstream US view here, just in a little more detail, just ridiculous crazy stuff, from what little I see on CNN or MSNBC or NPR. The Dems might be positioning for the election year to appear as competent on foreign policy despite the high profile failures by the Administration?

I really don't know why now, they are so completely engaged after years of ignoring international events. Hard to ask people that are engaged in a hysteria about why they are hysterical though because they get flabbergasted. But this tiny country, with the GDP about the same as Iowa has certainly loomed large even though it has virtually no historical, economic or social connection to the US. The Dems are ready for nuclear war over it though! Has to be the elections coming up...distracts from abject failures in the middle east, europe and asia.

Matt Franko said...

Ryan I think Nebris might be on to it from the right... "gangsters", etc...

Its probably coming from Soros he is major league interested in this area of the world...

The right comes at it from the Judeo-Christian pov and the Islamist terror groups are enemy #1.... Yemen has now fallen and the noose is tightening around the kingdom... you have Yemen gone in the south ISIS in Iraq to the north. Saudis better start writing some big checks to the mercenaries pronto imo... rsp

Ryan Harris said...

If it came down to ISIS or a Shia-Iranian group next door, I can't be sure who Saudis would support.

Oh wait...