Posted on 02/26/2006 9:14:07 PM PST by jb6
Iosif Diskin: “The Yushchenko-Saakashvili meeting will result in the opposition's victory in the elections into Ukraine’s Supreme Rada”
The co-chairman of the National Strategy Council Iosif Diskin comments to REGNUM Feb 22 on the situation over the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s statement that it is ready to keep peace in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone and over the forthcoming relevant meeting of Yushchenko and Saakashvili:
“Thereby Saakashvili is trying to keep tensions high over the Georgian-Ossetian conflict — for his rating is very low and constant national mobilization against some foreign threat is the only way for him to keep his elite loyal and his people back from demonstrating against his regime. And so, it is truly vital for him to maintain confrontation in South Ossetia. But he doesn’t want to be alone in this confrontation. He thought he would be able to do something to get Russia to ask the US for help in the Georgian-Ossetian peace process and to get a free hand for his mad things in South Ossetia.
But neither Russia has asked the US for a hand in the process, not the US itself is willing to have a hand in it. And now the only state Saakashvili can ask for help is Ukraine, a country bound up with Georgia by Borzhomi Declaration. In this situation, Yushchenko will use the possible dispatch of Ukrainian peacekeepers to South Ossetia as an object for haggle with Russia. He has exhausted all his levers of economic pressure on Russia and the peacekeeping is his last chance. Of course, there will be no Russia-by-Ukraine replacement and for Saakashvili this is a way to nowhere, in any case.
This meeting and the statements that will be made in its course will, certainly, stir up a wave inside Ukraine. The opposition and the ordinary people will have plenty of questions, and their conclusion will be: because of Yushchenko’s flirt with NATO, we now will have to shoot at our Russian brothers.
This meeting will, in my opinion, result in the victory of the opposition in the elections into the Supreme Rada. Yanukovich will get the lacking 2%, and this will be more than BYT and Our Ukraine will have together. Vitrenko will get the 1% she lacks. I guess the Ne Tak! bloc will also play this card.
Yushchenko certainly knows that but he has got no other way-out from this situation — for the people who backed the ‘orange’ revolution and the ‘revolution of roses’ demand that he be true to ‘the ideals of Maidan’ and support Saakashvili. You know, for those engineering ‘flower’ revolutions and for Saakashvili with Yushchenko Georgia with Ukraine with all their people are just a small change in their internal games.”
Ahhha, you hope that the pro-Russia element wins in Ukraine. Does not suprise me that this is coming from a putinist.
Insult me or label me all you want. Besides showing your own intellectual levels, I for one, do not cheerlead for Third Way, Soros backed, Hitlery kissup Socialists like Yushchenko. You can choose whom you wish to support all your own. I'm sure your professors will be proud of the choice.
weak pacifist socialists are better than ones who point missiles at us.
Putin is an authoritaran hack at the least, hardline communist at the most.
2. Russian missiles are not pointed at the US (can they be? Yes. Are they? No).
That you don't mind having socialists in charge of 47 million people and leading them down the road to ruin, says a lot about your stances.
Just once prove one of your outrageous claims. Actually until you do, I will commit to ignoring you as back ground noise.
"President Yushchenko was the first head of state I called after my inaugural address. I told him that the Orange Revolution was a powerful example -- an example of democracy for people around the world. I was impressed, I know millions of my fellow citizens were impressed by the brave citizens who gathered in Kiev's Independence Square and rightly demanded that their voices be heard. It's an impressive moment, Mr. President, and an important moment. I've oftentimes told our fellow citizens that the world is changing, freedom is spreading -- and I use Ukraine as an example, along with Afghanistan and Iraq, about a changing world. A world, by the way, changing for the better, because we believe free societies will be peaceful societies." - George W. Bush
Georgian Foreign Ministry spokesman: Use of Georgian territory against Iran is a fantasy
At least Georgia is on our side in Iraq, unlike Russia who is helping Iran get nukes.
Wrong again. It is another one of our "allies" Pakistan who is helping Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and formerly Lybia get nukes.
Russia is providing them the ability to enrich Uranium to make a bomb and Russia's communist North Korean allies will help too.
How many times can you repeat the same lie? Russia is enriching uranium only to the level of power generation for a light water reactor that CAN NOT produce weapons. Furthermore, the organization over watching the exchange is run by D.C.
Yeah right, and we all trust KGB Putin to keep the Ayatollahs on the staright and narrow. NOT.
Enriching this uranium to a level for power makes it much easier for further enrichment at the least. At the most, Russia will sell bomb grade plutonium to Iran.
Then I guess you have no trust in Bush or the US government to over watch this. Typical.
Like you trust Bush on the question of Ukraine and Georgia? You trust Jutin Raimondo, Lyndon Larouche and the World Socialist Website instead.
Wow, is that why I'm constantly pointing out the socialist policies of these Third Way Socialist turds? Another one of your attacks, typical for he who can not even begin on the facts.
You defend Putin's Third Way Fascist state controlled energy monopoly which employs Socialist Gerhard Schroder. You'll defend any Russian socialism. You're not against Socialism, you're against independent Ukraine. You want them to be Russian slaves.
Name that Russian socialism. What do you find socialist? The private property rights? The flat income tax? The end of the sales tax or the trimming of government? The balanced budgets and pay off of debts? The low 24% corporate rates? Or the 14% tech corporate rate? The sell off of government entities, 1,600 just in 2005? The cutting of the VAT and Payroll taxes? Or is it the social "socialism" of limiting abortions and Christian education in the schools? What's socialist there to you?
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