Posted on 03/02/2014 9:37:21 AM PST by 1rudeboy
As President Putin weighs using military forces in a Ukraine plunging deeper into political turmoil, Alexander Mercouris, international law expert, tells RT that the presence Russia’s forces could be a restraining factor for all the parties involved.
RT: From the point of view of international law, from the point of view of that perspective, where does Russia’s approval for the use of armed force actually stand then? If it does indeed send forces to Ukraine?
Alexander Mercouris: The Russian position is based on an agreement which was made between Mr. Yanukovich and the opposition leaders as they were on the 21st February, in which Russia is named and in which in effect it is a kind of co-guarantor. That agreement was torn up. What then happened over the course of the next couple of days is that Yanukovich was illegally overthrown.
Law is like a web. If you start unraveling part of it, then the whole thing basically falls apart. It’s very difficult, it seems for me, for people who want to criticize the Russians for doing what they’re doing to start discovering illegality now, when they have so-far completely disregarded it up to now. It depends in terms of international law, a great deal upon what the Russians do.
But the important thing to understand is that there is no legitimate government at the moment in existence in Kiev.
RT: There’s no decision made of course. They have made it very clear that there’s no decision as to whether those troops will be deployed but your thoughts if they were to be deployed, what sort of impact could that have on the situation?
AM: I think that in the Crimea it would stabilize it. The point to make about this particular resolution is that it’s not in-fact confined to Crimea. It’s about the Ukraine in general. We have to wait and see what would happen in the rest of Ukraine. There’s been a great deal of disturbances in the eastern Ukraine. But in the Crimea itself, I think, essentially it’s an accomplished fact – the Crimea is not obeying decisions from Kiev. It would require force by Kiev to bring Crimea to heel and Russian intervention there would prevent that and that would stabilize the situation.
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As I stated previously, an "armed insurgency" is what it is regardless of the choice of weapons.........
Here's a couple videos of the peaceful, unarmed protestors........
Peaceful protestors attempt to make friends with police
Peaceful, unarmed protestors attempt to encourage dialogue
So who's really trying to do the spin here bro?
Right, and the Parliament was working on stabilizing the situation last I heard.
If your government called out Military snippers to shoot you down in the streets, because you had an opposing view, bet you’d defend yourself too. Protestore in the Maidan SQ. are nothing NEW, they have been there for months protesting, what was NEW was Moscow telling it’s puppet installed President to use force against it’s own people.
If my aunt had balls she would have been my uncle.........
I find Putin appologist among Conservatives who believe in the rule of law, to be somewhat in a paradox.
Now who would that be?
I find Putin appologist among Conservatives who believe in the rule of law, to be somewhat in a paradox. Either you believe in law, or you appologize for those who break it. Seems like a liberal concept to me. “Poor little johnny Putin couldn’t help it, look at how he was raised”.
Mr. Yanukovych was impeached, by members of his own party.
All legal and such.
You seem to forget here bro, there was no intent of a peaceful protest, the insurgents came armed with whatever weaponry they could get their hands on..........
And it wasn't until the armed insurgents got out of control that the police responded in kind with weapons fire........
Those armed insurgents had been protesting in the Maidan SQ. for Months. Russia’s Puppet Mr. Yanukovych, elected to bring the Ukraine into the EU, instead tried to take the Ukraine back behind the imaginary Iron Curtain that still lives in Putin’s head. Putin has poisoned past leaders, candidates and general opposition with radiation isotopes, lest you forget Alexander Litvinenko, Boris Berezovsky, or Anna Politkovskaya (Murdered on Putin’s Birthday). And now he breaks international law. Try to spin the low info folks, But it won’t work with me. Bro!
Local police my arse, they were paramilitary snippers. Even the UK Telegraph picked up on that.
So, now I'm a Putin "apologist"?
Tell me, did you approve of the administration's support in Syria and Libya? After all, the MSM told you it was the right thing to do and they gave you all the facts and pictures you needed to know.
If you wish to throw out the "apologist" claim then I could accuse you the same for supporting Obama......
So now you're trusting this administration's condemnation of Russia based on the MSM reports of the current insurgent riots going on in the Ukraine?
If you wish, I'll gladly post the recurring pictures of the dead baby with a pacifier the MSM flooded us with during the invasion of Iraq.........
You've failed to convince me that the armed insurgents were nothing more than peaceful protesters...........
I'm still waiting for your answer on who that individual was...........
In other news from 1939: “German forces in Poland could be a stabilizing factor in a country with no legitimate govt - Says von Ribbentrop: Poland? What’s a Poland? Wasn’t here 25 years ago.” [/sarcasm]
That's a pretty impressive argument. So tell me, how were the Russians able to convince the population to vote for Yanukovych? As you know, it was a free election............
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