Posted on 03/03/2014 6:48:00 AM PST by 1rudeboy
The Ukrainian crisis is a “peripheral” issue for the EU and an “optional” conflict for the US, while for the Russian speaking population of Ukraine it is an existential threat, international affairs writer Srdja Trifkovic told RT.
RT: The Russian President has asked Parliament for permission to use a limited army contingent to stabilise the situation in Crimea – how could that change the situation on the ground?
Srdja Trifkovic: In my personal opinion the Ukraine is getting closer to disintegration or at least a form of federalization to which the Russians can make a stabilizing contribution. Because any attempt by the mobocracy that has gained power in Kiev to establish its width not only in Crimean peninsula but also in other southern parts such as Odessa and Nikolayev and eastern provinces Donetsk and Kharkov can only lead to an outright civil war.
Ukraine is internally divided between the people in the center and the west who have radically different self-perception and radically different values and images of the future for themselves than people to the east and the south. And I think in the long term the Russian leaders have realized that some form of federal or con-federal order is the only way to avoid further bloodshed and outright disintegration of this somewhat hybrid country.
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I’m just looking for some logical consistency, and not being judgmental at all.
Move globalist financiers to the top of the list
Ask yourself who really REALLY benefits from Ukraine integrating into the EU and who really “runs” the EU and what is the EU really all about??
Ask yourself why “man-of-the-people” George Soros is funding Ukraine “nationalists”, has been trying to buy the Ukraine since at least the early 1990’s and now, along with Obama’s CIA, is playing stupid covert political games that this time- in Ukraine- by calculation or miscalculation - twitted the Russians into crossing Putin's red line
What I want to know is, how did George Soros get those 100’s of thousands of Ukrainians into their own streets? That some serious puppet mastery, there.
Putin hates fascist as much as he hates communists.
“We, the US, jumped into overthrowing the government of Libya, and Libya is thousands of miles from our border. We don’t have any moral high ground to stand on to lecture Russia. And what have we gained from overthrowing the government of Libya?”
More pro-dictator BS. We protected Libyan civilians from the Libyan military. What the Libyans did with that was entirely their doing, not ours.
“Operation Unified Protector was an NATO operation enforcing United Nations Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973 concerning the Libyan civil war and adopted on 26 February and 17 March 2011, respectively. These resolutions imposed sanctions on key members of the Gaddafi government and authorized NATO to implement an arms embargo, a no-fly zone and to use all means necessary, short of foreign occupation, to protect Libyan civilians and civilian populated areas.[3]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unified_Protector
Not hardly. Why not impose no fly zones over Cuba? Why not impose no fly zones over North Korea? Why just Libya? And again, what benefit has the US received from overthrowing the government of Libya?
“Not hardly. Why not impose no fly zones over Cuba? Why not impose no fly zones over North Korea? Why just Libya? And again, what benefit has the US received from overthrowing the government of Libya?”
UN sanctions and resolutions precipitated the Libyan No Fly zones. The US did not act unilaterally or strictly in our interest, hence no direct benefit. Protecting civilians from attacks by their own military isn’t really a windfall profit operations.
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