Since the last time I looked at it was around the beginning of the month, and the Washington Post was calling the Eastern Ukrainian Independence Movement insurgents, so I hope you can see why I've had to sanction my coverage. Maybe it's the shadowy murk of the insurgent takeover, or the quiet release of the NATO spy team after the good guy atrocity that is being obfuscated (I'm surprised the Jewish and IMF connections were not) and obscured by my war-promoting propaganda pre$$, but the chance to reinforce the government’s narrative of Kiev’s efforts to curb the insurgency is something in which I'm no longer interested in "kicking around" as an excuse to waste time. Sorry.
Then there is the hypocrisy of an unelected, illegally installed by force government complaining about the Ukrainian vote for separatism (another charged euphemism). When they approved and created by the globe-kickers (Kosovo, Sudan) it's fine, but suggest them in Palestine, Kashmir, and Ukraine and bad, bad, no good, no good, bad idea! So is exporting gas and oil (think I'll make a whole new post soon instead) to Ukraine to offset Russian stoppages (and problems with Libya's supplies?), seeing as it will raise prices on the average American.
Anyway, looks like Putin isn't taking the bait after Crimea, but that's the past and here is where we are now. Maybe the world was caught off guard by Putin’s sudden peace offensive but I was not, not after Syria. He should have won the Peace Prize were it worth anything more than a self-aggrandizing, self-adulating, pat on the back from the politically powerful cla$$.
To find out what is really happening in Ukraine I would rather have you off to the side so you can get a clearer vision of things, even if it means using glasses.
Sorry I'm so sour on the Globe, but they are really wrecking things for me.
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
"6 soldiers killed in Ukraine; Germany pushes peace" by Nataliya Vasilyeva and Jim Heintz | Associated Press May 14, 2014
KIEV — An insurgent ambush killed six soldiers Tuesday in eastern Ukraine, as Germany moved to jump-start a possible plan toward peace that includes launching a dialogue on decentralizing the government in Kiev.
Ukraine’s leadership appeared cool to the plan and US officials view its prospects for success skeptically. But some analysts say Russian President Vladimir Putin is more likely to accept a deal that doesn’t come from Washington.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is in Ukraine to try to broker a quick launch of talks between the central government and pro-Russia separatists. That would be a first step in implementing a ‘‘road map’’ drawn up by the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe aimed at settling the crisis.
The OSCE is a trans-Atlantic security and rights group that includes Russia and the United States, whose sparring over each other’s role in Ukraine sometimes overshadows events on the ground.
Speaking in Brussels, acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk thanked the OSCE for its plan but said Ukraine has drawn up its own plan for ending the crisis and noted the people of his country should settle the issue themselves.
A settlement has been elusive, as insurgents in eastern Ukraine seize police stations and government buildings. Two regions in the east have declared themselves independent after a weekend referendum, and one of them, Donetsk, has appealed for annexation by Russia.
Ukrainian forces have mounted an offensive to try to put down the armed insurgents. On Tuesday, the Defense Ministry said six soldiers were killed by insurgents who ambushed a convoy. The separatist leader in Luhansk, one of the regions that declared independence, was shot and wounded, insurgents said.
The United States and Western European countries accuse Russia of fomenting the unrest, with the goal of destabilizing the country or seeking a pretext to invade and seize eastern regions, which are largely Russian-speaking and the heartland of Ukrainian industry.
I'm sorry. I gave it a try, but I hope you can see why I hate this pot-hollering kettle $hit slop.
Russia in turn denounces Ukraine’s caretaker government, which took power after pro-Russia president Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in February following months of large protests. Moscow calls it a nationalist junta encouraged by Washington.
The whole world knows; the only ones that don't are the ones getting their misinformation completely from the AmeriKan ma$$ media.
Putin ‘‘is far more likely to bow to pressure if it’s going to come from (German Chancellor) Angela Merkel than Barack Obama,’’ said Michael Geary of the Institute for European Global Studies at Switzerland’s University of Basel.
If he is likely to bow at all; he's got the upper-hand here.
The OSCE plan, by encouraging discussion of decentralizing the government, suggests that the West sees Russia as having the upper hand. Moscow has pushed for the ‘‘federalization’’ of Ukraine — giving the regions more powers.
So does everyone else.
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