Posted on 02/08/2015 8:31:51 AM PST by Reverend Saltine
With last summer's cease fire agreement a distant memory, and amid a growing division between the US and Europe on whether to supply the Kiev government with weapons, western leaders are meeting in Munich to desperately find a formula that would stop the escalating fighting in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukraine government claims that Russian tanks and troops are assisting separatist rebels in their drive to defeat government forces and establish a separate country for the largely ethnic Russians who live there. The Ukraine government refuses to bargain away their territory and Russia appears just as determined to help the rebels win. The fighting is becoming fiercer and the government in Kiev says it needs arms to push back against the Russian backed rebel drive.
But Germany and France oppose sending weapons to Kiev, thinking that it would only escalate an already tense situation - perhaps even leading to Putin sending in regular Russian troops. But a recent meeting in Minsk with Putin and German and French leaders failed to reach an agreement to calm the situation.
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Obama is hoping this will be a great DISTRACTION for his Third Term run
Headline assumes the “crisis” was once under control.
Writer didn’t hear Susan Rice’s speech
If he gets a third term, I don’t think it will come about from an election. Emperors appoint themselves.
As Victoria Nuland said: “F@ck the EU”
I sure hope they are keeping Churchill in deep freeze somewhere. We’re gonna need him real soon.
Maybe the republican house and senate can return us to the days of unlimited presidential terms.
They can call it “reaching across the aisle.” ;-)
Which is the Republican version of the "reach around."
And why not? They are already enabling unlimited spending. The Republican house and senate can’t even control that. Obama has nothing to fear from them.
Nuland, Obama and Putin all on the same side giving the middle finger to their weaker, less centralized, less tyrannical competitor, the EU.
I don’t believe Nuland is political and Obama’s creature. She is career foreign service officer for over 20 years and also served as the principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.
EU is often awfully slow and indecisive when things need to be fast. I think the “F*ck the EU” in private conversation as an expression of frustration is justified. I read it as “F*ck the EU [we are not going to wait for them now]”.
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