Posted on 04/02/2014 6:12:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It's hardly a match between equals - as one is playing Monopoly while the other plays chess. It's as if Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has been postponing his checkmate, while US Secretary of State John Kerry increasingly realizes he's facing the inevitable.
Lavrov has explained over and over again, a loose federation is the only possible solution for Ukraine, as part of a "deep constitutional reform". That would imply ethnic - and even sentimentally - Russian eastern and southern Ukraine would be largely autonomous. Kerry gave signs of agreeing around two weeks ago that Ukrainian regions need more decision power; but then the White House recharged its moral blitzkrieg - coinciding with
President Barack Obama's trip to The Hague and Brussels. Still, even after an inconclusive four-hour Kerry-Lavrov chess match in Paris, there will be a checkmate.
The Russian solution is the same plan proposed by Moscow already a few weeks ago, and again discussed on the phone by Obama and President Vladimir Putin on Friday - which prompted Kerry to redirect his flight to Paris. Each Ukrainian region, according to Lavrov, would be able to control its economy, taxes, culture, language, education and "external economic and cultural connections with neighboring countries or regions". That's such a sound plan that even former - or perennial, depending on spin - cold warriors such as Henry Kissinger and Zbig Brzezinski reasonably agree.
(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...
Kerry is playing checkers.
More like Chinese checkers(Ooooohhhhhhhh, look at all of the colors)
Remember, Kerry was in Vietnam. He learned to play chess there! Or play the system. What a toad.
Kerry opens Ka3, Kc1, Ka3, Kc1 etc.
God help us.....
Be vewwy vewwy quiet, I'm going inside to play Wussian checkers now.
No, tiddly-winks.
It’s like playing chess with my Grand Daughter. Kerry doesn’t stand a chance.
Mate, Lavrov, before Kerry even moved a pawn.
Fool’s mate
The lies coming from this mac daddy administration are way, way, way beyond anything that a person with an IQ of a rock would not believe.
Kerry dressed in his suit of pink lace against Lavrov in his fully armed tank, yea that will scare them.
But the idiot keeps trying to eat them.
...............Kerry is playing checkers............
Meanwhile poor Theresa has been at one of her homes for more than a few months, by herself, as Lurch ply’s the world.
Lurch, check into your home, bring raisons from around the world to begin soaking.
You need to nurture your marriage, else you’re going to lose multi-hundreds of $$$$millions when Theresa tells you to F*** Off!!!
Since when is John F Kerry given sovereignty over Ukraine, to decide what form of government they will have, and which persons are allowed to bear arms there, within a country in a state of civil war?
Ukraine should ban John F. Kerry from its borders, and tell him to stay in Russia with his handlers.
No kidding. If the Ukrainians want to have enhanced “states rights”, then fine, but that is their decision. Fracturing too far into ever smaller divisions means they will never be able to stand up to Russia, and one must also keep in mind the distribution of Russian speaking Ukrainians (not all of whom are eager to join to Russia): The distribution looks like a bad case of gerrymandering in many cases.
There’s a new post at Elena Filatova’s website. It’s just her viewpoint / opinion, with a heavy dose of sarcasm, but it’s still interesting reading:
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/maydan/updateapril4.html
First Kerry would have to understand what a bishop does and what the military or word diplomacy is all about.
But this illiterate would not be able to finish a chapter of Von Clausewitz without whining that it is “boring”
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