we are moving again toward a full conflict….in kiev there is NO will to implement the Minsk agreement, and i do not know for how long the militia can keep being shelled by ukros without reacting and starting an offense!!
Kerry’s hidden agenda re Syria and Donbass/Ukraine, game plan re Kurds etc
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“The way in which the withdrawal of Russian troops was decorated in Syria (the withdrawal of troops, but not all, maintaining bases, military advisers, part of the engineering and PMC) gives Russia the opportunity to use quantitative parameters of withdrawal as an instrument in the negotiation process. Apparently, Kerry would like to discuss this issue. Russia may require concessions to both Syria (structure of the country, the future of Assad, preserving Russian bases after coming to power of the new leadership), and on other issues, particularly Ukraine.
Ukrainian factor
Not coincidentally, two days before, Kerry said that the issue of Ukraine, as well as Syria, would be key in the negotiations with Russia. At the same time, on March 23rd-24th the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be in Moscow to discuss the situation in the east of Ukraine with his Russian counterpart. The coincidence of the visits is not accidental. It is necessary to wait for Moscow, in response to a proposal to put pressure on Kiev’s violations of the Minsk agreements, to propose to make some concessions on Ukraine in exchange for the weakening or removal of a part of the sanctions.
However, if such a proposal is made, it will come from Germany. In contrast to Europe, Americans are not interested in resolving the conflict or lifting any sanctions. On March 17th, State Department spokesman John Kirby said that sanctions against Russia would not be removed until it gives up Crimea. Earlier, Victoria Nuland expressed the view of the State Department on the situation in southeastern Ukraine, saying that the goal of the United States is to return the space of the People’s Republics of Donbass to Ukraine until the autumn of 2016. It is likely that the Kremlin will be offered a “compromise” in Ukraine: the autonomy of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics in exchange for the resumption of the Ukrainian authorities’ control abroad. It is understood that afterwards, the Ukrainian border guards will be able to cut off Russia from the border of the region, which, if it is accepted, will drown Donbass in blood. Therefore, it is unlikely to achieve a significant compromise in the negotiations on Ukraine.”
Former Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic convicted of genocide
we are moving again toward a full conflict….in kiev there is NO will to implement the Minsk agreement, and i do not know for how long the militia can keep being shelled by ukros without reacting and starting an offense!!
Top notch cross talk this am. Pepe Escobar Doctorow re failures of EU….nato…terrorism etc etc
worth an appraisal I think fro more knowledgeable persons than me
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/03/the-official-and-hidden-agenda-of.html
Kerry’s hidden agenda re Syria and Donbass/Ukraine, game plan re Kurds etc
extract
“The way in which the withdrawal of Russian troops was decorated in Syria (the withdrawal of troops, but not all, maintaining bases, military advisers, part of the engineering and PMC) gives Russia the opportunity to use quantitative parameters of withdrawal as an instrument in the negotiation process. Apparently, Kerry would like to discuss this issue. Russia may require concessions to both Syria (structure of the country, the future of Assad, preserving Russian bases after coming to power of the new leadership), and on other issues, particularly Ukraine.
Ukrainian factor
Not coincidentally, two days before, Kerry said that the issue of Ukraine, as well as Syria, would be key in the negotiations with Russia. At the same time, on March 23rd-24th the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be in Moscow to discuss the situation in the east of Ukraine with his Russian counterpart. The coincidence of the visits is not accidental. It is necessary to wait for Moscow, in response to a proposal to put pressure on Kiev’s violations of the Minsk agreements, to propose to make some concessions on Ukraine in exchange for the weakening or removal of a part of the sanctions.
However, if such a proposal is made, it will come from Germany. In contrast to Europe, Americans are not interested in resolving the conflict or lifting any sanctions. On March 17th, State Department spokesman John Kirby said that sanctions against Russia would not be removed until it gives up Crimea. Earlier, Victoria Nuland expressed the view of the State Department on the situation in southeastern Ukraine, saying that the goal of the United States is to return the space of the People’s Republics of Donbass to Ukraine until the autumn of 2016. It is likely that the Kremlin will be offered a “compromise” in Ukraine: the autonomy of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics in exchange for the resumption of the Ukrainian authorities’ control abroad. It is understood that afterwards, the Ukrainian border guards will be able to cut off Russia from the border of the region, which, if it is accepted, will drown Donbass in blood. Therefore, it is unlikely to achieve a significant compromise in the negotiations on Ukraine.”