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Americans aren’t exposed to reality much, and you can tell if you attempt to talk to them about international affairs.
This is the translation of the interview George Friedman of Stratfor gave to the Russian newspaper Kommersant in December and has been cited numerous times since
Stratfor is a private “intelligence” firm linked to governments.
2013:
How quickly the empire forgets its support to the Nazis of Kiev.
Get em Oliver.
SVOBODA tossed grenades outside the Ukrainian parliament building. Remember Svoboda?
Victoria Nuland and John McCain remember.
Washington’s good friends…
Separatist leaders finally come to their senses after a year of bloodshed. The Ukraine neo-nazi regime will not stop the attacks on civilians in Donbass, not without a direct threat of retaliation by Russia. The Minsk Agreements have been repeatedly violated by Right Sector neo-nazi “National Guard” and Kiev’s army. They regularly lob shells into population centers. Poroshenko has dismissed the Minsk agreement after using the time to rebuild and retrain some of his stormtroopers — with US help, of course.
Ukraine remains one of the great flashpoints with the potential to start World War Three.
Obama behind the push toward war:
War is peace, freedom slavery.
Illegitimate prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk explained it several times. Most recently on Wednesday unambiguously saying “(o)ur goal is to regain control of Donetsk and Lugansk.”
But the implementing law that emerged this week from the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev inserted a clause requiring the rebels to first surrender to the Ukrainian government and then letting Kiev organize elections before a federalized structure is determined.
These Nazis are the Hogan’s Heroes variety. They are so shamelessly deceptive and ridiculous on every level, that it is absurd that the United States would stake its reputation on them. They have yet to tell the truth about anything, much like the Commander in Chief, I suspect.
MPs in Kiev hoodwinked a US senator, presenting his office with photos of columns of Russian military hardware allegedly roaming Ukrainian territory. The photos turned out to have been taken during the conflict in South Ossetia back in 2008.
The photos were “presented to the Armed Services Committee from a delegation from Ukraine in December,” told The Washington Free Beacon Senator Jim Inhofe’s communications director Donelle Harder.
This is the third cease fire deal. The Kiev Nazis violated all previous agreements.
Here is the breakdown of the deal:
1. A comprehensive ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. Comes into force at 00.00 (Kiev time) on February 15.
Reuters / Maxim Shemetov
2. A pullout of heavy weapons. The parties agreed to a compromise disengagement line. Kiev is to pull artillery and other hardware from the current frontline while the rebels would do it from the frontline as it was in September, before they gained ground in a January counter-offensive. The OSCE-monitored safety zone would be 50 km to 150 km wide for weapons, depending on their range. The pullout is to be completed by March 1.
A Ukrainian army tank. Reuters / Maxim Shemetov
3. The OSCE will use its drone fleet and monitors on the ground, as well as satellite images and radar data to ensure that both parties stick to the deal.
Reuters / Nikolai Ryabchenko
4. Kiev and the rebels will negotiate the terms for future local elections in the rebel-held areas, which would bring them back into Ukraine’s legal framework. Kiev would adopt legislation on self-governance that would be acceptable for the self-proclaimed republics.
RIA Novosti / Alexey Kudenko
5. Kiev will declare a general amnesty for the rebels.
Fighters of the self-defense forces in Uglegorsk.(RIA Novosti / Nikolay Hizhnyak)
6. An exchange of all prisoners must be completed by the fifth day after full disengagement. That’s in 19 days, if the weapons pullback takes the full time provided for by the deal.
Prisoners of war who returned to the Donetsk People’s Republic after the “all-for-all” prisoner exchange between the Donetsk People’s Republic’s people’s militia and Ukrainian special forces, on December 26, near Konstantinovka, Donetsk suburb.(RIA Novosti / Igor Maslov)
7. Humanitarian aid convoys will be allowed full access to the needy in the war-affected areas. An international monitoring mechanism will be provided.
A column of trucks with a Russian humanitarian aid during the formation of a thirteenth humanitarian convoy for Donbas in the settlement of Kovalevka in the Rostov Region.(RIA Novosti / Sergey Pivovarov)
8. Kiev will restore economic ties, social payments and banking services in the dissenting areas, which it cut earlier in response to the elections held by the self-proclaimed republics. Their respective governments will resume taxation and payment for utilities. This provision is subject for further negotiation.
Citizens of Donetsk queue up to the main office of Oschadbank (State Savings Bank of Ukraine) in the city’s Universitetskaya Street, 11.17.2014.(RIA Novosti / Masha Ross)
9. After the local elections are held in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, Kiev is to restore control over their borders with Russia. The transition may take time, which would be needed for a comprehensive constitutional reform in Ukraine.
Line of vehicles at the Uspenka checkpoint in the Donetsk Region on the border between Ukraine and Russia.(RIA Novosti / John Trast)
10. All foreign troops, heavy weapons and mercenaries are to be withdrawn from Ukraine. Illegal armed groups would be disarmed, but local authorities in Donetsk and Lugansk would be allowed to have legal militia units.
Victor Lenfa, commander of a French volunteer team fighting for the rebels in Eastern Ukraine.(Screenshot from RT video)
11. Keiv will implement comprehensive constitutional reform by the end of the year, which would decentralize the Ukrainian political system and give privileges to Donetsk and Lugansk. The privileges include language self-determination, the freedom to appoint prosecutors and judges, and to establish economic ties with Russia.
Verkhovna Rada meeting.(RIA Novosti / Alexandr Maksimenko)
12. The OSCE’s election monitors are to see that local elections in the self-proclaimed republics are up to international standards. The exact procedure for the elections is subject to further negotiations.
RIA Novosti / John Trast
13. Talks between the “contact group” will be intensified in various ways.
George Eliason has been reporting from inside Ukraine, both west and east.
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