it seems to be mostly high ups the sanctions are targetting . Doubt theylll give a fuck .
Anyways it seems that unless someone steps in from somewhere to end this impasse this will end really badly . And I dont see where on earth that will come from . A few days ago I heard something from one of those Russian ministers that sounded well troubling . He was explaining that what these western gobshites were saying in public wasnt just rhetoric for the cameras as one might expect . Its exactly what theyre saying to the Russians in private too. All the fake photos,fake leaflets, the ultimatums as if theyre talking to wee boys...there doesnt seem to be any realism at all. There is a bunch of clueless idiots at the controls of this one , and thats pretty scary I reckon.
When Kiev was in turmoil it was the incessant demand of the west on Yanukovich that he resolve the crisis through dialogue with protestors and not try to resolve the crisis by use of force. Putin urged the same thing . Whatever the faults of the Yanukovic he at least engaged in that, a bit too much if truth be told .
But here we have even much more widespread disturbances, entire towns being seized, army and police defections, demonstrations everywhere, entire country falling apart at the seams and the answer is to send in tanks and artillery, gunships, jets . With direct US encouragement . Not a single word about anyone talking to these people . They were barred outright from the Geneva talks that were supposed to resolve it all.
The Geneva talks were supposed to have arrived at an arrangement were all militias, the juntas included would be stood down . Were all seized buildings and blockades would be lifted . Instead its transpired it was just the anti Kiev ones they yanks were focussed on, while the people manning them werent even consulted . Not the blockades in Kiev and elsewhere There wasnt a chance of that succeeding . Absolutely no realism. It was just a surrender demand . Not an ounce of pressure on Kiev to rein theirs in .
The US formula seems to be here they have to be crushed, and the junta are simply their puppets with the job to do that . One word from the yanks and thered be direct talks between both sides in the morning . But the word has been send in the tanks and the militias instead. Against terrorists..and thats the white house speaking .
And doing that puts both the protestors and the Russians in a corner . The western plan seems to be to deliberately corner them and then somehow scare them into submission with threats of sanctions, shows of force and talk of war . Utter fucking madness . That wont work and will just get the opposite response.
Their coup was a total success in that they seized the centres of power, the govt adminsitrations, institutions etc . But similar in ways to what happened in Venezuela..were they also massively fucked up.. they didnt seize the hearts and minds of the people, who despite all this shit talk of bussed in Russians and paid agitators behind all this unrest plainly are having none of it in many places . Despite tanks going in the protests are escalating, not diminishing ..a tv station today..more towns announcing theyve rejected Kiev . Large sections of the state security apparatus plainly also have absolutely no intention of waging war against their own people ..but by no means all of it . But equally plainly thats what the white house expect of them .
Basically what the white house is demanding is unconditional surrender from the protestors ,and Russia not merely to completely renounce them but somehow to make them submit on Americas behalf..those are the actual demands being made in public and private . The only thing stopping an all out military assault on the protestors is the threat of Russian intervention to protect civilians , but Americas demanding Russia pull its troops back, renounce the protestors and leave them to the wolves. Im pretty sure if the Russians sent their troops home then the rocket artillery would be landing on east Ukrainian towns with full on White House encouragement and diplomatic cover , exactly the same as it was landing on south Ossetian towns a few years ago with the same US encouragement and cover.
The yanks want war here, theyve shown their hand and cant turn back now . Theyve gone all in and want the game over right way . They know that with every day that passes their crew gets shakier and closer to collapse . And as far as I can see the only thing that might avert all out conflict is their collapse .