Moscow considers US threats of more sanctions on Russia for default on Minsk deals absurd
"We have stated more than once that we are not asking anyone for the lifting of sanctions."...Lavrov
… from TASS, Moscow
Obama sure made a horrible choice with Breedlove
[ Editor’s note: Lavrov
finally comes out on the offensive over the EU’s cheap ploy of holding
the Russians hostage to continued sanctions until the Minsk agreement
conditions were fulfilled, when it was a “two party” agreement.
It
did not take a geopolitical genius to predict that Kiev would catch the
“wink and a nod” from guarantors France, Germany and the US to drag its
feet on living up to Minsk as a way keeping Moscow’s feet in the fire
to pressure the Republics to capitulate to save Russia’s economy.
But
the West miscalculated once again. Our airhead General Breedlove of
NATO spilled the beans while trying to get the EU onboard at the Munich
conference for arming Kiev with offensive weapons, which was rejected.
He finally had to concede their position that there was no military
solution, but that “keeping the war going would give more time for the
sanctions to work”.
German
Intelligence was taping these discussions and leaked them quickly to
support why Germany and France were not following the US brain-dead
policy on increased arms shipments. Breedlove’s debased strategy shamed
the American military — that he could sleep well at night, despite the
massive destruction going on in SE Ukraine, as long as he got a gold
star on his resume for putting a hit on the Russians.
Hollande
and Merkel countered with their quick trip to Kiev and then to Moscow
to powwow with Putin to set up the Minsk meeting. The US seemed to have
been flanked here, but we still cannot say for sure how much of that
could have been “good cop, bad cop” theater. We have been there before.
The
Russians had to make a diplomatic call on whether to expose the Western
duplicity of entering into an agreement which would be fulfilled in
slow motion among constant Kiev violations, and where Russia could then
look like it was undermining it… or let things play out so the world
could see who the real Minsk violators were.
The West will never live down its cruelty to these SE Ukrainian people.
I think they waited way too long.
They should have made a big stink about how Germany and France were NOT
guaranteeing Kiev’s compliance. But I do not run the Kremlin, last time
I looked at my calendar. Better late than never Mr. Lavrov.
The
other issue is Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. In his swan song when
leaving to go over to the CIA, he detailed how the sanctions had brought
the Russian economy to its knees. Lew publicly disclosed through this
that the Ukrainians were used purely as cannon fodder in America’s trade
wars with Russia. What a guy.
That
means that NATO and our military are being used for the same purpose.
Way to go, Jack! Where can I send my thank you check for one of those
expensive coffees that I never drink?
But
Russia’s economy has not been devastated. On the contrary, there has
been a tremendous boomerang effect, just like the Iran sanctions did in
stimulating Iran’s domestic production and pushing Eurasian military and
economic consolidation up to high speed.
They
are building firewalls against future sanctions and increasing
defensive military spending way beyond what they would have, and
quicker. Was this a huge mistake on the US’ part, or did they want this
to justify our own military expansion to combat this “new threat”? Yes,
the Western Axis of Evil is that evil. I personally guarantee it… Jim W. Dean ]
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- First published … April 20, 2015 -
US threats to tighten anti-Russian sanctions for what it may interpret as default on the Minsk Accords are absurd, because Kiev is the main brake on the peace process, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.
We are now exhausted waiting for Kiev, Germany and France to live up to the agreement
“Our US and European partners are
saying: ‘If the Minsk Accords are honored, we will lift sanctions from
Russia’,” Lavrov said. “We have stated more than once that we are not
asking anyone for the lifting of sanctions. It is up to them to decide.
They introduced the sanctions on an absolutely preposterous pretext.
It’s a matter of their conscience.”
“Just feel the logic of it. They
say: ‘If the Minsk Accords are complied with, then the sanctions will be
lifted, and if not, then Russia should be punished ever stronger,”
Lavrov said. “In the meantime, a closer look at who complies with the
Minsk Accords and who does not makes it clear that Kiev is the main
brake on the Minsk process.”
“It turns out that the longer
Kiev disrupts the implementation of the Minsk Accords, the more excuses
the West invents to go ahead with pressure on Russia. That’s real
absurd,” Lavrov said.
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