Sometimes I wonder if Obama and his NSC seriously understand what it means when an entire civil society stands up and declares we are tired of corruption, oligarchs and Russia and want our own civil society based on the rule of law, good governance and transparency and we want to define our future--- not have another country define it for us.
Especially when this civil society has supported the Maidan and it's loses, has massively supported their Army and held one of the fairest elections in years of Ukrainian history. The Ukrainian Army is fighting so well now they have virtually stopped the Russian Army AND many to include Obama have repeatedly stated there is no military solution --but the UA needs ATMs--recently their fired 12 times using RPGs and AGLs to kill one tank.
Yet the UA has boxed in the Russian Army and her mercenaries into a 200 mile front and it has not grown much since Feb 2015--SO in effect there has been a military solution so they seem to be doing something right while growing the force from 6K in August 2014 to over 65K in 2015.
I know of no other country in the last 100 years that has passed major reforms in the middle of a war, has recreated and rebuild their Army all the while in continuous fighting now for over a year and who have been invaded by 700 tanks, 27K Russian mercenaries and 12K Russian troops and whose army gets shelled with 150 tons of munitions almost daily now and they are still very much in the fight.
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle calls on Pres. Obama to visit Ukraine http://politi.co/1JduoyP pic.twitter.com/A0kXqwO50D
He will never do this as it would require him to have the courage to directly confront Putin and this President is not about confrontation—BUT on the other hand neither has his concept of “soft power and talking” worked with Putin.
Faces of people that maintain peace of our country on their shoulders: .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otx8...ature=youtu.be … pic.twitter.com/1h1OKv814z
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