To be fair, Outlaw has been on this since Minsk I...
According to Vladimir Socor at the Jamestown Foundation:
- http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_...c#.V4QgWlYrKUk
- http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_...4#.V4QgXFYrKUk
- “Quietly but summarily, the administration of President Obama has informed Kyiv that it wants to see elections in Donbas before Obama leaves office”
- Nuland is urging compliance with Ukraine’s political “obligations” under the Minsk “agreement.”
- Kerry and Nuland’s joint visit on July 7, however, has added urgency and even impatience to Kerry’s tone, reflecting the Barack Obama administration’s rush to show results before the November presidential election in the United States
- By the logic and sequence of steps proposed, Ukraine would make pre-emptive, irreversible sacrifices of sovereignty, without any assurance that Russian forces would withdraw or that the two armed “people’s republics” would abdicate. Almost certainly they would not.
- The West may help Russia enforce those political provisions on Ukraine, but the same Western powers cannot help Ukraine enforce those military provisions on Russia.
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