Quote Originally Posted by Azor View Post
To be fair, Outlaw has been on this since Minsk I...

According to Vladimir Socor at the Jamestown Foundation:

  1. http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_...c#.V4QgWlYrKUk
  2. 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.
Azor...BTW...a solid catch on info....as this closes and explains why there was a sudden rash of "hardcore statements" made by the Ukrainian President and his FM during the NATO Warsaw Summit on what has to be done before elections can be held in eastern Ukraine along with a security implementation plan for the occupied zone...

Which you know Russia will reject as it does not fit their "political demands".

THEN surprise, surprise Merkel issued a series of strong statements against the current overall Russian activities in central Europe and why the sanctions are and will be in place until there is a complete ceasefire and Russia starts to implement truly Minsk 2.

Basically she backed fully the Ukrainian position and notice it was made by her not her FM who basically uttered not a single statement during the Summit especially after his NATO "hit job"......

Merkel has something going for her that no US President has...she grew up in the former GDR, she speaks fluent Russian and fully understands Putin's mindset.....