Putin Should Just Take
East Ukraine
By Finian Cunningham
February 19, 2015 "ICH"
- Russian President Vladimir Putin should
just be done with this stupid Western game
in Ukraine and send in his troops to
liberate the eastern region, otherwise known
as Novorossia.
Moscow has so far shown more than enough
forbearance towards Washington and its
puppet regime in Kiev. And yet this week,
Washington's allies in the European Union
have seen it fit to impose fresh sanctions
on Russia. Putin's diplomatic efforts to end
the conflict on a mutual basis between the
Kiev regime and the separatist ethnic
Russian people have been twisted and upended
at every turn by Washington.
As soon as Putin brokered the ceasefire last
week in the Belarus capital, Minsk, the
Americans and their proxies in Kiev have
done everything to undermine it. Ironically,
they accuse Moscow of bad faith and of
escalating violence by covertly supplying
weapons and troops to aid the separatists.
Washington's provocative calumny is
compounded with renewed threats to slap even
more sanctions on Russia and to increase its
own military involvement in Ukraine. There
is far more proof of American military
meddling in Ukraine than is ever presented
to substantiate Western claims of "Russian
aggression".
Russia has tried its best to use diplomatic
tools to resolve the Ukraine crisis. It was
Putin after all who helped to broker
previous ceasefires in Minsk last September.
The Americans were nowhere to be seen making
a contribution to the peace effort. Instead
Washington has been egging on the
reactionary Kiev regime to ignore ceasefire
obligations by continuing its illegal
offensive on the east Ukraine population.
There is very little reason to believe that
Washington and Kiev proxies will behave any
different towards the latest truce.
So, in a nutshell, Putin's Russia cannot win
or even find a mutual draw in the game of
diplomacy, where it alone abides by
international norms. The Americans are not
interested in diplomacy. They are playing a
different, very dirty game of covert war in
Ukraine to undermine Russia.
Russia should therefore walk away from this
futile diplomatic process, and assert its
geopolitical agenda with its own rules. That
means Putin sending in Russian military
openly and overwhelmingly to annex the
Donetsk and Luhansk self-declared People's
Republics, and formally make these
territories of Novorossia part of the
Russian Federation, similar to the events in
Crimea last March.
Here are some reasons why such a move makes
sense:
The ethnic Russian population of Novorossia
want that outcome by a large democratic
majority. They voted in referenda last year
declaring independence from the
Western-backed regime, which itself grabbed
power in an illegal and violent coup in
February 2014 against an elected Ukrainian
government. That event meant that the rules
of democratic politics and Ukrainian
sovereignty no longer applied. It was the
West that tore up the rulebook. If the
people of Novorossia want to secede from the
rump Ukraine, then they have every right to
do that, just as the people of the Crimean
southern province self-determined to do in
their referendum.
Such a decisive move by Russia would
definitely put an end to the Western-backed
war of aggression on the pro-Russian people
of east Ukraine. These people have suffered
enough during the past year from Kiev's
state terrorism. Nearly 6,000 people have
been killed and over one million turned into
refugees from a relentless campaign of
ethnic cleansing by the neo-Nazi regime in
Kiev. Civilians have been targeted by
indiscriminate shelling carried out by the
regime's regular forces and their
paramilitary auxiliaries. Besides, the Right
Sector neo-Nazi death squads led by Dmitryo
Yarosh have vowed to continue their
murderous onslaught on the Novorossian
population, seeing the latter as
"sub-humans", regardless of the latest Minsk
so-called ceasefire.
The people of east Ukraine have centuries of
cultural kinship with Russia, just as the
people of Crimea have too. Integration with
Russia is the natural home for the people of
east Ukraine. The Western-orientated Kiev
regime is an artificial, alien construct,
which the West is trying to impose by force
of will and arms. For Moscow to reclaim
territory that was formerly part of Russia
anyway is therefore a fairer and more
feasible settlement.
Putin's deployment of full military strength
is the only language that the rogue
Washington state understands. When US-led
NATO tried to subvert pro-Russian South
Ossetia in 2008 with its proxy regime in
Georgia, Putin swiftly put an end to that
debacle when he sent in thousands of Russian
troops to repel the NATO-led Georgians.
Peace and the rights of South Ossetia were
restored immediately and Washington backed
off with its tail between its legs. The same
needs to be done now in eastern Ukraine.
Thanklessly, Putin has given much leeway to
US-led proxy war so far. The Americans seem
to infer that diplomacy is a sign of
weakness. So, Russia should conclude that
diplomacy is not the solution. The situation
requires a military solution. And Russia has
the military might to crush this Kiev proxy
in Novorossia decisively, once and for all.
Looked at another way, if Putin does not act
decisively with military force, the proxy
war will continue to kill and displace many
more innocent ethnic Russian people, and the
West will continue to defame Russia with
spurious claims of "aggression". That will
allow the West to ratchet up more sanctions
on Moscow thus causing internal problems for
Russia (which is what the West wants) and it
will provide a cover for more American
weapons to the Kiev regime, which again will
only make the conflict more protracted and
problematic for Putin in the long-run.
Under the prevailing situation, the US-led
covert war in Ukraine is, astoundingly,
blamed on Russia. The servile Western
propaganda "news" media amplify that gross
distortion by endlessly peddling baseless
claims against Russia. Putin can't win in
the dirty game being played by Washington
because Russia is trying to play by normal
rules of diplomacy.
Vladimir Putin should act unilaterally and
decisively with military force and take the
eastern Ukraine territory out of the
malicious hands of Washington. There will of
course be a tsunami of Western media outcry
and ridiculous vilification of Putin as "the
new Hitler". They will say that Putin is
finally delivering on his expansionist plans
that he has been harbouring all along, as
Washington has been claiming for the past
year.
But, really, who cares what Washington and
its minions say? They are just a bunch of
liars and hypocrites, who will demonise
Putin and Russia no matter what he does. The
people of Russia, Novorossia and a good many
others around the world, including the US
and Europe, already know what the truth is.
The world knows that Putin has moral and
legal right to put at end to this
Western-backed war madness in Ukraine. If
that war is not stopped promptly, it may
lead to an even worse war for Russia because
of its dynamic of deceit, false claims
Russia. Putin should just act according to
his rules. And to hell with the West.
Copyright Finian
Cunningham
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