Another Geopolitical Triumph For Vladimir Putin!

[David Morris]

Every time I post something that demonstrates Putin's futile effort to keep
Ukraine in its court, someone from Germany posts evidence showing how ultra
right wingers are my heroes.  Am I myopic, or are those pro-Putiners?  It
seems to me that most of Ukraine wants to leave the former Soviet empire.
 It seems to me that Russia today is a vast mafia oligarchy.  No matter how
right or left the Ukrainians may be, they seem to want a place where law is
more stable than in Putin's realm.  The present actors in Ukraine are just
a transition, a pendulum.  They can't remains in their present form once
the country join the West.  I know I am far removed from your reality.
 Please explain why you are pro Putin in this conflict.

On Saturday, June 28, 2014, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> 150,000 internally and externally displaced persons, a government that
> refuses to cooperate with the UN regarding an investigation of the Odessa
> atrocity (UN report on human rights), a-and these guys doing their very
> best to "improve rule of law and human rights" in the Ukraine:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
>
> (I recommend the video clip showing the oath of enlistment. It is there
> that you can see the 'Wolfsangel.')
>
> The Azov Battalion is subordinated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and
> organized by this highly interesting group:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-National_Assembly
>
> Nice work. Let freedom ring!
>
> Thomas
>
> P.S. While you're at it, you may also look at the Wiki entry for Andriy
> Parubiy, a member of the government and Ukraine's representative in
> consultations with NATO.
>
>
>
>
> Am 27.06.2014 14:43, schrieb David Morris:
>
>> http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/06/another-
>> geopolitical-triumph-valdimir-putin
>>
>>  From the /Guardian/:
>> <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/ukraine-
>> european-union-trade-pact>
>>
>>     It was the document that started a revolution and ended up bringing
>>     Europe to the brink of war. Ukraine's association agreement with the
>>     European Union, a mainly economic document setting up a free trade
>>     area that nevertheless has political and strategic ramifications,
>>     will finally be signed on Friday.
>>
>>     Along with Georgia and Moldova, two other post-Soviet countries keen
>>     to move out of Moscow's orbit, *Kiev will sign the deal with
>>     Brussels to establish a free-trade area and introduce a raft of
>>     measures designed to synchronise economies with EU nations,* as well
>>     as improve rule of law and human rights.
>>
>> Yep, that Putin is a geopolitical strategic mastermind, isn't he? Every
>> country on Russia's border is now hellbent on better economic and
>> military ties with the West. Nice work.
>>
>>
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