Adam Chandler, The Atlantic: A New and Unimproved Ceasefire
An all-night peace summit yielded an agreement to de-escalate the violence in eastern Ukraine even as tanks were spotted crossing into the country from Russia overnight.
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10 comments:
This is a terrible deal for Kiev. They've essentially sold off the east for the IMF loan. Maybe it was the best they could get, but this will not turn out well.
The IMf loan is just a drop in the bucket on what they need. I am still digesting this agreement .... I am not optimistic that it will hold.
It's already broken.
Porshenko's refused both "Special Status" and Federalization, less than an hour after signing the agreement,
And by denying the existence of the Debaltseve Cauldron, he's created another Donetsk Airport situation, but worse.
I agree Jay. The Debaltseve cauldron is Donetsk airport .... but with far more men, civilians trapped, and military equipment being involved.
Porshenko has trapped himself.
The UAF has to keep attacking to try free The Cauldron, but they won't be able to, and the cauldron will become another Iillovask but with much worse political fallout for the Regime,
If they don't keep attacking, the Cauldron will fall to starvation, and again with massive political fall out for the Regime.
Gargaine thinks the IMF loan was blood money from the US, to get Porshenko to blow off Merkel and Hollande, and keep the fighting going.
There really are no Admiral Ackbar's in the Ukraine.
During last night's talks Poroshenko was leaving the room every 2 or 3 hours to make a phone call. I have no proof .... just my gut feeling .... but I suspect that he was calling Washington.
As to the funds that the IMF are giving .... I am just shaking me head. I know these people, they are not going to respect the IMF's demands to reform their system ... and the IMF probably knows that. Nope .... that money is going to go straight into the war machine.
Word I am getting, is that just before leaving, to attend Minsk II, Porshenko visited the ATO Command in Kramatorsk, and was promised that there was no Cauldron, and that there would be three " clearing" attacks to restore the lines. ( only two took place, both massive failures),
Simienchecko, not that anything he says is reliable, inferrs that the constant phone calls were to get reports on the military actions, and that what Porshenko was told, was lies.
That makes a lot of sense Jay. I agree with your analysis.
Interesting analysis, translated from Russian, with the translators comments,
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/02/all-is-lost-poroshenko-after-minsk-2.html?m=1
Thank you for the link. I have been reading the same thing from other Russian sources.
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