This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service May 6, 2021, shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C/L) and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (C/R) during their talks in Kyiv.
Pepe Escobar for The Saker Blog: Pictures of a Ukrainian Dream
Picture yourself about to meet a girl with kaleidoscope eyes… No. Sorry. Actually picture merry lines of code in the R programming language – wallowing in a happy valley of game theory models which would not preclude Goth or New Romantic Walkyrie dancin’ to the 12-inch version of Bauhaus’s Bela Lugosi is Dead.
Imagine this reverie coming about because of a “pin!” in your inbox. After all you have just been presented with an astonishing piece of intel. You scramble to the exit, actually the entrance of the Magic Theater, where you ask, Keats-style, Was it a dream? Do I wake or sleep?
So what was the dream about? Oh, something so prosaic, so down to the nitty gritty geopolitics: what really happened during the visit of US Secretary of State Tony Blinken to Ukraine.
The great Andrei Martyanov has remarked that Blinken “told Kiev behind the scenes to ‘dial it down’, amidst the fluffy tropes about US concern for Ukraine’s ‘sovereignty’ and ‘security’”.
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WNU Editor: Was the riot act read to the Ukraine President? It is why US Secretary of State Blinken went to Kiev in the first place.
This is why we are no longer hearing Ukrainian demands to join NATO. Why tensions along the Ukraine - Russian border have significantly decreased. And why fighting along the front-lines in eastern Ukraine have dropped by about 90%.
Regular readers of this blog know what my opinions are when it comes to Ukraine. As long as Kiev refuses to meet the demands of the Russian-Ukrainian majority in the eastern part of the country for autonomy and control of their culture and language, the country will always be divided, and be a pawn between both Russia and the U.S..
2 comments:
Lol nailed it
So wnu bloodshed is the best option here? Russian speaking people or not bloodshed is no excuse. Does the western mistakes of Vietnam, iraq or libya teach anyone. Nope just the same old power grabs from power hungry limp dicks while the public suffers at every angle. Shame on you wnu
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