During the Munich Security Conference a
couple of weeks ago, news came out that Russia would recognize various documents
issued by eastern Ukrainian authorities – in other words, from the separatist
regions of Donbass.
“The decree stated clearly this was made
out of humanitarian concerns…until Minsk agreements have been fulfilled. The
presidential decree validated IDs of Donbass residents so that they could enter
Russia legally and use Russian rail transport and air carriers,” [Sergei
Lavrov] explained.
Given the hysteria about Russia and
Ukraine, you would think this would cause all sorts of calamity during the
Conference. Apparently not:
Lavrov said this issue had not been brought
up during foreign ministers’ talks in the so-called Normandy Four format in
Munich.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was all spun up about it:
“I informed [US Vice President Mike Pence] about
the recent decision of President Putin to validate the passports of the
occupied territories, the so-called LPR and DPR, for me it is yet another proof
of Russia’s violation of international law,” Poroshenko told reporters after a
meeting with Pence.
And Poroshenko’s discussion with Pence came
just hours after Pence vowed to “hold Russia to account.”
I hadn’t thought about it much more until
reading The Saker today, updating the situation:
Let’s sum all this up:
- The Urkonazis completely close
down the unofficial border with Novorussia
- Russia recognizes Novorussian
documents
- The DNR and LNR nationalize all
the Ukrainian industry in the Donbass
- The Ukronazis declare that the
line of contact is now to be considered a border
- The Novorussians declare that the
Russian Ruble is the only legal currency in Novorussia
- The Novorussians will now export
their entire production of coal/anthracite to Russia
- All the factories in Novorussia
will no longer pay taxes to Kiev
There appears to be much more going on that
mere recognition of documents.
I don’t know about you – but to me this
sure looks like the DNR and LNR are cutting off their last ties to the Ukraine
and the junta in Kiev appears to go along with this plan.
In reality, this is all much more complicated.
If events during the Munich Conference
weren’t enough to get the global empire and its vassals worked up in a lather,
surely these additional steps would have to send them off their rockers.
Then The Saker adds this:
One can judge of the seriousness of these
developments by the truly Herculean efforts made by the western corporate media
not to notice them. Even the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
Boris Johnson, who was in Kiev yesterday, was focusing exclusively on the
upcoming Eurovision competition, and not on the dramatic developments taking
place in the southeast.
I did a search: “Russia recognize Donbass
documents.” I get several dozen hits; in the first few pages, only two
come from any recognizable western source: Reuters and the UK
Independent. No CNN, New York Times, or BBC.
The Saker attributes this lack of coverage
by the mainstream media to a desire to hide the futility of western states to
do anything about Russia’s actions and the situation in Ukraine – especially
eastern Ukraine. Basically, the west is embarrassed.
This western futility of action in eastern
Ukraine is certainly so; yet western rhetoric and threat never hold any such
concerns. Being “embarrassed” never stopped the west from pressing on.
So I wonder: given the emotional
anti-Russian hysteria in the United States, why not use this news as another
way to dump on Trump? “See what happens when the West plays nice with
Russia? They work to rebuild the empire.”
Munich had many rabid anti-Russia speakers; did they miss this
news, somehow? Not likely.
These warmongering speakers have had two
weeks to digest the news. What are they waiting for?
Which brings me to my question: why
not? Why aren’t these recent events generating significant media coverage
in the west? Why aren’t the anti-Trump, anti-Russia politicians making
hay with this “takeover”?
Why not?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/03/bionic-mosquito/russian-ukraine-firmally-seceding/