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In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Muse on Silk Stockings and Silver Spoons February 27-March 1, 2015 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)7. Ready for Nuclear War over Ukraine? by Robert Parry
NO OFFENSE TO OUR UKRAINIAN-BASED READERSHIP....BUT IS UKRAINE EVEN WORTH IT?
http://commondreams.org/views/2015/02/25/ready-nuclear-war-over-ukraine
A senior Ukrainian official is urging the West to risk a nuclear conflagration in support of a full-scale war with Russia that he says authorities in Kiev are now seeking, another sign of the extremism that pervades the year-old, U.S.-backed regime in Kiev.
In a recent interview with Canadas CBC Radio, Ukraines Deputy Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said, Everybody is afraid of fighting with a nuclear state. We are not anymore, in Ukraine weve lost so many people of ours, weve lost so much of our territory.
Prystaiko added, However dangerous it sounds, we have to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin somehow. For the sake of the Russian nation as well, not just for the Ukrainians and Europe. The deputy foreign minister announced that Kiev is preparing for full-scale war against Russia and wants the West to supply lethal weapons and training so the fight can be taken to Russia.
What we expect from the world is that the world will stiffen up in the spine a little, Prystaiko said.
Yet, what is perhaps most remarkable about Prystaikos Dr. Strangelove moment is that it produced almost no reaction in the West. You have a senior Ukrainian official saying that the world should risk nuclear war over a civil conflict in Ukraine between its west, which favors closer ties to Europe, and its east, which wants to maintain its historic relationship with Russia.
Why should such a pedestrian dispute justify the possibility of vaporizing millions of human beings and conceivably ending life on the planet? Yet, instead of working out a plan for a federalized structure in Ukraine or even allowing people in the east to vote on whether they want to remain under the control of the Kiev regime, the world is supposed to risk nuclear annihilation.
But therein lies one of the under-reported stories of the Ukraine crisis: There is a madness to the Kiev regime that the West doesnt want to recognize because to do so would upend the dominant narrative of our good guys vs. Russias bad guys. If we begin to notice that the right-wing regime in Kiev is crazy and brutal, we might also start questioning the Russian aggression mantra...No European government, since Adolf Hitlers Germany, has seen fit to dispatch Nazi storm troopers to wage war on a domestic population, but the Kiev regime has and has done so knowingly. Yet, across the Wests media/political spectrum, there has been a studious effort to cover up this reality, even to the point of ignoring facts that have been well established...MORE
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