I wonder which or who are the elements if the current govt are prepared to
make Ukraine a puppet state?
Anyone know who these folks are?
On Monday, 17 March 2014, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Window on Eurasia: Putin Plans to Annex Far More of Ukraine than Just
> Crimea, Illarionov Says
>
> http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/window-on-eurasia-putin-plans-to-annex.html?m=1
> Monday, March 17, 2014
> Paul Goble
>
> Staunton, March 17 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin plans not only to
> annex other portions of Ukraine following the Crimean Anschluss but to set
> up a pro-Russian government in Kyiv, according to Andrei Illarionov, who
> once was an economic advisor to the Kremlin leader but now is an outspoken
> critic.
>
> In an interview on a Ukrainian Internet television channel, Illarionov
> says that Putin decided to retake Ukraine some years ago, has worked out a
> detailed program to do so, and is currently drawing up a new constitution
> for Ukraine that he intends to impose on that independent country ( Андр╕й
> ╤лар╕онов: Санкц╕╖ та звернення не змусять в╕йська п╕ти<http://youtube.com/watch?v=bjWlJ2G_di0>).
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> That constitution, the Russian economist said, will call for a
> Moscow-defined federalization of Ukraine, one that will allow each of that
> country's regions to have its own foreign relations, the disarmament of the
> country and a formal and permanent renunciation by Kyiv of any interest in
> NATO membership.
>
> Some elements of the current Ukrainian government are prepared to go along
> with some or all of this as the price of remaining a nominally independent
> country. Asked how Putin could achieve all this given Western "guarantees"
> to Ukraine, Illarionov replied in obvious puzzlement: "What strange people
> you are" to believe such words will save Ukraine.
>
> When US President Barack Obama told Putin that the US was not prepared to
> use military force to block Moscow on Crimea, Putin viewed this as an
> indication that the West would not challenge him in any serious way and was
> in fact "in ordinary language," saying ""take it"" and showing that the
> Budapest Accords were a dead letter.
>
> Indeed, Illarionov says, this exchange can be said to constitute the
> "Munich agreement of 2014."
>
> Any country which wants to defend its independence must be prepared to
> resist an aggressor, Illarionov continues. There are many ways to do so,
> but assuming that someone else will do the job has never worked. Countries
> that resist like Finland and Georgia can survive; those that don't like
> Czechoslovakia in 1938 will not.
>
> Although it has not taken the necessary steps over the last three weeks,
> Kyiv still has the choice: It can be a Finland or Georgia, or it will
> become a Czechoslovakia, Illarionov says. And those who think that
> passivity will allow a country to avoid human losses need to look at the
> historical record.
>
> The future of Russian-occupied Crimea is grim, Illarinov says. The Crimean
> Tatars are likely to be expelled because "changing the ethnic composition
> of the Crimean peninsula" is clearly one of Moscow's goals. As has
> happened before, the Crimean Tatars have been "abandoned," they are
> "hostages" to Moscow, and they are thus expendable.
>
> According to Illarionov, Ukrainians and the West must not put their hopes
> in any regime change in Russia itself anytime soon. That may happen
> eventually, but today under Putin, Russia has a "brutal authoritarian
> political regime," one that may survive for some time.
>
> In his concluding remarks, the Russian commentator says that the
> imposition of sanctions no matter how tough will not force Moscow to
> withdraw from Crimea. Ukraine must resist, and Ukrainians must recognize
> that the Maidan succeeded when those who took part in it showed that they
> were prepared to die in place rather than to give up on their cause.
>
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