There is no such thing as a peacekeeper. Not that I’m judging. Hell, I’m getting popcorn:
The United States has told the UN Security Council the deployment of what Russia calls a peacekeeping operation in eastern Ukraine is “nonsense” and that Moscow’s recognition of the breakaway regions as independent is part of its pretext for war.
US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told the emergency meeting of the 15-member council the consequences of Russia’s actions “will be dire — across Ukraine, across Europe, and across the globe”.
“He calls them peacekeepers. This is nonsense, we know what they really are,” she said.
The United Kingdom’s ambassador to the UN said the country will issue new sanctions against Moscow and urged Russia to “de-escalate immediately”.
“There will be severe economic consequences,” she said.
“Russia has brought us to the brink. We urge Russia to step back.”
Soon after the meeting, the Ukrainian military said two soldiers were killed and 12 wounded in shelling by pro-Russian separatists in the east in the past 24 hours, the most casualties this year, as ceasefire violations increased.
The military said on its Facebook page it had recorded 84 cases of shelling by separatists who it said had opened fire on about 40 settlements along the front line using heavy artillery.
Tensions between Moscow and Western capitals are high following weeks of United States accusations that Russia has deployed more than 150,000 troops near Ukraine’s borders for an invasion.
Russia has denied it wants to invade Ukraine and accuses the West of hysteria.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday officially recognised the two breakaway regions — the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic — as independent, defying Western warnings that such a step would be illegal and wreck peace negotiations.
Yes, it’s an invasion. You destabilise a region of a neighbouring country, arm the rebels loyal to you, then send in your army to “keep the peace”. It’s called an invasion, and it’s very clever. As I said, I don’t judge.
Seriously, have you seen the West’s leadership?
Have you seen how they treat the common people?
Hence the popcorn:
“President Putin has torn the Minsk Agreement to shreds. We have been clear that we do not believe he will stop at that,” said Ms Thomas-Greenfield, referring to the agreements of 2014 and 2015 that aimed to end the conflict between the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Mr Putin also on Monday ordered the deployment of Russian forces to the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine to “keep the peace”.
“We remain open to diplomacy for a diplomatic solution, however, allowing new bloodbath in the Donbas is something we do not intend to do,” Russia’s UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the Security Council.
He said Russia was not a party to the Minsk agreement and accused the West of “egging Ukraine on” and “cramming” weapons into the region.
So on one side you have a powerful country prepared to use force, on the other you have a mishmash of weak, Liberal Democracies threatening sanctions, ie threatening not to buy the oil and gas they desperately need to keep their economies going. The only thing currently stopping the Russian military is how they chose to define their own mission objectives.
On the bright side, the very factors which make us so weak are the same factors which could dissuade Putin from just rolling on in. Who would want the hassle of ruling over a West rife with imported ethnic conflict, terminal degeneracy and a parasite class eager to find a new host?
Then again, maybe it’s not such a bright side.
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