[Peace-discuss] Obama's European war

[Carl G. Estabrook]

"...Washington’s Ukraine policy ... leaves Putin with few options. If he deploys troops to defend ethnic Russians in the East, then Obama will demand additional economic sanctions, a no-fly zone, NATO deployment, and the cutting off of natural gas and oil supplies to Europe. On the other hand, if Putin does nothing, then the attacks against Russian-speaking people in Ukraine (like Sunday’s shootout at an Eastern checkpoint that left three people dead) will intensify and the US will provide covert military and logistical support to neo-Nazi extremists in the Interior Ministry, just as they have with jihadi terrorists in Syria and Libya. That will hurtle Ukraine into a devastating civil war that will damage Russia’s economy and undermine its national security. Anyway you look at it, Russia loses."

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/23/putins-dilemma/
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