AMERICAN SECRETARY OF
STATE KERRY`S WAR CRIES
The crisis in the Ukraine is deepening. When it started, it
was a tug of war between Ukrainians who wanted their country to tilt towards
the European Union and those who wanted it to tilt towards the traditional
partner and neighbour: Russia. There was so much polarization that the
pro-Russian president of Ukraine fled. Pro-European hardliners now seized power
in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
The reaction of the United States and subsequently that of
the European Union was to threaten that if Moscow did not put a stop to what
was going on in Ukraine, it would face sanctions. That was a continuous refrain
from Washington. The idea was that as far as Washington was concerned, Moscow
was the cause of the unrest and Moscow would have to fix it.
Later, part of Eastern Ukraine – predominantly Russian in
origin – surprisingly broke off and applied to Moscow to become part of Russia.
Since then there has been a rippling effect with Pro-Russians taking over key
public institutions and towns in the East and clamouring for a referendum in
which they want to break free of Kiev. Kerry`s strident calls to Russia have
now been modified and have become pleas for assistance.
Today, the picture in the East of Ukraine has become dirty
and has all the hallmarks of a civil war. There have been regular clashes
between Ukrainian government forces seeking to quell the rebellion in the East
and Pro-Russian artillery counter attacks which have recently led to two two Ukrainian
fighter jets being shot down and the pilot killed.
One of the latest
developments is that Moscow has called for a meeting of the Security Council of
the UN to discuss the debacle.
Just how far this conflict will go is a difficult nut to
crack.
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