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Donald Trump 'actively
reviewing' sending weapons to Ukraine after Kiev reports 3,000 Russian troops
in country
Russia 'seeking to
redraw international borders by force,' James Mattis says
That claim is a complete falsehood.
If Russia wanted to “re-draw the border,” it could readily
have done so.
As Putin famously remarked quite a while ago - a remark
deliberately twisted at the time by Washington - if he wanted to do so, he
could have his tanks in Kiev in two weeks.
Putin's patience throughout this entire matter of an
American-induced coup against a neighboring, democratic government has been
admirable.
He has not recognized the breakaway Donbas area of Ukraine -
overwhelmingly Russian speakers who could not accept the new coup-government's
efforts to suppress their interests, even their language.
He has not sent massive forces to defend them, which he
could easily have done.
He helped create the Minsk Agreements and has done
everything to support them as a way of returning to something resembling
normality.
Can anyone even imagine the Pentagon's reaction to a coup
staged in Mexico by Russia or China? The tanks would have been in Mexico City
in days. Threats of nuclear war would be in the air.
The entire Ukraine coup is a disgrace. This was a democratic
government toppled solely to hurt and provoke Russia. The smiling psychopath,
Obama, approved it, but Trump's gang of Pentagon thugs now carries right on
(again giving us a strong clue as to who really determines America policies
abroad).
