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Putin Should Just Take East Ukraine

By Finian Cunningham

February 19, 2015 "
ICH" - Russian President Vladimir Putin should just be done with this stupid Western game in Ukraine and send in his troops to liberate the eastern region, otherwise known as Novorossia.

Moscow has so far shown more than enough forbearance towards Washington and its puppet regime in Kiev. And yet this week, Washington's allies in the European Union have seen it fit to impose fresh sanctions on Russia. Putin's diplomatic efforts to end the conflict on a mutual basis between the Kiev regime and the separatist ethnic Russian people have been twisted and upended at every turn by Washington.

As soon as Putin brokered the ceasefire last week in the Belarus capital, Minsk, the Americans and their proxies in Kiev have done everything to undermine it. Ironically, they accuse Moscow of bad faith and of escalating violence by covertly supplying weapons and troops to aid the separatists. Washington's provocative calumny is compounded with renewed threats to slap even more sanctions on Russia and to increase its own military involvement in Ukraine. There is far more proof of American military meddling in Ukraine than is ever presented to substantiate Western claims of "Russian aggression".

Russia has tried its best to use diplomatic tools to resolve the Ukraine crisis. It was Putin after all who helped to broker previous ceasefires in Minsk last September. The Americans were nowhere to be seen making a contribution to the peace effort. Instead Washington has been egging on the reactionary Kiev regime to ignore ceasefire obligations by continuing its illegal offensive on the east Ukraine population. There is very little reason to believe that Washington and Kiev proxies will behave any different towards the latest truce.

So, in a nutshell, Putin's Russia cannot win or even find a mutual draw in the game of diplomacy, where it alone abides by international norms. The Americans are not interested in diplomacy. They are playing a different, very dirty game of covert war in Ukraine to undermine Russia.

Russia should therefore walk away from this futile diplomatic process, and assert its geopolitical agenda with its own rules. That means Putin sending in Russian military openly and overwhelmingly to annex the Donetsk and Luhansk self-declared People's Republics, and formally make these territories of Novorossia part of the Russian Federation, similar to the events in Crimea last March.

Here are some reasons why such a move makes sense:

The ethnic Russian population of Novorossia want that outcome by a large democratic majority. They voted in referenda last year declaring independence from the Western-backed regime, which itself grabbed power in an illegal and violent coup in February 2014 against an elected Ukrainian government. That event meant that the rules of democratic politics and Ukrainian sovereignty no longer applied. It was the West that tore up the rulebook. If the people of Novorossia want to secede from the rump Ukraine, then they have every right to do that, just as the people of the Crimean southern province self-determined to do in their referendum.

Such a decisive move by Russia would definitely put an end to the Western-backed war of aggression on the pro-Russian people of east Ukraine. These people have suffered enough during the past year from Kiev's state terrorism. Nearly 6,000 people have been killed and over one million turned into refugees from a relentless campaign of ethnic cleansing by the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev. Civilians have been targeted by indiscriminate shelling carried out by the regime's regular forces and their paramilitary auxiliaries. Besides, the Right Sector neo-Nazi death squads led by Dmitryo Yarosh have vowed to continue their murderous onslaught on the Novorossian population, seeing the latter as "sub-humans", regardless of the latest Minsk so-called ceasefire.

The people of east Ukraine have centuries of cultural kinship with Russia, just as the people of Crimea have too. Integration with Russia is the natural home for the people of east Ukraine. The Western-orientated Kiev regime is an artificial, alien construct, which the West is trying to impose by force of will and arms. For Moscow to reclaim territory that was formerly part of Russia anyway is therefore a fairer and more feasible settlement.

Putin's deployment of full military strength is the only language that the rogue Washington state understands. When US-led NATO tried to subvert pro-Russian South Ossetia in 2008 with its proxy regime in Georgia, Putin swiftly put an end to that debacle when he sent in thousands of Russian troops to repel the NATO-led Georgians. Peace and the rights of South Ossetia were restored immediately and Washington backed off with its tail between its legs. The same needs to be done now in eastern Ukraine. Thanklessly, Putin has given much leeway to US-led proxy war so far. The Americans seem to infer that diplomacy is a sign of weakness. So, Russia should conclude that diplomacy is not the solution. The situation requires a military solution. And Russia has the military might to crush this Kiev proxy in Novorossia decisively, once and for all.

Looked at another way, if Putin does not act decisively with military force, the proxy war will continue to kill and displace many more innocent ethnic Russian people, and the West will continue to defame Russia with spurious claims of "aggression". That will allow the West to ratchet up more sanctions on Moscow thus causing internal problems for Russia (which is what the West wants) and it will provide a cover for more American weapons to the Kiev regime, which again will only make the conflict more protracted and problematic for Putin in the long-run.

Under the prevailing situation, the US-led covert war in Ukraine is, astoundingly, blamed on Russia. The servile Western propaganda "news" media amplify that gross distortion by endlessly peddling baseless claims against Russia. Putin can't win in the dirty game being played by Washington because Russia is trying to play by normal rules of diplomacy.

Vladimir Putin should act unilaterally and decisively with military force and take the eastern Ukraine territory out of the malicious hands of Washington. There will of course be a tsunami of Western media outcry and ridiculous vilification of Putin as "the new Hitler". They will say that Putin is finally delivering on his expansionist plans that he has been harbouring all along, as Washington has been claiming for the past year.

But, really, who cares what Washington and its minions say? They are just a bunch of liars and hypocrites, who will demonise Putin and Russia no matter what he does. The people of Russia, Novorossia and a good many others around the world, including the US and Europe, already know what the truth is. The world knows that Putin has moral and legal right to put at end to this Western-backed war madness in Ukraine. If that war is not stopped promptly, it may lead to an even worse war for Russia because of its dynamic of deceit, false claims Russia. Putin should just act according to his rules. And to hell with the West.

Copyright Finian Cunningham

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