EU Reeling Between US and Russia

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/EU-Reeling-Between-US-and-by-Pepe-Escobar-Brics_Chaos_Economy_Empire-150219-628.html

Minsk 2.0 agreement de facto shows that Germany and France, the leading European powers are trying to break away from the "American Chaos project."

EU Reeling Between US and Russia
By Pepe Escobar
OpEdNews Op Eds 2/19/2015 at 16:01:24

Washington has certainly succeeded in permeating an already embattled EU with a little extra -- what else -- chaos, by pitting the "West" against Russia.

The Obama administration -- infested with neo-con cells, those ghosts inside the machine -- have always believed that a package of Western sanctions plus a Saudi-unleashed oil price war would be enough to bring down the Russian economy, thus "changing its behavior" on Ukraine, and in the best scenario provoking regime change in Moscow.

Well, it's not working. Minsk 2.0 -- as fragile an agreement as it is -- de facto shows Germany (assisted by France), the leading European powers, trying to break away from the American Chaos project.

The Empire of Chaos does not want a lasting agreement on Ukraine -- and will do everything to torpedo Minsk 2.0. NATO's strategic imperative remains clear; force Moscow into a war in Ukraine to exhaust it economically, prevent a EU-Russia economic/trade partnership, and eliminate Russia as a global competitor to the US.

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1. "finance is the new kind of warfare"

Indeed. Something clicked in my head when I realized those too big to fail banks are a weapon in international affairs and are used that way. That is why they are protected.

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2. And why

they need to be broken up.

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3. Quite. When they rule, we don't. nt

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4. The West needs to save Ukraine, PM Yatsenyuk says

Western governments need to do more to save Ukraine from a Russian effort to turn this country into a “failed state,” Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said in an interview, saying his country needs military help to halt the advance of Moscow-backed separatists.

“The West needs to make its decision. This is one of the most important decisions in this century: to support or to abandon Ukraine,” Mr. Yatsenyuk told The Globe and Mail on the first anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the Kremlin-supported government of Viktor Yanukovych. “If I say to support, it means a large-scale and comprehensive Marshall Plan. A part of which has to be a defence issue … call it defensive weapons supply.”

“This is not just a fight for Ukraine, this is a fight for the free world, and everybody needs to realize this.”

In an interview marked by moments of high rhetoric and blunt honesty, Mr. Yatsenyuk also called on the United States and Canada to play more active diplomatic roles – a remark that could be interpreted as a swipe at the efforts of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande. The two European leaders mediated talks earlier this month between Mr. Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that resulted in the signing of a ceasefire that disintegrated almost as soon as the leaders left the negotiating room.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/the-west-needs-to-save-ukraine-prime-minister-says/article23134178/