Ukraine Starting Over

However the followers of the situation in Ukraine may perceive things, one is never far from the perception that the other shoe is going to drop. While it seems that Rex Tillerson  has made nice with the Folks in Kiev, reaffirmed America's commitment to the recovery of Ukraine's territorial integrity, via  the somewhat rough and challenging roadmap to Peace,  outlined in the Minsk accords, it's anyone's guess how things can go forward. For one thing, there is still a chance for some masterful swoop towards a conclusion, a cessation of hostility, yet that requires every side to the conflict to reveal , admit their utmost vulnerabilities politically, strategically. That is a questionably tall order for the moment. It perhaps  harkens to me,  a thought to a remnant of the earlier culture of our grandparents, the TV era,  of the 1960's Andy Griffith show, the character of Gomer Pyle , THE naive, SIMPLE MINDED MECHANIC, who barely knew more than how to fill a car

hello! welcome (once again )  to the weekend ! wherever the reader may be chilling out, North South , East or West (or maybe slightly offshore somewhere in the tropics of Capricorn. it's been quite an interesting sequence of events. Election meddling in Ukraine that brought Victor Yanukovych into power in Ukraine's 2010 election (via Paul Manafort and associates) has now become a fulcrum for the United States of America to analyze it's entire electoral and constitutional process. We are dealing with a flawed election here,  and while I dislike the President,  personally I somewhat want to see him  finish his term in office. He'll probably be too old for most people to find him interesting in 3 years. My country, I hope can learn a lesson from this, and gracefully move on: with all of the lining up of legal teams, it harkens my imagination to recollect a rather famous antique poem penned by one of America's most erudite writers of the common folk. It's col

Well with POTUS meeting up with Mister Putin this week, who knows what will come of it. I can't imagine what it'd be like to be the fly on the wall, or will all forms of insect life be forbidden by the security managers ? At least Trump knows how to say Nuclear the proper way, as opposed to Former president Bush with his drawl down of the term to NUKULAR. Stuff has come out this week that NATO can't even handle a Russian conventional warfare invasion of the Baltic states.  Yet the Russian Federation has many levers it can use to coerce policy . For sure, it's impolite to insinuate that Nuclear blackmail is part of the indirect dialog. Ukraine , to it's credit removed itself from that equation and that's why my country needs to continue promoting their sovereignty and territorial integrity: they made the world a safer place,  for vastly lower amounts of money than it'd take to buy Iran off the Nuclear stage, or Pakistan, or any other member of the Nuclea

]succinct enough : will these measures help, or hurt the FSU families  who struggle? VITALY PORTNIKOV Journalist All entries of the author Original published in "  Krym.Realii  " The extension of European Union sanctions against the Russian Federation passed so casually that it is not even got in the news.  Most discussions about this extension at the last EU summit almost was not.  And this despite the fact that until recently, on the eve of the previous extension, seemed to prolong the sanctions for the last time.  I would say - every time an extension was seen as the last. But this year there were significant changes in the sanctions stories. The West has imposed sanctions against the Russian occupation of Crimea and after the outbreak of war in the Donbas.  Introduced for a flagrant violation of international law.  Introduced to destabilize the situation in Ukraine.  But while most of the European Union or the United States as the sanctions would n