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Ja, ett decennium höll de på och jävlas i Afghanistan för att stödja en marionettregim i princip inga afghaner ville ha. Och när ryssarna drog sig ur nederlaget den gången var det slut med deras folkförtryckande Sovjetimperium.
Som väntat förspilld möda i London när Lavrov och Kelly talade förbi varandra:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/russia-west-collision-course-ukraine-talks-fail-london
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During five hours of talks, Kerry pushed Lavrov to postpone the referendum. He challenged him over sudden Russian troop movements along the Ukrainian border over the last few days. But Lavrov offered nothing in the way of a concession that would have helped reduce tensions.
At a press conference afterwards, the Russian foreign minister described the talks as productive, in that both sides were able to set out their positions, but the two sides did not share "a common vision". Looking for a way to emphasise his point, Lavrov sought an international parallel: Crimea meant more to Russia than the Falklands did to Britain.
At a separate press conference, Kerry, looking tired and dejected, said he had put forward proposals from Barack Obama, but Lavrov replied that Vladimir Putin was not prepared to consider them until after the referendum.
Trying to sound emollient, Kerry repeatedly insisted he was not issuing warnings or threats to Russia. But he went on to say the US would not recognise the outcome of the referendum and that there would be costs for Russia if it went ahead.
His strongest comment came when he described the proposed referendum as "a back-door annexation" that would breach international law.
At a press conference afterwards, the Russian foreign minister described the talks as productive, in that both sides were able to set out their positions, but the two sides did not share "a common vision". Looking for a way to emphasise his point, Lavrov sought an international parallel: Crimea meant more to Russia than the Falklands did to Britain.
At a separate press conference, Kerry, looking tired and dejected, said he had put forward proposals from Barack Obama, but Lavrov replied that Vladimir Putin was not prepared to consider them until after the referendum.
Trying to sound emollient, Kerry repeatedly insisted he was not issuing warnings or threats to Russia. But he went on to say the US would not recognise the outcome of the referendum and that there would be costs for Russia if it went ahead.
His strongest comment came when he described the proposed referendum as "a back-door annexation" that would breach international law.
Ryskt flyg in i Vitryssland. Lukasjenko "känner sig hotad" av NATO:
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After deploying 10,000 troops as well as heavy armour and artillery in border regions with Ukraine this week, Russia on Friday took further military steps, ordering six Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jets and three transport planes into its ally Belarus, located on Ukraine's northern border. The Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, had expressed concern over what he said was a potential Nato threat.
Spekulationer om vad Kreml kan tänkas besvara sanktionerna med för upptrappning, bl.a. genom att aktivera den bosnienserbiske ledaren Milorad Dodik för ett destabiliseringsuppdrag:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/europe-prepares-sanctions-against-russia-over-ukraine
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President Vladimir Putin has ample levers to pull in his confrontation with the west, from gas and oil supplies, to mobilising Russia-friendly minorities in other countries, to offering cheap credits to haul neighbouring states into Russia's orbit and away from western integration, to throttling and threatening recalcitrant countries in Russia's backyard through embargoes and closing borders, to sabre-rattling with the Russian military. He can also cause mischief further afield in places where western policy is seen to be drifting and failing, such as Bosnia.
Milorad Dodik, the leader of the Serbian half of Bosnia and a politician committed to sabotaging any single Bosnian state, was in Moscow this week where he was feted as a hero by the Russian Orthodox church leadership. He met foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and had been scheduled to meet Putin, though that meeting was never confirmed.
Western officials in Sarajevo suspect the real aim of the visit was to secure Russian funding in order to be able to wreck a two-year International Monetary Fund standby agreement with Bosnia, conditioned on slimming down the bloated government apparatus in both halves of the country.---
Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat peer and the international community's former High Representative in Bosnia, warned that Moscow's support for Bosnian Serb separatism could be dangerously destabilising for Europe.
"Given the fragility of Bosnia, to try to draw it into a wider confrontation over Crimea is incredibly irresponsible. Bosnia is not a functioning state but a failed state," said Ashdown, who intends to use a speech in Sarajevo next Tuesday to raise the alarm. "I do not believe the most likely outcome at present is violence, but I can't now discount that outcome."
Milorad Dodik, the leader of the Serbian half of Bosnia and a politician committed to sabotaging any single Bosnian state, was in Moscow this week where he was feted as a hero by the Russian Orthodox church leadership. He met foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and had been scheduled to meet Putin, though that meeting was never confirmed.
Western officials in Sarajevo suspect the real aim of the visit was to secure Russian funding in order to be able to wreck a two-year International Monetary Fund standby agreement with Bosnia, conditioned on slimming down the bloated government apparatus in both halves of the country.---
Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat peer and the international community's former High Representative in Bosnia, warned that Moscow's support for Bosnian Serb separatism could be dangerously destabilising for Europe.
"Given the fragility of Bosnia, to try to draw it into a wider confrontation over Crimea is incredibly irresponsible. Bosnia is not a functioning state but a failed state," said Ashdown, who intends to use a speech in Sarajevo next Tuesday to raise the alarm. "I do not believe the most likely outcome at present is violence, but I can't now discount that outcome."
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Senast redigerad av KaosnegerMedKlubba 2014-03-14 kl. 19:04.
Senast redigerad av KaosnegerMedKlubba 2014-03-14 kl. 19:04.
Rysshatet i Ukraina upplevde jag som mycket påtagligt, och det för ~10-15 år sedan.
