{"id":43494,"date":"2014-04-15T10:14:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=43494"},"modified":"2014-04-15T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:14:35","slug":"tension-ratchets-up-in-the-eastern-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=43494","title":{"rendered":"Tension Ratchets Up in the Eastern Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that the situation in the eastern Ukraine is getting quite tense<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The current acting president of the Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov, has announced the beginning of what he termed \u201canti-terrorist\u201d operations at various locations in the eastern Ukraine.\u00a0 Those targeted by Ukrainian forces in these operations appear to be Ukrainian militias with pro-Russian sympathies that have occupied Ukrainian government facilities.<\/p>\n

The Ukraine government alleges Russia is behind the unrest in the eastern Ukraine. \u00a0\u00a0Dissidents in the eastern Ukraine are indeed demanding closer ties to Russia and flying the Russian flag at \u201cliberated\u201d facilities, so the allegation is plausible.<\/p>\n

However, the eastern Ukraine has historically tended to look north to Moscow vice west to Europe, and has far closer ties to Moscow than does the western Ukraine. \u00a0It is also the portion of the Ukraine that most strongly supported the former Russian-leaning Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted by pro-Western demonstrations earlier this year.\u00a0 There thus may well be a large element of local discontent in the eastern Ukraine with pro-Western policies being dictated by the current Kiev government.<\/p>\n

At least two have died in the eastern Ukrainian unrest so far.\u00a0 The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has called the Ukraine \u201con the brink of civil war\u201d.\u00a0 Russia has thousands of troops near the eastern borders of the Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian government has asked for the deployment of UN Peacekeeping troops in the eastern Ukraine.\u00a0 However, with Russia holding veto power over UN Security Council resolutions, the prospect of that happening is almost certainly essentially nil.<\/p>\n

It looks like this could indeed get ugly if someone guesses wrong.\u00a0 Hopefully we (the US) will have the good sense to stay the hell out of this, militarily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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