Yulia Tymoshenko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk
The fledgling government in Kiev put the country on a war footing on Sunday as the Russian president,
Vladimir Putin, tightened his grip on the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and western powers were left scrambling to find a response to the escalating crisis.
"We are on the brink of disaster," said Arseniy Yatsenyuk,
Ukraine's acting prime minister, as Kiev called for help from Washington and London, co-signatories of a 1994 pact with
Russia guaranteeing Ukraine's security and its borders.
"This is actually a declaration of war on my country," he said. "We urge Putin to pull back his troops from this country and honour bilateral agreements. If he wants to be the president who started a war between two neighbouring and friendly countries, he has reached his target within a few inches."
As
John Kerry, the US secretary of state, described Russia's gambit as "an incredible act of aggression", western powers pondered their limited options. Nato ambassadors met in Brussels, with Lithuania and Poland arguing that Russia's actions threatened them as Nato members bordering Russia and Ukraine, and pushing for appropriate action.
Comment: As the British establishment is joined at the hip with the American, we can deduce that the US won't do anything either.
It's all hot air and PR stunts, with both foreign secretaries visiting Kiev in two days, while their lackeys in the press push all the right propaganda buttons.
They can't slap sanctions on Russia because the financial elite in London would overrule them. They can't confront Russia's army because it's too risky to wage war with a real army.
They're pathetic creatures, which is why they instead use their armies to target defenseless peoples and hope that repeating lies often and loudly enough will convince the others to submit to their will.
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