© AFP PhotoAn anti-goverment fighter holds his gun towards the Ukrainian army position at a checkpoint near the front line in the northern outskirts of city of Donetsk, on July 22, 2014.
The New Great Game in Eurasia never ceases to thrill with extreme plot twists. The Big Three players remain the same: the US, Russia and China. The devil is in the concentric subplots.
In Washington, the deep state Russia
'policy' has revealed itself to be sanctions, sanctions, sanctions; because of Crimea, because of support for federalists in Eastern Ukraine, because of the MH17 tragedy.
Sanctions are targeting Russia's energy, defense and finance - and are fast on their way towards all-out economic war, which in itself is a declaration of war. As with Cuba; as with Iraq (until there was regime change); as with Iran (until there is a nuclear deal, and even that is a major
'if').
Beware the wrath of the Empire of Chaos. The prescription is always the same; sanctions; no holds barred geo-economic/political warfare; internal subversion (NED, assorted NGOs); and non-stop vitriol marinated in hubris.
In Moscow, there are no illusions; no matter what the Kremlin does on Ukraine, there won't be any
'reset'. Washington's sanction hysteria - which has far surpassed the level of containment - is even regarded as a means towards (what else?) regime change, Putin's huge popularity notwithstanding. No wonder US Think Tankland
is drooling about it.
Comment: And this is how deeply ponerized governments work. They outlaw any reasonable dissent from political parties that hold any opposing views from the ruling party. In this case, the Communist Party of Ukraine is being effectively neutralized so that no dissent may be given a clear voice about the ruling party or parties' policies and agendas. Don't be surprised if the Communist Party becomes even further vilified or set up to take the blame for something that isn't their own doing ala a 'Reichstag Fire' type event -though the way seems clear enough for President Petro Poroshenko and his ilk to do their psychopathic will without such an event.