Enough of the Double Talk Already
If the government in Kiev had any notion of reintegrating Donbass they would not have bombed, shelled, and murdered entire villages. They would not have allowed mass torture of civilians, or the rape and murder of women and children. These are not things a legitimate government allows for, never mind bestows medals on monsters that do these things to its own people.
If they were not nationalists, they would have stopped the ultras from the murders and calls for destroying every life in Donbass. Instead they rewarded it. Commanders guilty of mass murder and torture sit in the Ukrainian Senate and meet with the US Congress and the executive branch. Mass starvation in Donbass is a tactic to make people run, die slowly, or submit to the government that murders them.
The argument that the separatist rebels are getting what they deserve is intellectually retarded. Donbass wasn't trying to separate, Kiev forced it through atrocity . The Ukrainian government made it impossible for Donbass and other areas to remain under their control.
The argument that there are no nazis in Kiev is a leap into the bizzarre. The people in Kiev's government were educated in ultra-nationalist/nazi universities. Many had David Duke as a professor of history.
Ukrainian nazi ideology is so rigid it was easy to predict the brutality of the cleansing battalions before Maidan was over and the Coup leaders actually took government. It is so rigid it was easy to predict the turn it would take in Donbass, which entails a regional cleansing of people. It was easy to predict how the conscription would be used to get rid of "others" that may even remotely be Moskal.
It was easy to predict winter starvation would be used as a tactical weapon in June when I first wrote it would happen. Read Bandera's ideological material. It is followed zealously and religiously. Ukrainian nazi's are nothing if not predictable. They are also intractable liars. That's part of the ideology too.
The nonstop shelling during the 'peace' has done its work. Too many people's homes are destroyed that were never involved in any fighting. Too many people cannot afford to purchase bread even it were available to them. The cold and snow of winter has set in.
A monumental humanitarian effort is needed now to stop mass death across the region. It will never come fast enough or be enough. This time is the third time in less than 100 years the people of Donbass have suffered through forced starvation through callousness and as weapon of war.
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(Article changed on December 17, 2014 at 22:59)
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