Showcase Showdown: How Ukraine’s Offensive May Go From Bad To Worse

Tuesday, January 20, 2015
By Paul Martin

Andrew Korybko
SputnikNews.com
19.01.2015

Kiev’s forces began heavy shelling in Donetsk over the weekend, with Poroshenko dismissing Putin’s emergency peace plan thus restarting the conflict in East Ukraine. The offensive now appears poised to expand from a battle for the airport to an entire regional operation, with no weapons off-limits.

While news reports suggest that Kiev has recaptured most of the heavily contested Donestk airport, it doesn’t appear to have stopped there. Stories are coming in telling that Kiev has begun shelling residential areas in the city as well, to say nothing of the 500kg bombs it is accused of dropping on nearby Gorlovka. Poroshenko may have been encouraged to restart and expand the war because of the support he’s been receiving from both the US government and Blackwater. It may turn out to be that Kiev uses the recently reclaimed airport as a gateway to fully expanding the war all the way up to Russia’s borders, thus raising the risk that the civil war may become an international one.

A New War For A New Year

The resumption of open conflict in Ukraine (which never truly ‘ceased’ in the first place) looks to be the first ‘new’ war of the year, and it’s entirely Washington-backed. The US has been using Ukraine as a proxy against Russia ever since the EuroMaidan Color Revolutionaries seized power last February, so it’s not surprising that it would have an interest in the current hostilities. In fact, Congress even voted to send weapons to the country last month in a move that was guaranteed to destabilize the situation sooner or later. On the ‘non-governmental’ front, Blackwater has taken to training an ‘experimental battalion’ of 550 soldiers for Kiev. Mixed together, the combination of US support and Blackwater training is a surefire recipe for disaster in any country of the world.

The Rest…HERE

Leave a Reply

Join the revolution in 2018. Revolution Radio is 100% volunteer ran. Any contributions are greatly appreciated. God bless!

Follow us on Twitter