RENEE PARSONS
As the violence in east Ukraine continues to spiral out of control, it is readily apparent that US diplomatic efforts to bring peace to the region are non existent — except to stir opposition against a 280 vehicle humanitarian convoy stalled at the border and to reiterate a cycle of uncorroborated fictions against Russia.
With intensified fighting in Ukraine, new allegations that a column of 23 Russian armored personnel carriers had crossed the border and been destroyed by Ukraine artillery in rebel-held territory have proven to be totally unfounded — and yet an acquiescent media continues to repeat the unsubstantiated charges as if factual.
At the same time, as the massacre of a civilian population in Gaza revealed the gross inhumanity of the Obama Administration, the current blocking of urgently needed humanitarian and medical aid from Russia to east Ukraine is the latest provocation by the US-supported Kiev government.
Since earlier incitements failed in its desired effect to lure Russian troops across the border and the downing of MH 17 failed to prove that Putin was to blame, the US has moved on to the strategy of using the Ukraine’s civilian population, an estimated 1,200 of which are abandoned orphans, as bait to achieve the hoped-for result of encouraging a Russian military intervention.