{"id":139458,"date":"2014-09-19T18:04:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T18:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=139458"},"modified":"2014-09-20T23:23:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T23:23:27","slug":"russias-leader-putin-rejects-ukrainian-separatists-aim-become-part-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/russias-leader-putin-rejects-ukrainian-separatists-aim-become-part-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia’s Leader Putin Rejects Ukrainian Separatists’ Aim to Become Part of Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/em><\/a>
\nRINF Alternative News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The leader of the Ukrainian separatists says that their efforts to get Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to accept their territory as being a part of Russia have been firmly rejected by Putin’s Government; and, so,\u00a0“We will build our own country.”<\/a>\u00a0(This important statement from the rebel leader Andrei Purgin\u00a0on Wednesday, September 17th, was inconspicuously buried halfway through an AP news story that focused instead on “East Ukraine Casualties.” It’s common for propagandistic news reports, such as\u00a0characterize the U.S. media<\/a>, to bury what’s important in the news story, and not even to headline that crucial information, when that information\u00a0violates the regime’s propaganda<\/a>. So: this information was buried, and was not headlined.)<\/p>\n

Russia’s Government has thus made clear that it is not seeking to add to its territory. While Russia has accepted the approximately million refugees who have fled to Russia from Ukraine’s civil war, Russia does not want any part of Ukraine\u2019s territory. Crimea was traditionally part of Russia, throughout the period 1783-1954, until the leader of the Soviet Union gifted Crimea to Ukraine (the nation that was called the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) in 1954, but\u00a0the residents of Crimea never accepted that, and they overwhelmingly considered themselves still to be Russians<\/a>. Furthermore, the Russian Navy’s lease on the Crimean port of Sebastopol for its Black Sea Fleet extended till 2042, and the\u00a0February 2014 coup-installed Ukrainian Government<\/a>\u00a0wanted to cancel it, which threatened crucial Russian national defense. Furthermore, many of those new Ukrainian leaders wanted a nuclear war against Russia. So, Putin accepted Crimea back into Russia, but he will not admit more than that as being added to Russian territory.<\/p>\n

Crimea is viewed as not being an addition to Russia, but instead as voluntarily rejoining Russia, irrespective of the new Ukrainian Government’s campaign to eliminate ethnic Russians from Ukraine’s southeast. No other part of post-1954 Ukraine had previously been part of Russia, and this includes the southeastern portion of Ukraine, whose residents ethnically descended from Russian immigrants who had settled there.<\/p>\n

Consequently, the\u00a0ethnic-cleansing campaign that has been going on by the new, Obama-installed, Ukrainian Government, against the residents in Ukraine’s southeast<\/a>, will continue, at least until the surviving residents there become a small enough proportion of the Ukrainian national electorate so that a nationwide Ukrainian election — which\u00a0hasn’t been held in Ukraine since the February 2014 coup<\/a>\u00a0— will choose leaders who are acceptable to the U.S. Government, which planned and financed\u00a0that February coup<\/a>. Only by\u00a0killing and driving out enough of those people<\/a>\u00a0— the ones in\u00a0the areas that overwhelmingly voted for the man whom Obama overthrew<\/a>\u00a0— will become possible a democratic Ukraine that allies itself with the U.S.<\/p>\n

President Putin and President Obama have regularly been in direct contact with one-another ever since Obama’s coup occurred in February. Perhaps Putin’s declining to accept Ukrainian territory into Russia is part of an agreement between the two leaders in which Obama is, for his part,\u00a0declining<\/a>\u00a0the urgings from congressional Republicans and conservative Democrats for the U.S. to provide weapons to the Ukrainian military to expedite their\u00a0ethnic cleansing campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE, 20 September:<\/p>\n

The great German newspaper German Economic News<\/i>, headlined on Saturday, September 20th,\u00a0\u201cWelcome Russia at the G20 summit: End of\u00a0Isolation\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(German original: \u00a0\u201cEnde der Isolation: Russland bei G20-Gipfel\u00a0willkommen\u201d),\u00a0and reported that, “Because the USA needs Russia in its\u00a0fight\u00a0against terror-IS, the G20 speculation to isolate Russia in the world community\u00a0has been shelved. The conflict on the Eastern Ukraine is therefore classified\u00a0as [being only]\u00a0regionally [important].” Moreover, “Americans\u00a0and Russians agreed behind the\u00a0scenes on a division of the Ukraine. …\u00a0The Ukrainian government and the rebels in the east have\u00a0agreed on the establishment of a buffer zone in the east of the country. … The\u00a0resulting 30 km wide buffer zone along the [battle] front will be monitored by\u00a0observers from the Organization for\u00a0Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).” That is, essentially, the announcement introducing truce-lines, like established the end of the Korean War, and many others.<\/p>\n

———-<\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> and of \u00a0CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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