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US Secretary of State John Kerry has threatened Russia with more sanctions, blaming it for the escalation of violence in Ukraine.
Nevertheless, Kerry failed to mention Kiev’s military
operation in the country’s east. In a surprise address on Thursday,
Kerry dismissed any possibility that population of the eastern part of
Ukraine might be not happy with the results of the coup that took place
in earlier this year and with those who took power by force in Kiev.
Kerry described pro-federalization activists as people armed with
weapons "of the latest issue from the Russian arsenal and speaking in
dialects that every local knows come from thousands of miles away."
A political analyst Dmitry Babich told Voice of Russia his opinion on this subject.
So, let me please have your comments on Mr. Kerry’s remarks?
Mr.
Kerry obviously speaks the language which has originated thousands of
miles away from Donetsk and from Ukraine. So, to hear him
differentiating the dialects of the Russian language… And the problem is
that people in Donetsk speak Russian. This is a Russian-speaking region
and very rarely you hear people speaking Ukrainian there. So, I think
he just talks about things he doesn’t understand.
I’m
pretty sure that I know the Russian dialects better than Mr. Kerry. And
I’m pretty sure that when he said it, he based his information on what
he has heard from some of the biggest liars in today’s world, namely the
Kiev Government.
From the very beginning, from his
first visit to Kiev he said stupid things based on what he has heard
from the Kievans. For example, you remember what he said in Kiev in
winter, when maidan activists were still replacing police. Kerry then
said: "Who tells you that there is violence and crime in Kiev?! I was
driven around Kiev in a car today and there was no violence. So, there
is no crime in Kiev".
You know, that reminded me of Mark Twain. John Kerry is certainly now behaving like a character of Mark Twain.
And his other statement today that RT is "a
Russian propaganda bullhorn", which was deployed by Putin in order to
misinform and distort… Well, even during the Cold War it was considered
to be a bad taste among the officials, including the foreign policy
officials, to attack individual mass media, because if this is a
propaganda bullhorn, don’t talk about it.
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Yes, that used to be the policy, that you diplomatically just didn’t
mention anything. And of course, there’s been another visitor this week. We are coming to the end of a very busy week. Biden was there as well. This was an extraordinary visit. He said some very strange things.
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Yes. And I would say that if Mr. Kerry was just an epitome of respect
to journalists in his “bullhorn” speech, then Mr. Biden was an epitome
of generosity. You know, he offered the Ukrainian people $50 million,
which is just about $1 per Ukrainian, or maybe a few cents more, because
there are 46 million people living in Ukraine. I think that is a record
of generosity. Mr. Biden should be given a medal as the most generous
American. And Mr. Kerry should be given a medal of a friend of the
press.
The Western media, not the RT, but the BBC and
the Washington Post, the NY Times, in their reports from east Ukraine,
they quite a number of civilians (not the so-called gunmen who occupied
buildings, but just people on the street), who say that they are not
happy neither with their salaries, nor with their lives under the new
Government. They are not happy with this new Government’s cultural
policies. They are scared of the violence that brought this Government
to power. And these are genuine grievances.
And somehow
Mr. Kerry just dismisses them all. He says that there is absolutely no
evidence of anyone being unhappy about his life in eastern Ukraine. And
he says that these protesters in east Ukraine should disband, because it
was agreed in Geneva. He doesn’t care that Maidan protesters continue
camping in the center of Kiev. He doesn’t care that the city
administration of Kiev is still occupied by people who have portraits of
Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera. And there is a huge portrait of him
hanging in the city administration of Kiev.
He doesn’t
care about that at all, he just wants the pro-Russian units to disband
and he says that the Geneva accords are “it is not vague, it is not
subjective, it is not optional”. But the problem is that, first, the
east Ukrainian protesters were not invited to Geneva. Their voice was
not heard. Russia tried to make a case for them and all of these
attempts by Russia were dismissed. The Americans and the EU said that
these are all your agents and you have to get them away from the
streets, because you can do it.
I’m not sure Russia can do it, because these are the Ukrainian citizens who are not happy about what is going on in Ukraine.
And another thing I think we should point out is that here in Moscow we
do get a lot of information from family members who have people there. I
mean, we are hearing all kinds of things one could more or less say
first hand.
And we have people coming to Moscow
from Ukraine, because there is no work in Ukraine, because people don’t
feel secure. And I’m pretty sure that we – Muscovites – have a better
communication with the average Ukrainians than Mr. Kerry has thousands
of miles away in Washington. And we have somewhat tighter historic ties
to Ukraine.
It is just amazing how people like Biden or
Kerry, or Nuland think that they can talk about things they simply
don’t know. Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire before the US
appeared on the face of the Earth. Actually, 150 years before the US
became a nation.
The next week is going to be another busy week or will things look differently as the May 1 approaches?
Well,
so far there no good signs, because Obama expects only Russia to make
concession. I think the situation can get worse. And also, we shouldn’t
forget 6 people died yesterday. They were killed by the Ukrainian
military. The Ukrainian citizens were killed by the Ukrainian military!
This is a tragic situation and Mr. Kerry should speak about this and not
about RT, which he doesn’t understand.
[sidebar: Taking issue with you Voice of Russia, RE: Russia Today. Don't take the name of Mark Twain in vain ever again. Mark Twain was and is a great American artist-author. John Kerry is a degenerate, an Israeli Firster and a liar liar liar, flip flop Cohen or Kohn and then the list of criminally insane character references that Kerry is, well Mark Twain NEVER would have written one word about this pimp of the worst of our species to ever have been in the earth's atmosphere!]
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