– The “Ukraine Situation” Explained In One Map (ZeroHedge, Feb 20, 2014):
Sadly, everything you need to know about the crisis in Ukraine in one worrisome map which summarizes all the relevant “red lines.”
Given this – is there any doubt this will not end with peaceful resolution.
As Martin Armstrong warned this morning:
BOTH the USA and EU will now fund the rebels as Russia will fund Yanukovych. At the political level, Ukraine is the pawn on the chessboard. The propaganda war is East v West. However, those power plays are masking the core issue that began with the Orange Revolution – corruption. Yanukovych is a dictator who will NEVER leave office. It is simple as that. There will be no REAL elections again in Ukraine. This is starting to spiral down into a confrontation that the entire world cannot ignore.
See also:
– Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: US, EU Paying Ukrainian Rioters, Protesters
With it’s access to waterways, and the pipe lines, it is apparent that Russia needs to get the Ukraine back under their flag. Not only have they the ideal position, but their soil is rich, and food can be grown there. Russia needs the Ukraine in order to rebuild. Putin strikes me as one who will do whatever it takes to regain the strength of the former USSR .
This is a political and economic war, and nobody will want the US in there, so Russia it is. They have a strong history together, and Russia will not sit by while the US causes more problems into their quest to rebuild.
The US is as despised as was Germany, Italy or Spain in the 1930s…….even their own people cannot trust them.