Biden Uses Kiev Visit To Lecture Russia
US announces extra £30m for coup government ● US Vice-President Joe Biden told Russia today “to stop talking and start acting” to reduce tension in Ukraine. He insisted that Moscow should be using its influence to encourage pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine to vacate government buildings and checkpoints, accept amnesty and “address their grievances politically.” Mr Biden had nothing to say about the ongoing occupation of property by pro-government forces or the role of far-right paramilitary groups. He lectured Moscow on the need to act “without delay,” adding: “We will not allow this to become an open-ended process.” Apparently oblivious to his own country’s history, Mr Biden said that no country had the right to take another’s territory.
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Stephen Lendman: US Threatens Russia ■ Washington bears full responsibility for elevating illegitimate fascist putschists to power. Doing so reflects another sordid chapter in US history. For sure, it won't be the last. Bullying, bluster and threatening ultimatums define US policy. John Kerry warned Sergei Lavrov. Moscow has "days, not weeks," to assure Ukrainian four-part agreement terms are implemented. [...] Fact check: Kiev putschists deployed neo-Nazi Right Sector thugs. They did so to Eastern Ukraine. They unleashed violence. They violated Easter truce terms straightaway. Deescalation is a convenient illusion. Washington bears full responsibility for Ukrainian crisis conditions. Rogue EU nations partner in crime. Cold War 2.0 rages. At stake is world peace. A potential East/West confrontation looms. Washington wants all rival governments eliminated. It wants pro-Western stooge ones replacing them. It wants unchallenged worldwide dominance. It risks possible global conflict in the process. Psaki didn't explain.
Bill Van Auken: ■ Vice President Joseph Biden’s two-day visit to Ukraine has ended with a resumption of the Kiev regime’s military crackdown against its political opponents in the southeast of the country and a dangerous escalation of US threats against Russia. Oleksandr Turchynov, who is both acting president and chairman of the parliament following the US-backed, fascist-led coup of February 22, announced Tuesday that he had ordered the country’s security forces to “carry out effective counterterrorist activities aimed at defending Ukrainian citizens living in the country’s east from terrorists.” Troops have reportedly been massed in the town of Izyum, on the border between Ukraine’s Kharkov region and Donetsk, the country’s most industrialized region. Donetsk has been the center of protests against the US-backed ultranationalists who seized power in Kiev.