The Europeans are getting their noses rubbed in their own subservience and irrelevance. From Lorenzo Maria Pacini at strategic-culture.su:
The USA and Russia will sit down at the negotiating table and decide what face to give to the whole of Europe, at least until the next war.
Everything is happening very quickly: Trump excludes Europe from negotiations with Putin on Ukraine. Macron calls a meeting of European leaders in Paris to decide who will have to clean the toilets during the Russia-United States summit. After years of bombastic demagogy about weapons and conquests, the rats are now fleeing the sinking ship.
Minsk would have been enough, but no
We are approaching the tenth anniversary of an important historical event: the Minsk Agreements.
The Minsk Agreements 1 were an attempt to resolve the conflict that broke out in eastern Ukraine in 2014 between the Ukrainian coup government forces and the separatists of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. The agreement was negotiated with the mediation of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and signed on September 5, 2014 in Minsk, Belarus, by the Trilateral Contact Group, which included representatives from Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE.
The document contained 12 key points aimed at establishing a ceasefire and laying the foundations for a political solution to the conflict. Among the main points:
- Immediate ceasefire in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
- Monitoring of the ceasefire by the OSCE.
- Decentralization of power in Ukraine through a constitutional reform that would guarantee greater autonomy to the eastern regions.
- Withdrawal of illegal armed forces and foreign mercenaries.
- Exchange of prisoners between the parties in conflict.
- Creation of a security zone on the Russian-Ukrainian border.
- Restoration of Ukrainian government control over the occupied areas.
- Local elections in the separatist regions, in accordance with Ukrainian legislation.
- Improvement of the humanitarian situation in the areas affected by the conflict.
- Resumption of economic and social relations between the separatist regions and the rest of Ukraine.
Despite the signing of the agreement, the planned ceasefire was never fully respected. In the days following the signing, both sides accused each other of violations. Fighting continued in strategic areas such as Donetsk airport and the city of Debaltseve.
