Minsk Peace Deal For Ukraine is Falling Apart - by Alexander Mercouris
http://newcoldwar.org/minsk-peace-deal-for-ukraine-is-falling-apart/
'Feeling no western pressure, Kiev is unwilling to make the political concessions necessary for its implementation.'
"The basic truth about the crisis in Ukraine and why there is a war there - the one that many people, especially in the West refuse to acknowledge - is that the faction that seized power in Ukraine through the February 2014 coup is structurally incapable of negotiations or compromise with those it considers its opponents.
...The whole purpose of the February coup was so that the faction in Ukraine that holds power now could achieve the unrestricted dominance of Ukrainian society, which is its only way of making true its vision of a unitary, monolingual, monocultural Ukraine, that is forever distanced from Russia.
Given the diversity of Ukrainian society, it cannot compromise with its opponents, since were it to do so, it would jeopardise the entire project that is the reason for its existence and the justification for its hold on power. Though the Maidan regime is deeply divided and factionalised, its drive to remake Ukraine and to eliminate all opponents of its vision, is the common denominator of all its factions.
Unfortunately, the hardliners in Washington, Warsaw,[Ottawa] and London, are actually egging Ukraine on to abandon Minsk and to restart the war. The only way that a peaceful settlement of the crisis in Ukraine can be achieved is if the West puts overwhelming pressure on Ukraine to carry out its commitments under Minsk II."
Canadians, having bought into the mythology of the Maidan 'people's revolution', and having been brainwashed into malevolent Russophobia, are solidly behind the parliamentary war-parties that advance the pro-NATO agenda. The same 'progressives' that supported war on Libya and war on Syria, support more war in Ukraine. Here in Canada, Minsk is ignored and militarization and funding of kleptocratic Kiev continues unabated..
