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   From: acoustic@panix.com   
      
   Mr. Poroshenko, speaking at a joint news conference with Mr. Barroso,   
   said Ukraine still hoped for a political settlement with Russian-backed   
   rebels in the east of his country but said a flow of Russian troops and   
   armored vehicles into Ukraine in recent days in support of rebels were   
   stoking the fires of a broader conflict.   
      
   What a lie!  Who is he trying to fool?   
      
   1) Poroshenko has steafdastly refused to sit down face-to-face with   
   the rebels on the pretext that his representatives do not negotiate   
   with terrorists.   
      
   2) Poroshenko had vowed to seek a total military victory for a Ukraine   
   of "unity and territorial integrity" before the rebels launched their   
   counter-offsensive.  That does not sound like it has a place for a   
   "political settlement" with the Russian-backed rebels in the east of   
   his country.   
      
   3) Poroshenko dissolved Ukraine's parliament the day after Ukraine's   
   Independence Day, saying the rapid social and political development in   
   the country needed a new parliament to reflect the citizens' view   
   today.  That sounds like his ATO in eastern Ukraine was actually a   
   campaign of ethnic cleansing in disguise.  Poroshenko's political   
   action goes directly against the grievances of the eastern rebellion.   
   That again does not sound like it has a place for a "political   
   settlement" with the Russian-backed rebels in the east of his country.   
      
   4) Poroshenko had asked the parliament to approve his plan for a   
   "three-billion dollar" increase in military spending for Ukraine for   
   the next two years.  That again does not sound like it has a place for   
   a "political settlement" with the Russian-backed rebels in the east of   
   his country.  Poroshenko clearly has been seeking a total victory over   
   the rebels!   
      
   5) And Porosenko had also planned a grand military parade to celebrate   
   Ukraine's Independence Day (August 24th) because he was counting on   
   recapturing Donetsk and Lugansk by that time - so much so that instead   
   of sending the tanks and APCs to the war zone, he kept them in Kiev   
   for the parade, drawing a lot of criticism from the nationalists.   
      
   And because of his zeal to win a total victory - thus contradicting   
   directly his latest claim that he "still hoped for a political   
   settlement" with the Russian-backed rebels - he bombed the cities in   
   east Ukraine with greater and greater intensity as the date of August   
   24th approached, resulting in dozens of civilian deaths a day in those   
   last days before Poroshenko's latest "turning point".   
      
   A legitimate question might be: how long will the West continue to   
   back such a liar despite his self-inflicting failure to lead his   
   country out of war and into peace and prosperity?   
      
   lo yeeOn   
      
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