Obama's Insane Ultimatum To Putin

The latest on the U.S.-created Ukraine "crisis:" Obama now demands that Putin make the eastern Ukrainians surrender to the coup government and disarm them! Or else  Russia will be hit with tougher sanctions. The Eurolackeys supposedly are going along with this.

I say insane because it is insane to demand that Russia attack its own national interests and help the U.S. take over a country on its border. But that's what the U.S. is doing.

Maybe Putin should have demanded that Obama disarm the fascist rioters who were killing police before they overthrew the elected Ukrainian president. That at least would have been a reasonable demand, if unrealistic considering what an aggressive nation the U.S. is.

The top organ of U.S. establishment propaganda, the New York Times, used these phrases to describe the latest U.S. diktat: "President Obama effectively set a one-month deadline for Moscow to reverse its intervention in Ukraine and help quash a pro-Russian separatist uprising or else he said it would face international sanctions far more severe than anything it had endured so far;" "demanded that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia recognize and negotiate directly with the newly elected leader of Ukraine, stop the flow of fighters and arms across the border and press separatists to disarm, relinquish seized public buildings and join talks with the central authorities in Kiev;" "'Russia continues to have a responsibility to convince them to end their violence, lay down their weapons and enter into a dialogue with the Ukrainian government,' Mr. Obama said at a news conference alongside Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain after a meeting of leaders of the Group of 7 industrial powers. 'On the other hand, if Russia’s provocations continue, it’s clear from our discussions here that the G-7 nations are ready to impose additional costs on Russia.'” [1]

In other words, Russia is being required to aid the U.S. takeover of Ukraine! Now whatever one thinks of that U.S. takeover, it is insane to demand that Russia stab itself in the back and help the U.S. cause major damage to Russian interests. This is the demand of an international extortionist. And I don't write this as a friend of Russia or the authoritarian Putin, just as a person who isn't crazy from drinking the propaganda Kool-Aid of the Western media and governments. That stuff must be laced with some powerful hallucinogens!

 1]  "With Group of 7 Backing, Obama Gives Russia One-Month Ukraine Deadline," New York Times, June 5, 2014.