Peace? Ukraine “Preparing For Full-Scale War” With Russia, Demands The West Supply Lethal Weapons
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/21/2015 21:20 -0500
“We don’t want to scare everybody, but we are preparing for full-scale war,” warns Vadym Prystaiko – Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister – telling CBC during a stunning interview that “what we expect from the world is that the world will stiffen up in the spine a little.” Demanding that West provide ‘lethal weapons’ Prystaiko rages “everybody is afraid of fighting with a nuclear state. We are not anymore.” Coming just a week after the Minsk Summit ‘peace’ deal and with Germany having warned they are likely unable to stop arms being supplied to Ukraine, Prystaiko concludes, “we would like [The West] to send lethal weapons to Ukraine… weapons to allow us to defend ourselves.”
As CBC reports,
Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister says he is preparing for “full-scale war” against Russia and wants Canada to help by supplying lethal weapons and the training to use them.
Vadym Prystaiko, who until last fall was Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada, says the world must not be afraid of joining Ukraine in the fight against a nuclear power.
In an interview with CBC Radio’s The House airing Saturday, Prystaiko says the ceasefire brokered by Germany and France was not holding.
“The biggest hub we ever had in the railroad is completely destroyed and devastated,” he told host Evan Solomon about Debaltseve, captured by Russian-backed rebels after the terms were to have taken effect earlier this week.
“We see that they are not stopping,” he says, suggesting the fight was now heading south to the port of Mariupol.
“It doesn’t take a genius to see what they are trying to do.… They are taking more and more strategic points.”
The former ambassador was in the room during the attempts to broker a political solution with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Minsk.
“Personally I don’t trust him,” he says. “You look at him and you think, ‘Are you serious?'”
“Nobody knows what is going on in his head. I believe he is becoming very emotional [over the two countries’ historic ties],” he suggests, calling Putin’s intentions “difficult to predict.”
Prystaiko echoes the view German Chancellor Angela Merkel is said to have expressed to U.S. President Barack Obama privately a year ago: “He is rational in his own way. He is in some parallel universe … and he sees differently than everyone else.”
‘We have to do something’
“The stakes are really high,” Prystaiko says, pointing out that Ukraine has now closed its border crossing with Russia. “We don’t want to scare everybody, but we are preparing for full-scale war.”
What to do in the face of such a threat? For starters, get over your fears, he says.
“What we expect from the world is that the world will stiffen up in the spine a little,” he says. “Everybody is afraid of fighting with a nuclear state. We are not anymore, in Ukraine — we’ve lost so many people of ours, we’ve lost so much of our territory.
“However dangerous it sounds, we have to stop [Putin] somehow. For the sake of the Russian nation as well, not just for the Ukrainians and Europe.”
Prystaiko says Ukrainians are blunt when it comes to what they need.
“We would like Canada to send lethal weapons to Ukraine,” he said. “Weapons to allow us to defend ourselves.”
Canada has been helping to train Ukrainian soldiers for the last decade, but it isn’t enough, he says.
“It wasn’t on the level that would help our army [against an] invasion.”
Ukraine wants weapons, and training to use them, he said.
…
But he doesn’t hold back from calling on Ukraine’s Western allies to step up, echoing the frustration he expressed last November over Canada’s willingness to intervene in Iraq but not send troops to help Ukraine.
“I was quite blunt… and probably it was premature at that point but now I have to ask again: If we see the same sort of rebels coming towards central Ukraine, towards other cities, how much is different from what we see in Iraq and the international help which was coming?”
“Unfortunately, we will probably pose a very serious question for the rest of the world: How can we react to this new challenge? We haven’t had it for 50 years in Europe. Now it’s back again.”
* * *
This coming just a week after the Minsk Summit deal and further to Putin’s warnings that “if Kiev seeks a military solution, war will never end,” it appears Ukraine has gone from bad to worse to worst possible scenario as proxy war tensions mount.
Mark
February 22, 2015 12:22 pm
Ron Paul is a politically correct coward.
He knows Hussein hates America and want to see its ultimate demise. Good for Guillian . Poo you Paul.
How retarded do you have to be to call Ron Paul politically correct?
I guess we can ask Mark.
Gulianni is a complete douchebag. And by the way. He reversed himself the next day. What a pussy. He doesn’t have the balls to stand behind what he says. True patriot. 🙂
Ron Paul says what he means and never has to reverse himself.
I really do need an IQ test to weed out low IQ idiot commenters.
Overthecliff
February 22, 2015 12:45 pm
Russia has already won. Ukrainians have been taken to school And so has NATO. nATO will not give Ukrainians any where near the weapons to make a difference. Just a PR war from here on out except for Ukrainian conscript cannon fodder.
Triple H
February 22, 2015 1:22 pm
Admin. I could not agree more on your comments to Mark. Don’t know if an IQ test would do it. We need to create a douchebag test. I am sure Mark could rate a very high level douchebag.
Welshman
February 22, 2015 1:41 pm
I can’t say Russia has already won, but it will survive. Putzy has a 85% approval rating and the Ukies owe Russia a ton of money, which the Russians will get one way or the other. Ukraine is a failed state and rudderless. Ukraine seems to have good farmland, saw many nice fields of sun flowers and corn. Ukies should stick to farming and oop out of war mongering.
Sensetti
February 22, 2015 2:17 pm
Hell yes Obama hates this country, everyone knows that. He hates our Religion and our way of life.
Want a little proof ?
Obama on Christianity:
1. “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”
2. “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”
83% of Americans identify themselves as Christians. Most of the rest, 13%, have no religion. That leaves just 4% as adherents of all non-Christian religions combined- Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and a smattering of individual mentions. http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90356
Ask your self why would he say we are not a Christian Nation?
Answer is–> He despises this Country as it is and longs for it to be something else.
I can go on all day posting anti American remarks the bastard has made. He’s not on my team that’s for damn sure.
Now come on all you Obama, Al Sharton, Squalorite supports, defend his lack of Honor.
bb
February 22, 2015 2:56 pm
Obama would not last one day around these Muslims. They hate Marxist like Obama. To them he is worse then an Christian.
Sensetti
February 22, 2015 3:07 pm
Bb he is a Mooslum
AC
February 22, 2015 4:38 pm
A real war between Russia and the Ukraine would take, at a minimum, six months.
Twenty minutes for Russia to utterly obliterate Ukraine, and the remainder of the time to find and count the bodies.
Also, Obama *loves* America – in the same sense that ebola loves people.
Westcoaster
February 22, 2015 4:51 pm
Asking if Obama hates America is another one of those stupid questions dredged up by divergent forces who want to obfuscate the real truth, which is, the U.S. government overthrew the elected government in the Ukraine and installed and support this nazi. There goal is to push the NATO boundary by one more country and to give the economic hitman treatment to another country’s wealth.
It’s the people of the Ukraine pushing back against this shit and if I hear another “Russian-backed” phrase without the accompanying “U.S.-backed” for the other side, my head will explode.
goldie
February 23, 2015 4:15 pm
“Vadym Prystaiko, who until last fall was Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada, says the world must not be afraid of joining Ukraine in the fight against a nuclear power.”
Peace? Ukraine “Preparing For Full-Scale War” With Russia, Demands The West Supply Lethal Weapons
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/21/2015 21:20 -0500
“We don’t want to scare everybody, but we are preparing for full-scale war,” warns Vadym Prystaiko – Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister – telling CBC during a stunning interview that “what we expect from the world is that the world will stiffen up in the spine a little.” Demanding that West provide ‘lethal weapons’ Prystaiko rages “everybody is afraid of fighting with a nuclear state. We are not anymore.” Coming just a week after the Minsk Summit ‘peace’ deal and with Germany having warned they are likely unable to stop arms being supplied to Ukraine, Prystaiko concludes, “we would like [The West] to send lethal weapons to Ukraine… weapons to allow us to defend ourselves.”
As CBC reports,
Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister says he is preparing for “full-scale war” against Russia and wants Canada to help by supplying lethal weapons and the training to use them.
Vadym Prystaiko, who until last fall was Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada, says the world must not be afraid of joining Ukraine in the fight against a nuclear power.
In an interview with CBC Radio’s The House airing Saturday, Prystaiko says the ceasefire brokered by Germany and France was not holding.
“The biggest hub we ever had in the railroad is completely destroyed and devastated,” he told host Evan Solomon about Debaltseve, captured by Russian-backed rebels after the terms were to have taken effect earlier this week.
“We see that they are not stopping,” he says, suggesting the fight was now heading south to the port of Mariupol.
“It doesn’t take a genius to see what they are trying to do.… They are taking more and more strategic points.”
The former ambassador was in the room during the attempts to broker a political solution with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Minsk.
“Personally I don’t trust him,” he says. “You look at him and you think, ‘Are you serious?'”
“Nobody knows what is going on in his head. I believe he is becoming very emotional [over the two countries’ historic ties],” he suggests, calling Putin’s intentions “difficult to predict.”
Prystaiko echoes the view German Chancellor Angela Merkel is said to have expressed to U.S. President Barack Obama privately a year ago: “He is rational in his own way. He is in some parallel universe … and he sees differently than everyone else.”
‘We have to do something’
“The stakes are really high,” Prystaiko says, pointing out that Ukraine has now closed its border crossing with Russia. “We don’t want to scare everybody, but we are preparing for full-scale war.”
What to do in the face of such a threat? For starters, get over your fears, he says.
“What we expect from the world is that the world will stiffen up in the spine a little,” he says. “Everybody is afraid of fighting with a nuclear state. We are not anymore, in Ukraine — we’ve lost so many people of ours, we’ve lost so much of our territory.
“However dangerous it sounds, we have to stop [Putin] somehow. For the sake of the Russian nation as well, not just for the Ukrainians and Europe.”
Prystaiko says Ukrainians are blunt when it comes to what they need.
“We would like Canada to send lethal weapons to Ukraine,” he said. “Weapons to allow us to defend ourselves.”
Canada has been helping to train Ukrainian soldiers for the last decade, but it isn’t enough, he says.
“It wasn’t on the level that would help our army [against an] invasion.”
Ukraine wants weapons, and training to use them, he said.
…
But he doesn’t hold back from calling on Ukraine’s Western allies to step up, echoing the frustration he expressed last November over Canada’s willingness to intervene in Iraq but not send troops to help Ukraine.
“I was quite blunt… and probably it was premature at that point but now I have to ask again: If we see the same sort of rebels coming towards central Ukraine, towards other cities, how much is different from what we see in Iraq and the international help which was coming?”
“Unfortunately, we will probably pose a very serious question for the rest of the world: How can we react to this new challenge? We haven’t had it for 50 years in Europe. Now it’s back again.”
* * *
This coming just a week after the Minsk Summit deal and further to Putin’s warnings that “if Kiev seeks a military solution, war will never end,” it appears Ukraine has gone from bad to worse to worst possible scenario as proxy war tensions mount.
Ron Paul is a politically correct coward.
He knows Hussein hates America and want to see its ultimate demise. Good for Guillian . Poo you Paul.
Mark
Blow me.
How retarded do you have to be to call Ron Paul politically correct?
I guess we can ask Mark.
Gulianni is a complete douchebag. And by the way. He reversed himself the next day. What a pussy. He doesn’t have the balls to stand behind what he says. True patriot. 🙂
Ron Paul says what he means and never has to reverse himself.
I really do need an IQ test to weed out low IQ idiot commenters.
Russia has already won. Ukrainians have been taken to school And so has NATO. nATO will not give Ukrainians any where near the weapons to make a difference. Just a PR war from here on out except for Ukrainian conscript cannon fodder.
Admin. I could not agree more on your comments to Mark. Don’t know if an IQ test would do it. We need to create a douchebag test. I am sure Mark could rate a very high level douchebag.
I can’t say Russia has already won, but it will survive. Putzy has a 85% approval rating and the Ukies owe Russia a ton of money, which the Russians will get one way or the other. Ukraine is a failed state and rudderless. Ukraine seems to have good farmland, saw many nice fields of sun flowers and corn. Ukies should stick to farming and oop out of war mongering.
Hell yes Obama hates this country, everyone knows that. He hates our Religion and our way of life.
Want a little proof ?
Obama on Christianity:
1. “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”
2. “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/04/in_his_own_words_barack_obama_on_christianity_and_islam.html#ixzz3SVAm7OyV
ABC Poll
83% of Americans identify themselves as Christians. Most of the rest, 13%, have no religion. That leaves just 4% as adherents of all non-Christian religions combined- Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and a smattering of individual mentions.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90356
Ask your self why would he say we are not a Christian Nation?
Answer is–> He despises this Country as it is and longs for it to be something else.
I can go on all day posting anti American remarks the bastard has made. He’s not on my team that’s for damn sure.
Now come on all you Obama, Al Sharton, Squalorite supports, defend his lack of Honor.
Obama would not last one day around these Muslims. They hate Marxist like Obama. To them he is worse then an Christian.
Bb he is a Mooslum
A real war between Russia and the Ukraine would take, at a minimum, six months.
Twenty minutes for Russia to utterly obliterate Ukraine, and the remainder of the time to find and count the bodies.
Also, Obama *loves* America – in the same sense that ebola loves people.
Asking if Obama hates America is another one of those stupid questions dredged up by divergent forces who want to obfuscate the real truth, which is, the U.S. government overthrew the elected government in the Ukraine and installed and support this nazi. There goal is to push the NATO boundary by one more country and to give the economic hitman treatment to another country’s wealth.
It’s the people of the Ukraine pushing back against this shit and if I hear another “Russian-backed” phrase without the accompanying “U.S.-backed” for the other side, my head will explode.
“Vadym Prystaiko, who until last fall was Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada, says the world must not be afraid of joining Ukraine in the fight against a nuclear power.”
priceless. I thought it was the onion
Westcoaster- Spot on!