Eduard Limonov’s observations on the motivations of each party to the ceasefire agreement (+ USA) are quite insightful. I decided to just translate them word-for-word (thanks Google!):
“The aims of [each participant of] this Norman Quartet differ.
Poroshenko wants to stop the destruction of his troops in the Debaltsevo encirclement. A second Ilovaysk won’t be forgiven in Kiev, he’ll be thrown from the presidency by the radicals.
Hollande and Merkel’s purpose is to prevent the supply of American lethal weapons to Ukraine, close to the borders of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania, to prevent the emergence of a black hole, like a black hole in Syria, in the heart of Europe. It’s not for nothing that before Minsk Merkel flew to the “master” of the planet, Obama. The heart of the matter is right here, it’s Washington’s intentions that have aroused the Germans and the French. It’s clear the United States is an ally of the EU, but the Europeans know that crazy Uncle Sam could do something that no enemy would. The US always organizes bordellos of blood everywhere, not caring about the consequences.
The US has a simple goal – to insist on his own, to reaffirm its hegemony, to put a presumptuous Russia in place.
Russia’s goal is to get rid of the problem of Donbas. And at the same time to get rid of the anti-Russian sanctions, or at least of some of them. To break the international isolation. However, Russia cannot just leave DNR / LNR at the mercy of the West. There are Russians living in Donbas, and Russian people won’t forgive Putin if he does something like that. Refusing to support Donbas would be seen as betrayal. The consequences will be unpredictable but certainly dire.
The Norman Quartet, however, does not take into account the position of DNR / LNR that want independence. While Ukraine calls DNR and LNR “terrorists”, the West either agrees or calls them by a slightly less loaded name – “separatists” and refuses to recognize their right to independence.
It is significant that in Minsk, representatives of the rebel republics are held in a separate building. This segregation is humiliating and no good will come out of it.
Here we go.
I am Eduard Limonov.”
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