Indian diplomat M. K. Bhadrakumar writes of the meeting that just took place in the Kremlin between Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande, and Vladimir Putin. Merkel and Hollande, the leaders of Germany and France, came away from this meeting making a major breach with the policy of the Obama administration and the other anti-Russian parties in Europe. Said Merkel:
“I am firmly convinced this conflict cannot be solved with military means. I cannot imagine any situation in which improved equipment for the Ukrainian army leads to President Putin being so impressed that he believes he will lose militarily. I have to put it that bluntly.”
The Germans and the French are far from the first in Europe to become fed up with the American push for confrontation and escalation against Russia in the Ukraine crisis (Hungary, Greece, Italy, and Turkey all dissent on the matter), but they are the most important to have.
Ukraine's military has suffered another humiliating disaster in its latest attempt to crush the Russian-backed separatists in the Donbass; Ukraine's government broke the standing ceasefire it had with the rebels at the urging of the United States, and has been met with catastrophe yet again.
Perhaps Washington, after this latest fiasco, will realize the utter futility of expecting Ukraine to defeat the Novorussians no matter how much aid it is given or what happens to the Russian economy.
The German-French dismissal of further attempts to resolve the conflict with military means and turn towards a compromise with Russia might be Obama's ticket to bow out of the fight without looking like Putin's beaten us again.
Tim Mulhair
http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2015/02/08/how-obama-can-lose-gracefully-on-ukraine/
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