Ukraine Fighting Prompts U.S.-Russia Meeting in Paris

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

By Daryna Krasnolutska and Ian Wishart Sep 15, 2014

Pro-Russian separatists fought with Ukrainian troops in several locations today including the Donetsk airport as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The U.S. is concerned about renewed clashes -- the worst since a Sept. 5 cease-fire -- and has no details on the content of a Russian convoy that entered and left Ukraine over the weekend, a State Department official said. Russia, which denies involvement in the conflict, has about 25,000 troops along the border and more than 3,000 soldiers inside the country, according to the Ukrainian government. The U.S. and other NATO countries began military exercises in the country today.

“My concern is that it is in Russia’s interests to establish new, protracted, frozen conflicts in the region,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a conference today in Brussels. “Russia has used economic pressure and military action to produce instability, to manufacture conflicts and to diminish the independence of its neighbors.”
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The NATO chief made his remarks as Kerry meets with Lavrov at a conference on Iraq today in Paris.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-14/ukraine-fighting-prompts-u-s-russia-meeting-in-paris.html

[jakeXT]

1. "military action to produce instability" that probably sounds familiar in Tripoli /nt

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2. Gee, I wonder what other country does that?

ROFLMAO

[Igel]

3. Ah. So instability in Libya was

Obama's end goal.

Got it. He's a supporter of Eris. Bad guy all around. He just likes chaos, death, and destruction.

Because that's ultimately the claim. Not democracy as a goal, or even US authority. Just ... instability because chaos is the goal.

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4. Repetition is the sister of recurrence. Democracy as

a goal...puhleeze.