{"id":41051,"date":"2018-11-28T16:51:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T21:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41051"},"modified":"2018-11-28T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T21:51:13","slug":"black-sea-provocation-vintage-putin-or-poroshenko-dregs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41051","title":{"rendered":"Black Sea Provocation\u2026 Vintage Putin or Poroshenko Dregs?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Black Sea Provocation\u2026 Vintage Putin or Poroshenko Dregs?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

The latest potentially disastrous flare-up in violence between the Kiev regime and Russia near the Black Sea\u2019s Kerch Strait is clearly a blatant provocation aimed at strengthening the autocratic regime under President Petro Poroshenko.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a reckless gambit to push Kiev\u2019s madcap agenda for joining NATO and the European Union. No matter, it seems, if that gambit risks igniting a full-scale war between Russia and NATO.<\/p>\n

The US-led NATO military alliance and the European Union appeared to back Kiev\u2019s claims of aggression by Moscow following the latest escalation in the Black Sea. That response fits Poroshenko\u2019s long-held narrative of casting Russia as an aggressor and to mobilize support from NATO and the EU.<\/p>\n

Ironically, Western news media featured pro-NATO pundits who have claimed that the weekend confrontation was \u201cvintage Putin\u201d. It is speculated that the Russian president was taking advantage of several political distractions for Western governments \u2013 Trump\u2019s public relations problems with Saudi Arabia over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Brexit debacle and so on \u2013 to strike a heavy hand at Kiev.<\/p>\n

That typically cynical anti-Russian view completely overlooks the glaring facts that the naval clash between Ukrainian and Russian forces in the Black Sea plays conveniently for the Kiev regime and Poroshenko. It\u2019s less a case of \u201cvintage Putin\u201d and more the dregs of Poroshenko\u2019s intrigue.<\/p>\n

The prompt\u00a0declaration<\/a>\u00a0by Poroshenko\u2019s national security council for imposing martial law in Ukraine \u2013 within hours of the naval confrontation on Sunday \u2013 effectively strives to give Poroshenko and his Kiev regime dictatorial powers. Potentially, a state of emergency could permit Poroshenko to call off presidential elections due in March next year.<\/p>\n

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Black Sea Provocation\u2026 Vintage Putin or Poroshenko Dregs? The latest potentially disastrous flare-up in violence between the Kiev regime and Russia near the Black Sea\u2019s Kerch Strait is clearly a blatant provocation aimed at strengthening the autocratic regime under President Petro Poroshenko. It\u2019s also a reckless gambit to push Kiev\u2019s madcap agenda for joining NATO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3485,279,284,16113,22167,23216,1610,542,553,625,694,701,21280,821,857,862],"class_list":["post-41051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-black-sea","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-finian-cunningham","tag-jamal-khashoggi","tag-kerch-strait","tag-kiev","tag-moscow","tag-nato","tag-petro-poroshenko","tag-russia","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-strategic-culture-foundatioin","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41052,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41051\/revisions\/41052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}