{"id":5407,"date":"2015-02-07T19:43:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T00:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5407"},"modified":"2015-02-07T19:43:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T00:43:54","slug":"ukraine-peace-talks-in-tatters-defiant-putin-wont-tolerate-unipolar-world-hollande-proposes-strong-autonomy-for-rebel-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5407","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine ‘Peace’ Talks In Tatters: Defiant Putin “Won’t Tolerate Unipolar World”; Hollande Proposes “Strong Autonomy” For Rebel Region"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine ‘Peace’ Talks In Tatters: Defiant Putin “Won’t Tolerate Unipolar World”; Hollande Proposes “Strong Autonomy” For Rebel Region<\/a><\/h3>\n

Just as the existing ‘truce’ in Ukraine has been made a total\u00a0farce\u00a0<\/strong>as 1000s of military and civilians have been killed, so any ‘hope’ that this weekend’s “peace efforts” will result in anything but more talk is rapidly diminishing… Germany’s\u00a0Merkel exclaimed honestly that it’s “uncertain whether this will be successful,”<\/strong>seemingly resigned to the fact as she added, “but it’s at least worth making an attempt.” French PresidentHollande admitted that Ukraine’s eastern regions likely need “strong autonomy.”<\/strong>\u00a0Ukraine’s Poroshenko blustered that he “trusts” Merkel, that the economy is collapsing (more money please), that the\u00a0country does not need peacekeepers and a lack of arms is fueling conflict<\/strong>\u00a0(so send us weapons) while pushing for a Russian withdrawal and quick cease-fire.\u00a0 Finally Vladimir\u00a0Putin blasted that Russia is unwilling to tolerate a post-Cold War global system dominated by one absolute leader<\/strong>, to which US VP Joe\u00a0Biden remarked simply “get out of Ukraine.”<\/strong>\u00a0But apart from that, talks are going great…<\/em><\/p>\n

Stocks rallied after hours on Friday on a spurious headline that peace talks were progressing…<\/p>\n

That appears to be entirely false…<\/p>\n

Merkel… not optimistic…<\/strong>\u00a0(via Bloomberg)<\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s uncertain whether this will be successful, but in my view and in the view of the French president, it\u2019s at least worth making an attempt,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Merkel says in speech at the Munich Security Conference. \u201cI feel that we at least owe it to those affected in Ukraine.\u201d<\/div>\n

\u201cRussia needs to show its contribution\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0in defusing Ukraine crisis, Merkel says.<\/p>\n

“This conflict can\u2019t be solved militarily,”\u00a0<\/strong>Merkel says<\/p>\n

Minsk accord must be fulfilled: Merkel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hollande… does not see a united Ukraine anytime soon<\/strong>\u00a0(via France24)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n

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Ukraine ‘Peace’ Talks In Tatters: Defiant Putin “Won’t Tolerate Unipolar World”; Hollande Proposes “Strong Autonomy” For Rebel Region Just as the existing ‘truce’ in Ukraine has been made a total\u00a0farce\u00a0as 1000s of military and civilians have been killed, so any ‘hope’ that this weekend’s “peace efforts” will result in anything but more talk is rapidly […]<\/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":[149,2156,2444,3318,3317,1150,694,821,857],"class_list":["post-5407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cold-war","tag-donbass","tag-hollande","tag-merkel","tag-peace-talks","tag-proxy-war","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407","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=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5408,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions\/5408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}