In addition to blackmail war and murder, Putin has nothing to offer any Western leaders, nor Ukraine

Watching the battles that are going on in the district of Donetsk airport may be a simple question - why is it Vladimr Putin? Why protect their positions at the airport Ukrainians, no need to explain. Even if you agree with the often expressed view that the loss of the airport in a strategic sense, means nothing, in any case, the departure from the position occupied at the time of signing of the Minsk agreements. And if the enemy can advance to the next kilometers Ukrainian lands, why the next day he won't need these miles? Therefore, the resistance of the new occupation, counterattack forces ATU - all this, sorry for the high words, the protection of the homeland. People acted that way - and nothing else - from the time that mankind exists. So the future of the Jewish king David went against Goliath, and so the Spartan king Leonid gathered his warriors to stop the superior forces of the enemy. The actions of the Ukrainians at the airport and throughout the front line is simply a continuation of this endless stories of valor.

We need to understand why this is how the occupant? Why Putin throws their forces for the occupation of the airport, if this object really has no strategic value? Why brings new units to our borders to prevent the release of Donetsk and other cities of Ukraine from gangs, terrorizing the locals? And why at the same time says about the world and sends his Minister of foreign Affairs in Berlin “progress”?

To answer this question is not very difficult. Putin is not a commander and not even a politician. Putin is a huckster. It's easy to see, just looking back, that his whole policy towards Ukraine was built on trade and blackmail. Putin blackmailed us gas - and not without success. Victor Yushchenko he bargained gasket in the form of RosUkrEnergo strip, pozvolivshem Gazprom managers to enrich themselves at the expense of Ukraine after the orange revolution. Viktor Yanukovych - the extension of the black sea fleet stationing. Putin made the Yanukovych to abandon the European integration of Ukraine and the whip and carrot. Whip - threatening destabilization of the country and the collapse of the regime. Carrot - simply bribed the then President of credit, for which we are now going to be forced to pay as claimed in those days, personal bribe in the form of participation of family companies in the construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait.

Now try to answer the question - what today can trade Putin? Its main purpose is not Ukraine and even the restoration of the Empire. Its main objective is to be recognized this “Emperor”, the player is equal in weight to the President of the United States and the leaders of the countries of the European Union? Not poorly for the head degrading poor country, nothing produces, in addition to raw materials and on the verge of economic collapse? But what Putin is doing to him began to talk on equal terms, that he was admitted to the negotiating table, to understand that without it there will be no peace, neither in Ukraine nor in the post-Soviet space, or Europe in General?

To kill.

Putin is no longer any other commodity, except death. Oil and gas is cheaper. The economy he is in Russia and has not created - and many of his compatriots, as those cars Emelya of folk tales, the real economy, requiring diligent work and awareness of our true place in the world, has never been needed. Only Putin can persuade Obama, Merkel and others to talk with him on equal terms destabilization in the country and the murder of Ukrainians. It should be understood that, if he is satisfied that destabilization in Ukraine, the West will not be intimidated, we will begin to kill someone else. He always looks for this pain point, after which they will give up and will start in front of him to make - and will not find, because the West comes from values and feasibility. That is why dialogue with Putin West is a dialogue of the deaf.

And, by the way, that's why Putin does not need the same “great war”, which we are so fond of scaring. This war will not bring him to the negotiating table with Obama and will not allow Ukraine. But the fact that he will have her, Putin and now no doubt - because he believes that his actions in the Donbass will lead to the collapse of the Ukrainian economy, instability in our country and fatigue West of Ukraine. And then what ? Correctly, will be invited to the negotiating table with President Obama.

If he gets at this table - at least in some as - or not - depends on us. We must understand that Putin originally comes from the wrong reasons. What if we try to control the panic and will, clenching his teeth, to build the country and to strengthen the defensive capability to the free territory - then just wait for the collapse of if not the Russian regime, its foreign policy. This collapse is a matter of time. It is important that today we do not have destroyed his own home in fear of what tomorrow will destroy the merchant of death.

Vitaly Portnikov, journalist

Source: http://www.liga.net/