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Wednesday 5 March 2014 - 07:46

Ukraine crisis pushing world closer to nuclear war

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Ukraine crisis pushing world closer to nuclear war
Question: Mr. Jones, first of all tell us what do you think about the intentions of Russia now in Ukraine? What are its troops doing in the Crimea region?
 
Jones: Well I think primarily they are trying to protect the Russian population, the Russian speaking population which predominates in Crimea.
 
It is a very chaotic situation in Ukraine. They have this so-called government, they started an opposition that is composed largely of a lot of neo-fascist and fascist groups with a clear anti-Russia bias and there is really a danger that if these [hordes] takeover, there can be a slaughter of Russian citizens.
 
So that the concerns of the Russian government are very much real and I think the deployment that has been done in Crimea is an attempt to prevent that from happening.
 
Q: So do you think that with the Russian troop presence we are not going to see a possible division of Ukraine? A lot of people are saying now along the pro-Russia and pro-Western lines.
 
Jones: This could very well happen. Everything is really up in the air. This Western-backed destabilization that has been ongoing for weeks, the new regime change are now in the center of Europe, is pushing the world closer to nuclear war between great powers.
 
Many people want to try and calm this thing down. There have been, although the US and Secretary Kerry made some outrageous remarks yesterday trying to up the ante to impose economic sanctions on Russia and also [muting] the fact that some of the observers here beefing up the NATO military operations in preparation for possible intervention in Ukraine, all of this is very dangerous.
 
There is a diplomatic solution to this thing but it has to involve Russia. The German Foreign Minister has indicated that he would like to move in that direction.
 
    All along in this crisis Russia has insisted that the divergences in the Ukrainian government between the EU and Russia could be resolved through trilateral talks but this has been rejected by the EU and there has been a direct involvement by US officials like Miss Victoria Nuland to try to foment insurgency and now we are at the brink of war as a result of these operations and Russia is taking measures to try and prevent this from happening but it is a very dangerous situation we are looking at at the moment.  
 
Q: So can we conclude that with the role that Russia has now gotten itself into in Ukraine with the current turn of events that the EU, as you say, is going to be convinced that now the only solution would be sticking to a political settlement, even the political settlement that was agreed on with President Yanukovych and the opposition?   
 
Jones: Well all these settlements have been rejected. I mean there have been a number of times when they could have had a solution here but there are certain elements in the West who want to use this really with an idea of getting at Russia.
 
They want this new color revolution in Ukraine. The color is largely black and has swastikas, people who are demonstrating largely, a lot of the fascist groups, they would like to see the same thing I think in Russia itself and therefore they feel that pulling Ukraine away from Russia will weaken the Russian government.
 
That is the real name of the game here which is being perpetrated by the people who are really fomenting this but in Europe there are still rational elements, not so much from the EU leadership becoming to some extent out of Germany who have a strong relationship with Russia, understand the need of cooperation between the Europeans, the West Europeans and the East including Russia as a part of Europe.
 
I think they are going to try and bring the temperature down but believe me the actions by the Obama administration are pushing us toward war unless we can turn the tide in another direction I think we are going to have a very heated situation within the next few weeks, possibly a thermonuclear war.   
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