“We don’t want to scare everybody, but we are preparing for full-scale war,” warns Vadym Prystaiko – Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister – telling CBC during a stunning interview that “what we expect from the world is that the world will stiffen up in the spine a little.” Demanding that West provide ‘lethal weapons’ Prystaiko rages “everybody is afraid of fighting with a nuclear state. We are not anymore.” Coming just a week after the Minsk Summit ‘peace’ deal and with Germany having warned they are likely unable to stop arms being supplied to Ukraine, Prystaiko concludes, “we would like [The West] to send lethal weapons to Ukraine… weapons to allow us to defend ourselves.”
Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister says he is preparing for “full-scale war” against Russia and wants Canada to help by supplying lethal weapons and the training to use them.
Vadym Prystaiko, who until last fall was Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada, says the world must not be afraid of joining Ukraine in the fight against a nuclear power.
In an interview with CBC Radio’s The House airing Saturday, Prystaiko says the ceasefire brokered by Germany and France was not holding.
Sadly, the Ukrainians haven’t been able to get adequate food and ammo to the front, much less anything resembling competent resistance. I had wondered it it was to be another Afghanistan for the Russians, with Franc-tireurs behind every tree. But the Kleptocracy has been so inept for so long that while everyone is upset, no one cares enough to do anything about it. So busloads of conscripts get sent back and forth to meat grinders to no good effect. My wife is from Chernihiv, and the attitude of the wounded (a not small percentage of whom are wounded in vodka fueled drunkfights) at the Army hospital there is not “put me back in, Coach.”
Doubly sad is the freeze in US/ Russian relations. I’ve always felt more affinity to them than the Chinese. The Russians have straddled Asia long enough to have more of the Asian tendency to Autocracy than I might like, but that Russian pragmatism combined with national paranoia (and a resurgent Church that the Right here should love) should have made us natural bedfellows.