Replay.

Editor,

"Destabilizing" Ukraine lies exactly on the doorstep of the USA, EU, NATO, and IMF, all of whom forced their aggressive idea in the first place on Eastern and Southern Ukraine that Ukraine had to choose between doing business with Russia or the West, with the usual "security" guarantees threatening Russia's security -- objection to which by Russia, predictably, has been cast from the beginning as "Russian aggression."

Resistance to Kiev's Western-backed aggressive rejection of increased autonomy for the East and South in the form of federation has also been attacked by the Western propaganda machine with a daily drumbeat of "Russian aggression." Defence anywhere on this planet to U.S. aggression, supported by any combination of its allies and/or instruments of international thuggery, can always be relied on to be sold to an impartial observer by the USA as "aggression" by its target. And U.S. media can always be counted on to go along.

On the 100th anniversary of the stupidiest, arguably most horrible war ever fought, Western diplomats are doing everything in their power to provoke a replay of that disaster, this time using nuclear ICBM's.

Re: "Russia Responds to Western Sanctions With Its Own" (8/8/2014)