Kerry: Use of Force by Poroshenko Would Be Destructive of Minsk Agreement

The constant theme of the Obama Administration and its NATO allies has been to place the entirety of the blame for continued warfare in southeast Ukraine on Moscow. Therefore, according to this line of reasoning, if the Minsk agreement fails, it is because Russia has not held up its end of the bargain. It should be noteworthy, therefore, when Secretary of State John Kerry admonishes the Kiev regime for contemplating the continuation of violence to achieve its goals in the Donbass.

Kerry’s comments came during a joint press briefing in Sochi with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on May 12. A member of the Russian media asked Kerry to comment on the public vow, made by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko a few days ago, to retake the Donetsk airport by force, if necessary. Kerry said, according to the State Department transcript, that he hadn’t heard the speech,

Kerry went on to give Poroshenko the benefit of the doubt, that maybe he was talking about the long term, but he warned that

Lavrov, standing next to Kerry, said that he “absolutely” agreed with him and that “any attempts to engage again in a forceful scenario could be really undermining the efforts that we have been taking.

Overall, Kerry spent four hours meeting with Lavrov and another four hours meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In addition to discussing the Ukraine crisis and the urgent need to fully implement the Minsk Accords, they discussed the P5+1 negotiations with Iran, and seem to have particularly discussed the current Syria situation, on the eve of the Obama meeting at Camp David, Thursday, with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) representatives (events begin Wednesday night with a White House banquet), which will take place all day.

In fact, the Kerry visit to Sochi was, in itself, a political coup against Obama and the British, who have been on a jihad against Putin and Russia since the launching of Nuland’s Nazi coup in Kiev in November 2013. Washington sources made clear that the Kerry trip was made possible by a strong intervention by sane forces in Washington, including within the Pentagon and JCS, who saw the world headed towards thermonuclear extinction and had to act. These sources reported that the open, face-to-face dialogue between Kerry, Lavrov, and Putin was a significant, albeit first step towards de-escalating the danger of general war.