A top official from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) has said he will host a "summit of unrecognized states" in February or March if he can guarantee the security of its participants.
In an interview with the Donetsk-based Oplot-TV, Aleksandr Kofman, the self-styled foreign minister of the Moscow-backed DNR, said talks on the summit have already begun and that he hopes the meeting will result in a "League of New States."
Kofman listed representatives from Spain's Basque region, Belgium's Flanders region, Venice, Italy, and the U.S. state of Texas as potential participants. (There was no mention of Kosovo, which has been recognized by 108 states but notably not by Russia.)
Kofman's interviewer expressed particular interest in Texas, asking if there are "sprouts of support" in the U.S. state.
"There's more than sprouts," he said, adding that those in favor of Texas independence "fully support the Donetsk People's Republic."
As long as the League doesn't have a Kenyan Communist pushing a free healthcare plan for a president, Texas will attend.
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DeleteThat they refer to themselves as a "Peoples Republic" should be all anyone needs to know about the philosophical bent of these so called rebels. As I have said before whatever the venality of the machinations of Obama's neo con State Dept. it does not transform Putin, the Kremlin or his puppet rebels into Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory.
ReplyDeleteLast weeks election in Greece has set the EURO on the path to unravelling faster than a ball of yarn set upon by a litter of kittens. That the new government in Athens has adopted the Kre.Lin line on the Ukrainian government and threatens to exercise a veto over any further sanctions against Putin will add to the speed of the deterioration in Europe both economically and politically. Historically currency wars lead to real wars.
Sounds good. Hope more USA states will participate. Washington would order an attack on the conference. Got to start some place and sounds like a good place.
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That's what the article implied. Who knows, maybe it will take off if it gets
ReplyDeleteenough publicity. As stated in the article:
"I wouldn't risk gathering the leaders of all these republics and giving the disreputable United States the chance to solve all of its problem with one shot," he said, apparently intimating that Washington would order an attack on the conference.