Tass Pentagon, CIA heads demand to increase pressure on Moscow over Syria - media

Top military and intelligence officials in U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration want to increase pressure on Moscow by expanding support to militants fighting in Syria after the agreement was reached with Russia on the ceasefire in Syria on February 27, the Wall Street Journal online newspaper said on Tuesday.

The publication called Defense Secretary Ash Carter, Marine General Joseph Dunford and CIA Director John Brennan an "alliance of Russia hawks in the cabinet."

According to the daily, at the last meeting in the White House Obama’s top advisers expressed extremely bellicose views towards Moscow.…

Killing the baby in the crib.

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Pentagon, CIA heads demand to increase pressure on Moscow over Syria - media

Patrick Lang — A cease fire made in hell

Someone explain to me what the point of this "cease fire" will be.

Well, we all know it's to give the "moderates" a chance to regroup and get resupplied.

The question is why Putin and Lavrov bought into something like this. The Russians know from experience that the Americans are insincere and are continually trying to game them.

Lavrov is also a lot more experienced and savvy then John Kerry, as is Putin over Obama. I would venture to say that Lavrov regards Kerry as something of an ass. Heaven knows what Putin thinks of Obama but I suspect he thinks that Obama is a dangerous moron with nukes.

The Russians know that people pulling the levers are neocons like Susan Rice and Samantha Power, and that NATO is run by people like Gen. Breedlove. The are all russophobes determined to destroy Russia as world power. They haven't moved past the USSR and the Cold War, and they are enraged that Putin upset their plans — temporarily they think.

But since Putin, Lavrov, Shoygu etc. know all this, we can assume that they have a plan to deal with it.

Sic Semper Tyrannis
A cease fire made in hell
Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.), former military intelligence officer at the US Defense Intelligence Agency

Why "Ukraine peace" is an oxymoron.

Why the Ukraine can not be put back together again in the foreseeable future.

The following is a remarkable article published in the Financial Times. It is remarkable for two reasons. One, the Times is a conservative, staid newspaper. But two, the newspaper makes two acknowledgements that the near-entirety of Western mainstream media cannot bring itself to report—that the armed forces of the Kyiv governing regime have been ruthlessly shelling and attacking the people of the Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples Republics for the past six months, and two, the people do not like this and have turned against the ‘Ukraine’ that Kyiv represents. A revelation! It is truly remarkable that such simple reporting of facts in this war becomes something so noteworthy and, well, remarkable.

The New Cold War
School lessons and shelling forge new identity in eastern Ukraine

Courtney Weaver, Financial Times

And now this just in:

Donetsk is subjected to the most powerful attack in the entire war for independence of Donbass.

The city is shaking from explosions and is under fire from exploding ammunition of Ukrainian terrorists. Emergency vehicles are rushing through the streets…

"I have a feeling as if all the "fascist dogs" got a command to attack", - reports from the scene our military correspondent. "Many Donetsk residents, who are not easily scared anymore, doubt they will survive this night and are saying goodbye to loved ones."

It is hard to imagine how many will be wounded and killed in the fire of hell, organized by the Ukrainian army.

P. S. Simultaneously with frenzied bombardment of cities of Donbass, Poroshenko is putting on a show - now live from the General staff issuing an order for ceasefire. First, in Ukrainian, then in English - for TV picture.

Fort Russ
Poroshenko goes out with a bang for Valentines day
Dima Pitersky, Rusvesna
Translated by Kristina Rus

In both the conflict between the eurocrats and Syriza, and also the parties to the Minsk agreement, the leaders have to look like they are seriously trying in good faith for a resolution, but the facts belie resolution.