Official tells AP that Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit in August

[The Magistrate]

14. An Interesting Development, Sir, Should It Come To Pass

The countries participating include leading lights of the 'BRIC bloc'. Russia has been counting on their support, and postures still as their leader, and muscle. Ukraine is not going to meet nations adversely affected by Russia's imperialist aggression in order to be badgered into surrender. In the wake of the disaster for Putin the recent confab in South Africa proved, the likely Ukrainian aim for this conference would be to secure pressure on Russia from the BRIC countries to end the grain blockade and to stand down from its attempt at imperial conquest. Securing the further political and economic isolation of an enemy lends greater force to military action, which is, as the man said, the continuation of politics by other means....


"Peace is not the absence of violence. It is the presence of justice."