Weekend Economists Salute the 99% September 26-28, 2014

[MattSh]

33. We will see, won't we?

Kiev has definitely been establishing a rather dubious track record over the last few months, haven't they? Yet, there's definitely some kind of change going on here on the ground in Kiev. Exactly what that is, is hard to say.

Kiev's definitely got their asses kicked out east in Donbass. At a minimum, this is a timeout to reassess and regroup. But this also an election coming up in about a month. So maybe this is an attempt by the junta to claim that they bought peace to the country, while conveniently overlooking the fact that is was their war to begin with. But hey, when you have no other defense, blame Russia! But I also have no doubt that this is not over, not by a long shot. It's strangely suspicious to me that ISIS popped up right around the time that things started going way south for the Junta.

I have seen statements, maybe from ISIS, or maybe from others in the know, stating that ISIS would love to stir things up in Russia. So there's definitely a part of me that feels the Nazis in Kiev and ISIS may be a left right combination. The punch from Kiev failed to have much of an impact at all, so let's see what we can do with the other hand. Yet, Obama does seem to be determined to deliver a major blow to ISIS. But the major blows in the past have definitely lead to major blowbacks to the west.

Yet I definitely agree with Paul Craig Roberts, whose article is linked elsewhere. I do agree that Russia and China both need to take more assertive action against the fools in the West. But of course if Putin followed the advice of us armchair quarterbacks, there would already be a major land war here in Europe.