Putin unveils himself as a 'liar'.....

Finally, it would seem, Putin no longer feels it necessary to conceal from the world his imperial ambitions that precipitated the criminal annexing of Ukrainian Crimea. From his own mouth, it now transpires that weeks before the creation of his 'deceptive' justification for trampling all over the international laws governing the inviolability of a country's boundaries, he had already set in motion his plan to " .... begin the work to bring Crimea back into Russia'."
 

These imperial ambitions of Putin are reinforced by the critical support of Patriarch Kirill (left, with Putin) who, in 2012, described the then Putin era as,

".....  a miracle of God" and criticised his opponents. He said that those who were demonstrating for democratic reform and the rule of law were emitting "ear piercing shrieks" " (Wikipedia) (my emphasis)

But as Geraldine Fagan now reveals,

"The Patriarch of Moscow laid the intellectual groundwork for Russia’s incursion into Ukraine. But now he is paying an exceedingly heavy price" (Catholic Herald : Thursday, 19 Feb 2015) (my emphasis)

Kirill has made a dramatic U-turn.

"In order to distance his Church from the Kremlin’s line at least somewhat, Kirill has latterly sought to qualify his earlier vision of the Russian World by stressing that it today consists of “independent states, and we respect their sovereignty, their readiness and desire to build their national life independently”. (ibid Geraldine Fagan) (my emphasis)

The question we now have to ask ourselves is:

(i) Is the Minsk2 ceasefire holding because of the intervention of Merkel and Hollande"? 
                                                       Or
(ii) Is it because Patriarch Kirill must have made it known to Putin "that the sovereignty of states must be respected, "even those which he previously claimed as part of his “canonical territory”, whose "[alleged] core is the empire that grew out of Grand Prince Vladimir’s proto-state of Rus: Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. (Russkiy Mir)" (ibid Geraldine Fagan) (my emphasis)

All the lies and deceptions that Putin has woven to "legitimise his war with Ukraine in his own mind", and the Goebbels-like fanaticism of his international propaganda machine in spreading these deceptions and lies into the minds not only of the global community, but also into the minds of the Russian people themselves, points decidedly to question (ii) as being the answer.

    
Is it therefore any wonder that the documentary of the video trailer about Putin's admissions regarding his annexing of Ukrainian Crimea is called, "The Path To The Motherland", totally in line with Patriarch Kirill's intellectual ideas of Russkiy Mir?

Without a doubt Putin has ordered his proxies and Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine to be seen to be implementing Minsk2, especially the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the front-line.

As reported by BBC News Europe,

"Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (left) says pro-Russian rebels in the east have withdrawn a "significant" amount of heavy weapons.

Speaking on TV, Mr Poroshenko said his government forces had also pulled back "the lion's share" of their rocket and heavy artillery systems." (BBC News Europe : 10 March 2015)

Already Ukraine is beginning to count the devastating cost of its war with Russia.

However Tom Burridge, in a video report, cautions that we should not be too complacent in thinking that this war is over.

Putin may have told the world that he is a 'liar', but the world already knew that.

With this in mind, what now will the 'fragrant' Mogherini's of the EU be proposing to ensure that Putin does not break this fragile 'ceasefire' within the next few weeks? Yet more 'weak-kneed' sanctions?

Putin has dragged the economy of Ukraine to the abyss of disaster. There will be no "MarshallPlan" coming forth from the EU to help Ukraine rebuild its industries that have been devasted by its war with Putin.

On the contrary, Angela Merkel (left) will soon, like Matteo Renzi, be resucitating German industry's lucrative links to the corrupt Putin 'siloviki' criminal clan. Will Merkel acknowledge that without the post-war "Marshall Plan" Germany, the so-called economic powerhouse of the Europe, would not be in the advantageous economic position it now finds itself?

We now wait to see what the EU supporters of Putin, the 'liar', will do.

(to be continued)