World close to thermonuclear war over Ukraine

Q: Mr. Jones, it seems that the coalition and the new government in Ukraine is developing some cracks. How do you interpret Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s resignation?
 
Jones: Well I think of course I know Victoria Nuland is going to be disappointed because she really had appointed him as the point person for US and NATO operations in Ukraine but the Ukrainian government is indeed a mess, comprises a lot of different figures including many parties that a very suspect to have their roots in the old Nazi period and they do not always get along.
 
And of course as the fighting is going on in the eastern Ukraine and its people are seeing continuation of the bombings and the like despite of the fact that everybody including the Russians, including the US officially are calling for some kind of a diplomatic solution and a ceasefire that they continue in that direction.
 
So that is obviously causing a lot of internal dissent within this government that had been kind of pasted together in the aftermath of the Color Revolution.
 
Q: So this means we are going to see more instability in Ukraine. How much of this you think is going to affect what we are seeing specifically happening in the eastern part of the country?
 
Jones: Well obviously the decisions are being taken in one respect in Kiev by the President and by the government and we will see what kind of parliamentary grouping is put together but I think it is going to have a very hard-edge whatever way you might want to look at.
 
There are not a lot of people in the official so-called parliamentary grouping which are calling for some kind of negotiations with the separatists in the east and there is a grouping within the government parties which simply want to eliminate the Russian speaking populations in the east of Ukraine.
 
 
In some respect it reminds us of genocide not that they want to kill everybody but if they can not kill the Russian speakers in the east but they can at least drive them across the border back to Russia and I think there is not too much optimism that you can see coming out of the government in Kiev.
 
However, the situation is gaining some attention internationally especially after the downing of the Malaysian plane and I think the world now is more inclined to try and bring about some kind of a peaceful solution there and that is going to be putting pressure on the government as well, putting pressure including on the US government and on the NATO governments.
 
Europe is divided with regard to the policy in Ukraine and that may present the possibilities for creating some kind of stability and at least a ceasefire to some point in Ukraine in the near future.
 
Q: Very, very quickly if you can Mr. Jones, but right now do you think there is that political will to quickly be done with this problem, solve it, come up with a solution to it because we are seeing still a lot of anti-Russian rhetoric coming from the West?
 
Jones: It is a very dangerous situation. We are probably closer to a war between great powers which would be a thermonuclear war than we have ever been since the Cuba crisis.
 
    The problem stems from Washington and London, the powers that have been pushing this and they are using the extremists in Ukraine and the anti-Russian feeling that exists among a certain part of the population to try and weaken Russia and to weaken the alliances that Russia has with China by pulling Ukraine completely out of the orbit of Russia. 
 
That was the name of the game and it is the game of the game today and it won’t stop until the world reacts against the dangers that is causing for world peace.