Mediation won’t resolve the crisis in Ukraine, as all international players have their own interests there, Wide Awake News founder Charlie McGrath told RT, adding that only the Ukrainians can drag their country out of the current “quagmire.”
The document on de-escalation – which Russia, the US, the EU, and
Ukraine agreed on – is unlikely to fulfill its purpose and bring
peace to the crisis-hit country, McGrath stressed.
With all the international players involved in the Geneva deal
and having their own interests in Ukraine, the country finds
itself “caught in the middle of an old school-style, Cold
War-type battle,” the Wide Awake News founder explained.
Moscow is looking for greater influence in its neighbor state
because “there’s a lot of wealth that’s transferred to
Ukraine via Russia through natural gas pipelines,” he said.
“NATO wants to step up and get that much closer to Russia;
they want more presence inside Eastern Europe,” the
journalist said, adding that Poland is already using the
accession of Ukraine’s Republic of Crimea into Russia “as a
great excuse” to put US troops on its territory.
According to McGrath, the International Monetary Fund “is eager to get its claws into Ukraine and sap the natural resources and the natural trade routes” that the former Soviet state possesses.
What Washington really wants is “to implement austerity on
Ukraine,” as it keeps “dangling this carrot of foreign
aid” before the coup-imposed authorities in Kiev, he said.
If financial support from the IMF arrives in Ukraine, it will
only help the banks – turning the population into “nothing
more than debt slaves, like we’ve seen in other nations
throughout Europe,” the journalist warned.
McGrath also reminded that the events in Ukraine “aren’t an
accident,” with the US contributing largely to the turmoil.
“You don’t need to take a journalist’s word for it on RT. You
can listen to Dennis Kucinich, the Congressman for the US, he
pointed out on a recent interview with Bill O’Reilly on FOX News
that there were quasi-government agencies that spent billions of
dollars, 65+ programs to destabilize the elected government of
Ukraine,” he stressed.
The founder of Wide Awake News said that in achieving its goal,
Washington bet on the neo-Nazi groups. He added that “there’s
going to be a lot of bloodshed” in Ukraine if those
“questionable characters” are allowed to act freely.
McGrath believes there is not “any quick solution” to
the crisis in Ukraine, which can only be resolved by the
Ukrainians themselves.
“I just don’t think that this is going to end any way other
than the people of Ukraine taking control of their own land and
electing their own government,” he said, adding that the US,
the EU, and Russia should be “stepping back and letting this
country be sovereign and be self-determining in its
governance.”
The Geneva deal, which was agreed on Thursday after marathon
negotiations, is aimed at defusing Ukraine's political crisis.
In addition to disarming paramilitary groups, it provides an
amnesty for protesters not involved in violent crimes and the
preparation of constitutional reform to provide greater autonomy
for Ukrainian regions.
Ukraine remains in turmoil since the coup, which was powered by
far-right radicals and ousted democratically-elected President
Viktor Yanukovich in February.
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The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.