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Feb 21, 2014 02:00 am | James W. Carden
Yet another Red Line, Mr. President?As the death toll mounted in the center of Ukraine earlier this week, president Obama, taking questions alongside the Mexican president in Toluca, was moved to remark on Tuesday:
“I want to be very clear, as we work through these next several days in Ukraine, that we’re going to be watching closely, and we expect the Ukrainian government to show restraint, to not resort to violence in dealing with peaceful protesters…there will be consequences if people step over the line."
In the space of two sentences the president—give him credit for parsimony—made a few things, as he never seems to tire of saying, “very clear.” The first thing he made clear was that he and his administration are willfully misrepresenting what is actually happening in Kiev. His call for the Ukrainian government to ‘show restraint’ in the face of what is now a spectacularly violent far-Right putsch is a rhetorical fantasy dressed up as a warning.
read morehttp://nationalinterest.org/commentary/obamas-latest-red-line-ukraine-9911
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