generalspeaking

Let's Get This Straight....

Where's that shipment of Russian tanks headed now, Sudan or Kenya? A sale from Ukraine, we were informed, to Kenya. Those Somalia pirates, didn't they kind of luck in on that one? And isn't it a bit of an embarrassment? Russia huffing and puffing about sending a warship, a Fearless one, at that, to confront the pirates and rescue the ship and its crew. Might be too late for the captain, said to have perished from fright and agitation through a heart attack.

Never mind, American ships are on the scene. Taking incriminating photographs of the wee boats of those pirates scrambling aboard that huge ship with its cargo of weapons. The original ransom has been downgraded slightly, but $20-million (U.S.) is not loose change. And the pirates don't seem overly concerned that they're effectively encircled. They're complacent, sitting tight, confident in their piracy which has, up to now, repaid them handsomely for their high seas adventures.

The pirates say pay the ransom and the MV Faina will be on its way. The USS Howard is standing by, on the alert, awaiting the arrival of the Russian warship Neustrashimy and two Malasian vessels. It's Russia's rescue, and the U.S. is content to stand by to assist if required. Downright friendly, companionably helpful, the way two great countries should react to one another.

Well, there's always something to spoil the vision of peace and goodwill, isn't there? It's rather inconveniently awkward that the U.S. Navy insists the cargo of Soviet-type T-72 tanks and allied military supplies are likely transiting Kenya, destined for Sudan. Kiev, and Nairobi both, deny this to be the fact, that the Kenyan and Ukrainian governments have a deal.

Ukraine somehow conspiring to support the Sudanese government in its pursuit of and ongoing victimization of Darfurians? Advancing their atrocities by taking their oil money in exchange for the means by which Sudan can handily continue its agenda of putting down a rebellion, in the process murdering and raping tens of thousands of black Sudanese?

Neither Ukraine nor Russia would appreciate these revelations particularly, should they prove to be fact. Yet another irritating little factoid further enraging Russia about American interference in its affairs.

Labels: Realities, Troublespots, World News

posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, September 30, 2008