Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko delivered an address to a joint session of Congress in which he called for increased economic and military assistance to aid in a “war for the Free World.”

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In his address Poroshenko pressed for increased military assistance from the United States in his government’s drive to put down the pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine. Despite a precarious ceasefire between the Kiev regime and the pro-Russian separatists, Poroshenko provocatively called for the United States to provide Ukraine with lethal military aid to complement the non-lethal aid that it has already provided. “Blankets, night vision goggles are also important, but one cannot win the war with blankets. Even more, we cannot keep the peace with a blanket,” he said.
He called on the United States to develop closer military ties with Ukraine by developing a “special security and defense status” with the former Soviet republic, which would allow for the “highest level of interaction with a non-Nato ally.”
Poroshenko insisted that the outcome of the war being fought in Ukraine between the regime and the separatists was of great strategic interest to the United States and the EU. “The only thing that now stands between the reality of peaceful coexistence and the nightmare of the full relapse into the previous century, into a new Cold War, are Ukrainian soldiers,” he said. He maintained that the conflict in Ukraine was a “war for the Free World.”

Man, the Russian bourgeoisie seems blind to this existential threat. It will (as always) be the working class that suffers, and now with the added juice of nazism...

Man, the Russian bourgeoisie seems blind to this existential threat. It will (as always) be the working class that suffers, and now with the added juice of nazism...

An existential threat to Russian sovereignity, a dire threat to the Russian people, but not so much for them. They might lose some in competition but their relative place will be secure. I think they see this as sealing the deal in preserving them from popular justice. I have little doubt that socialist noises that are sporadically emitted from Novorossia and the inferred substrata that is their source have had some bearing on the decisions made in Moscow. There lies the existential threat they fear.