The United States is merging the Kyiv government and reaching an agreement with Russia - American publication
American edition Fiscal Times acknowledges the complete U.S. turnaround in Ukraine strategy. Key agreements on Ukraine, according to the publication, took place in Sochi at a meeting between Kerry and Lavrov, where the countries found ways to agree on Iran, which is now a consequence of Washington’s refusal to escalate in Ukraine.
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Fiscal Times columnist Patrick Smith, in the article “What Would Obama's New Pivot on Russia Mean,” writes that in less than a week, President Obama has made a 180-degree turn in his strategy on Syria. He considers Kerry to be the main core of this turnaround, and notes that this change in political course has been prepared for a long time.
The columnist returns to the seven-hour conversation in Sochi in May of this year between Lavrov and Kerry. Citing his own source in Moscow, he says many people think the conversation was entirely about Ukraine. Not at all: 80% of the conversation was devoted to the Islamic State, 10% to Iran and 10% to Ukraine. They returned to the issue of Ukraine only after reaching an agreement in the main discussions.
In the presidential administration, diplomats defeated the militarists.
Among the consequences of the change of course, the observer sees the possibility of transferring the experience of cooperation in Syria to other issues, in particular, the issue of Ukraine. “It should now be abundantly clear to many that in both Syria and Ukraine, Washington had the wrong end of the stick,” Smith writes.
Federalization of Ukraine is a reasonable policy, and Moscow is in favor of it, the publication writes.
Just a few months ago, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter threatened a NATO military presence in Eastern Europe, and last week the ice broke and, on Obama's orders, Carter made a call to Sergei Shoigu. The ministers communicated with each other for a long time and also found a common language.
“Everything is extremely frank,” the observer notes.
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