MoA: Poroshenko “Porky” Initiated Clash With Russia To Gain Dictatorial Powers - He Failed
The Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko's attempted to shore up his approval rate for the upcoming election by provoking a military incident. It was a gamble and it failed.
Three Ukrainian boats, a tug and two gun boats, attempted to sail from the Black Sea through the Kerch Strait into the Sea of Azov. The Kerch Strait is territorial Russian water since Crimea voted to join Russia. "Innocent passage" is allowed but necessitates following the laws and regulations of the territorial country. …
The Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko sent the boats with the order not to coordinate their passage with Russian authorities. The captured sailors confirm that. He wanted to provoke a violent Russian reaction. …
The Russian coast guard had no problem to disable the ships and to capture their crews. …
Poroshenko's intent was to provoke an incident that would allow him to present himself as a war-president. Elections are coming up and all polls show him below 10% and far behind two other candidates. He attempted to use the incident to introduce martial law over all the Ukraine.
Martial law would give Poroshenko full control over the country. He would be able to remove any regional or local government, to shut down the political opposition and to censor the media. He would be able to postpone the upcoming elections indefinitely.
Back in July Yulia Tymoshenko, who is leading the polls for the next elections, warned that Poroshenko would take this step (machine translation):The leader of Batkivshchyna, Yulia Tymoshenko, claims that … Petro Poroshenko, is allegedly nurturing a “extremely dangerous plan” to disrupt voting by escalating the war in Donbass and imposing martial law in Ukraine. … Tymoshenko stated that Poroshenko "does not want" to hold presidential elections in order to "save power", ...
Yesterday Poroshenko tried to scare the parliament into accepting his plans …
The parliament must vote on the introduction of martial law and the opposition parties recognized Poroshenko's stunt for what it was. His plans were rejected. Poroshenko pulled back. Instead of the 60 day long, renewable period of martial law he wanted, he had to settle for 30 days. And that was still not enough: …They wanted immediate confirmation, rather than just a promise, that the election will go ahead on March 31. They sought to limit martial law to a number of regions rather the whole country, and they objected to any plans to limit Ukrainians’ constitutional freedoms. Their fear wasn’t just that campaigning would be limited, but that Poroshenko would get near-dictatorial powers.
There will now be a limited martial law but only in those regions that border Russia or the Black Sea. .. There will be a limited call-up of reserve troops, but most of the reservists are to likely ignore it.
With the election date set to March 31 by the parliament Poroshenko has no legal tool to postpone it. Unless of course he manages to provoke a real war … The lunatic warmongers at the Atlantic Council urge him to do exactly that …
Poroshenko's rule was catastrophic for the Ukraine. In several cities the central heating and warm water supply is broken. Ten-thousands will have to freeze during the winter, some of them to death. Since Poroshenko came to power millions of able Ukrainian workers have fled or work abroad, most of them to Russia. The most industrialized regions are firmly in rebel hands. Most of the population is poor, the bureaucracy is utterly corrupt and the country is practically bankrupt.
There will likely be dozens of corruption cases brought up against Poroshenko himself as soon as he loses power. …
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Originally Posted by Swordsmyth
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