addressed to U.S. President Barack Obama has signed nine former employees of the American intelligence service, members of the movement " Veterans of intelligence for sanity " (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, VIPS). In it they asked Obama to take immediate steps to de-escalate tensions in Ukraine.
Veterans of intelligence urged Obama to declare publicly about the fact that NATO will not include in your own part of Ukraine and Georgia, calling on Ukraine to take on your own shoulders of the commitment to neutrality, similar to those that have taken on their own shoulders Finland. In the second necessary measures VIPS suggested Obama as soon As possible to build meet eye to eye with Putin that in a conversation regain mutual trust, to discuss solutions to fall and to acknowledge the desires of all interested parties.
As emphasized in his own Memorandum Veterans of special services, in the cooling of relations between the US and Russia are guilty, most importantly, Obama's advisers and head of the U.S. Department of state John Kerry. For reviews of VIPS, in 2013, Obama has already managed to cross their pressure and abandon the attack on Syria, despite the fact that his administration would press for an immediate invasion of the country because of Data on the use of chemical weapons by the Assad government.
" The actions of advisors on Ukraine, which reflexively support " niches media "considering any opinion indisputable truth, now have the opportunity to bring to Ukraine a full-scale civil war, which will require the intervention of Russia and, for its part, will poison even stronger relations with Russia, " write the Veterans of the security services in the Memorandum.
However, they stressed that the gap with Russia extremely disadvantageous USA, As in the existing conditions only Russia can affect China and its desire to resolve the territorial dispute with Japan over the Senkaku Islands - Diaoyu. VIPS first gained popularity in 2003 when his Memorandum, the organization urged George Bush not to send troops to Iraq, calling insolvency was submitted confirmation of the creation in the country of weapons of mass destruction. Then, the US authorities have realized these proofs fabricated. In 2013 VIPS warned Obama and the invasion of Syria, noting that the USA has no solid evidence that the government of Bashar al-Assad the chemical weapons.
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