COMMENTARY & OPINION SPECIAL REPORT

From the desk of

Bill Ramey

2/8/15

COMMENTARY & OPINION

SPECIAL REPORT

Greetings friends around the world:

It is with grave concern that I issue this Special Report because it appears that the things I have been telling you are to happen --- are happening.  We are in the last ditch efforts now, of some leaders who see the gravity of the situation and hope to stave off WW III. 

It would seem that Poroshenko has lost control of the Ukraine military (as this report states), but also that our oval office occupant is rapidly losing control of the U.S. Military and perhaps his own faculties. 

Wars are fomented and executed by mad men euphemistically called psychopaths.  Wars are about robbery.  The coming war between two superpowers is about the total destruction of planet earth although we are assured by the prophets it will be stopped just short of that.

If you have been a regular reader for the past few years, you know what to expect in the coming weeks and months.

February 8, 2015

Putin Warns Europe: Total War If Obama Arms Ukraine

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A new Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report prepared for the planned 'Normandy Four'  meeting that may be held in the Belarus capital of Minsk as early as Wednesday, with President Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, warns that should this effort fail, “total war” remains the Federations only option to resolve the Ukraine crisis.

According to this report, during his 5-hour meeting Friday with Merkel and Hollande, Putin privately warned his European counterparts that he would not allow the Obama regime to arm the fascist-aligned Ukrainian government, and should the US attempt to do so in spite of the Federations warning, “total war” within a few weeks would be the result.

During a visit to Sochi on the Black Sea yesterday, this report continues, Putin further publically warned the Obama regime against their reckless actions by stating:

“There is an attempt to perturb the existing world order... with one incontestable leader [Obama] who wants to remain as such thinking he is allowed everything while others are only allowed what he allows and only in his interests. This world order will never suit Russia.”

Putin’s grim warning of “total war”, this report notes, was heeded by Merkel who warned her Western counterparts yesterday not to try to scare Russia’s leader, and by Hollande who stated, “If we don't find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, its called war.”

Adding to Putin’s growing anger against the Obama regime over the Ukrainian war, this report says, was a German intelligence document provided to him by Merkel at Friday’s meeting estimating the true total of deaths in this conflict at 50,000, ten times the officially announced figure which has repeatedly been cited in the propaganda-filled Western press.

However, as this report despairingly notes, while the current Merkel-Hollande peace bid “is the last chance to avoid all-out war” as fighting intensifies in Ukraine, the Obama regime is intent upon making it worse as US Vice President Joe Biden yesterday vowed to arm the Ukrainian government to defend itself.  

Not being told to the American people about their government’s deadly plan though, this report warns, is that if the use of US weapons in the killing of ethnic Russians continues, the Kremlin has stated that it would support a large-scale military offensive from the east that would involve “taking Kiev.”

Necessitating the need for “total war” in an attempt to stop the Ukrainian conflict, this report states, is predicated upon the fact that along with ethnic Russians being under attack by Obama regime supported forces, this conflict also involves Federation citizens who have poured across the border by the thousands into this war to protect their families and relatives. 

As Ukrainian President Poroshenko has lost control of the military situation in eastern Ukraine at the same time his nations currency has collapsed and his government has gone broke, this report further warns, nearly 100,000 rebel forces are currently massing for what in all terms would be the final battle that would nearly totally destroy what’s left of the Ukrainian army. 

Important to note, MoFA experts in this report say, is that Ukraine currently has only around 41,000 regular combat troops plus perhaps 20,000 Ukrainian irregulars who joined volunteer battalions to fight against these nearly 100,000 rebel forces, and has lost a staggering 220 tanks, or a quarter of its total, and more than 480 armored vehicles through August of last year through combat, breakdown or capture by the rebel forces.

Also to note, this report says, is that by the beginning of this war in March 2014, Ukraine had just 6,000 troops ready for combat and only a sixth of its aircraft and anti-aircraft systems were functional and only four of the Ukrainian navy’s vessels were combat-ready prior to the conflict, and to make matters worse for them, at least 16,000 former Ukrainian military personnel in Crimea defected to the Russian armed forces when Russia annexed the territory in March.

The rest of Ukraine’s 100,000 or so troops and equipment weren’t ready for combat, this report shockingly continues, so in order to keep their forces fighting, Kiev established what are called “barrier squads” and sent them to the front lines to fire on any of their soldiers who attempted to retreat.

With US Special Forces troops already filmed being a part of this conflict, and US General. Ben Hodges, Commander of the US Army in Europe, handing out medals to wounded Ukrainian soldiers, this report also warns, the Federation is already in a de facto war with the Obama regime.

As to the outcome of these latest dire events it should be noted, and as we had previously reported on, Putin’s “Shock of March” battle plan remains a grave option on this bloodied table of war that may soon engulf us all.

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Obama About To "Unleash Hell" Warns US Senator

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine

In a hard hitting interview conducted by Hugh Hewitt with US Senator Lindsey Graham, we are informed that Barack Obama is "about to unleash hell on the Middle East" by creating a nuclear arms race that will be the "mistake of a lifetime."

With recent headlines tell us that Obama has agreed to roughly 80% of Iran's demands in negotiations over iran's nuclear program and that Iran is openly bragging that "Americans are begging us for a deal," Graham's assertions on this issue should be taken seriously.

Iran is, again, influencing four major capitals. They’re spreading their influence all over the world, including South America. Why would you negotiate with a regime that is building an ICBM, that is sponsoring terrorism at the highest level in modern times? Why not just call a time out and say we’re not going to talk to you anymore about your nuclear program until you stop your weapons buildup and destabilizing the neighbors? Does anybody really believe that Barack Obama would use military force against Iran after he drew a red line against Assad and did nothing? The Israelis are in a box. The Israelis are not going to allow the ayatollahs to go nuclear. And the deal that we’re contemplating with Iran is North Korea in the making. And the Arabs and the Israelis are not going to allow the ayatollahs in Iran to have a nuclear capability only contained by the UN. That’s what we tried to do in North Korea. So Obama’s about to unleash hell on the Middle East. He’s about to create a nuclear arms race by wanting a deal with the Iranians so badly that he’s about to make the mistake of a lifetime.

The full interview transcript can be read HERE and the headlined portion can be heard in the video below.

When asked whether ISIS or Iran poses the greatest threat, Graham responds "Not even close – Iran with a nuclear capability is the greatest threat the world will know in my lifetime."

Call it a conspiracy theory if you wish, but with recent inexplicable decisions being made on the part of the Obama administration, from arming Syrian rebels which then pledged allegiance to ISIS, to alienating our allie....  from poking the Russian bear to throwing US support behind terrorist groups..... US foreign policy has become one where it is almost impossible not to think that Barack Obama is deliberately trying to destabilize the entire world!

When other world leaders are warning that the US is on a march toward WW3, basically telling Barack Obama to back off, and 4-star generals are warning Americans that Obama has allowed our national security agencies to be infiltrated by enemies, and Americans that believe in the constitution or are religious or considered survivalists are labeled as extremists and terrorists, then one has to consider, looking at the big picture, that Barack Obama is deliberately trying to destroy America from within.

It is a question that has to be asked when we start compiling all the strategically bad decisions he has made over the last 6 years.

I may not agree with Lindsey Graham on everything, but in this case, I do believe Obama is about to "unleash hell," not just on the Middle East, but across the entire globe.

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February 8, 2014

Source: Russia Drops "Father Of All Bombs In Ukraine" - Videos  And Photos Of Massive Explosion In Ukraine!

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine

On Sunday night a massive explosion rocked Donetsk, Ukraine, which many described as a "mushroom cloud," with much speculation as to whether a nuclear weapon had been fired, kicking off World War III. Some suggest it was not nuclear but the explosion was the result of an Ukranian attack on a Russian ammunitions base according to Ukraine Reporter at @StateofUkraine. 

According to a deep background source, that is a cover story and this massive explosion was actually the Russia's "father of all bombs," which they bragged about in 2007.  The photo that accompanied the 2007 Telegraph article, did in fact leave a "mushroom cloud," and is what appears when a nuclear bomb is dropped, which is why initial social media reports thought that the explosion from Sunday night was a nuclear attack. (Photo from Telegraph article below)

(Caption from Telegraph - A mushroom cloud rises over a plain as Russia’s military test their latest weapon)

Flashback via The Telegraph:

According to Gen Alexander Rushkin, the Russian deputy chief of staff, the new bomb is smaller than the MOAB but much deadlier because, due to nanotechnology, the temperature at the epicentre of the blast is twice as high. "Test results of the new airborne weapon have shown that its efficiency and power is commensurate with a nuclear weapon," he said.

"The main destruction is inflicted by an ultrasonic shockwave and an incredibly high temperature," ORT added.

Preliminary reports on Sunday's explosion indicate a huge "shockwave" accompanied the Donetsk explosion, further giving credence that this explosion, despite "official" reports, could very well be Russia's "father of all bombs" that they warned about in 2007, as well as being the reason so many mistakenly thought it was a nuclear bomb.

With tensions hitting a fevered pitch and the west attempting to isolate Russia by backing them into a corner, our ANP source tells us that Russia just sent the world a message, "they are serious about their stand on NATO and the US arming the Ukrainians and this is a warning..... the next weapon will be a nuke such as a neutron weapon with no worry of contamination!"

February 9, 2015

Drudge Tweet: Obama Knows Something Terrible Coming - Very Unsettling!

By Live Free Or Die - All News Pipeline

The tweet from Matt Drudge seen above is getting an awful lot of attention across the internet as Drudge warns a 'greasy Obama in Grammy vid...hoarse...watery eyes...like he knows something terrible coming....very unsettling.' Coincidentally, or not, this occurred at the same time as a massive explosion in the Ukraine, leading us to ask, what does Barack Obama know that we don't know? Certainly Drudge is getting the same feeling of ominous events on the horizon leading to this Tweet.

The 1st video below is a breakdown of Drudge's tweet from All News Pipeline friend Freedom Fighter Reports while speculation on what Barack Obama might know, causing him to look like a jumbled mess as seen above, range from World War 3 with China/Russia on the horizon to a total global economic breakdown as shared in the 2nd and 3rd videos below from SignsofThyComing and FullSpectrumSurvival.

So, All News Pipeline readers, WHAT is causing Barack Obama to look like he just saw a ghost?

COMMENTARY & OPINION - CXXIII

From the desk of

Bill Ramey

2/8/15

COMMENTARY & OPINION

CXXIII

DOES ANY0NE RECALL THE 2008 POLITICAL SLOGAN "WE CAN'T AFFORD JOHN McCAIN"?

I am not saying John McCain would have made a better president.  I'm saying that it is a sad commentary on the state of America that either candidate was even considered. And I think it underscores and puts in bold print my contention that America is on the brink of complete and total destruction. 

You don't need a crystal ball, your favorite astrologer or even the prophets to see this.   Just open your eyes!  Turn the TV off and learn to think for yourself! Look at the U.S. economy in true perspective rather than the perspective (promoted by TV) that compliments the current regime.  Look at the war clouds on the horizon.  Look at the square miles of U.S. produced automobiles stored around the world rather than shut down the production lines.  Look at the Dow-Jones that is being propped up with printed money.  Look at the lies promoted by the media.  Do you really think this situation is sustainable? 

Of course, you can always join the chat boxes and vent your opinion on the outcome of the Superbowl, or watch more soaps, or join the breakfast clique at the cafe and talk about more pleasant things.  You can solidify your position as a part of those the prophet Hosea described in Hosea 4:6 as being destroyed "...for lack of knowledge."

But the world is in serious trouble and this becomes more obvious each day even in the "sanitized" news put out by the media.  We see more propping up of the U.S. economy, more justification for U.S. interference in Ukraine and more justification for our creation of and arming ISIS.  We even see them reinforcing the JFK and 911 myths occasionally. 

We are witnessing the end of a nation known as Babylon in scripture. It is positively identified by the prophet Habakkuk and there is no other nation that even comes close.  We can pretend this isn't so and we can hide our heads in the sands of American mythology --- but when the trumpet is blown announcing the "...appointed time", it will be a bit late for philosophizing. 

Most Americans will awake only when they see the lights go out or when they see the first mushroom cloud.  These Commentaries are not for those folks.  They are for those defined as "the wise" in Daniel 12:10.  They are for those who can reject the "media truths" of the JFK murder, Ruby Ridge, the Waco massacre, the Murrah Bldg bombing, 911 and Ukraine. 

"What is truth"?  It is something you will not find in the U.S. media.  It is something you will not find in the U.S courtrooms.  It is something being brought to planet earth by the "Strong hand from someplace". 

America claims to be a Christian nation --- and so they are.  What we need to realize is that Christianity equals idolatry!  If this shocks you, then it is because you have not done "due diligence" in probing into the origins of Christianity.  It did not originate with Christ.  I know full well that this is not easily accepted by a nation raised on Christian mythology but if your life depends on it, then you owe it to yourself to check it out.  I know only one publication that has braved the wrath of the Vatican and published the truth about Christianity.  This is the "History of Civilization"; in ten volumes, by Will and Ariel Durant.  As I recall the origin of Christianity is in book III. 

Can we begin to understand that "... all the kingdoms on earth..." belong to Satan as we see in Luke 4.  This includes religious kingdoms, corporate kingdoms, democracies, oligarchies, tyrannies and any other governments man can envision and set up.  

And this is the reason the Elohim must intervene in order to preserve a few on this planet. 

The religions of this world are built around the imaginations of men under the tutelage of Satan.  We see this in the teachings that men are going to heaven.  In Revelation 21, we see that the Elohim are preparing to move in with mankind on planet earth but only after a realignment that can only be described as apocalyptic.  Can we see this?  Can we accept this?    Quite frankly, our approval and acceptance is not required. 

The message brought to earth by Christ was not one of grace, mercy, redemption, blah, blah, blah.  We find His message stated quite succinctly in Mark 1:14.  It was about the Kingdom of God to be set up on planet earth.  The prophets have given us road signs a batch to precede that event and it would seem that we are looking at most of those road signs in the rear view mirror. 

Perhaps we should look at the signs of the Messiah's second coming in the gospels.  You can find them in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21.  Read these signs and see if they are not what you are seeing in the news today. 

Is there any way we can know for certain where we stand in the prophetic timeline?  Indeed there is!  Daniel 11 is the longest running prophecy and covers the time period between the Medo-Persian Empire and the closing out of the age when the governments of this world will be given to the saints of the Most High.  It is contained in only 45 verses.  If you were watching, you saw verses 42-43 unfurled in 2011 on international news.  It was the fall of Egypt and Libya.  What this means is that we stand at the threshold of verse 44! 

We have seen the opening of the chute of the 3rd horseman of the Apocalypse in Ethiopia in 1975 as foretold by William and Paul Paddock in their book "Famine 1975" published in 1955. 

We have seen the opening of the chute of the 4th horseman, again in Africa, with the opening of the American created (and patented) viruses beta tested in Africa. 

Ah but it doesn't stop there.  The four horsemen of the Apocalypse are the first four of seven seals to be opened throughout the ages leading up to, introducing and delineating the "time of the end".  We can also see that the fifth seal has been opened because of the martyrdom of the saints which has already begun (also in Africa and the mid east), and which brings us to the threshold of the sixth seal of Revelation 6:12.  This is the "biggy" and touches off the destruction of the new Babylon as we can see in Isaiah 13. 

We also see the trigger for this event in Isaiah 17:1-4.  We see the NATO created(?) ISIS getting closer to Damascus daily.  We can see that the "American airstrikes" have accelerated the taking of Syrian territory by the ISIS and is bringing them ever closer to Damascus.

When Damascus falls, end time prophecies go into fast-forward.  The U.S. and Israel will be destroyed within days if not hours.  Whether ISIS, Israel or the U.S. makes the hit on Damascus is immaterial --- whenever Damascus "...becomes a ruinous heap", final events go into fast-forward and it opens the door to Isaiah 13 and 29.  And if you want more of the gory details of America's demise, these are given in Jeremiah 50-51. 

We stand today at the very threshold of these events and we need to understand this.  I have been saying this for five years and it still hasn't happened --- does that mean it won't?  When I first started saying in 2008 that our present oval office occupant was put there for the destruction of America for idolatry, it was not as obvious as it is today.  At that time our economy still had a measure of stability.  Our federal offices had not been packed with Muslim.  Our military had not yet been gutted.  Egypt and Libya had not been destabilized and looted.  The Ukraine destabilizing had not yet been invented.  The national debt had not been tripled.  Our oval office occupant had not yet spent $40 million on vacations for himself and his family.

As the ancient Babylon came down to it's final hours, the top politicos of the nation had a party.  At this party, they were drinking wine and praising the gods of gold and silver and drinking wine from the golden vessels taken from the temple in Jerusalem allegedly destroyed by the then king of Babylon, Nebuchacnezzar. 

The acting king presiding at this party was a grandson of Nebuchadnezzar and we can find the account in the fifth chapter of the book of Daniel.  In verse 5 we see:  "In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote."

6  "Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him so that the joints of his loins were loosed and his knees smote one against another."   I should think that would be a bit unnerving to see a hand come floating across the room and write on the wall.

You can read the rest of the story in Daniel 5 about the words the hand wrote on the wall.  It is this account where we get the saying, "The handwriting on the wall".  Perhaps there is a reason this saying has been preserved these 25 centuries plus. 

Ancient Babylon at the time of this writing on the wall was within hours of their demise and the king's death.  The prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah tell us the end time Babylon will fall just as quickly.  The apostle John tells us in Revelation 18 that the battle will be decided in one hour. 

WHY OUR MEDIA HAS SOLD US OUT

Editor of Major German Newspaper Says He Planted Stories for the CIA

Ralph Lopez

Global Research

February 7, 2015

Becoming the first credentialed, well-known media insider to step forward and state publicly that he was secretly a “propagandist,” an editor of a major German daily has said that he personally planted stories for the CIA.

Saying he believes a medical condition gives him only a few years to live, and that he is filled with remorse, Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, the editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany’s largest newspapers, said in an interview that he accepted news stories written and given to him by the CIA and published them under his own name. Ulfkotte said the aim of much of the deception was to drive nations toward war.

Dr. Ulfkotte says the corruption of journalists and major news outlets by the CIA is routine, accepted, and widespread in the western media, and that journalists who do not comply either cannot get jobs at any news organization, or find their careers cut short.

Dr. Ulfkotte is the author of a book currently available only in German, “Bought Journalists” (Kopp 2014.) Aged 55, he was also once an advisor to the government of German Chancellor Helmet Kohl.

The book has become a bestseller in Germany but, in a bizarre twist which Ulfkotte says characterizes the disconnect caused by CIA control of the western media, the book cannot be reported on.

Ulfkotte says:

“No German mainstream journalist is allowed to report about [my] book. Otherwise he or she will be sacked. So we have a bestseller now that no German journalist is allowed to write or talk about.”

Among the stories Ulfkotte says he was ordered to plant in his newspaper over the years was a story that Libyan President Moammar Gaddafi was building poison gas factories in 2011. Ulfkotte also says he was an eyewitness to Saddam Hussein’s use of poison gas against Iranians in the war between Iran and Iraq, but that the editors he worked for at the time were not interested, because Iraq was a US ally at the time.

Ulfkotte says he is better positioned to come forward than many journalists because he does not have children who could be threatened. Ulfkotte told the Russian newspaper Russian Insider (RI):

“When I told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Ulfkotte’s nwspaper) that I would publish the book, their lawyers sent me a letter threatening with all legal consequences if I would publish any names or secrets – but I don’t mind. You see, I don’t have children to take care of. And you must know I was severely injured during the gas attack I witnessed in Iran in 1988. I’m the sole German survivor from a German poison gas attack. I’m still suffering from this. I’ve had three heart attacks. I don’t expect to live for more than a few years.”

Ulfkotte says that remorse of having “lied” to mass audiences over the years drove him to come forward. He told RI that he was:

“taught to lie, to betray and not to tell the truth to the public.”

Ulfkotte says:

“I’m ashamed I was part of it. Unfortunately I cannot reverse this.”

Among the admissions that Ulfkotte makes in the interview are putting his own name to articles completely written by intelligence agencies. He said:

“I ended up publishing articles under my own name written by agents of the CIA and other intelligence services, especially the German secret service.”

Ulfkotte detailed the pattern of cajolery and outright bribery used by the CIA and other US-allied intelligence agencies, for the purpose of advancing political agendas. Ulfkotte said:

“once you’re connected, you make friends with selected Americans. You think they are your friends and you start cooperating. They work on your ego, make you feel like you’re important. And one day one of them will ask you ‘Will you do me this favor’…”

Ulfkotte noted that a journalists on international press trips paid for by organizations close to the government are unlikely to submit a storyline not favorable to the sponsor.

Of the gassing of Iranians he had witnessed in the Eighties, Ulfkoppe said:

“they asked me to hand over the photo’s that I had made to the German association of chemical companies in Frankfurt, Verband der Chemischen Industrie. This poison gas that had killed so many Iranians was made in Germany.”

In an interview with Russia Today, Ulfkotte said that it was “not right” what he had done, and that his fear was that politicians were actively driving the world toward war:

“it is not right what I have done in the past, to manipulate people, to make propaganda against Russia, and it is not right what my colleagues do, and have done in the past, because they are bribed to betray the people not only in Germany, all over Europe. … I am very fearful of a new war in Europe, and I don’t like to have this situation again, because war is never coming from itself, there is always people who push for war, and this is not only politicians, it is journalists too. … We have betrayed our readers, just to push for war. … I don’t want this anymore, I’m fed up with this propaganda. We live in a banana republic, and not in a democratic country where we have press freedom…”

In his book “The CIA and the Media,” Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein quotes William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, in his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Baeder said:

“There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don’t need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level.”

Bernstein writes:

“The Agency’s relationship with the Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. From 1950 to 1966, about ten CIA employees were provided Times cover under arrangements approved by the newspaper’s late publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. The cover arrangements were part of a general Times policy—set by Sulzberger—to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible.”

Ulfkotte was on the staff of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation from 1999 to 2003, according to hisWikipedia entry. He won the civic prize from the Annette Barthelt Foundation in 2003.

 7, 2015 at 5:50 am

Ramey comment:

Could this be the same CIA that forced Lou Dobbs out for telling the truth?  Take heart folks, that CIA's days are numbered.  By the end of this decade, they will only be found in the history books.

Hopes for breakthrough: Moscow talks on Ukraine 'constructive,' joint doc 'possible'

Published time: February 06, 2015 22:15

 

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C) talks to German Chancellor Angela Merkel as French President Francois Hollande looks on during a meeting on resolving the Ukraine crisis at the Kremlin in Moscow February 6, 2015. (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)

Five hour-long Moscow talks behind closed doors between the leaders of Russia, France and Germany have brought hopes for further dialogue between Kiev and E. Ukraine. The meeting was said to be 'constructive', but peace plan details remain a mystery.

READ MORE: Putin meets Merkel, Hollande behind closed doors in Moscow

Journalists were given a mere 30 seconds to take photographs of the three leaders, and none of them uttered a single word to the press during the photo-shoot.

Friday’s visit by President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Moscow was a hasty one. No usual diplomatic rituals – European leaders headed straight to the Kremlin from the airport and were on their flights back very quickly after the talks.

Journalists, who spent five hours waiting had to eventually make do with only an afterword from the Russian president’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, which didn’t shed much light on what the leaders actually talked about.

“On the basis of proposals made by the French President and German Chancellor, there is currently on-going joint work to prepare the text of a possible joint document on the implementation of the Minsk agreements – a document that would include proposals made by Ukrainian President Poroshenko and proposals put forward today by Russian President Putin,” Peskov said.

Preliminary comments from Russian, German and French officials only describe the talks as “constructive.” More clarity is expected on Sunday when the so-called ‘Normandy Four’ – Russia, France, Germany, and Ukraine – discuss the results of the talks by phone.

While the talks’ participants appear enthusiastic, Washington has been skeptical.

“I’m not going to say it’s a positive sign that they (Russia) are listening,” said US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf. “They’ve been listening. They just haven’t been acting,” she added, pointing out that the proposals voiced by Merkel and Hollande haven’t been coming from Washington.

Political analyst Dan Glazebrook isn’t surprised by the US reaction.

“Since the last February’s coup (in Ukraine) the role of the US and Britain has consistently been trying to sabotage and scoffer any kind of peace agreement that came on the table,” Glazebrook told RT.

Merkel and Hollande’s surprise visits to Kiev and Moscow this week have been seen as a sign of a rift between Europe and the US. News of Germany and France’s new peace plan for Ukraine came while US Secretary of State John Kerry was in Kiev, speaking of possible weapons supplies to Ukrainian government troops.

In an interview during the Munich Security Conference, British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon told Reuters that he fully supported a new effort by the leaders of Germany and France to try and halt the Ukraine conflict, while saying that supplying Kiev with weapons would only escalate it.

At the same time, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has stressed that the Ukrainian conflict cannot be resolved militarily and the world leaders should not “try and fix the problems at gunpoints.”

‘Problems in Washington and Kiev, not in Paris and Berlin’

The apparently widening policy rift between Washington and the European capitals with regards to the Ukrainian crisis did not go unnoticed, with critics saying that it is in fact the US and Kiev who are creating obstacles which stand in the way of the conflict’s resolution.

READ MORE: Sending weapons to Ukraine would escalate violence – UK Defence Secretary

Martin Sieff, columnist for the Post-Examiner newspaper, spoke to RT about the Friday talks in Moscow: “I think we will be seeing an outlined document, I think there will be significant progress made towards the implementation of a ceasefire. Chancellor Merkel and President Hollande [have] belatedly recognized the seriousness of what is happening in Ukraine, they do want to move back from the brink, they do want to restrain the Kiev government, they are strongly in favor on a negotiated settlement. The problems will be in Washington and Kiev, not in Paris and Berlin.”

According to Sieff, the “key rogue player” in the conflict is the Kiev government, which has been backed by the West but is now getting out of control and want to play its own rules on the ground. 

“The West created [Ukrainian] President [Petro] Poroshenko, but he is in many respects the tail that wags the dog, they cannot always rein him in. He is the rogue player, he is the joker in this hand,” Sieff argued.

If Washington goes ahead and sends arms to Ukraine as American hard-liners demand, it will be “a very dangerous move,” Sieff said, adding that Hollande and Merkel seem to have “a much greater sense of responsibility” regarding efforts to resolve the Ukrainian crisis.

“I don’t think they [the US government] are looking at the real situation on the ground in Ukraine, and I don’t think they’re putting this in the wider context of the crisis America is facing, the other crisis, in the Middle East, where they’re trying to contain ISIS [Islamic State] at the moment. Containing ISIS is quite enough for America to have on its hands after two exhausting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; they cannot afford to let Ukraine cut loose with American weapons and American support as well, that would be insane for the US, it will be an imperial overstretch,” Sieff said.

READ MORE: US partly to blame for Ukraine’s use of cluster bombs – McCain

According to the critic, to resolve the conflict, US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State John Kerry need to “swallow their pride and get a genuine bilateral relationship going again with President Putin,” as the US-Russia ties are “the most important strategic relationship in the world.” The problem is the lack of debate in Washington about the responsibility of Western powers for the current conflict in Ukraine, as well as the strategic importance and sensitivity of the developments in the region for Russia, he said.