Be careful about what you believe. I’ve been following these protests for a while now and I suspect U.S. corporate interests and the right wing have joined forces in the Ukraine because of their rich mineral deposits. No way of proving it, of course, but the whole thing smells like a set-up:
We’ve been here before. For the past couple of months street protests in Ukraine have been played out through the western media according to a well-rehearsed script. Pro-democracy campaigners are battling an authoritarian government. The demonstrators are demanding the right to be part of the European Union. But Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has vetoed their chance of freedom and prosperity.
It’s a story we’ve heard in one form or another again and again – not least in Ukraine’s western-backed Orange revolution a decade ago. But it bears only the sketchiest relationship to reality. EU membership has never been – and very likely never will be – on offer to Ukraine. As in Egypt last year, the president that the protesters want to force out was elected in a poll judged fair by international observers. And many of those on the streets aren’t very keen on democracy at all.
You’d never know from most of the reporting that far-right nationalists and fascists have been at the heart of the protests and attacks on government buildings. One of the three main opposition parties heading the campaign is the hard-right antisemitic Svoboda, whose leader Oleh Tyahnybok claims that a “Moscow-Jewish mafia” controls Ukraine. But US senator John McCain was happy to share a platform with him in Kiev last month. The party, now running the city of Lviv, led a 15,000-strong torchlit march earlier this month in memory of the Ukrainian fascist leader Stepan Bandera, whose forces fought with the Nazis in the second world war and took part in massacres of Jews.
So in the week that the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army was commemorated as Holocaust Memorial Day, supporters of those who helped carry out the genocide are hailed by western politicians on the streets of Ukraine. But Svoboda has now been outflanked in the protests by even more extreme groups, such as “Right Sector”, who demand a “national revolution” and threaten “prolonged guerrilla warfare”.
Most of this is John Kerry’s doing. The Russian’s, specifically Putin, is making Kerry look like the dilettante in foreign policy that he is. Half of Ukraine is Russian speaking, Orthodox and with 300 year old ties to Moscow. That’s the east. The other half, the western half, wants to join the European Union. That isn’t going to happen. The U.S. and Kerry know it’s not going to happen. But because Putin won’t play ball on Syria, Iran, Egypt (Putin just announced that he backs the military dictatorship) Palestine or any east-west point of contention, Kerry lost his cool an unleashed the CIA’s troublemakers onto the streets of Ukraine. And he did it right in the middle of the Sochi Olympics just to piss Putin off. This is how the spoiled brats that the 1% produces to run our world always act. Generally it ends up in some ridiculous war being fought. Like WWI and WWII. Fortunately, Putin is the grownup in the room and will allow Kerry to throw his temper tantrum………….for awhile………….without any consequences being exacted. It’s just too bad that people are being killed in the process. We have had two awful Secretary’s of State in a row. Republican obstructionism can be blamed for that.
Putin is as much a representative of the 1% as Obama and Kerry. Just a different 1%. It all boils down to a war over profits and who will get them. The tragedy is that the ones doing the dying and burning aren’t the ones who’ll get a taste of those profits.
It’s all the same 1% with two different ideologies. One group controls the red checkers and the other group controls the black checkers. The object of the game is to get all of the other groups checkers. The checkers represent countries. The countries with the most and best natural resources (like oil) are always in play. Countries with no natural resources haven’t even been asked to join the 20th century yet. One group claims to hate the communists and the other claims to hate the capitalists. Both groups need each other as enemies or neither group could fund their military. The funny thing is that both groups claim to hate the Fascists. The entire deal is a scam and a game run on all the people of the world by the 1%.