It’s always fun to see a US regime change racket go sour due to US officials’ big mouths and small brains.
This happened in Syria and is now happening in the Ukraine.
After the recent release of a conversation between US State Dept. Commissar for the Ukraine, Victoria Nuland, and another US official by an anonymous poster, the so-called “opposition” and their western controllers have suffered an embarrassing set-back.
In the recording, Victoria Nuland discusses who should and shouldn’t be in the Ukrainian government, and uses the exact phrase “Fuck the EU” when referring to the European Union’s seemingly half-hearted efforts to implement “regime change” and impose sanctions on the Ukraine to punish the current government and force them to resign.
Up until now, the US/EU propaganda line was that Russia is “meddling” in Ukrainian affairs, and that President Yanukovich, whom Ukrainians FREELY elected some years ago, is a Russian puppet controlled by Moscow.
This propaganda line has now shattered as the US/EU are exposed as the chief meddlers behind this so-called “Orange Revolution v2.0,” still in BETA version, it looks like!
And the US has the nerve to accuse Russia of meddling? WTF is this entire conversation if not an attempt by the US to meddle in Ukrainian affairs? They openly discuss who should be in the Ukrainian government as if it was entirely up to them, and as if everyone else was just a minor bit player or a hindrance.
Russia's historical, cultural, and religious roots are in the Ukraine. Russia certainly has influence there and exercises it.
But there’s a difference between exercising influence and destabilizing the entire country, which the west is currently doing. Russia is doing what it can to prevent Ukraine from being destabilized. Further unrest will be bad for both Ukraine and Russia. Perhaps this is the aim of the US . . .
Plus, Ukraine borders Russia, and includes the strategically located Crimea, where the Russian Black Sea fleet is based at Sevastopol.
Russia doesn’t want Ukraine to be turned into a NATO/CIA base of operations against Russia, as will inevitably happen if Ukraine is sold off to the west.
The idiot Klitchko and the rest of those pathetic opposition clowns are bought and paid for by the west. If allowed into power, they'll sell off the Ukraine cheap to the west and will NEVER leave.
Those Ukrainians who support them will end up getting screwed, and Ukraine will suffer like Russia did in the 1990s after their so-called "western reforms."
It cannot be stressed enough how artificial and dangerous this so-called Ukrainian “revolution” is, especially for the Ukraine.
First, this blatant and now exposed US interference contravenes a 1994 treaty that granted Ukraine independence from the Soviet Union and guaranteed that no outside nation would intervene.
Second, after seeing what the US did in Iraq, Libya, Syria and elsewhere throughout the world, the notion that the US and the hopeless and cowardly EU give a shit about the average Ukrainian citizen is lunacy run amok.
Look at what the US has done and is doing to its own citizens. Unemployment, record inequality, low wages, continued destruction of the social safety net, job offshoring, closing down of factories, an uncertain future for everyone except for the very wealthy; these are the “gifts” the US wants to bestow upon the Ukrainian people.
From the EU side, we have the “promise” of economic integration in a hapless and failing corporate/banking union which has bankrupted entire countries, impoverished people, and turned them into perpetual debt slaves who must sell off valuable state assets to the lowest bidder and turn over control of their countries to ex-banker technocrats-who rule by decree instead of popular mandate.
If some Ukrainians see a glorious future by looking west, then they need to look at Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Ireland. This is the result of EU integration and subordinating the national interests to international corporate/banking cartels.
The deal which President Yanukovich didn’t sign with the EU would have demanded more money than Ukraine has to spend while offering crumbs in return. It would also cause serious economic troubles for both Ukraine and Russia. What does a nearly-bankrupt EU have to offer?
Do the Ukrainians think that there are two European Unions? The EU of bankrupt Ireland and Greece and the EU of relatively well-off Germany and France, and that the latter will come to it's rescue? No, there's only one EU--broke and struggling! It's not wise for Ukraine to associate itself with such a troubled entity.
It’s very likely that this agreement was shoved down Ukraine’s throat in order to deliberately, and indirectly, cause trouble for Russia at the behest of imperial Washington. This is probably revenge for Russia’s successful attempt at preventing a war on Syria.
Second, Russia’s and Ukraine’s economies are closely tied, especially the energy sector. If Ukraine signs off on any EU deals that hurt Russia (as any deal with the EU will be designed to do), there will be serious energy issues. And good luck trying to purchase gas from somewhere else! Ukraine will have to pay a lot more, causing even more energy shortages.
Anyone who thinks that Ukraine can make a clean break from Russia and remain stable and prosperous is either an idiot or a liar.
Ukrainians must remember this: the US is far away, and is ignorant of Ukrainian history or simply doesn’t care. They don’t care if their meddling results in Ukrainians freezing to death because of the lack of energy; they don’t care if masses of Ukrainians lose their jobs because native industries are gobbled up cheap by western corporate concerns, or simply ordered to be closed down by EU commissars--just like they didn't care about the Russians who suffered through western economic shock-reforms in the past.The opposition puppets won’t give a damn about Ukraine being turned into a debt slave of western bankers. After all, they got their money for delivering the Ukraine to western billionaires.
This is the bleak and dismal future Ukraine has to look forward to. Add to that the possibility of some intervention by Russia to reclaim Eastern Ukraine and the Crimea should Ukraine be taken over by the west.
And finally, let the sad example of the 1st “Orange Revolution” be a lesson. Has the world forgotten how that revolution turned out? The corrupt Yuschenko and Timoshenko had a falling-out and failed to accomplish anything other than attempting to turn Ukraine into a western puppet state. They failed, and were VOTED OUT, VOTED OUT, by their own population in a free election, NOT overthrown by Putin! That’s something worth remembering by those who seek to accuse the present Ukrainian government of being installed by Moscow.
This is the same caliber of pathetic “reformists” who are now trying to gain control of the Ukraine. They are corrupt, incompetent actors, and wholly paid-for propagandists from whatever scummy US/EU ministry or department, or corporate coffer desperate enough to take a chance on these idiots.
The reason why the US doesn’t like the current Ukrainian government is because it doesn’t control it. That this same government was freely elected is irrelevant to the US.
The US/West sells myths; of prosperity, jobs, glitzy storefronts full of cool western gadgets, Hollywood movies, and the great American lifestyle--just sign on the dotted line and hand your country over to US/Western corporate and banking interests, and all your American capitalist dreams will come true!
But as reality in country after country which swallowed these false promises has shown, these American promises are not worth used toilet paper. They are an illusion, fed to people in order to gain control of their nations, their economies, their lives, then squeeze and exploit them for every ounce of wealth they have; leaving them high and dry in the end.
It is beyond me how some people in this world who’ve been burned by these false US/Western promises, and should by now know better than to fall for another pro-capitalist revolution, can still sit there and root for the “opposition” and condemn Russia.
Are they fucking stupid?
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