The situation in the Ukraine has resulted in the majority of the Crimean residents voting for reunification with Russia. And right on queue the pathetic western governments and media haven’t wasted any time calling the referendum illegal.
The MSM in the US has also accused Russia of “rigging” the referendum and of carrying out the vote under armed threat.
The US establishment has also been demonizing the Russian English language channel, RT, and calling it a mouthpiece of the Kremlin.
But the US media, who’s a staunch mouthpiece of the US government, has no right calling any network out for any kind of bias.
The US and EU establishment also complained that the Crimean referendum didn't include a choice of the Crimea staying within Ukraine as it was. But really, with 95% of Crimean residents opting for reunion with Russia, why even include such a choice? All those who wanted to stay within Ukraine either boycotted the vote or voted for the option to keep it an autonomous region under the 1992 constitution. Included or not, such option wouldn't have made a difference anyway. The US might as well demanded a choice of adding Crimea to Turkey!
When US journalists voice their dissent with US government policies on-air, they’re immediately fired.
But when a week ago, Abby Martin, host of RT’s “Break the Set,” disagreed on-air with Russia’s sending troops to the Crimea, she was not fired. She’s still there.
So who’s more biased and vindictive here?
Also, why would you want to rig an election that you will easily win without fraud? Why intimidate people who are of the same mind?
The majority of the Crimean people being ethnic Russians were waiting for the day when they can return Crimea back to Russia where it belongs. That desire was already there; the referendum was only a technicality to internationally validate the Russians’ desire through a free choice.
But of course, the US and their vassals don’t care about the fact that 95% of the Crimean people opted to be part of Russia. You see, the US doesn’t recognize popular decisions made by popular vote unless those decisions benefit the US economically, strategically or militarily.
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Just ask the Palestinians how much the US respects the results of free and fair elections. In 2006 after Hamas won, the US immediately stated that they do not recognize the results and started to punish the Palestinian people for their free choice.
The US whines about the Crimean referendum being illegal, that it violates Ukraine’s territorial integrity, that it’s against international law, and other such self-serving claptrap.
But since when does the US give a flying fuck about international law, sovereignty and territorial integrity?
-The US does nothing against a 60+ year Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, illegal settlements, and illegal annexation through military force of Palestinian land, the Syrian Golan Heights and Southern Lebanon by Israel
-The US tore the Serbian province of Kosovo away from Serbia and created a fake and artificial country that NEVER existed, and which is today ran by gangsters, thieves and human body part traffickers. At no time did the US bother asking Serbians if they want Kosovo to stay or go. The US showed absolutely no interest in international law or respect of sovereignty. International lawyers even rubber-stamped that blatantly illegal act. Russia at that time warned the US that they are setting a dangerous precedent.
-The US/EU are totally against any separatist/secessionist or autonomy movements within the EU member countries. Most notable among them is Scotland’s upcoming referendum on independence. British PM Cameron and his buddies have been very busy in making sure that doesn’t happen.
So the US/EU ranting about the Crimean referendum being illegal and against international law is just hypocritical whining.
The US/EU enthusiastically support separatist movements when it serves their interests and condemn and quash any that don’t.
The situation in the Ukraine today is that western-installed puppet government officials fly to western capitals to sell Ukraine to the lowest bidder and beg for money, while fascist thugs provide “security” on the street. Quite a model democracy!
I heard on the news the other day how Ukrainians are gathering donations through Twitter to fund the new Ukrainian National Guard, which will probably become an SS-type political army charged with protecting the coup d’etat darlings and repress anyone who disagrees with them.
Quite pathetic, but why doesn’t the Ukrainian army provide security? Why isn’t it consulted on anything?
Because the Ukrainian army is in bad shape. Plus, half the army will not take orders from a government whom they see as lacking legitimacy. The Russian-speaking Ukrainian soldiers are not going to follow any orders telling them to shoot Russians, whether in the Ukraine or Russia. Many army units and their commanders have either defected or refused to take orders from the self-appointed clowns in Kev.
Ukraine is for all practical purposes, defenseless. NATO will not help them because they’re scared of a nuclear Russia.
It’s clear that the US provoked the entire unrest in the Ukraine. By funding opposition movements, openly advocating for the overthrow of the previous government, and Victoria Nuland’s intercepted phone call where she discussed who should be in charge in the Ukraine, it’s not possible for anyone to say the US didn’t want regime change.
The US plan was to provoke unrest and violence, blame Russia, and scare their EU vassals into going back in line with US interests.
Quite good timing too; considering how pissed off Germany and other countries were about revelations of US spying on European governments as well as their leaders. This caused so much anger that certain EU countries started to distance themselves from the US.
So this whole thing may have been cooked up by the US and their scummy shadowy agencies in order to roll back any plans European countries may have had to cut off US spooks.
But the US has been trying to get control of Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.
The US liked Russia in the 1990s when it was broken and easily controlled by the west because the drunken Yeltsin did whatever the west wanted.
But once Putin took power, he started restoring Russia’s power and independence.
He rolled back the plunder of the oligarchs and made them subordinate to state power. He paid off foreign loans ahead of time last decade; a move which irked Germany, whose future budget projections depended on the interest generated by those loans to Russia.
Putin is reviled by the west because he is a strong leader who refuses to bow down to them and insists on doing things his own way.
He is also hated by the west, especially by the US regime because he subordinates private enterprise to state power, whereas in the US state power is subordinate to private enterprise.
It's also quite ironic to hear dimwitted US politicians calling Putin a "Hitler" while they support genuine fascists in Kiev whose grandfathers and great-grandfathers were errand boys for the Nazis.
It is the US through it’s duplicitous, dishonest, and aggressive acts during the last twenty-three years that has made Putin behave the way he does-and he does have to act the way he does because if he was a timid drunken dwarf like Yeltsin, the US and EU would eat Russia alive.
-After the fall of the Soviet Union, George H.W. Bush promised Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO will not be expanded to Russia’s borders in return for Russia’s withdrawal from Eastern Europe, the relocation of their heavy artillery and troops farther away from its western borders, and Russia's agreement to reunite East and West Germany. Russia agreed, but since 1999, NATO has been expanded twice to include former Warsaw Pact members. US broke its promise to Russia when it did that.
-In 2002, George W. Bush withdrew the US from the ABM Treaty, and announced the placement of Anti-Missile Defense Shield in Poland and Czech Republic. This was a direct threat to Russia.
-Throughout the last decade, US-sponsored NGOs and other groups fomented and encouraged color revolutions in the ex-Soviet republics in order to bring US-friendly puppets to power, puppets who will allow US bases and troops on their soil, effectively surrounding Russia.
-Now the US is planning to revitalize the AMD project, based on the excuse that Russia’s annexation of the Crimea makes Russia dangerous-which makes one wonder why the US/EU stirred up that Ukrainian mess anyway. Was it truly about democracy, or to have an excuse to continue their military pet-projects and not have to worry about what Russia thinks?
-The US seems to have forgotten that it invaded Iraq under false pretenses and violated the sovereignity of that country, as well as international law. Plus, I don't recall any Iraqis being consulted by the US about whether they want to be liberated or not.
Also, Crimea and Eastern Ukraine were never historically part of Ukraine. They were part of Russia. Lenin ceded a chunk of Soviet territory to Ukraine after the October revolution in order to mollify people there. Nikita Kruschev arbitrarily annexed the Eastern industrialized part and Crimea to Ukraine in 1954.
But on Sunday, March 16, the people in the Crimea have corrected a historical wrong, as ex-Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev recently remarked.
The communist party took the territory away from Russia without asking the people. Now, the Russian people were asked where they wanted to live, and they went with Russia. There’s nothing illegitimate or unfair about this.
The next order of business for Russia is to reincorporate the Eastern Ukraine. A referendum must be carried out in the Eastern regions so the people there can decide where they want to live.
Any and all promises and reassurances coming from the self-appointed schmucks in Kiev about how they will honor the Russian language and status, how they will not join NATO, etc. are hollow. The Kievan junta is not interested in referendums, elections or having any one decide their own fate. They want centralized power so as to make it easier to sell Ukraine out to the west. For this to happen, people have to be muzzled, and muzzled they shall be. Mr. Bandera’s rotten offspring will make sure of that!
As for not joining NATO, well, maybe not officially. But Ukraine doesn’t have to be a NATO member in order to allow US troops and bases on its soil.
Mr. Putin ain't buying these assurances. He's ready.
As for the demented neo-cons and deluded geopolitical nutcases such as Zbigniew Brzezinski, who still hold on to the faded pie-in-the-sky dream of some world-wide US empire, Putin is a threat.
Yes, Putin is a threat; a threat to US worldwide hegemony, but that's all. His speech after the accession of the Crimea to Russia was excellent, and he gave a good and candid historical assessment of the region, then and now. People all over the world should listen to it all. They will learn some worthwhile things from it I'm sure.
Once again, the US has started a fight which Russia will finish.