The U.S. has spent tens of millions of dollars funding subversive groups in the Ukraine in an attempt to expand NATO all the way to the Russian border. This was exposed to the world when American diplomats Victoria Nuland, the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, were caught talking on unsecured cell phones plotting to fund and support opposition groups inside the Ukraine. To do this the U.S. had initially funded more traditional pro-EU groups who the U.S. had known to have built ties with radical fascist political groups in an effort to destabilize the Ukraine and discredit President Viktor F. Yanukovych.
The U.S. had hoped more moderate leaders would hand the Ukraine to the U.E. and the U.S. However, this strategy has blown up in the face of the U.S. as radical fascist groups who have taken control of the political situation threaten the collapse of civil society. These fascist groups have called on Chechen terror groups to attack Russia and the pro-Russian majority of the Crimea. It now seems clear that the only way to avoid a huge military confrontation will be to allow the peaceful secession of Crimea and call the population therein Crimeans as was the case with allowing the secession of Kosovo from Serbia and calling its Muslim population Kosovars. It is either that or accepting the Crimea absorption into Russia.
Radical fascist groups led by Pravy Sektor and Dmitry Yarosh are known political entities who are now working with Muslim Chechen terror leaders such as Umarov who had ties to the individuals who carried out the U.S attacks during the Boston Marathon. Fascist elements in the Ukraine are also working with other terrorist groups such the notorious Riyadus-Salikhin suicide formation, as a means to attack pro-Russian politicians and Russian speaking ethnic groups. As Ukraine seeks Umarov as an ally, Umarov has publicly acknowledged his leadership and control over these Muslim terror groups and is known as Russia’s “bin Laden” due to his mass-casualty attacks against Russian civilians and his running of an operational terrorist network.
Terrorist operations are being publicly called for by Ukrainian fascist leaders as a means of attacking Russia and preventing the independence of the many millions of self-identified ethnic Russians in the Crimea whose citizens seek to continue their close ties with Russia and maintain what had already been recognized and established as an semi-autonomous region of the Ukraine due to is ethnic and cultural identity and its historic ties to Russia.
The U.S., through NGO’s working closely with the U.S. State Department and the CIA, have succeeded in destabilizing the Ukraine whose government was in the process of receiving the equivalent of billions of dollars in loans and energy from Russia. Shockingly, the Ukraine, as its fascist leaders call on attacks against Russia and the Russian majority in the Crimea, also demand that Russia continue to provide it fuel and loans.
The U.S. policy with the Ukraine, as it is with Syria, is to use the chaos of Muslim radical terrorists to obtain short-term advantage while completely ignoring the long-term consequences to members of all the affected parties and being oblivious to or denying unintended consequences and second and third order effects.
For years as the U.S. has attacked, bombed and occupied Muslim lands, its citizens were told that al Qaeda was in disarray, rendered ineffective, on the run and unable to carry out major terrorist operations. Now we see al Qaeda was never a resurgent force, but in fact maintained its cohesiveness while building and growing itself into an army that has spawned offshoot organizations such as the al Nusra Front, ISIS and AQAP while also receiving help and support from Saudi Arabia, Israel, the CIA and Chechen guerillas. Yet, the U.S. government has spent trillions of dollars in its “Global War on Terror” only to find itself supporting the very same terrorists it seeks to exterminate. These terror groups the U.S. supports both explicitly and implictly have all sought to defeat the U.S. in Iraq, Pakistan and Yemen.
U.S. ambition and imperial overreach has once again created a situation the U.S, did not anticipate, nor has any idea how to contain. U.S. policy has established precedent in Egypt, Libya, Syria and now in the Ukraine whereby the overthrowing of internationally recognized governments, to include those established democratically, can now be perpetrated through outside terrorist groups or within through the instigation of internal fascist groups with connections to international terror groups. U.S. policy has established the destabilization of a country and created such an enormous threat to a region that once again there are millions of people who now need outside intervention by those who are willing to provide protection against radical elements. Obama and the U.S. establishment should realize that while the Crimean region is of little strategic value to the U.S., it is of inestimable value to the Russians especially given that the U.S. seeks it in order to expand NATO to Russia’s doorstep and has subverted its government through the funding of radical fascist opposition. Just as the U.S. thought it could contain radical jihadist elements in Syria by supporting moderate Islamist groups and thusly failed, it now thinks it can control moderate political forces in the Ukraine after fostering the rise of radical nationalists. Hubris will once again prove to be the U.S.’s undoing.
It should be telling to the world that the very same methods the U.S. uses to destabilize foreign countries are the very same methods the U.S. government has outlawed within the U.S. The U.S., instead of allowing the Ukrainian people to decide their foreign and domestic policy at the ballot box, funded treason and violent revolution within the Ukraine. The opposition burned the ruling party’s political headquarters and then seized government buildings and attacked and killed unarmed police whose disarming was supposed to be an act of magnanimity towards protesters. In addition to disarming the police, the president freed scores of protesters and dropped charges against those who had committed crimes that no ruling government could overlook. Instead of assuaging the hostility it served to encourage ultra-nationalist elements that held prosecutors and lawmakers at gunpoint. During the ensuing melee about 100 people died. Yanukovych also attempted to defuse an escalating situation by firing individuals from his own party and offering positions at the very highest levels of government to the opposition. These offers were ignored.
The Crimean area of the Ukraine, that area that seeks close ties with and protection of Russia, has now decided it wants no part of a country where the president is violently and criminally overthrow with the help of U.S. money, internal fascist actors and outside terrorist groups. The people of Crimea want no part of a country where the constitution is thrown out the window for the expediency of foreign powers seeking to expand their empires. It is this very area that is the prized jewel of the Ukraine for which without its economic clout would surely leave the remained of the Ukraine, already completely bankrupt, to the mercy of the global loan sharking operation known as the IMF.
As the people of the Ukraine now seek the protection of Russia for exactly the same reason groups internal to Serbia sought the protection of the U.S. to provide for their cessation of Kosovo, we see that U.S. foreign policy has done an excellent job at Balkanizing the Ukraine.
Putin will rightfully protect millions of ethnic Russians, their land, homes and the businesses they have built within the area where they are the majority. These people now see there is no law within the Ukraine to be had by a fascist government. These people and will never allow themselves to be ruled by political extremists and their terrorist allies. The illegal government in the Ukraine does not have the power to attack, invade and occupy the Crimean area without the help of the U.S. and the EU, while it is possible that it can order the slaughter of its own civilians. For this reason, Russia has decided it will ensure that those who desire security, peaceful trade and the rule of law can depend on Russia in the same way Yanukovych was able to depend on Russia for loans and energy far above what the U.S. and NATO were willing to provide.
U.S. foreign policy will ensure that the Ukraine will lose a major source of revenue for the very nation that itself is sinking into an economic abyss. U.S. foreign policy will ensure and necessitate the need for the people of Crimea to separate themselves from a country that is willing to destroy itself for the short-term benefits of radical politicians and the long-term interests of imperial meddlers. As it now stands there are millions of Libyans, Egyptians and Syrian Sunnis who curse the day they ever asked the EU and the U.S. to provide “support”.
We will now see if Obama’s State Department has overplayed its hand and to what extent U.S. machinations will continue to cause misery for the untold millions of people that the Western media never seems to show nor even mention. If NATO decides to get involved in the Ukraine Victoria Nuland will have realized exactly what she stated she wanted to achieve when she made the now famous statement to Pyatt of: “F_ _ K the EU.” NATO intervention will surely achieve that goal.
Speaking as a retired military officer, I hope that one day foreign governments will provide true American patriots with the money needed to provide the political organization necessary to throw off the control of the American people by Israel, Saudi Arabia and the corporate military industrial complex. I know the American people themselves are long past the point of needing to establish an interim constitutional government so that their liberty and prosperity can once again be realized. As it now stands the U.S. warfare/police/surveillance state has made itself the enemy of the American people and more and more people are beginning to understand that only the elite profit from militarism and corporate globalism.
The reason why Putin is now so dangerous is that Obama’s ignorance and arrogance has directly led to a strategic threat against Russia itself. Putin is now facing a threat so great that to capitulate would place Russia at the mercy of the U.S. and the EU. What is clear is that if Russia were to accept surrendering all of the Ukraine to the ultra-nationalists and U.S. puppets, given the U.S.’s predilection for pressing advantage, Russia would soon be facing strangulation as the U.S. attempted to place Russia under a death grip at its leisure. Putin is under no illusions regarding U.S. intentions and actions.
Obama has leveraged his influence and has placed the U.S. in a position in which the U.S. efforts to control the Ukraine are assured to fail and could lead to a world war and global economic collapse if Obama continues to listen to the same brain trusts who allowed him to stumble his way towards WWIII or nuclear confrontation. There is no way the U.S. could defeat Russia and successfully project enough force in Putin’s backyard. What some are now wondering is if the U.S. seeks war as a means to gain cover and whatever strategic advantages it might obtain internationally and domestically for an upcoming economic collapse.
There is a line in the sand with regard to international relations that is understood should not be crossed. It may not be as pronounced as Obama’s repeatedly sketched drawn red lines, but what’s crossing is assured to have greater implications and consequences than any line Obama could have laid down. If Obama is allowed to drag the U.S. into war and begins ordering the deployment of U.S. troops to the region, the U.S. House of Representatives must immediately begin impeachment proceedings. It seems the incompetence of the Community Organizer on the world stage could be the U.S.’s undoing. A war with Russia would drag in Iran and China and would surely lead to complete collapse of the global economic system and make Iraq look like a walk in the park.
The current situation now begs the question regarding what Russia has to lose in backing the Taliban in Afganistan, Assad in Syria, Iran’s right to nuclear energy and Crimean people to the hilt. Once you’re all in and your life is being threatened, you can only be killed once.....
Update:
3/2/14 – Russian soldiers are now occupying Crimea and a dispatch of Ukrainian troops to the Crimea by the illegal interim government has resulted the soldiers switching sides and supporting the pro-Russian people of the Crimean region.
3/2/14 – Rear Admiral Denis Berezovsky, appointed as head of Ukraine’s Naval forces just two days ago, has sworn allegiance to the people of Crimea. The Western media has claimed he has surrendered all naval forces under his control to Russia, but it is now clear that the forces he controls are now aligned with the Crimean people and are beginning coordination with Russian forces as they consolidate their hold on the Black Sea peninsula. The ultra-nationalist government of the Ukraine has now officially charged Admiral Berezovsky with treason while the Crimean region has now formed its own navy.
3/2/14 – The U.S. has threatened sanctions and the expulsion of Russia from the G8. Threatened sanctions include the banning of visas, asset freezes and trade isolation..."
