Russia 1, Regime Changers 0
By Pepe Escobar
Let's cut to the chase - short and sweet.
1. The Obama administration's "strategic" gambit to subcontract the State Department's "Khaganate of Nulands" to extricate Ukraine from the Russian sphere of influence - and ultimately annex it to NATO - by instrumentalizing a coalition of willing neo-nazis and fascists with a central bank veneer (prime minister "Yats"), is in utter shambles.
2. Moscow's counterpunch was to prevent in Crimea - as intercepted by Russian intelligence - a planned replay of the putsch in Kiev. The referendum in Crimea - 85% of turnout, roughly 93% voting for re-joining Russia, according to exit polls - is a done deal, as much as the oh-so-democratic European Union (EU) keeps threatening to punish people in Crimea for exercising their basic democratic rights. (By the way, when the US got
Kosovo to secede from Serbia, Serbians were offered no referendum).
3. The main rationale for the whole US "strategic" advance - to have their proxies, the regime changers in Kiev, cancel the agreement for the Russian naval base in Sevastopol - is up in smoke. Moscow remains present in the Black Sea and with full access to the Eastern Mediterranean.
And the rest is blah blah blah.
All aboard the Finland station
The US State Department has practically agreed to a federal and in fact Finlandized Ukraine [1] which, by the way, is the solution being proposed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov right from the start, as this Russian white paper attests. US Secretary of State John Kerry - as when Moscow saved the "red line" Obama administration from bombing Syria - will go on overdrive to steal all the credit from the Russians. US corporate media will duly buy it, but not independents such as Moon of Alabama. [2]
This - sensible - road map implies, among other crucial points; strong autonomous regions; Russian reinstated as an official language, alongside Ukrainian; and most of all political/military neutrality, that is, Finlandization. To get there will be the mission of a support group - once again, proposed by Moscow from the start - with the US, EU and Russia as members.
All that finally sanctified by a UN Security Council resolution (true, it could go spectacularly wrong, and most of all sabotaged by the "West".) And all that, as well, without Moscow having to officially recognize the regime changers in Kiev. In a nutshell; Moscow called Washington's bluff - and won.
So after all that barrage of ominous threats including everyone from Obama, Kerry and assorted neo-con bomb-firsters down to minions such as Cameron, Hague and Fabius, the meat of the matter is that the Obama administration concluded it would not risk a nuclear war with Russia for the Khaganate of Nulands - especially after Moscow made it known, discreetly, it would create the conditions for eastern and southern Ukraine to also secede.
Sweden, for instance, proposed an arms embargo on sales to Moscow. Paris took a quick glance at its industrial-military complex interests and immediately said no. Only the brain dead entertain the notion Paris and Berlin are willing to jeopardize their trade relations with Russia. As well as the notion that Beijing would ever join sanctions against fellow Group of 20, BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organization member Russia just because what they perceive as an increasingly irrational - and dangerous - Washington said so.
And yet, Western hysteria of course will persist unabated. In the US, where it matters, the meme of the subsequent days will be, inevitably, who lost Syria and who lost Ukraine.
Here's the record. Dubya launched two wars. He (miserably) lost both.
Obama attempted to launch two wars (Syria and Ukraine). He - lucky for him - lost both even at the "attempt" stage. Assorted neo-cons and the whole exceptionalist brigade are predictably livid. Expect the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal to go ballistic. And expect US ambassador to the UN Samantha "R2P" Power to wish she were Sinead O'Connor singing Nothing Compares to You.
It's a gas, gas, gas, not!
The Kiev regime-changers are already announcing their intentions, as in Right Sector capo and confirmed neo-nazi Dmytro Yarosh saying, "… Russia makes money sending its oil through our pipelines to the West. We will destroy these pipelines and deprive our enemy of its source of income."
That's a brilliant strategy straight from the Khaganate of Nulands playbook. So homes and the whole industrial base in Ukraine should be out of (cheap, discounted) gas, not to mention great swathes of Germany, so the neo-nazis can claim "victory". With friends like these …
Gazprom's executives are not exactly raising an eyebrow. Russia is already shipping roughly half of its gas to Europe bypassing Ukraine, and after South Stream is completed in 2015, that percentage will increase (EU "sanctions" against South Stream are just empty rhetoric.)
The regime changers will be trying to wreak havoc in other fronts as well. The new Ukrainian parliament has voted to assemble a 60,000-strong National Guard crammed with "activists". Guess who will be in charge; the new security chief, Andriy Parubiy, one of the founders of the neo-nazi Social-National Party. And his deputy happens to be none other than Yarosh, the leader of the paramilitary Right Sector. Feel free to add your own custom-made Hitlerian metaphors - even as the risk persists of Ukraine breaking apart. Which is not necessarily a bad deal. Let the "democratic" EU pay Ukraine's gas bills.
Notes:
1. Lavrov, Kerry agree to work on constitutional reform in Ukraine: Russian ministry, Reuters, March 16, 2014.
2. Ukraine: U.S. Takes Off-Ramp, Agrees To Russian Demands, Moon of Alabama, March 16, 2014.
Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007), Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge (Nimble Books, 2007), and Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009).
He may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Nga 1, Bọn thay Chế độ 0
Ukraine, Syria, Venezuela and beyond: Beware the Wars of March
In the 1930s it was a notorious fact the German government of Adolf Hitler chose the month 0f March ( Ides of Mars), to perpetrate its most daring moves in reasserting the nation as a continental power, culminating in the most deadly war in history.For example:
March 1933: German federal election brings Hitler to power as chancellor
March 1936: Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles
March 1937: The Third Reich’s Condor Legion bombs and attacks Durango, Spain and the next month bombs Guernica
March 1938: Germany absorbs Austria
Over the past fifteen years a not dissimilar pattern has emerged.
In March of 1999 the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization began Operation Allied Force, the 78-day air war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
In March of 2003 the U.S. and several of its NATO allies began Operation Iraqi Freedom, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, ultimately with troops from 23 of NATO’s current 28 member states stationed in the country.
In March of 2011 the U.S. launched Operation Odyssey Dawn, nineteen days later taken over by NATO under the code name of Operation Unified Protector, a more than six-and-a-half-month-long air war and naval blockade against Libya.
The above were the first wars ever conducted by NATO and were, respectively, its first wars in three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa.
In the unbroken series of direct, covert and proxy wars waged by the U.S. and NATO since the attack on Yugoslavia on March 24, 1999, the following nations and former nations have been seriously, more than likely fatally, wounded. Destroyed.
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (subsequently the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, now splintered into three entities)
Macedonia
Afghanistan (what was left of it after the U.S. and several of its NATO allies supported a fundamentalist-extremist insurgency operating out of Pakistan from 1978-1992 and then backhandedly supported the Taliban takeover in 1995-1996)
Iraq
Somalia
Ivory Coast
Libya
Yemen
Syria
Sudan
Mali
Ukraine
Somalia
Ivory Coast
Libya
Yemen
Syria
Sudan
Mali
Ukraine
Sự bí ẩn của chiếc máy bay Hàng Không Mã Lai Á 370 đang mất tích
Interview 838 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:http://ur1.ca/gugb6
@GJSalisbury: Guide to the Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane Conspiracy Theories
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Flashback: Malaysia’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Hosts 9/11 Truth Conference
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Special Conditions: Boeing Model 777-200, -300, and -300ER Series Airplanes; Aircraft Electronic System Security Protection From Unauthorized Internal Access
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August 2001: Large Passenger Jet Flown and Landed by Remote Control
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Dov Zakheim and the 9/11 Conspiracy
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Interview w/ Aidan Monaghan on United 175
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East Harlem Apartment Explosion Kills at Least Six
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CIA Feud With Senate Panel Puts Lack of Post-9/11 Accountability In Spotlight
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Căng thẳng giữa Mỹ và Nga gia tăng khi Cuộc trưng cầu dân ý của người dân Crimean sắp hoàn tất
Eric Draitser của StopImperialism.org giải thích mục tiêu của những tuyên bố hùng biện của chính quyền Obama được thiết kế để hình thành ra một câu chuyện xâm lược của Nga và làm suy yếu cuộc trưng cầu dân ý của người dân Crimean. Eric Draitser cũng cung cấp và phân tích nguồn gốc và lý do đưa đến hiện trạng xung đột của Ukraine cho chúng ta được hiểu biết rõ rệt và tường tận thêm.
Kẻ thù của kẻ thù mình
Chúng ta đã nhìn thấy việc triển khai các công tác tuyên truyền mà cơ quan thông tin MSM của Mỹ sử dụng ở mức cường điệu và trắn trợn qua những lời nói dối để cố gắng biến Nga thành phe ác quỷ đang đưa thế giới đến cái gọi là "chiến tranh lạnh mới." Nhưng điều này chỉ là một phần của mục tiêu, hay MSN cố gắng tuyên truyền để cho chúng ta phải chọn phe Mỹ hay phe Nga trong một trò chơi gian lận? Chúng ta có nên để bị phân cấp vào thành phần khán giả chỉ biết lựa chọn vào phe phái trong một cuộc tranh cãi giữa phe Obama và phe Putin? Hãy lắng nghe Thông Báo của Corbett, một chương trình thông tin độc lập trên mạng để chúng ta TỰ tìm hiểu xem là kẻ thù của kẻ thù chúng ta có thực sự là người bạn của chúng ta.
Ukraine qua thông tin tuyên truyền phương Tây và chủ nghiã tự do kiểu đế quốc
Eric Draitser của StopImperialism.org cùng Navid Nasr của Bullet Points thảo luận về cuộc khủng hoảng đang diễn ra tại Ukraine. Họ kiểm tra cận sử của Ukriane trong đó có cuộc "Cách mạng Cam" năm 2004 và những cá nhân quan trọng từ phong trào đó đã ảnh hưởng và dẫn đến các cuộc xung đột hiện nay của Ukraine. Eric và Navid cũng nói đến một loạt các vấn đề bao gồm: cuộc cách mạng màu, những liên quan của cái gọi là "thế lực mềm (IMF, NGO) ảnh hưởng đến kinh tế, văn hóa của Ukraine, vai trò của các phương tiện truyền thông phương Tây trong việc buôn bán chiến tranh và chính sách đối ngoại của Mỹ-NATO, chủ nghĩa tự do tư sản và mối quan hệ gần gủi của nó với chủ nghĩa đế quốc.
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