Another Geopolitical Triumph For Vladimir Putin!

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Thank you for this, Ian!

Just a few short remarks along my own lines of thought.

I used to enjoy reading the Guardian but its reporting about Ukraine has 
been abysmal at least since February. There have been only very few 
exceptions. Just like in the German mainstream media, information that 
calls into question the official narrative (e.g. with regard to the 
provenance of the snipers on Maidan, the massacre in Odessa or war 
crimes in the East) is rarely reported.

> Our capitalist lords have strong desires to gain access to the labor
> pools in Ukraine, Russia, the world, etc. They don't care how they get
> it. Their method has always been to encourage dissent abroad and
> suppress it at home.

The labour pools and also the oil wells etc., yes. I usually prefer not 
to go into these matters but surely economic (mainly energy) and 
geopolitical considerations (see Brzezinski) play an important role in 
what amounts to an act of aggression/low intensity warfare of the US and 
the EU against Russia. The idea of peaceful coexistence seems to have 
gone out of fashion.

Now the EU and US paths seem to be diverging again. While the EU, much 
too late, tries or pretends to try to broker peace and along with Russia 
wanted Poroshenko's ceasefire continued, the US puts further pressure on 
Russia. Whether the US, along with the right-wing extremists, played a 
role in convincing Poroshenko to continue the military operations 
against the wishes of France, Germany and Russia is anybody's guess.

Poroshenko has now gone over to call the rebels "parasites", Yatseniuk 
called them "subhumans." These are the so-called "moderates" in the 
Ukrainian government. If I am not mistaken, using language like that 
would be prosecuted in all civilized nations as an incitement to 
genocide and/or ethnic cleansing. Meanwhile the likes of the Azov 
Battalion commit war crimes in the eastern regions of Ukraine.

This can only go on for so long until internal political pressure forces 
Russia to invade. After that, all bets are off.

Thomas
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