Another Geopolitical Triumph For Vladimir Putin!

[rich]

from latest issue of London review of books piece on Obama's feckless 2nd
term by David Bromwich. This is quite troubling re: Ukraine

The assistant secretary in charge there is Victoria Nuland, a
neoconservative who made a highly successful transition in 2009 from Dick
Cheney’s staff to Hillary Clinton’s. Nuland is married to the co-founder of
the Project for the New American Century, Robert Kagan, one of the leading
promoters of the Iraq war. We may never know what Obama thought Nuland was
up to when she flew in to the Maidan to pass out cookies to the protesters
in Russia’s backyard. But the message has got around by now that Obama
doesn’t particularly want to know things.

Rich

On Wednesday, July 2, 2014, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> 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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