Another Geopolitical Triumph For Vladimir Putin!

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Here's Congressman Rohrabacher asking Nuland about US financing of the 
protests and neo-Nazis (sorry, could not find a more reputable source, 
you don't have to watch but it certainly is worth a listen):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TpZa4OMFVk

Thomas

Am 02.07.2014 18:45, schrieb 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
> <mailto: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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