BE -- "death wish for the planet"

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 27.02.2016 um 08:32 schrieb Jochen Stremmel:

>     Nice combination, indeed!

I assume it is a conscious reference on P's part. And I would argue that 
it touches upon one of the central political themes of the novel, 
namely, while taking into account technological and political 
developments, the basic continuity of Cold War structures after 1989.

>     And in the light of Kennedy's speeches, did you read the Pilger
>     piece Christopher provided?

Yes, I have read the Pilger piece. As usual, I agree with his line of 
thought.

My only complaint is that Andriy Parubiy was not the co-founder of 
Svoboda, as Pilger states, but together with Oleh Tyahnybok the 
co-founder of the Social-National Party of Ukraine. The mentioning of 
this fact would have driven home Pilger's point even better.

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Presumably at some point the headqurters of the Social-National Party 
received a call from Langley:

"Look, Andriy and Oleh, there are limits even to what we can do. And we 
cannot sell a party called Social-National Party to the Western public 
as a legitimate opposition party. At least not yet. So, with a view to 
future regime change operations in Ukraine, please do yourselves and us 
a favour and rename your organisation. Then, wo knows, perhaps at some 
point you will be in a position to shake hands with neo-conservative 
foreign policy hawks taken over by Hillary Clinton from the Cheney 
administration, Republican mavericks and the German foreign minister in 
Kiev. How about that?"

This worked out just fine. Nowadays, the Nazi Parubiy gives lectures on 
"Ukraine's experiences in countering separatist and Russian actions, 
with particular focus on assessing the role of hybrid warfare" at the 
Royal United Services Insitute (RUSI).

https://rusi.org/event/briefing-andriy-parubiy

Surely, in his lecture Parubiy discussed the Dirlewanger-style pogrom in 
Odessa, in which he was personally involved, as a shining example of 
"countering separatist and Russian actions."

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As John Pilger wrote in 2014:

"We in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian 
Nazis backed Hitler."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/ukraine-us-war-russia-john-pilger

Meanwhile, current SACEUR General Strangelove is doing his best to outdo 
Lyman Lemnitzer and Curtis LeMay:

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/26/breedlove-us-must-rebuild-forces-in-europe-to-confront-russia.html

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