The
Rape of Ukraine: Phase Two Begins
The
events in Ukraine since November 2013 are so astonishing as almost to
defy belief.
F.
William Engdahl
IMAGE:
Members of UNA-UNSO marching in Lviv.
28
February, 2014
An legitimately-elected (said by all international monitors) Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovich, has been driven from office, forced to flee as a war criminal after more than three months of violent protest and terrorist killings by so-called opposition.
His
“crime” according to protest leaders was that he rejected an EU
offer of a vaguely-defined associate EU membership that offered
little to Ukraine in favor of a concrete deal with Russia that gave
immediate €15 billion debt relief and a huge reduction in Russian
gas import prices. Washington at that point went into high gear and
the result today is catastrophe.
A secretive neo-nazi military organization reported linked to NATO played a decisive role in targeted sniper attacks and violence that led to the collapse of the elected government.
But the West is not finished with destroying Ukraine. Now comes the IMF with severe conditionalities as prerequisite to any Western financial help.
After
the famous leaked phone call of US Assistant Secretary of
State Victoria
Nuland (photo,
left) with the US Ambassador in Kiev, where she discussed the details
of who she wanted in a new coalition government in Kiev, and where
she rejected the EU solutions with her “Fuck the EU”
comment,[1] the
EU went it alone. Germany’s Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter
Steinmeier proposed that he and his French counterpart, Laurent
Fabius, fly to Kiev and try to reach a resolution of the violence
before escalation. Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski was
asked to join. The talks in Kiev included the EU delegation,
Yanukovich, the three opposition leaders and a Russian
representative. The USA was not invited.[2]
A secretive neo-nazi military organization reported linked to NATO played a decisive role in targeted sniper attacks and violence that led to the collapse of the elected government.
But the West is not finished with destroying Ukraine. Now comes the IMF with severe conditionalities as prerequisite to any Western financial help.
After
the famous leaked phone call of US Assistant Secretary of
State Victoria
Nuland (photo,
left) with the US Ambassador in Kiev, where she discussed the details
of who she wanted in a new coalition government in Kiev, and where
she rejected the EU solutions with her “Fuck the EU”
comment,[1] the
EU went it alone. Germany’s Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter
Steinmeier proposed that he and his French counterpart, Laurent
Fabius, fly to Kiev and try to reach a resolution of the violence
before escalation. Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski was
asked to join. The talks in Kiev included the EU delegation,
Yanukovich, the three opposition leaders and a Russian
representative. The USA was not invited.[2]
The
EU intervention without Washington was extraordinary and reveals the
deeping division between the two in recent months. In effect it was
the EU saying to the US State Department, “F*** the US,” we will
end this ourselves.
After
hard talks, all major parties including the majority of protesters,
agreed to new presidential elections in December, return to the 2004
Constitution and release of Julia
Tymoshenko from
prison. The compromise appeared to end the months long chaos and give
a way out for all major players.
The
diplomatic compromise lasted less than twelve hours. Then all hell
broke loose.
Snipers
began shooting into the crowd on February 22 in Maidan or
Independence Square. Panic ensued and riot police retreated in panic
according to eyewitnesses. The opposition leader Vitali
Klitschko withdrew
from the deal, no reason given. Yanukovich fled Kiev.[3]
The
question unanswered until now is who deployed the snipers? According
to veteran US intelligence sources, the snipers came from an
ultra-right-wing military organization known as Ukrainian National
Assembly – Ukrainian People’s Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO).
Strange Ukraine ‘Nationalists’
The
leader of UNA-UNSO, Andriy Shkil, ten years ago became an adviser to
Julia Tymoshenko. UNA-UNSO, during the US-instigated
2003-2004 “Orange
Revolution”,
backed pro-NATO candidate Viktor Yushchenko against his pro-Russian
opponent, Yanukovich. UNA-UNSO members provided security for the
supporters of Yushchenko and Julia Tymoshenko on Independence Square
in Kiev in 2003-4.[4]
UNA-UNSO
is also reported to have close ties to the German National Democratic
Party (NDP).[5]
Ever
since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 the
crack-para-military UNA-UNSO members have been behind every revolt
against Russian influence. The one connecting thread in their violent
campaigns is always anti-Russia. The organization, according to
veteran US intelligence sources, is part of a secret
NATO “GLADIO” organization,
and not a Ukraine nationalist group as portrayed in western
media. [6]
According
to these sources, UNA-UNSO have been involved (confirmed officially)
in the Lithuanian events in the Winter of 1991, the Soviet Coup
d’etat in
Summer 1991, the war for the Pridnister Republic 1992, the
anti-Moscow Abkhazia War 1993, the Chechen War, the US-organized
Kosovo Campaign Against the Serbs, and the August 8 2008 war in
Georgia. According to these reports, UNA-UNSO para-military have been
involved in every NATO dirty war in the post-cold war period, always
fighting on behalf of NATO. “These people are the dangerous
mercenaries used all over the world to fight NATO’s dirty war, and
to frame Russia because this group pretends to be Russian special
forces. THESE ARE THE BAD GUYS, forget about the window dressing
nationalists, these are the men behind the sniper rifles,” these
sources insist. [7]
If
true that UNA-UNSO is not “Ukrainian” opposition, but rather a
highly secret NATO force using Ukraine as base, it would suggest that
the EU peace compromise with the moderates was likely sabotaged by
the one major player excluded from the Kiev 21 February diplomatic
talks—Victoria Nuland’s State Department.[8] Both
Nuland and right-wing Republican US Senator John
McCain have
had contact with the leader of the Ukrainian opposition Svoboda
Party,
whose leader is openly anti-semitic and defends the deeds of a World
War II Ukrainian SS-Galicia Division head.[9] The
party was registered in 1995, initially calling itself the “Social
National Party of Ukraine” and using a swastika style logo. Svoboda
is the electoral front for neo-nazi organizations in Ukraine such as
UNA-UNSO.[10]
One
further indication that Nuland’s hand is shaping latest Ukraine
events is the fact that the new Ukrainian Parliament is expected to
nominate Nuland’s choice, Arseny Yatsenyuk, from Tymoshenko’s
party, to be interim head of the new Cabinet.
Whatever
the final truth, clear is that Washington has prepared a new economic
rape of Ukraine using its control over the International Monetary
Fund (IMF).
IMF
plunder of Ukraine Crown Jewels
Now
that the “opposition” has driven a duly-elected president into
exile somewhere unknown, and dissolved the national riot
police, Berkut, Washington has demanded that Ukraine
submit to onerous IMF conditionalities.
In
negotiations last October, the IMF demanded that Ukraine double
prices for gas and electricity to industry and homes, that they lift
a ban on private sale of Ukraine’s rich agriculture lands, make a
major overhaul of their economic holdings, devalue the currency,
slash state funds for school children and the elderly to “balance
the budget.” In return Ukraine would get a paltry $4 billion.
Before
the ouster of the Moscow-leaning Yanukovich government last week,
Moscow was prepared to buy some $15 billion of Ukraine debt and to
slash its gas prices by fully one-third. Now, understandably, Russia
is unlikely to give that support. The economic cooperation between
Ukraine and Moscow was something Washington was determined to
sabotage at all costs.
This drama is far from over. The stakes involve the very future of Russia, the EU-Russian relations, and the global power of Washington, or at least that faction in Washington that sees further wars as the prime instrument of policy.
This drama is far from over. The stakes involve the very future of Russia, the EU-Russian relations, and the global power of Washington, or at least that faction in Washington that sees further wars as the prime instrument of policy.
Writer F. William Engdahl is a geopolitical analyst and the author of “Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order”.
Endnotes:
[1] F.
William Engdahl, US-Außenministerium
in flagranti über Regimewechsel in der Ukraine ertappt, Kopp
Online.de, February 8, 2014, accessed
in http://info.kopp-verlag.de/hintergruende/enthuellungen/f-william-engdahl/us-aussenministerium-in-flagranti-ueber-regimewechsel-in-der-ukraine-ertappt.html
[2] Bertrand
Benoit, Laurence Norman and Stephen Fidler , European
Ministers Brokered Ukraine Political Compromise: German, French,
Polish Foreign Ministers Flew to Kiev, The
Wall Street Journal, February 21, 2014, accessed in
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303636404579397351862903542?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303636404579397351862903542.html
[3] Jessica Best, Ukraine protests Snipers firing live rounds at demonstrators as fresh violence erupts despite truce, The Mirror UK, February 20, 2014, accessed inhttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ukraine-protests-snipers-firing-live-3164828
[3] Jessica Best, Ukraine protests Snipers firing live rounds at demonstrators as fresh violence erupts despite truce, The Mirror UK, February 20, 2014, accessed inhttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ukraine-protests-snipers-firing-live-3164828
[4] Aleksandar
Vasovic , Far
right group flexes during Ukraine revolution,
Associated Press, January 3, 2005, Accessed
in http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20050103&slug=ukraine03
[5] Wikipedia, Ukrainian
National Assembly Ukrainian National Self Defence,
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, accessed
inhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_National_Assembly_%E2%80%93_Ukrainian_National_Self_Defence
[7] Ibid.
[8] Max
Blumenthal, Is
the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?,
AlterNet February 25, 2014, accessed in
[9] Channel
4 News, Far
right group at heart of Ukraine protests meet US senator,
16 December 2013, accessed in
[10] Ibid
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