Ukraine SITREP April 30, 2015 by Scott
Ukrainians
are failing in their nation building, mainly because they don’t
follow through with their main principle.
Ukraine builds its new national identity on a negative image. It declares itself being not just anti-Russia, but Not Like Russia. It would be if like we live, work, decorate our houses, send our kids to private schools, buy cars, cut lawns, erect a blown up Santa Claus on the roof, all in order to be Not Like The Johnsons.
The main objection to such national platform is it’s bulk. In order to be “not like the Russians” Ukrainians seem to carry Russia with them everywhere they go for the constant verification of unlikeness and un-sameness. The task is enormous. Russia is a heavy load for everyone who loves her, let alone for those who hate her. In Ukraine the failure to be “not like the Russians” often results in arrest, beating, loss of control over one’s assets, or even death. It understandably makes people nervous. Under the duress, maybe, have the Ukrainians missed one, very important similarity.
While reading Declassified US documents show Russian oligarchs supported NATO expansion during the 1990s [Source]
it’s hard to miss the similarity between Russia’s period under the “rule of the seven bankers” and Ukraine today. The grand scheme of “reforms” resulting in nothing but grand theft. The sons of Israel as unelected rulers, using one of the local aboriginals as a pawn. A group of Baltic executioners with eyes so transparent, you can see the inside of their heads. Next to them a bastard son of Polish nobility up to his shoulders covered in fresh human blood glaring at the unavoidable Georgian trendsetter. The same declaration of the mandate for power taken from the beseeched, bewildered, pillaged, fooled, looted, and tortured faceless masses. We have seen this act performed by the exact same set of characters before: in Petrograd in 1917, in Moscow in 1993, and in Kiev in 2014.
Ukraine builds its new national identity on a negative image. It declares itself being not just anti-Russia, but Not Like Russia. It would be if like we live, work, decorate our houses, send our kids to private schools, buy cars, cut lawns, erect a blown up Santa Claus on the roof, all in order to be Not Like The Johnsons.
The main objection to such national platform is it’s bulk. In order to be “not like the Russians” Ukrainians seem to carry Russia with them everywhere they go for the constant verification of unlikeness and un-sameness. The task is enormous. Russia is a heavy load for everyone who loves her, let alone for those who hate her. In Ukraine the failure to be “not like the Russians” often results in arrest, beating, loss of control over one’s assets, or even death. It understandably makes people nervous. Under the duress, maybe, have the Ukrainians missed one, very important similarity.
While reading Declassified US documents show Russian oligarchs supported NATO expansion during the 1990s [Source]
it’s hard to miss the similarity between Russia’s period under the “rule of the seven bankers” and Ukraine today. The grand scheme of “reforms” resulting in nothing but grand theft. The sons of Israel as unelected rulers, using one of the local aboriginals as a pawn. A group of Baltic executioners with eyes so transparent, you can see the inside of their heads. Next to them a bastard son of Polish nobility up to his shoulders covered in fresh human blood glaring at the unavoidable Georgian trendsetter. The same declaration of the mandate for power taken from the beseeched, bewildered, pillaged, fooled, looted, and tortured faceless masses. We have seen this act performed by the exact same set of characters before: in Petrograd in 1917, in Moscow in 1993, and in Kiev in 2014.
Each
member of these gangs and all of them together are so creepily
identical in looks, biographies, … as if they are premade,
packaged, labeled, stored, delivered, and installed by the same
manufacturer.
If the Ukrainians want to become their own people, in their own country and act in their own national interest, they really truly urgently need to kick this prepackaged McGovernment, and start governing their country themselves, in their own interest and by their own people.
Oh, wait! That’s what Russia is doing… Doh!
If the Ukrainians want to become their own people, in their own country and act in their own national interest, they really truly urgently need to kick this prepackaged McGovernment, and start governing their country themselves, in their own interest and by their own people.
Oh, wait! That’s what Russia is doing… Doh!
Meanwhile, EU
Ukraine Summit – Extracts from President Juncker’s remarks at the
final press conference of EU-Ukraine Summit, 27 April
2015 [Source]
Poroshenko (in hallway): Juncker! C’mon, it’s an emergency!
Juncker: Excuse me. <Gets up and answers the door.> Alright, what is it? You’re interrupting!
Poroshenko: Well, you know, I’m packing for the European Union, I need to borrow your bathing suit.
Juncker: This is an emergency? You need a bathing suit?
Poroshenko: Well, I like your.
Juncker: I don’t know, my bathing suit? That’s a little familiar, I don’t want your…your boys down there.
Poroshenko: C’mon, what’s wrong with my boys?
Juncker: Your boys should stay in their neighborhood. [Source]
Issue of Ukraine’s Joining EU Not on Agenda – European Commission President. If the process of Ukraine integration into EU winds down without giving one of them the chance to have a colossal mental breakdown, I’m going to be slightly annoyed.
Sounds like France and Germany don’t want the EU bosses to make a statement they don’t agree with. Maybe tough love is on the way.EU NATO US Ukraine
1. Interpol refuses to seek Klyuyev [Source]
KYIV, April 27 /Ukrinform/. Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine states that 12 ex-officials are put on Interpol international wanted list.
Deputy Prosecutor General Yuriy Stolyarchuk said this at a press conference on return of the Ukrainian assets, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“As of today, 12 former ex-officials have been put on the international wanted list,” he said.
At the same time, the deputy prosecutor general said that Interpol refused to search for a number of former officials of Yanukovych regime, including former head of the Presidential Administration Andriy Klyuyev because of accusations of political persecution.
Stolyarchuk also said that a large number of former ex-officials hid in the Russian Federation, which refused to extradite them.
2. Ukraine Takes Down 30,000 Sites to Block Five ‘Pro-Russian’ Ones [Source]
April 29, 2015: Kiev – In an attempt to shut down allegedly anti-Ukrainian websites, the Ukraine State Security Service instead blocked access to thousands of unrelated sites.
3. Issue of Ukraine’s Joining EU Not on Agenda – European Commission President [Source]
Earlier Monday, Petro Poroshenko called on the European Union to grant Ukraine membership in the bloc.
April 27, 2015 – KIEV (Sputnik) — Ukraine’s accession to the European Union is not on a discussion agenda at the moment, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker said Monday.
“The issue of Ukraine’s joining the European Union is not on the immediate agenda.”
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
4. Ukrainian to Become Official EU Language – PM Yatsenyuk [Source]
April 27, 2015: – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said during the plenary session between Kiev and the EU that Ukrainian might become one of the official languages of the EU, Channel 112.ua said. “I am convinced that there is a significant prospect that the Ukrainian language will become an official language of the EU, and that’s why we’ve gathered here today,” the prime minister said during the plenary session.
You really couldn’t make this up. Ukrainian as an official EU language? Now, they won’t not be allowed in for another 10 years. Are English and French going to be the two working languages in Ukraine, and Ukrainian as well? At least it will make it easier for all the English speaking ‘masters’ when they arrive. Oh, and Tusk seems to have bailed out.
5. France, Germany May Try to Block Joint Statement at Ukraine-EU Summit [Source]
April 27, 2015 – France and Germany are now trying to amend the wording of the statement the way its content would be completely neutralized, a European diplomat said in a comment to Ukraine’s UNIAN news agency in Brussels on Saturday.
Brussels wants Kiev to have its constitution reformed before this year is out, including the special status of Donbass, political decentralization and the war on corruption.
The Ukrainian side, for its part, will insist on its citizens’ visa-free access to the EU countries. According to The Wall Street Journal, the April 27 summit in Brussels will try to “stem an erosion of trust between Kiev and its Western neighbors.”
“There are sharpened concerns in Europe that Ukraine’s commitments to internal change —economic and political — haven’t been followed through which Europeans fear will, over time, intensify Kiev’s economic woes and possibly stoke tensions with Russia again,” the WSJ said in a report.
6. My earlier suggestion that Poland has been actively supporting Maidan uprising and overthrowing of a democratically elected government of Ukraine to get back their historical Western Ukraine territories with Lvov is getting more and more traction.
See Nickolai Staricov’s article Poles Back Kiev With a View to Retaking Western Ukraine [Source]
Poroshenko (in hallway): Juncker! C’mon, it’s an emergency!
Juncker: Excuse me. <Gets up and answers the door.> Alright, what is it? You’re interrupting!
Poroshenko: Well, you know, I’m packing for the European Union, I need to borrow your bathing suit.
Juncker: This is an emergency? You need a bathing suit?
Poroshenko: Well, I like your.
Juncker: I don’t know, my bathing suit? That’s a little familiar, I don’t want your…your boys down there.
Poroshenko: C’mon, what’s wrong with my boys?
Juncker: Your boys should stay in their neighborhood. [Source]
Issue of Ukraine’s Joining EU Not on Agenda – European Commission President. If the process of Ukraine integration into EU winds down without giving one of them the chance to have a colossal mental breakdown, I’m going to be slightly annoyed.
Sounds like France and Germany don’t want the EU bosses to make a statement they don’t agree with. Maybe tough love is on the way.EU NATO US Ukraine
1. Interpol refuses to seek Klyuyev [Source]
KYIV, April 27 /Ukrinform/. Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine states that 12 ex-officials are put on Interpol international wanted list.
Deputy Prosecutor General Yuriy Stolyarchuk said this at a press conference on return of the Ukrainian assets, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“As of today, 12 former ex-officials have been put on the international wanted list,” he said.
At the same time, the deputy prosecutor general said that Interpol refused to search for a number of former officials of Yanukovych regime, including former head of the Presidential Administration Andriy Klyuyev because of accusations of political persecution.
Stolyarchuk also said that a large number of former ex-officials hid in the Russian Federation, which refused to extradite them.
2. Ukraine Takes Down 30,000 Sites to Block Five ‘Pro-Russian’ Ones [Source]
April 29, 2015: Kiev – In an attempt to shut down allegedly anti-Ukrainian websites, the Ukraine State Security Service instead blocked access to thousands of unrelated sites.
3. Issue of Ukraine’s Joining EU Not on Agenda – European Commission President [Source]
Earlier Monday, Petro Poroshenko called on the European Union to grant Ukraine membership in the bloc.
April 27, 2015 – KIEV (Sputnik) — Ukraine’s accession to the European Union is not on a discussion agenda at the moment, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker said Monday.
“The issue of Ukraine’s joining the European Union is not on the immediate agenda.”
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
4. Ukrainian to Become Official EU Language – PM Yatsenyuk [Source]
April 27, 2015: – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said during the plenary session between Kiev and the EU that Ukrainian might become one of the official languages of the EU, Channel 112.ua said. “I am convinced that there is a significant prospect that the Ukrainian language will become an official language of the EU, and that’s why we’ve gathered here today,” the prime minister said during the plenary session.
You really couldn’t make this up. Ukrainian as an official EU language? Now, they won’t not be allowed in for another 10 years. Are English and French going to be the two working languages in Ukraine, and Ukrainian as well? At least it will make it easier for all the English speaking ‘masters’ when they arrive. Oh, and Tusk seems to have bailed out.
5. France, Germany May Try to Block Joint Statement at Ukraine-EU Summit [Source]
April 27, 2015 – France and Germany are now trying to amend the wording of the statement the way its content would be completely neutralized, a European diplomat said in a comment to Ukraine’s UNIAN news agency in Brussels on Saturday.
Brussels wants Kiev to have its constitution reformed before this year is out, including the special status of Donbass, political decentralization and the war on corruption.
The Ukrainian side, for its part, will insist on its citizens’ visa-free access to the EU countries. According to The Wall Street Journal, the April 27 summit in Brussels will try to “stem an erosion of trust between Kiev and its Western neighbors.”
“There are sharpened concerns in Europe that Ukraine’s commitments to internal change —economic and political — haven’t been followed through which Europeans fear will, over time, intensify Kiev’s economic woes and possibly stoke tensions with Russia again,” the WSJ said in a report.
6. My earlier suggestion that Poland has been actively supporting Maidan uprising and overthrowing of a democratically elected government of Ukraine to get back their historical Western Ukraine territories with Lvov is getting more and more traction.
See Nickolai Staricov’s article Poles Back Kiev With a View to Retaking Western Ukraine [Source]
See
also: Restitution
or surprise for Ukraine – How Much Ukrainians have to give back to
Poland [Source]
Реституция или сюрприз для Украины — много ли придется отдать полякам (ВИДЕО)
I wouldn’t call the demands for restitution “surprising.” The moment the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement text became available online, many people who could read, myself included, tried to warn the Ukrainians about a reparation clause of the said Agreement. In response we, collectively, were called “Putin’s agents.” What else can I say? Payback’s a B**ch.
Реституция или сюрприз для Украины — много ли придется отдать полякам (ВИДЕО)
I wouldn’t call the demands for restitution “surprising.” The moment the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement text became available online, many people who could read, myself included, tried to warn the Ukrainians about a reparation clause of the said Agreement. In response we, collectively, were called “Putin’s agents.” What else can I say? Payback’s a B**ch.
Discovering
a drive for land grab behind Poland’s staunch support for Kiev
junta, let’s look at the true reasons behind Poland’s passionate
intercourse with NATO, accompanied by screams of rabid anti-Russian
paranoia. We can find that the real reason = treason. That and desire
to save some money, about 60 billion to be correct.
b. NATO
to Bulk Up Its Base in Poland [Source]
NATO continues to increase its presence in Eastern Europe. The defense ministers of Germany, Poland and Denmark agreed to add more soldiers at NATO’s Multinational Corps Northeast, based in Poland.
NATO continues to increase its presence in Eastern Europe. The defense ministers of Germany, Poland and Denmark agreed to add more soldiers at NATO’s Multinational Corps Northeast, based in Poland.
c. Poland
Eyes Fund To Arm Eastern Europe [Source]
Explanation why Poland is so interested in Ukrainian conflict escalation.
Explanation why Poland is so interested in Ukrainian conflict escalation.
Just
one example how the US and Israel are blackmailing the sovereign
Governments to follow the NATO footsteps in ever escalating war on
Russia.
John Helmer writes in April 21, 2015 –So Long Siklebaum – Poland under US pressure over failure of war against Eastern Ukraine, Russia [Source]
“Sources in Warsaw say they suspect officials in the US and Israeli governments of threatening to revive a campaign claiming $65 billion in compensation from Poland and other European governments for losses of life and property caused to their Jewish nationals during the war. The project, launched in 2011, is called the Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Taskforce (HEART). It is based in Israel, headed by Rafi Eitan, the Mossad agent directing espionage against the US in the 1980s. In Milwaukee HEART has been managed by a Democratic Party consultant called Bruce Arbit and his A.B. Data company who have run several earlier Jewish restitution campaigns. HEART was suddenly suspended last July, without explanation.
In Warsaw, according to Polish sources, officials believe it would be a small price to pay to allow more US troops into the country and spend more on the war against Russia than to risk having to pay the bill for Operation HEART. The Siklebaums are among them, the sources say.”
“We can see that after Sikorsky’s dismissal from the Foreign Ministry, there is much less barking about Ukraine in Warsaw”, comments an influential Polish analyst. “The Comey remarks demonstrate that basically Poland has no allies. Even historically good relations with Hungary have now been destroyed through the attack on [Hungarian Prime Minister Victor] Orban by the Polish government [Warsaw, February 15] The Weimar Triangle group of Poland, Germany and France is more and more a diplomatic formality, not an alliance . And as we know [former Polish Prime Minister Donald]Tusk in Brussels is a mere puppy of Auntie Merkel, and not the influential representative of a strong and powerful Poland in the EU. After Poles sabotaged the career of the Sikorsky-Applebaum couple and cooled on Ukraine, Poland is now being reminded how low it ranks in Washington, Brussels and London, too.”
I have an idea: Poland should demand $65billion from Ukraine. Ukraine will get this money from the US to give them to Poland. Poland will give the money to Israel, Israel will give this money back to Ukraine for the war with Russia, because the wars in Europe are very good for business.
John Helmer writes in April 21, 2015 –So Long Siklebaum – Poland under US pressure over failure of war against Eastern Ukraine, Russia [Source]
“Sources in Warsaw say they suspect officials in the US and Israeli governments of threatening to revive a campaign claiming $65 billion in compensation from Poland and other European governments for losses of life and property caused to their Jewish nationals during the war. The project, launched in 2011, is called the Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Taskforce (HEART). It is based in Israel, headed by Rafi Eitan, the Mossad agent directing espionage against the US in the 1980s. In Milwaukee HEART has been managed by a Democratic Party consultant called Bruce Arbit and his A.B. Data company who have run several earlier Jewish restitution campaigns. HEART was suddenly suspended last July, without explanation.
In Warsaw, according to Polish sources, officials believe it would be a small price to pay to allow more US troops into the country and spend more on the war against Russia than to risk having to pay the bill for Operation HEART. The Siklebaums are among them, the sources say.”
“We can see that after Sikorsky’s dismissal from the Foreign Ministry, there is much less barking about Ukraine in Warsaw”, comments an influential Polish analyst. “The Comey remarks demonstrate that basically Poland has no allies. Even historically good relations with Hungary have now been destroyed through the attack on [Hungarian Prime Minister Victor] Orban by the Polish government [Warsaw, February 15] The Weimar Triangle group of Poland, Germany and France is more and more a diplomatic formality, not an alliance . And as we know [former Polish Prime Minister Donald]Tusk in Brussels is a mere puppy of Auntie Merkel, and not the influential representative of a strong and powerful Poland in the EU. After Poles sabotaged the career of the Sikorsky-Applebaum couple and cooled on Ukraine, Poland is now being reminded how low it ranks in Washington, Brussels and London, too.”
I have an idea: Poland should demand $65billion from Ukraine. Ukraine will get this money from the US to give them to Poland. Poland will give the money to Israel, Israel will give this money back to Ukraine for the war with Russia, because the wars in Europe are very good for business.
7. American
military swine turned Lvov night club into pigsty and irked
locals [Source]
Американские инструктора загадили ночной клуб во Львове (ВИДЕО)
April 30, 2015, Lvov – According to the Ukrainian news sources, on their first day off, the 173rd Infantry Brigade conquered the posh Lvov night club by drinking too much, vomiting and urinating everywhere.
“One of them grabbed me by my hair and tried to force me to have sex with him,” complaint one female customer. Local prostitutes were shocked by the brutality and savage behavior of the U.S. soldiers and refused to have sex with them for any money.
Americans also took taxicabs and refused to pay, in some instances attacking the cab drivers. “British and Americans don’t consider us to be people,” a taxi driver told to a journalist.
The Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Ukraine, a US State Department sponsored organization, sent the letter to Poroshenko demanding to send the U.S. soldiers back home. “On April 14, four American soldiers brutally raped two underage girls in Kiev. One was 13, the other was even younger. Is this why they came to our country? These people violate the law and not being punish for this.
What these “instructors” can teach our children? They treat us as the second class people. We can predict now how they will treat our sons. Our sons, being under the military oath, will be subjected to brutal treatment from these inhumans (not-people, neludey).”
Американские инструктора загадили ночной клуб во Львове (ВИДЕО)
April 30, 2015, Lvov – According to the Ukrainian news sources, on their first day off, the 173rd Infantry Brigade conquered the posh Lvov night club by drinking too much, vomiting and urinating everywhere.
“One of them grabbed me by my hair and tried to force me to have sex with him,” complaint one female customer. Local prostitutes were shocked by the brutality and savage behavior of the U.S. soldiers and refused to have sex with them for any money.
Americans also took taxicabs and refused to pay, in some instances attacking the cab drivers. “British and Americans don’t consider us to be people,” a taxi driver told to a journalist.
The Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Ukraine, a US State Department sponsored organization, sent the letter to Poroshenko demanding to send the U.S. soldiers back home. “On April 14, four American soldiers brutally raped two underage girls in Kiev. One was 13, the other was even younger. Is this why they came to our country? These people violate the law and not being punish for this.
What these “instructors” can teach our children? They treat us as the second class people. We can predict now how they will treat our sons. Our sons, being under the military oath, will be subjected to brutal treatment from these inhumans (not-people, neludey).”
8. Solidarity
with Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine’s event
ACTION:
For those living in the UK:
This Saturday, May 2nd, London will be honoring the victims of the Odessa Massacre.
Attend if you can!
See link to the event for more details.
The Solidarity with Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine campaign was established at a London meeting on June 2nd, 2014, and one of its aims is precisely “to demand that the killers of 42 people at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa on May 2nd be brought to justice.”
On May 2nd, 2015 we will gather outside the Ukrainian embassy in London to demand Justice for Odessa – no impunity for fascist killers
ACTION:
For those living in the UK:
This Saturday, May 2nd, London will be honoring the victims of the Odessa Massacre.
Attend if you can!
See link to the event for more details.
The Solidarity with Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine campaign was established at a London meeting on June 2nd, 2014, and one of its aims is precisely “to demand that the killers of 42 people at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa on May 2nd be brought to justice.”
On May 2nd, 2015 we will gather outside the Ukrainian embassy in London to demand Justice for Odessa – no impunity for fascist killers
Economy
of Ukraine
1.. Ukrainian industrial production figures reveal industrial production off 21.1% year over year and this factors out Crimea. With Crimea it’s even worse [Source]
Coal production is down 61%.
Kiev to Implement Association Agreement, Request EU Membership in 5 Years
The 17th EU-Ukraine summit is taking place on April 27, the first such summit under the framework of the Association Agreement.
Export earnings are off 35%. [Source]
1.. Ukrainian industrial production figures reveal industrial production off 21.1% year over year and this factors out Crimea. With Crimea it’s even worse [Source]
Coal production is down 61%.
Kiev to Implement Association Agreement, Request EU Membership in 5 Years
The 17th EU-Ukraine summit is taking place on April 27, the first such summit under the framework of the Association Agreement.
Export earnings are off 35%. [Source]
2. Nazi
protests the upcoming sale of the Ukraine arable lands
April 27, 2015: Kiev – Oleg Lyashko, of Nazi notoriety, posted on his FB page a rant about upcoming sale of arable Ukrainian agricultural land – the second largest source wealth of the country. He says that for a talented and industrious nation, it’s a shame to give away people’s wealth for next to nothing in the interests of a handful of oligarchs and bureaucrats. “To sell the agricultural lands of Ukraine, it’s a chilling scenario, which we (government) try to hide under a beautiful wrapper. Open sale of agricultural land now means to launch a new wave of oligarchs in Ukraine.”
April 27, 2015: Kiev – Oleg Lyashko, of Nazi notoriety, posted on his FB page a rant about upcoming sale of arable Ukrainian agricultural land – the second largest source wealth of the country. He says that for a talented and industrious nation, it’s a shame to give away people’s wealth for next to nothing in the interests of a handful of oligarchs and bureaucrats. “To sell the agricultural lands of Ukraine, it’s a chilling scenario, which we (government) try to hide under a beautiful wrapper. Open sale of agricultural land now means to launch a new wave of oligarchs in Ukraine.”
3. Ukrainian
Prime Minister Claims Donbass Owes Kiev $3 Bln in
Taxes [Source]
April 27, 2015: KIEV (Sputnik) — Kiev did not receive some $3 billion in taxes from Ukraine’s eastern conflict-torn region of Donbass, country’s prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Sunday. “Three billion [dollars] of taxes is what we did not get, and losses [as a result of military action] make dozens of billions,” Yatsenyuk told Ukrainian TV Channel Five.
Southeastern Ukraine is suffering from a humanitarian crisis that emerged as a result of a military operation against independence supporters, launched by Kiev authorities a year ago.
According to State Statistics Service of Ukraine, Resident population in Donetsk and Lugansk as of March 1, 2015 equals 4,278,924 and 2,212,947 respectively. Currently 1 Ukrainian Hryvnia equals $0.044.
Kiev stopped making social benefit payments to the people of Donetsk and Lugansk regions last July. In November 2014, the Ukrainian government imposed an economic blockade on Donbass including the cessation of activity of the Ukrainian Treasury and the National Bank in the region.
Not sure if the $3B mentioned is nett or gross, but assume gross. As Kiev has withdrawn large amounts of Hryvnia and cut the banking links paying taxes might be quite difficult.
April 27, 2015: KIEV (Sputnik) — Kiev did not receive some $3 billion in taxes from Ukraine’s eastern conflict-torn region of Donbass, country’s prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Sunday. “Three billion [dollars] of taxes is what we did not get, and losses [as a result of military action] make dozens of billions,” Yatsenyuk told Ukrainian TV Channel Five.
Southeastern Ukraine is suffering from a humanitarian crisis that emerged as a result of a military operation against independence supporters, launched by Kiev authorities a year ago.
According to State Statistics Service of Ukraine, Resident population in Donetsk and Lugansk as of March 1, 2015 equals 4,278,924 and 2,212,947 respectively. Currently 1 Ukrainian Hryvnia equals $0.044.
Kiev stopped making social benefit payments to the people of Donetsk and Lugansk regions last July. In November 2014, the Ukrainian government imposed an economic blockade on Donbass including the cessation of activity of the Ukrainian Treasury and the National Bank in the region.
Not sure if the $3B mentioned is nett or gross, but assume gross. As Kiev has withdrawn large amounts of Hryvnia and cut the banking links paying taxes might be quite difficult.
4. Assessment
of Ukrainian economy and reforms by a bank manager from
Ukraine [source]
April 18, 2015 Что происходит с украинской экономикойTranslation here
a. Immediately after the revolution, the revolutionaries assembled a new government… and proceeded to do nothing for several months;
b. War is a good time to push for reforms. Even if they are painful, you can always blame the damned moskals while telling the people that a bright future is just around the corner;
c. Absolutely nothing was done prior to the Rada elections [in November ’14], and very little has been done since;
d. the Ukrainian government becomes the Ukrainian-American-Georgian-Lithuanian government. Probably, to keep track of where all that IMF money is going;
e. Further, with no further adieu, he introduces the new reformers and their reforms. And he proceeds with the portraits of the new multinational government of Ukraine;
f. It suddenly turned out that the “broke, tax-leaching” Donetsk and Lugansk accounted for 20% of Ukraine’s GDP and 30% of its’ exports. Then it turned out that Russian markets are now closed to Ukraine and that exports to Russia are falling catastrophically, while the growth of exports to the EU is a pathetic 1-2%, well below the new export quotas. As we’ve learned, no one in Europe really needed our goods;
g. Reform of the banking industry. Well. First we let the hrivna fall, then we make everyone panic, then we close 50 banks, then we take over the good banks (especially if they belong to someone we don’t like). End result? Massive capital outflow, wide distrust of the banking system, reserves falling to $8bn. I take it this constitutes reforms.
Overall, the results of these reforms are such:
46% inflation
22% plunge in manufacturing
24% fall in retail trade.
“I am not even gonna mention the hrivna. All this in just a few months since the “reforms” started. Pitiful. But hey, it’s probably because we are fighting a war, right? The damnable moskals are keeping us down. So then why don’t we keep the war going, this way the people will never ask you why the reforms are so bad. A great idea, no?
The government made all of the mistakes they could have possibly made. I also feel obligated to thank the IMF experts for their “valuable” advise, most of which suggests to me that the IMF is somewhat detached from the Ukrainian reality.”
April 18, 2015 Что происходит с украинской экономикойTranslation here
a. Immediately after the revolution, the revolutionaries assembled a new government… and proceeded to do nothing for several months;
b. War is a good time to push for reforms. Even if they are painful, you can always blame the damned moskals while telling the people that a bright future is just around the corner;
c. Absolutely nothing was done prior to the Rada elections [in November ’14], and very little has been done since;
d. the Ukrainian government becomes the Ukrainian-American-Georgian-Lithuanian government. Probably, to keep track of where all that IMF money is going;
e. Further, with no further adieu, he introduces the new reformers and their reforms. And he proceeds with the portraits of the new multinational government of Ukraine;
f. It suddenly turned out that the “broke, tax-leaching” Donetsk and Lugansk accounted for 20% of Ukraine’s GDP and 30% of its’ exports. Then it turned out that Russian markets are now closed to Ukraine and that exports to Russia are falling catastrophically, while the growth of exports to the EU is a pathetic 1-2%, well below the new export quotas. As we’ve learned, no one in Europe really needed our goods;
g. Reform of the banking industry. Well. First we let the hrivna fall, then we make everyone panic, then we close 50 banks, then we take over the good banks (especially if they belong to someone we don’t like). End result? Massive capital outflow, wide distrust of the banking system, reserves falling to $8bn. I take it this constitutes reforms.
Overall, the results of these reforms are such:
46% inflation
22% plunge in manufacturing
24% fall in retail trade.
“I am not even gonna mention the hrivna. All this in just a few months since the “reforms” started. Pitiful. But hey, it’s probably because we are fighting a war, right? The damnable moskals are keeping us down. So then why don’t we keep the war going, this way the people will never ask you why the reforms are so bad. A great idea, no?
The government made all of the mistakes they could have possibly made. I also feel obligated to thank the IMF experts for their “valuable” advise, most of which suggests to me that the IMF is somewhat detached from the Ukrainian reality.”
Novorossia
Donbass SITREP
1. Many faces of Donbass [Source]
April 27, 2015: Donetsk – Rock Music Concert in Donetsk: Chicherin, group 7B and Vadim Samoylov performed for people of Donbass.
Nice Music, Happy Young People, but sure propaganda like nothing else. According to the West (yes, you Finland, you Poland, Latvia, Germany…) – these people are terrorists and must be destroyed.
Рок-концерт в Донецке: Чичерина, группа 7Б и Вадим Самойлов спели для жителей Донбасса.
1. Many faces of Donbass [Source]
April 27, 2015: Donetsk – Rock Music Concert in Donetsk: Chicherin, group 7B and Vadim Samoylov performed for people of Donbass.
Nice Music, Happy Young People, but sure propaganda like nothing else. According to the West (yes, you Finland, you Poland, Latvia, Germany…) – these people are terrorists and must be destroyed.
Рок-концерт в Донецке: Чичерина, группа 7Б и Вадим Самойлов спели для жителей Донбасса.
2. My
journey to the war zone of Eastern Ukraine [Source]
April 29, 2015 – Halyna Mokrushyna
From April 13 to April 17, 2015, I participated in a press tour to Donbas, the region in eastern Ukraine torn by armed conflict between Ukrainian military forces and local insurgency. The people of Donbas (the region includes the oblasts of Donetsk and Lugansk), rebelled last year against Kyiv’s imposed integration with the European Union and its new, official history and ideology based on extreme and exclusive Ukrainian nationalism.
It’s time for a divorce: Donbass does not want the oligarchs and Nazi-supporters in Kiev. Donbas would return to a federalized Ukraine, but only if the Kyiv government would undergo what Donbas people call “de-nazification”. Sadly, this is very unlikely to happen.
April 29, 2015 – Halyna Mokrushyna
From April 13 to April 17, 2015, I participated in a press tour to Donbas, the region in eastern Ukraine torn by armed conflict between Ukrainian military forces and local insurgency. The people of Donbas (the region includes the oblasts of Donetsk and Lugansk), rebelled last year against Kyiv’s imposed integration with the European Union and its new, official history and ideology based on extreme and exclusive Ukrainian nationalism.
It’s time for a divorce: Donbass does not want the oligarchs and Nazi-supporters in Kiev. Donbas would return to a federalized Ukraine, but only if the Kyiv government would undergo what Donbas people call “de-nazification”. Sadly, this is very unlikely to happen.
3. April
30, 2015: UPDATE
23:55 Local Time: In the suburbs of Mariupol, mortars and machine guns can be heard — Resident Source NAF;
Heavy artillery fights in Pesky UAF is using heavy artillery. UAF continue to bring reinforcements to the frontline (heavy artillery and soldiers).
Heavy Fights in progress heavy artillery and tanks can be heard in Gorlovka .
In Gorlovka the fights increased in intensity
23:55 Local Time: In the suburbs of Mariupol, mortars and machine guns can be heard — Resident Source NAF;
Heavy artillery fights in Pesky UAF is using heavy artillery. UAF continue to bring reinforcements to the frontline (heavy artillery and soldiers).
Heavy Fights in progress heavy artillery and tanks can be heard in Gorlovka .
In Gorlovka the fights increased in intensity
The
Right Sector will hold a protest in Kyiv today in response to what
they say is a govt plan to undermine Ukraine’s volunteer
battalions.
Rumor : right sector is surrounded by Ukraine army, they need to lay down arms !!
UPDATE 23:55: Around the Donetsk area, both the city and environs, 10 to 18 UAV sighted operated by the Ukrainian Army — Confirmed NAF
Rumor : right sector is surrounded by Ukraine army, they need to lay down arms !!
UPDATE 23:55: Around the Donetsk area, both the city and environs, 10 to 18 UAV sighted operated by the Ukrainian Army — Confirmed NAF
April
28, 2015, Lvov – Lviv
regional deputies ask the Verkhovna Rada and Poroshenko to recognize
Crimea and Donbass part of Russia [Source]
UKRAINE—Popcorn advised as Praviy Sector mounts a picket of Presidential Admin. at 12:00 April 30 in Kiev, due to Ukraine troops blocking Right Sector’s base in Dnepropetrovsk.
US Army paratroopers in Ukraine training the National Guard of Ukraine.
Yarosh threatening to “storm” Poroshenko
UKRAINE—Popcorn advised as Praviy Sector mounts a picket of Presidential Admin. at 12:00 April 30 in Kiev, due to Ukraine troops blocking Right Sector’s base in Dnepropetrovsk.
US Army paratroopers in Ukraine training the National Guard of Ukraine.
Yarosh threatening to “storm” Poroshenko
Russia
and Beyond…
1. Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov We won’t have war with Ukraine [Source]
Замминистра обороны России: «Мы ни при каких обстоятельствах с Украиной воевать не будем»
April 30, 2015, Moscow – In his interview to the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov states that “Russia won’t fight war with Ukraine under no circumstances. Ukraine is not our enemy. Even in theory we cannot think this way. I hope that Kiev has enough wisdom not to try to provoke us. Plus, Germany and France might put their foot down to stop Kiev from reigniting the conflict in South East Ukraine. Russia will help Europe to achieve this.”
1. Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov We won’t have war with Ukraine [Source]
Замминистра обороны России: «Мы ни при каких обстоятельствах с Украиной воевать не будем»
April 30, 2015, Moscow – In his interview to the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov states that “Russia won’t fight war with Ukraine under no circumstances. Ukraine is not our enemy. Even in theory we cannot think this way. I hope that Kiev has enough wisdom not to try to provoke us. Plus, Germany and France might put their foot down to stop Kiev from reigniting the conflict in South East Ukraine. Russia will help Europe to achieve this.”
2. Kremlin
Confirms Putin-Merkel Talks in Moscow on May 10 [Source]
Kremlin confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Moscow on May 10.
Kremlin confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Moscow on May 10.
3. Burying
The Greatest Victory in Spite: Rewriting History to demonize
Russia [Source]
In efforts to demonize Russia, the history of the Western World is being distastefully rewritten. The monumental sacrifices of the Russian people during World War II are not only being marginalized, but flipped upon their heads. Today, reading through the Western media, one will find a multitude of comparisons between Russia and Nazi Germany, with Russian President Vladimir Putin compared with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Beyond distasteful, this propaganda is dangerous to the point where it borders on exonerating the Nazis, even celebrating their acts of aggression and bolstering those monkeying their ideology today, particularly in Ukraine, Poland and other NATO-oriented Eastern European nations where fascism has been resurrected to once again battle the Russian people
In efforts to demonize Russia, the history of the Western World is being distastefully rewritten. The monumental sacrifices of the Russian people during World War II are not only being marginalized, but flipped upon their heads. Today, reading through the Western media, one will find a multitude of comparisons between Russia and Nazi Germany, with Russian President Vladimir Putin compared with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Beyond distasteful, this propaganda is dangerous to the point where it borders on exonerating the Nazis, even celebrating their acts of aggression and bolstering those monkeying their ideology today, particularly in Ukraine, Poland and other NATO-oriented Eastern European nations where fascism has been resurrected to once again battle the Russian people
4. Russian
State to Support Truth in Mass Media [Source]
Russia president has vowed to support credible media at a forum devoted to the subject of Russian press
Russia president has vowed to support credible media at a forum devoted to the subject of Russian press
5. Gaddafi’s
Libya Was Africa ‘s Most Prosperous Democracy [Source]
Contrary to popular belief, Libya , which western media described as “Gaddafi’s military dictatorship” was in actual fact one of the world’s most democratic States.
Contrary to popular belief, Libya , which western media described as “Gaddafi’s military dictatorship” was in actual fact one of the world’s most democratic States.
8. Russia
Central Bank Cuts Key Rate By 150 bps To 12.50% Citing Risk Of
“Considerable Economy Cooling” [Source]
According to the Bank of Russia forecast, consumer price growth will slow down faster than expected. Annual inflation will fall to less than 8% in a year (April 2016 on April 2015) and to the target of 4% in 2017. As inflation risks abate further, the Bank of Russia will be ready to continue cutting the key rate.
According to the Bank of Russia forecast, consumer price growth will slow down faster than expected. Annual inflation will fall to less than 8% in a year (April 2016 on April 2015) and to the target of 4% in 2017. As inflation risks abate further, the Bank of Russia will be ready to continue cutting the key rate.
Feel and hear the difference..
30.04.2015 Ukraine Crisis News. War in Ukraine. Donbass, Chernobyl, USA, Romania
Foreign Policy Diary – ‘War on Terror
Banning Bikers: The Double
Standards Of NGOs.04.2015
Ukraine Crisis News. War in
Ukraine. Donbass,
Chernobyl, USA, Romania
by
Andrew Korybko
30
April, 2015
Germany and Poland’s rejection
of visa issuance for the Night Wolves patriotic bikers is politically
motivated and speaks loudly about the West’s double standards
towards NGOs. The group wanted to partake in a commemorative
pilgrimage across Eastern Europe en route to Berlin in order to
commemorate the 70th anniversary
of Victory Day, and they were entirely transparent about their routes
and itinerary. In the context of the New Cold War, it was obvious
that if they would have been granted access to the EU, they’d have
been watched over like a hawk and had every one of their moves
monitored, thus ensuring that none of the ‘provocations’ that the
Western mainstream media scared their citizens about would have had
any chance of coming to pass even if the bikers wanted them to (which
they did’t).
So
what in effect happened was that the EU fear mongered about and
banned non-political private citizens who were planning to pay homage
to the tens of millions of Europeans that perished in World War II.
The Night Wolves are essentially a Russian NGO, in that they’re
literally a non-governmental organization, meaning that the EU banned
a foreign NGO at the last minute after embarrassingly exposing its
members to hours-long
interrogations and searches.
The EU was so against the Russian NGO that they wouldn’t even allow
them across the border under the Orwellian observation that they
obviously would have been exposed to during their entire trip. Let
that sink in for a moment, and then imagine if the shoe was on the
other foot.
Russia
has never treated a foreign NGO in this manner, not even those which
are politically oriented and clearly engaged in regime change
destabilizations. Rather, Moscow simply stipulates that NGOs
receiving financing from abroad need to register as foreign agents in
order to legally conduct their affairs in the country. It doesn’t
force their members to undergo humiliating searches and
interrogations at border crossings, and the harassment techniques
practiced by the EU against the Night Wolves are noticeably absent in
the case of their Polish
counterparts’
yearly commemorative visit to Smolensk and Katyn. Russia doesn’t
treat any foreign political, social, or historical NGO members in the
same hostile manner as the EU treats Russians, nor does Moscow ban
private individuals like the EU has de-facto done against the bikers.
Despite this, Russia is constantly smeared in the Western press as
being ‘authoritarian’, ‘xenophobic’, and ‘nationalistic’,
but the irony is that these labels actually describe the West itself,
as is clearly evidenced from their treatment of the Night Wolves.
In
fact, the EU epitomizes all the socio-political negativities that it
accuses Russia of, and actually behaves worse than it ever accused
Moscow of acting when it comes to the Brussels’ own practice in
this regard. It’s not the pot calling the kettle black, but more
like a burned-out kettle having the audacity to level that label
against a stainless steel pot. Such a comparison is delusion and
devoid of reality, but the EU’s hypocritical criticism of Moscow’s
NGO treatment testifies to the ideological rigor in which politics is
practiced in the EU. The only reason that such a narrative is even
espoused and surprisingly believed by many in Europe is because of
the heavy information war that Brussels is waging against its own
citizens.
People
living in the EU are brought up in the belief of their own
civilizational exceptionalism, not unlike the American indoctrination
that has been ongoing for decades already (the proxy learns from its
master, evidently). From the cradle to the grave, they’re led to
believe that Europe is the proselytizing ‘force of good’ in the
world, and that its people have an obligation to ‘civilize’ their
Russian and Arab neighbors, including through the use of EuroMaidan
and “Arab Spring” Color Revolutions. Solely through the narrow
dialectic belief that one’s ideas represent the only ‘true good’
in the world can the hypocrisy of the EU’s treatment of Russian
NGOs and private citizens (to say nothing of Syrians) appear
‘acceptable’ to the European populace, while the comparative lack
of harassment by Russian and Syrian authorities can be used to fuel a
‘human rights’ crusade against those two countries that continues
to this day.
Pope Francis Is The World’s Most Influential Agent Of Ukrainian Nationalism
by Andrew Korybko
Foreword
by the Saker:
Today
it is my very real pleasure to present to you an outstanding analysis
of the role of the Latin Church in modern Ukraine. In the past,
I have written about the role of the Vatican in the creation of the
Ukraine and the development of Ukrainian nationalism
(see here and here),
but what Andrew
Korybko does
here is look at the modern role of the Papacy in the Ukraine. I
now want to address an issue which, I believes, must be clarified:
I
have been accused by some readers of being “anti-Catholic” or of
refusing to “let let bygones be bygones”. This is incorrect
and I want to clarify my position about that once and for all.
First,
I have absolutely nothing against Latin Christians as people, nor do
I hold them in any way individually or even collectively responsible
for what others have done in the past. However, I claim the
right to speak about that past, not to accuse anybody today, but to
be a witness to the martyr of millions of innocent people whose
memory I refuse to allow to be erased from our collective awareness.
Second,
I do believe that “Roman Catholicism” (I reject both components
of this term as fallacious and use “Latin Christianity” instead)
is inherently aggressive, especially against the Orthodox Church.
Simply put, whether it be by terror and torture, or by a “Ecumenical
dialog of love” or by “dedicating Russia to the Virgin of Fatima”
or my circulating rumors about “Putin asking for Papal blessings”
– the Latins *always* wanted to convert the Orthodox and submit
them to the Pope. 1000 years of history attest to that
undeniable fact.
Third,
I believe that “reconciliation” is most definitely possible
between Latin Christians and Orthodox, but only to the degree that
the former truly and sincerely give-up their attempts to either
silence us about the past, or convert us in the present. That,
of course, means that they would have to give up the very core of
their religion (the belief that the Pope must rule over the entire
Christian world), but if they can do that – then reconciliation if
most definitely possible. If not – their choice.
In
conclusion, I want to say that this topic (the 1000 year long war
between the Latins and the Orthodox Church) is one to which I plan to
return to in the near future with contributions from other authors,
this time in the context of Serbia and WWII. There is no way to
understand modern Russia (or modern Serbia, for that matter) without
this historical and spiritual context. It is precisely because
nobody else seems to think that this topic deserve any attention that
I feel that I ought to be the one raising it on a regular basis.
The
Saker
This
article was originally posted at
the Oriental Review and
I am re-posting it here by kind permission for the editor.
Pope
Francis Is The World’s Most Influential Agent Of Ukrainian
Nationalism
by
Andrew Korybko
The
Catholic pontiff does more than just spread the Vatican’s word
across the world, as he also spreads the ‘gospel’ of Ukrainian
nationalism and victimhood, too. Francis made
headlines when
he said the mass killing of ethnic Armenians in the last days of the
Ottoman Empire was “the first genocide of the 20thcentury”.
Largely lost amidst the ruckus is his follow-up statement that “the
remaining two (genocides) were perpetrated by Nazism and Stalinism”,
which was a strong allusion to Ukrainian nationalists’ decades-long
campaign to have the Golodomor recognized as genocide, to which
the Vatican,
andespecially
Francis himself,
are ardent proponents. President Putin remarked in
his annual Q&A session that “Attempts to put [Nazism and
Stalinism] in the same basket are absolutely baseless…As ugly
as the Stalin regime was, with all its repressions and
ethnic deportations, it never attempted to eradicate [an ethnic
group] completely”, and although his words were likely in response
to recent
Ukrainian legislationthat
ludicrously equates the two, his comments are just as relevant to the
Pope as they are to Poroshenko.
Part
I of the article begins with an overview of the Vatican’s historic
geopolitical antagonisms against Orthodox Russia, including the role
that Catholicism and its Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth proxy played
in the external construction of the Ukrainian state. It then explores
how and why Ukraine is still a battlefield in this epic saga, as well
as detailing the US’ geopolitical designs for the country in its
quest to transform it into a forward-operating base against Russia.
Part II dispels the “genocide” myth surrounding the Golodomor and
shows how a handful of radical states have seized control of the
conversation to further their Russophobic aims. The series then
climaxes with an in-depth examination into Pope Francis’ claim that
the Golodomor is “genocide” and his statements of inferred
support for the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, both of which
serve historically revisionist anti-Russian ends and make Pope
Francis poised to become one of the New Cold War’s most notorious
actors.
The
First Rome vs The Third Rome
Making
The Move From Rome To Moscow:
Throughout
the ages, the center of Christianity has shifted from West to East as
result of certain geopolitical tectonic movements. Beginning with
the fall
of the Roman Empire in 476,
the Byzantine Empire (or Eastern Roman Empire) centered on
Constantinople took up the torch of worldwide Christian leadership,
hence its designation as the “Second Rome”. Throughout the
subsequent centuries, thedifferences between Western (Roman)
and Eastern (Byzantine)
Christianity widened to the point of a spiritual chasm, and when Rome
unsuccessfully tried enforcing its views on Constantinople,
the Schism
of 1054 occurred.
Since then, the Vatican has been consistently antagonist against the
Orthodox Church, and it’s highly recommended that the reader
reference Fort Russ’ epic examination on the topic, “The
West against Russia: The Vatican against the Orthodox Church”,
to gain a deeper understanding of the events that henceforth
transpired.
To
sum up events over next millennium (as difficult as it is to do so in
brief), after Constantinople fell to
the Turks in 1453, the center of Christianity once more shifted,
albeit this time to Muscovy. Ever since theBaptism
of Vladimir the Great in Crimea and
the Christianization
of Kievan Rus in
988, this civilizational sphere had vehemently ascribed to Orthodox
Christianity, owing to its cultural and political affiliations with
the Byzantine Empire. Following the fall of Constantinople, Moscow
carried on the Christian torch and became the “Third
Rome”,
which created a major inferiority and sectarian complex back in the
Catholic “First Rome”.
The
Polish Proxy:
From
thenceforth, the Vatican redirected its aggressive geopolitical
calculus from the Sea of Marmara to the State of Muscovy, even going
as far as supporting its Catholic client state, the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth, in its militant proselytization eastward. Other than
having previously
occupied and
forcibly converted the historically Orthodox territory of the former
Kievan Rus,
Warsaw took its campaign all the way to Moscow during the Time
of Troubles,
even briefly occupying
the Russian capital from
1610-1612 and imprisoning the
Orthodox Patriarch, who they would later starve to death as a martyr.
It wasn’t long after the Polish occupation began that the Russian
people banded together (as they so often have during their most
troubling historic periods) and began the campaign to purge the Poles
from their land, in a moment of glory that is nowadays commemorated
as National
Unity Day every
4 November.
The
Catholic Construction Of Modern-Day Ukraine:
The
liberation of Muscovy from the Poles began the nearly
two-centuries-long struggle that would see the Russians pushing the
invading menace all the way back to its home territory (an historical
prelude to what would later happen to Napoleon and Hitler, although
in much shorter timeframes), all the while working to restore the
civilizational heritage of Kievan Rus that the Polish occupiers had
spent centuries trying to dismantle. Part of the Polish plan had been
to spiritually partition the western reaches of this land from its
central core, which led to the imposition of Catholicism over the
Orthodox people that had originally inhabited modern-day Belarus and
especially Ukraine.
One
of the most novel forms that this took was the creation and promotion
of the Uniate
Church (also
known as “Greek Catholicism”), an artificial
religious construct created
by Rome which fused many Orthodox practices with loyalty to the
Catholic Pope. The effect of this religious manipulation served to
de-facto spread Catholicism amongst the remaining Orthodox ‘holdouts’
in the region, thus fostering the myth of “identity separateness”
among the population which could be strategically activated to
increase resistance to Russia and aid in slowing down Moscow’s
prolonged counter-offensive in liberating Kievan Rus from the Poles.
In the coming centuries, the spiritual separateness of parts of
modern-day Ukraine would be used as the foundation for the external
construction of
the “Ukrainian nation” by the German General Staff in 1918.
Lenin’s recognition of a so-called Ukrainian Soviet Socialist
Republic in 1922 provided ex post facto legitimacy to this
Vatican-Polish-German creation.
Battlefield
Ukraine
Lenin’s
Fallacy:
The
greatest legacy of Lenin’s mistake was that he grouped
together the
Catholic-adhering /pro-Polish/”Ukrainian”-identifying western
areas with the reawakened Russian- and Orthodox-affiliated east,
which consequently created an unstable entity whose externally
influenced western reaches could be used to destabilize the entire
thing. Had he kept both parts separate and perhaps designated only
the western portion of modern-day Ukraine as “Ukraine” owing to
its foreign peculiarities, then the situation could have been
dramatically different.
Nonetheless, ever since the geopolitical
designation of Ukraine (roughly translated as “borderland”) was
unilaterally birthed by Lenin’s decree (only to grow under Stalin
and Khrushchev), the entire territory has become a focal point of
Western aggression waged by its associated political and spiritual
powers.
Political
and Spiritual Aggression:
A
perfect example of political weaponization over the territory of
Ukraine was the Polish-Soviet War, whereby Moscow attempted to
finally liberate the last vestiges of Kievan Rus from foreign
occupation (having switched from Polish to Austrian then back to
Polish control). Warsaw refused to peacefully withdraw from the
territory due to its understanding that centuries of Polonization and
Catholic proselytization (political and spiritual factors)
intrinsically made it a separate entity than it historically used to
be, and the Poles were able to successfully extend their control over
the region until 1939. Prior to that, Polish leader Josef Pilsudski
preached the policy of Promtheism, whereby the Polish state
encouraged ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union (especially Ukraine)
to rise up against the central authority as a ‘celebration of their
separateness’ and secede into a constellation of what would then
become pro-Polish satellite states. It ultimately failed to achieve
its ambitious goals, but the legacy of separating Ukraine from Russia
continues into the present day via Zbigniew “without
Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an ‘empire’”
Bzezinski and his Grand
Chessboard strategies.
Enter
the Vatican, which has made a concerted effort to pluck converts out
of the confused Ukrainian territory since the end of the Soviet era
and extend its reach ever eastward into originally Orthodox lands.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk visited the Vatican last year with
a scheme for souls that amounted to an alliance
proposal,
but due to the fragility of the Kievan regime and the associated dim
prospects for the partnership’s success, Francis turned it down.
It’s not to say that he wouldn’t have accepted it had it been
proposed on more solid political grounds, since the Vatican’s goal
has always been to proselytize Catholicism eastward at the expense of
the Orthodox Church. Not only that, but the Vatican has been opposed
to Moscow in geopolitical manifestations as well, as can be seen by
Pope John Paul II’s Cold War “Holy
Alliance”
(in the words of Time Magazine) with Ronald Reagan against the USSR.
There is thus clearly an established precedent set in modern times
for using the spiritual authority of the Catholic Church as a front
to advance geopolitical objectives, meaning that, as it will later be
argued, it’s not unreasonable to link Pope Francis’ support for
the Holy Grail of Ukrainian nationalists, the Golodomor as
“genocide”, to larger geopolitical plans directed from
Washington.
Geopolitical
Designs:
Let’s
look at what these aforementioned plans entail:
1.
Decouple Ukraine From Russia
The
first step is to prevent the reintegration of Ukraine into the
Russian fold, be it economically through the Eurasian Union (as
then-Secretary of State Hillary threatened one
year before EuroMaidan) or militarily through the CSTO, by
highlighting artificially imposed Ukrainian ‘separateness’
(Polish-enforced Catholicism and Vatican-constructed “Uniates”)
and selectively emphasized victimhood (Golodomor as “genocide”).
The Western idea is that if Ukraine, a fraternal and religiously
related entity, can be made to hate Russia and turn against it, then
so too can less intimately affiliated ones like Kyrgyzstan,
or, as Brzezinski’s Eurasian
Balkans asymmetrical attack plan suggests,
even Tatarstan and Chechnya one day (again).
2.
Eliminate Russia’s Strategic Depth
The
second stage expands upon the ‘success’ of the first one in
turning large segments of the population against Russia, but this
time it includes a tangible military dimension. The concept here is
to make Ukraine either a de-jure or
de-facto (shadow)
member of NATO, which in effect would eliminate the
valuable strategic
depth that
Russia has through the country’s neutrality. It needs to be
mentioned at this point that the Color
Revolutionary authorities
in Kiev already revised
the country’s constitution in
order to eliminate its previous references to neutrality, thus
meaning that NATO membership (be it de-jure or de-facto) can continue
moving forward at full speed. The more strategic depth that NATO is
able to successfully chip away from Russia, the more likely it is to
tip the military balance away from parity and towards a first strike
scenario, which would then place Russia in a position of nuclear
blackmail.
3.
The Reverse Brzezinski
The
final phase of the US’ weaponization of the Ukrainian state is to
have Kiev stage provocative actions that would elicit a Russian
military response, preferably rash, hurried, and not thought out to
the end. The
Reverse Brzezinski,
as the author calls it, sees the Polish-American strategist reverting
back to his Afghan War roots in goading Moscow into a quagmire, but
thankfully, President Putin appears to have caught on to the ruse
and reaffirmed during
his Q&A session that he war between the two states is
“impossible”. No matter the President’s intention, however, the
US will certainly continue trying to create the tempting pretext for
a Russian military intervention, hoping perhaps that yet another
slaughter of Russian-affiliated Eastern Ukrainians might be the
tripwire for tricking Moscow into conventionally responding one of
these days.
The
‘Good’ That Comes From A Golodomor “Genocide”
The
‘glue’ that holds the US’ plans together is the ability to
rally Ukrainians against Russia, and this is where the Golodomor
“genocide” myth is absolutely pivotal. It provides the
underpinning of popular support and ‘legitimacy’ for rabid
Ukrainian nationalism (the modern-day ideology of
the state) and its anti-Russian authorities, as well as altering
Ukraine’s natural trajectory away from Russia and diverting it
towards the West. If the myth can be deconstructed, then the entire
Western plan is endangered, but so long as it’s believed,
propagated, and even ‘legitimized’ via the ‘authority’ of the
Pope, then it presents the single-greatest obstacle to
Ukrainian-Russian reconciliation and serves as the fuel for
forwarding the US’ grand strategy against Russia vis-à-vis
Ukraine. This is the ultimate strategic benefit that the
politicization of the 1930s famine and its nationalist focus on
solely one victim demographic attains, hence why it’s so heavily
promoted in the Western world.
Inventing
‘Genocide’:
Russia
has never refuted the fact that the Golodomor tragically occurred,
but it has refused to label the events as genocide because many other
groups besides Ukrainians were also adversely affected. Kirill
Frolov, head of the Ukraine Department at the Institute of CIS
Countries, explains:
“Russia
shares the opinion that it was a terrible tragedy… It
is well-known that the hunger of the 1930s was the reason for the
deaths of millions of Ukrainians but also millions of villagers
living along the Volga River, in the Ural Mountains, West Siberia,
Kazakhstan, the North Caucasus and other regions. Every nation should
remember its victims but it is high time to forget Yushchenko’s
ideology (of designating the Golodomor as “genocide”). We also
mean the attempt to interpret the hunger in Ukraine in the 1930s as
the genocide of the Ukrainian people alone.
Recall
that in the 1920s the Bolsheviks carried out the genocide of Russians
and the elimination of the Russian Orthodox Church and actively
supported the idea of the so-called Ukrainisation. It was an attempt
to separate Ukrainians from Russians and make a thousand years of our
common history null and void. As for the hunger, it was a consequence
of Stalin’s industrialization policy. It was a conflict between the
city and the countryside which involved the entire territory of the
Soviet Union, including Russians and Ukrainians. It was not genocide
but sociocide associated with the industrialisation policy.”
“Russia
argues that the famine was caused by a combination of bad management,
unfavourable weather and disastrous collectivization policies, which
lead to the tragic events and cost numerous lives of many ethnic
groups over several territories and not just Ukraine alone.”
Additionally,
it has come out that some of the numbers being cited by the Ukrainian
government to account for its associated victims have been faked:
“As
quoted by the Russian Izvestia newspaper, Vladimir Kornilov of the
Kiev branch of the Institute of CIS Countries has discovered why the
official number of alleged Holodomor victims has significantly
increased since the launch of Yushchenko’s campaign. According to
Kornilov, the so-called “Book of Memory”, published in Ukraine’s
regions, is full of falsifications. Instead of real victims of
famine, one can find in the book alcoholics, different crash victims,
and even those who weren’t alive in 1932-1933.”
Furthermore,
some of the photographic ‘evidence’ that has been passed around
as supposedly confirming the “genocide” is also falsified:
““Here’s
a photo by Dorothy Lang, shot in 1936 in Oklahoma. And here’s a
photo by Fritof Nansen made in Russia’s Povolzhe region in 1921.
But both of those pictures and other falsified photos were displayed
at Sevastopol’s exhibition on the Ukrainian famine of
1932-1933,” (Sevastopol
city council deputy) Merkulov says, demonstrating aged
photographs…“We
go to the Ukrainian president’s official website. Click on the
photo gallery. Click on public events. And we see this picture –
Yushchenko looking at pictures of the Ukrainian famine of the 1930’s.
But the picture he’s looking at is this one, also shot by Nansen in
Russia’s Povolzhie region. It is written here: Famine in Russia.”
“We
have declassified all documents on the famine in Ukraine and there
are only two genuine pictures from that time. The rest are very much
distantly related and are not necessarily shot in Ukraine,” Olga
Ginzburg the head of Ukraine’s State Archive told RT.”
Rejecting
The Lie:
The
claims of “genocide” are so dubious that the Council of Europe,
generally pro-Western (despite Russia’s membership), refused to use
such a label, opting instead to drop
the false description from
their draft resolution on the topic. Instead, their
2010 commemorative
report,
while mentioning that Kiev does call the tragedy “genocide”,
recognizes all of
the victims of the Golodomor, not just Ukrainians, specifying that:
“In
Kazakhstan, too, millions fell victim to the mass famine, and the
ratio of the dead to the whole population is believed to be the
highest among all peoples of the former Soviet Union. Traditionally
nomads, the cattle-raising Kazakhs were forced to settle down and
were deprived of livestock. The Great Famine is remembered as the
greatest tragedy of the Kazakh people.
In
the grain-producing areas of Russia (the Middle and Lower Volga, the
North Caucasus, the Central Black Soil region, the Southern Urals,
Western Siberia and some other regions), the famine caused by
“collectivisation” and dispossession of individual farmers took
millions of lives in rural and urban areas. In absolute figures, it
is estimated that the population of Russia had the heaviest death
toll as a result of the Soviet agricultural policies.
Hundreds
of thousands of farmers also died in Belarus and the Republic of
Moldova.
While
these events may have had particularities in various regions, the
results were the same everywhere: millions of human lives were
mercilessly sacrificed to the fulfilment of the policies and plans of
the Stalinist regime.”
What’s
more, even the pro-Western ‘human rights’ group, Memorial,
notorious for lambasting Russia’s Soviet-era heritage and labeled a
“foreign agent” in accordance with Russian law, surprisingly
presented a strong argument against calling the Golodomor a
“genocide” back in 2010. Voice of Russia quotes Interfax
as reporting that:
“Ukraine was
right to make a legal assessment of the Soviet leadership’s crimes,
but the famine of the 1930s was not genocide against Ukrainians,
Arseny Roginsky, head of Russia’s Memorial human rights and history
society, has told Interfax. On Wednesday, the Kiev Court of Appeals
declared Soviet and Ukrainian Bolshevik leaders guilty of organizing
the Holodomor, or famine, in Ukraine in 1932-1933, which it qualified
as genocide. The court ruled the criminal case to be dropped because
the defendants, among them Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov and the
then Ukrainian leadership, were already dead.
“Still,
I don’t understand what documents were used to prove that the
famine in Ukraine was genocide,” Memorial’s leader said. In his
firm belief, the “famine of the 1930s is a common tragedy that
befell Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan and therefore, instead of
driving them apart, it should bring them closer together.”
Memorial, a major nongovernmental human rights organization in the
post-Soviet space, conducts research into the history of Stalinist
repressions and the rehabilitation of victims of political terror in
the former USSR.”
Who
Goes Gaga For “Genocide”?:
If
the Council of Europe and pro-Western foreign agents inside Russia
itself refuse to bite the bait of politicization over the Golodomor,
who then subscribes to and perpetrates this myth? First and foremost,
it’s the Ukrainian government, which actually made denial of the
Golodomor as “genocide” a crime per
a piece of legislation passed
in 2006 under
the Orange Revolutionary government. While the law carried with it no
“criminal responsibility”, it symbolically elevated the hoax to
the level of national myth and part of the official Ukrainian
identity, thereby facilitating the implementation of the US’
aforementioned geopolitical designs against Russia.
Prominent
neo-conservative icon and famous anti-Russian author Anne Applebaum
is another “genocide” activist and plans
to pen a book about
the “very, very well managed cover-up” behind the Golodomor,
alleging that there has been a vast conspiracy to hide the truth
about what happened. In actuality, the real cover-up is that certain
parties are hiding the fact that other nationalities besides
Ukrainians were also victims of the 1930s famine and that it
was not “genocide”,
but describing Applebaum’s personal life might shed some valuable
light into why she would so actively want to politicize this tragedy.
Her husband just so happens to be Radoslaw
Sikorski,
the rapidly pro-Western former Foreign Minister of Poland and current
speaker of the Polish Parliament, who was also the co-author of the
EU’s 2009 Eastern Partnership initiative that ultimately forced
Ukraine into the doldrums that it’s currently in. It should go
without saying that just as Victoria Nuland and her neo-conservative
husband Robert Kagan coordinate their anti-Russian activity as a
couple, so too do Anne Applebaum and Radoslaw Sikorski act as a
singular unit in attacking Russia in every means available to them.
Adding
a geopolitical aspect to the discussion is that Poland
and the Baltic States,
the most anti-Russian entities in the world today aside from the
current Ukrainian authorities, are among the handful of countries
which label the Golodomor as “genocide”. These states’
political establishments have a vested interest in promoting
Russophobia in any and all of its iterations, including historical
revisionism, and they’ve been some of the most enthusiastic
supporters of Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist government since it
seized power in the coup last year. Additionally, these are also the
states which have become most
heavily fortified by NATO since
the Ukrainian Crisis began, which underlines their anti-Russian
strategic dispositions.
The
True ‘Francis Effect’
Smoke
And Mirrors:
The
world’s most influential supporter of the Ukrainian nationalist
myth that the Golodomor was “genocide” and the individual most
capable of cementing this concept into the global imagination is none
other than Pope Francis. Unlike Poland and the Baltic States, which
have minimal if no influence whatsoever worldwide in propagating this
tale, Francis has a global congregation of over 1 billion people who
eagerly listen to his words and understand them as being
representative of the will of God Himself. Not only is he the world’s
most prominent religious leader, he’s also something of a global
celebrity too, attracting the attention of millions of non-Christians
all across the world who are interested in what he has to say. The
media-driven ‘Francis Effect’, however, has elevated the Pope to
such an esteemed level of popular culture and furthered his cult of
personality to such extreme extents that it’s become impossible for
anyone to criticize or accuse him of any wrongdoing without coming
off as ill-spirited and self-serving. Essentially, he’s become an
unassailable actor that can operate with impunity and away from any
mainstream media scrutiny over the intentions.
The
Real Deal:
Through
his association with the Catholic Church, he’s assumed to be
‘infallible’ and a ‘man of God’ (much as the Dalai Lama is
seen to be in relation to Buddhism), with the underlying idea that
such an individual would never be guided by political motivations.
This idea is absolutely misguided, since it’s been proven that both
Pope John Paul II and the current Dalai Lama have both been
ultra-politicized throughout their ‘religious’ careers, being
weaponized by the US for use against the Soviet
Union andChina’s interests,
respectively. The same is shaping up to be true about Francis, who is
now beating the drums of Ukrainian “genocide” to advance the
agenda of the US, Ukrainian nationalists, and his own organization’s
proselytization interests.
“Genocide”
Accuser:
Prior
to becoming the leader of the Catholic Church, Francis spoke about
his views on the Golodomor in his 2010 book, “On Heaven and Earth”,
in which he wrote that
“People who suffered massacres and persecution – as they did
during the three biggest genocides of the last century, the
Armenians, Jews and Ukrainians – struggled for their freedom.”
From this bombshell of a quote, the future Pope is telling the world
that the deaths of Ukrainians during the Golodomor is on par with the
events that befell the Armenians and Jews during their associated
tragedies. When compared with his recent news-making quote about how
“the remaining two (genocides) were perpetrated by Nazism and
Stalinism”, it’s clear that he’s equating Nazism with the
genocide of Jews and Stalinism with the genocide of Ukrainians.
Addressing
another very important point, Francis also falsely stated that the
Ukrainians suffered from their supposed “genocide” because they
“struggled for their freedom”. To put everything into
perspective, the alleged “genocide” didn’t occur until the
early 1930s, and the only Ukrainian ‘freedom’ organization (as
the West sadly views it) active at the time was the Organization
of Ukrainian Nationalists.
To bring unaware readers up to speed, this group was the forerunner
to the actual genocidal Ukrainian Insurgent Army (responsible for the
targeted slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Poles) and the
ideological cradle of notorious Nazi Stepan Bandera. What Francis is
plainly doing here is defending the seed of Ukrainian Fascism and
perverting history to paint the proto-Nazi group as the ‘good
guys’, after which he imagines that the Soviet government’s only
response to their ‘struggle for freedom’ was to commit “genocide”
against all of their ethnic kin.
At
this point it’s relevant to reference Putin’s response that was
noted at the beginning of Part I, in which the Russian
President declared during
his annual Q&A that “Attempts to put [Nazism and
Stalinism] in the same basket are absolutely baseless…As ugly
as the Stalin regime was, with all its repressions and
ethnic deportations, it never attempted to eradicate [an ethnic
group] completely.” This puts him at absolute odds with Francis,
who had earlier used his global pulpit to preach the exact opposite.
While it may seem strange to some that Argentinian Francis would try
to involve himself in former Soviet affairs and potentially butt
heads with Putin, the reasoning is that the pontiff is actually
fulfilling a very important role in the context of the New Cold War.
New
Cold War Context:
Historical
revisionism is one of the postmodern battlefields of the New Cold
War, and Francis is set to make himself one of its most ‘celebrated’
pro-Western fighters as he moves closer to openly promoting his
Golodomor “genocide” campaign. Although not emphasizing it at the
moment (and with the media currently obsessed with his Armenian
commentary and Erodgan’s reaction), it’s expected that he’ll
certainly become more active on this front in the future, which will
further the three following anti-Russian objectives that are pivotal
components of the West’s strategy in the New Cold War:
Misleadingly
Tarnish Russia’s Reputation
The
Soviet Union and its darker historical events are falsely associated
with the Russian Federation in many uneducated circles across the
world (especially in the West), and one of the lies pervasive of this
inaccuracy is that the communist state was essentially a ‘Russian’
state. By drawing greater attention to the Golodomor as “genocide”,
Francis is passively allowing this inaccurate association to take
runaway root in people’s minds, with all of the negative
implications thereof in the context of current tensions. This could
predictably include a spike in anti-Russian sentiment throughout the
West, as well as the vile assumption prodded on by Ukrainian
nationalists that the tragic events were a ‘Russian-managed
genocide’ against Ukrainians.
Legitimize
And Secure Ukrainian Nationalism
The
‘authority’ and ‘legitimacy’ that Francis’ words hold in
the minds of millions makes him the world’s most dangerous
proselytizer of Ukrainian nationalism, in that he secures the
foundations of this ideology and makes it ‘acceptable’ to the
global public. The myth of “genocide” and the absolutely false
statement that this alleged crime occurred because of Ukrainians’
“struggle for their freedom” (led at that time by the proto-Nazi
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) does more to support
modern-day Fascism in Ukraine than Nuland’s celebrated $5
billion ever
could hope to do.
Propagating
the concept of Ukrainians being the most victimized and oppressed
demographic in the former Soviet Union and forgetting about the other
150+ nationalities is geopolitically dangerous as well, since it
promotes “Ukrainian Exceptionalism” and ‘justifies’ its
nationalist consequences in the modern day. The Pope’s blessing of
and sympathy for Ukrainian nationalism stabilizes the core of the US’
geopolitical imperative in Eastern Europe by laying the framework for
Washington’s socio-political engineering operations that aim to
turn all of Ukraine against Russia.
Create
A Clash Of Christian Civilizations
One
of the most often overlooked details of Samuel Huntington’s ‘Clash
of Civilizations’ theory is the division of the traditionally
Christian World into East and West. While there certainly are
cultural and historical differences between Huntington’s defined
realms of both religious denominations, sectarian understandings are
in no way the primary driver of any sort of their contemporary
geopolitical competition. Rather, religion is being weaponized by the
West as an asset in promoting pre-established geopolitical ends, such
as the destruction of Russia’s soft power potential as the
spiritual center of the Orthodox faith.
The
Catholic Church’s recognition of the Golodomor as “genocide”
and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its spawn as
‘freedom fighters’ is meant to attract more Ukrainian converts to
the Vatican, hoping that their nationalist fervor overrides their
Orthodox obligations (which does not recognize the previous in the
same manner). This Western-based ‘spiritual’ seduction is meant
to complement the already existing Western political and social
sentiments that have invaded the country and institutionalize
Ukraine’s division between East and West. Francis’ end goal is to
aggressively expand Huntington’s previously defined boundaries of
Western Civilization, conform to his theories of a possible clash
between the Catholic and Orthodox worlds, and firmly divide the
Christian faith into geopolitical spheres vis-à-vis their political
leaders’ relationship to the West.
Francis’
sectarian plans in the Christian world mirror those of Saudi Arabia
in the Islamic one, in that the Catholic/Sunni strands of belief are
seen as being on the ‘right’ side of the geopolitical spectrum
while the Orthodox/Shia ones are seen as being on the ‘wrong’
one. It’s important to underline that geopolitical identification
has nothing whatsoever to do with religion, and although certain
denominations happen to be a prevailing demographic characteristic in
certain Resistant
& Defiant (R&D) states,
it is by no means a cause of their strategic dispositions or in any
way exclusive to any sort of political belief. Atheist China, for
example, is just as opposed to the US’ unipolar hegemony as
predominantly Orthodox Russia and majority Shiite Iran, just as
Orthodox Romania and Shiite Azerbaijan are currently aligned with the
US (with Bucharest being deep in Washington’s pocket and Azerbaijan
on the potential
verge of pivoting).
Dividing religious spheres along sectarian beliefs and falsely
attaching a political connotation to one’s faith only serves the
geopolitical dividends of those who are drawing the lines, in this
case, the Vatican, Saudi Arabia, and their allied American
strategists.
Concluding
Thoughts
Catholicism
has historically been used by the Vatican to subvert predominantly
Orthodox areas, especially as a means of geopolitically countering
Russia. While the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is long gone
(despite efforts by Warsaw to contemporaneously
revive it),
the strategic goal of Catholic proselytization in the East still
remains, with the battlefield continuing to center on Ukraine. The
Papacy’s centuries-long goal of poaching Ukrainian converts has
undergone a tactical modification through its promotion of Ukrainian
nationalism, which both serves the Vatican’s own interests and
complements the geostrategic ones of the US. Francis’ push to have
the Golodomor recognized as “genocide” against Ukrainians, as
well as his inference that this mythical crime occurred as punishment
because the proto-Nazi Ukrainian Organization of Nationalists’
“struggled for their freedom”, is indicative of the strategic
confluence currently underway between Rome and Washington. While
Francis has yet to fully play his hand in this regard, the fact that
he’s still crying wolf about “genocide” since being elected two
years ago shows that he may be testing the waters in anticipation of
a full-fledged information offensive in the near future. Should he
continue behaving as the world’s most influential agent of
Ukrainian nationalism, then Francis’ antics are expected to further
‘legitimize’ and institutionalize this hateful ideology, which
would in turn have exceptionally dire consequences for the memory of
historical truth as well as facilitate the US’ geopolitical plans
against Russia in the New Cold War.
Andrew
Korybko was
born, raised, and educated in the US, but permanently relocated to
Russia in the summer of 2013. He plans to receive his master’s in
International Relations from the Moscow State Institute of
International Relations (MGIMO) in June and works as a political
analyst and journalist at Sputnik. His areas of expertise include
American grand strategy towards Eurasia, Color Revolutions, and
Unconventional Warfare, but he also explores African and Latin
American geopolitics in his spare time. He welcomes you to follow him
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