I could have included endless details about the putsch in Ukraine but I'm sure no amount would satisfy Kenneth Kulley, and there is besides much that is not known or very clear, and will not be any time soon. The coup in Ukraine is/was indeed complicated and composed of many even contradictory elements, and include interference by the U.S. whose assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland, along with EU foreign minister Catherine Ashton, are deeply involved: there are separate photographs of each with Oleh Tyahnybok, a known neo-Nazi whose extensive Nazi-related bio is available online: in an intercepted phone call Nuland supports Yatseniuk for prime minister with Tyahnybok to be kept on "the outside" where he yields much power. Dmytro Yarosh, of the Pravy Sektor party – far-right of even Svoboda – is Deputy Secretary of National Security.
The chief rabbi of Kiev warned Jews to leave Kiev, and maybe even Ukraine, although it probably won't be necessary. All of this must certainly be well-known, and from the beginning, and the fascistic composition of the new "government" will simply be an excuse for the predations of NATO at some near-future date. I am truly sorry for Ukrainians, who have been badly led and exploited by oligarchs and ultra-nationalists, and don't know what is in store for them. Ukraine is a rich country and its future was with Russia with whose culture and history it is closely linked.
This story is about “Big Oil” and the rich supply of it in the Caspian Sea basin, and the marginalization of Russia which has supplied Ukraine with gas and oil at a 30 per cent discount, extended an unconditional loan of $2 billion with an additional $13 billion to follow. As it stands the IMF will likely take over the reins with a very conditional loan based on austerity, with infrastructure as collateral.
Many people are not aware that the eastern provinces of Ukraine – everything east of the Dneiper – were given to Ukraine by Lenin in 1919: yes, the very person whose statues were just recently torn down by fascists. It is hardly a wonder that Russia is alarmed at the forces released by this putsch, having absorbed the brunt of the Nazi divisions and subsequent loss of 20 (some say 26-28) million citizens. It is also well aware of the western oil companies' designs on its territory and is prepared to defend its legitimate interests.
The referendum in Crimea and the overwhelming wish to join Russia is at least as legitimate as the so-called election in Kiev.
I'm sure K. Kulley has something to add to or subtract from this, and no one knows exactly where it is going, but he must admit it looks very familiar following the still-fresh disasters of Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria etc.
There is not a single major newspaper that hasn't inveighed against Russia in this, accusing it of aggression and worse. But the record of the U.S. in Latin America for sixty years, in Africa, in Asia, everywhere on the globe in fact, makes a mockery of this hysterical and prejudiced affront. Russia dissolved the USSR and was soon after surrounded by NATO, the cold-war institution reinvented to infringe on sovereign territory on the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Russia cannot permit NATO in Ukraine. It's as simple as that.
Doris Wrench Eisler, St. Albert
