Nationalism och geopolitik - en paradox.

There is no hope that the West will intervene until Ukrainians start to defend their country or until Ukraine forces the West’s hand. So far, Ukraine and the West have both been only reacting to Russian actions – a sign of both their lack of strategic vision and the ruthlessness and effectiveness of Vladimir Putin.

NOW the West and Ukraine must become active – active, aggressive and brave, or they will lose this war. Since the West stupidly ran into a Russian trap by agreeing to “peace talks,” it now falls to Ukraine to lead. And lead it must!

Russia is already threatening to pull out of the “peace talks” if the West enacts further sanctions or if Ukraine uses force to eliminate the Russian Special Forces occupying facilities in eastern Ukrainian. The talks and the Russian threat to pull out only serve to dilute a Western response, while Russia takes over more and more territory. This leaves Ukraine with three choices:
1.Surrender and submit once more to being under the Russian yoke.
2.Do nothing and surrender piecemeal to the Russian occupier.
3.Fight back!

Options 1 and 2 mean that Ukraine will cease to exist and nobody will help. This leaves Ukraine only with option 3. But as the West will happily walk away from Ukraine if it should be the one to fire the first shot and fall quickly. Therefore Ukraine’s activities must now become much more active and aggressive than Putin could ever have imagined.

The government in Kyiv should announce that Ukraine will take these 6 steps within the next 72 hours:
◾Destroy all gas pipelines & bomb the Belarusian gas pipeline, thus launching the boycott of Russian energy that the West has refused to undertake until now.
◾Flood Ukraine with small arms by arming every patriotic citizen to unleash a massive guerrilla war when Russian forces invade.
◾Provide guerrillas with Anti-tank Guided Missiles, Man Portable Air-defense Missiles, mines, explosives and everything else in Ukraine’s arsenal to ensure the guerrillas can resist effectively for years.
◾Call on Ukrainians in the West to attack and kill members of the Putin regime, their associates and close relatives.
◾Remove uranium from Ukraine’s nuclear reactors and prepare to disperse it in Russia by all means possible—the Budapest Memorandum depriving Ukraine of nuclear power status is clearly moot now.
◾Prepare to shell Belgorod with whatever missiles and artillery Ukraine has in its arsenal to flatten that city.



Every single one of these threats will scare Russia and the West equally—but that is the only way Ukraine can save itself now. Ukraine must spur the West into serious and immediate action by threatening to raise the stakes 20-fold in ways that will threaten to bring war to the complacent West. Ukraine also needs to change the calculus in Moscow by showing that it intends to fight this war as ruthlessly as Putin waged war in Chechnya. Anything less will see Ukraine disappear as a nation and a people before spring is over.

Right Sektor leader Yarosh provides men, #Ukraine Jewish leader Kolomoisky weapons & together they raise anti-#Russia battalion in #Donetsk.

Tsarov är en pro-rysk affärsman och presidentkandidat som upprepade gånger blivit utsatt för politiskt våld under den EU-initierade kuppen mot den demokratiskt valde ledaren Viktor Janukovitj.

– Ett val som anordnas medan ett inbördeskrig börjar måste bli bojkottat [...] annars kommer det att spela i händerna på de illegala myndigheterna och legitimera inte bara dem utan också deras beslut att starta inbördeskrig mot de östra regionerna, säger Tsarov.

Den 13 maj utsattes Tsarov för sanktioner av EU för att han förespråkat bildande av Federala republiken Nya Ryssland, bestående av den östra och södra halvan av landet.

Over the past 20 years, Russia has invested around $200 billion in the Ukrainian economy, according to Alexey Ulyukaev, head of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development.

"Perhaps our European and US friends don't understand that we supported the Ukrainian economy...via artificially underestimating gas and other resource prices, granting Ukraine loans, etc. For the last twenty years, we invested around $200 billion," the minister said in exclusive interview to RT.
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According to the minister, if Ukraine signs the EU association agreement, it would be necessary to revise different technical standards – sanitary and phytosanitary, veterinary, and other. Russia and Ukraine hold around 400 agreements, 40 of which are basic and cannot be “just put aside and forgotten.”

"It’s quite possible that it will force us to reconsider the duties and the collections systems, which exist at present between Ukraine and the countries of the Customs Union, such as Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan," Ulyukaev concluded.

In April, Russian President Vladimir Putin estimated Russian help to Ukraine in the form of underestimated gas prices for the past four years at $35.4 billion. He reminded that under contracts signed in 2009, Ukraine received 147.2 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia.

Thus after signing the document, Kiev received some discounts – in particular within the Kharkov agreements of 2010, and also the agreements of November 2013. As a result of these two privileges, gas prices for Kiev fell in the first quarter of 2014 to $268.5. However, it jumped to $485 in April, after the cancelation of the Black Sea hosting deal.

Russia has given Ukraine a discount of almost a third on Russian gas and said it would buy billions of dollars' worth of Ukrainian government bonds.
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Although details of the deal are unclear, Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of an opposition far-right group, said Mr Yanukovych had "pawned whole sectors" of the country's economy to Russia.

After talks between Mr Putin and Mr Yanukovych in the Kremlin, it was announced Russia would buy $15bn-worth (£9.2bn; 10.9bn euros) of Ukrainian government bonds.

The cost of Russian gas supplied to Ukraine has been slashed from more than $400 (£245; 291 euros) per 1,000 cubic metres to $268.5.

Operationen i Odessa uppges ha haft kodnamnet ”Ha’ola”, från frasen ”Mizbeach Ha’ola” som är hebreiska och betyder ”altare för brännoffer”. Det var vanligt förr inom de semitisk religionerna att människor och framförallt barn brändes till döds för att blidka arga semitiska gudar.

Over 80 civilians in a town northwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus have been executed by Islamist rebels, sources within the Syrian military told RT. Many others were kidnapped to be used as human shields.

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What the Islamist rebels did when they entered Adra on Wednesday morning was a “massacre,” one a local resident told RT.

“The situation was terrible - with killing, atrocities, and fear as the background. Unidentified armed men came into town, but it was obvious that they were Jabhat al-Nusra militants,” Muhammad Al-Said said.

“The worst crime they committed was that they toasted people in ovens used to bake bread when those people came to buy it. They kidnapped and beat up many,” he added.

According to Al-Said, the rebels committed the atrocities so they could place blame on government forces.

But the resident said that Adra citizens are “waiting for Syrian troops to save us from the terrorists, who came from other countries.”

“Those, who could, fled to Damascus. Some hid in the basement, with infants, the elderly, women, and sick people among them. The situation was really terrible,” Al-Said said.

Fifteen roadblocks were set up outside of Odessa, secured by militants under the personal command of Kolomoisky’s “Dnieper-1” Battalion, as well as Right Sector’s thugs from Dnepropetrovsk and the western regions of Ukraine. In addition, two military units from the Self-Defense of Maidan arrived in Odessa, under the command of the acting head of the administration of the president, Sergey Pashinsky – the same man who was caught with a sniper rifle in the trunk of his car on Feb. 18 on Independence Square (Maidan) in Kiev [6]. Pashinsky later claimed that he had not been fully informed about the plans for the operation and had dispatched his men only to “protect the people of Odessa.” Thus, there were a total of about 1,400 fighters from other regions of Ukraine in the vicinity at the time – thus countering the idea that there were “residents of Odessa” who burned down the House of Trade Unions.

Quinze barrages routiers avaient été installés pour barrer l’accès à Odessa. Les barrages étaient filtrés par des militants placés directement sous les ordres du 1er Bataillon du Dniepr de Kolomoïsky, ainsi que par les exécuteurs de Pravy Sektor venus de Dniepropetrovsk et de Gallicie. De plus, deux unités militaires des forces d’auto-défense de Maidan étaient arrivées à Odessa, encadrées par Sergueï Pachinsky, responsable en chef des services de la Présidence, celui-là même qui, le 18 février 2014, a été identifié sur la place Maidan, et trouvé en possession d’un fusil à longue portée, idéal pour le tir embusqué, dissimulé dans le coffre de sa voiture [7]. Pachinsky a ensuite prétendu qu’il n’était pas pleinement informé des objectifs de l’opération et que, s’il avait envoyé ses hommes sur place, c’était pour « assurer la protection de la population d’Odessa ». Ainsi, ce sont plus de 1 400 combattants originaires d’autres régions de l’Ukraine qui se sont retrouvés dans le périmètre des opérations menées ce jour-là à Odessa. Ces faits enlèvent toute crédibilité à la fable selon laquelle ce seraient les habitants d’Odessa qui auraient réduit en cendres la Maison des Syndicats.

Train from Kharkov arrived in Odessa on May 2 at 8.00 am carrying fans of the Metallist soccer club, including some “ultras” who were taking part in the operation. In addition, militants from the “Dnieper-1” Battalion and Right Sector simultaneously entered the city in small groups. Some of the Self-Defense of Maidan militants also arrived from Kiev, most of them by car. That day the Odessa police were under strict orders not to stop cars with license plates from Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk, and Lvov.

– Tidigare var det kommunistpartier som var Rysslands naturliga bundsförvant. Men efter Sovjets fall blev det ett ideologiskt vakuum och Ryssland ville vara som en liberal väststat, men det fungerade inte. När Putin kom fram valde han att, oavsett ideologi, samarbeta med vem som helst utifrån deras attityd gentemot Ryssland. Det blev i första hand högerextrema partier.

Enligt Dugin hade ultrahögerpartierna goda skäl till det: För det första uppskattade de vändningen mot ökad konservatism i Putins alltmer antiliberala och antiamerikanska Ryssland, som dessutom framstod som en försvarare av traditionella värden. För det andra var partierna marginaliserade av det liberala etablissemanget, och öppningen mot Ryssland var ett sätt att få stöd och erkännande av ett stort land.

Att flera av dessa partier är främlingsfientliga och betraktas som halvfascistiska tror Dugin inte att Putin är särskild oroad för.

– Han måste ha någon att samarbeta med i Europa, och på det politiska fältet fanns bara högern och ytterhögern att tillgå. Min utgångspunkt är att jag är antiliberal och antiamerikan. Putin upprepar numera vad jag säger, även om han inte drivs av ideologi, utan av en pragmatisk strävan att försvara Rysslands nationella intressen.

Dugin hävdar att Putin i Ukraina såg att USA kunde använda sig av öppna neonazister när det ansågs vara gynnsamt. På samma sätt som amerikanerna i Mellanöstern har utnyttjat islamistgrupper som inte på minsta sätt delar några västliga demokratiska värderingar.

– Den som är USA-vän är inte extremist, medan den som är vän till Ryssland är det. Det är alltså ett spel, men när man i väst kallar mig och andra för nazister, så fungerar det inte, eftersom Putin känner mig och andra supportrar och vet att vi inte är nazister, utan står för traditionella ryska värderingar.

Den reguljära ukrainska arméns oförmåga att slå ned den växande självständighetsrörelsen i landets östra delar tycks emellertid ha fått regeringen att ompröva sin inställning till de paramilitära grupperna. Den 11 maj rapporterade The Sunday Times att regeringen, med stöd av lokala oligarker, har försett flera paramilitära styrkor med utbildning och utrustning. Grupperna deltar i striderna i öst på regeringens sida och har vid flera tillfällen öppnat eld mot obeväpnade civila.

Nu står det klart att regeringen har börjat samarbeta även med Högra sektorn i syfte att slå ner folkresningen i öst. Högra sektorn har inrättat ett träningsläger i en gammal armébas i Chernigov som regeringen ställt till dess förfogande.

Bitter, now no fate Crimean Tatars fell another test. A bloody dictator 70 years ago stripped of their home. Now another bloody dictator denies their legal rights.

Prohibiting entry to the leader of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilyev, preventing the holding of shares of mourning dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the deportation, holding the hands of the occupation of the Crimean authorities openly discriminatory and repressive policies against Crimean Tatars, Russia has once again proved - by declaring itself the successor of the Soviet Union, it also inherited all the worst features of the Soviet empire.

Expressing his condolences to the Crimean Tatar people about the sad date, I want to assure you that I do, and "Right sector" is always ready to lend our brothers his shoulder. I have no doubt that the occupied region will return to Ukraine, and with it to a large Ukrainian family - free family, the new - come back and Crimean Tatars. "Right sector" will lead this decisive battle.

VTB, Russia’s second biggest lender, has signed a deal with Bank of China, which includes an agreement to pay each other in domestic currencies.

“Under the agreement, the banks plan to develop their partnership in a number of areas, including cooperation on ruble and renminbi settlements, investment banking, inter-bank lending, trade finance and capital-markets transactions,” says the official VTB statement.
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“Our countries have done a huge job to reach a new historic landmark…. China has firmly settled in a position of our key trade partner,” Putin said.

Putin also said that trade turnover between Russia and China grew almost 2 percent during 2013 to reach about $90 billion.

“If we sustain this pace the level of bilateral trade of $100 billion will be reached by 2015 and we’ll confidently move on,” Putin said.

Russia and China are due to sign a long-awaited gas contract on Tuesday, in which Beijing could pay up to $456 billion for Russian gas over the next 30 years.

While Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Shanghai on May 20-21, Gazprom and the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) are due to sign a deal for 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas to power China's growing economy, starting in 2018.