En viss Mark Packard analyserar situationen från ett radikalt dissidentperspektiv. Jag tror möjligen att han underskattar omfattningen av den folkliga vreden gentemot det som upplevs som en fortsättning i ny skepnad av ett slags sovjetmakt. Jag misstänker att ukrainsk patriotism har en betydligt bredare och djupare förankring än hos ett gäng unga anti-moskovitiska hetsporrar från Galicien.
http://souloftheeast.org/2014/02/01/blood-on-the-maidan/
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But many of these “protestors,” today’s cause célèbre among US policymakers, are in actuality hard-core nationalists who hail primarily from Galicia, composed of three provinces in Ukraine’s far west. Often Catholic and previously under centuries of Polish and Austro-Hungarian rule, the Galicians nurse a strong animus toward the Orthodox, Russian-oriented east and Crimea.
The recent forefathers of today’s fighters on the Maidan once filled the ranks of a whole Waffen-SS Division, and now Galician-heavy outfits like Batkivschyna “Fatherland,” and Svoboda, “Freedom,” see themselves as advancing their ancestors’ cause of national independence from the hated Moskali yoke.
Och så återkommer man till den för en lekman svårbedömda frågan om exakt vad konsekvenserna för ett Ukraina under USA:s och EU:s, IMF:s, Världsbankens och Goldman Sachs kontroll skulle kunna tänkas vara. Jag tror att ukrainarna skulle hamna i ett ännu besvärligare läge än de befinner sig i nu om de underkastades det "demokratiska och liberala" främlingsherraväldet:
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The issue of European integration only delivered a necessary pretext to set off this latest round of the Great Game. What talking heads and Upper East Side columnists also omit to tell their audiences is the nature of Kiev’s potential “association” with the EU – the country would have become an economic colony of Western corporate interests, complete with the gutting of Ukrainian manufacturing capacity and a crushing, banker-imposed austerity already familiar to current EU residents. The agreement itself was originally promoted by the nation’s oligarchic elite, the real power behind any presidency in Kiev. Brussels sought to acquire Ukraine on the cheap, offering less than $1 billion to cover its $17 billion debt obligations plus the enormous damages that would be wrought to Ukraine’s economy from signing on. Russia, in contrast, deepened partnership with its neighbor by assigning $15 billion to Ukrainian debt, forming joint enterprises in key heavy industries and setting gas prices below market value[i].
Packards syn på de geopolitiska alternativen:
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Western darling Viktor Yushchenko’s 2004 “Orange Revolution” deflated ignominiously, but Ukraine’s valuable geographic position and its ethnic and cultural fissures have again made it the target of US covert action.---
Since Ukraine’s official declaration of sovereignty in 1991, the corruption and malfeasance of any presidential administration has never been a matter worth debating. Yet Yanukovych and pivotal backers such as Rinat Akhmetov finally came to understand that the Association Agreement itself would be a sure recipe for economic ruin and political catastrophe, even as European officials publicly presented the deal as Ukraine’s “choosing Europe” over Russia. Seeing few tangible benefits from this glaringly uneven arrangement, the regime in Kiev found more amenable negotiating partners in Putin’s Kremlin than among the likes of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Baroness Catherine Ashton.
Ryssland och Ukraina är terroriserade av oligarker, som gör goda affärer med sina motsvarigheter i väst. Men vad skulle hända om gamle Brzezinskis och det västerländska etablissemangets dröm infriades, och den ryska nationella självständigheten i princip avskaffades och folket "fick nya huvuden"? Packard är lite syrlig:
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Brzezinski also often speaks of his hopes for the imposition of liberal democracy upon Russia – doubtless due to his tremendous philanthropic affection for the Russian people. The only things he consistently despises about that nation are its sovereignty, identity and Orthodox Christianity.
It is a sovereign Russia that prevents bankster-run America from fully realizing the inhuman dream of a planetary panopticon; therefore Brzezinski and his acolytes in the US national security apparatus have slated their enemy for subversion and dismemberment.
