Having discovered that Putin secretly controls not only the separatists in the east, but also the ultranationalist militias and the Poroshenko government itself, solving the "Ukrainian crisis" becomes stunningly simple; all the Ukrainians have to do is collectively defy Putin by stopping their wars against each other!
Problem solved! Gonna clear some space on the mantle for my Nobel Peace Prize...
Showing posts with label Ukraine civil war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ukraine civil war. Show all posts
Monday, July 20, 2015
Down the bunny hole in Kyiv; all sides in cahoots with Putin!
We're all well aware that Putin is behind the so-called separatists in the Donbas region, because it's frankly impossible to read any news item about Ukraine in any Western media without being repeatedly reminded of that "fact."
Trying to find out what's going on in the fallout between the Poroshenko government and Right Sector boss Dmytro Yarosh is a challenge exponentially more difficult. Well over a week has passed since tensions between the US installed Poroshenko and the country's main ultra-nationalist militia exploded into violence, and it's a week ago today that the President delivered his ultimatum that they be disarmed.
So how's that going? Impossible to tell. It's not a story visible in Western media. I did however make a startling discovery while perusing The Ukrainian Weekly. Turns out those Pravyi Sektor thugs who have been fighting Putin's puppets in eastern Ukraine are themselves stooges of the great chess-master in the Kremlin!
But wait, there's more! The same article informs us that Poroshenko himself has been making secret deals with Putin! Ergo, we are now at the threshold of a three-way civil war in Ukraine, and all three sides are secretly sponsored by Putin!
Trying to find out what's going on in the fallout between the Poroshenko government and Right Sector boss Dmytro Yarosh is a challenge exponentially more difficult. Well over a week has passed since tensions between the US installed Poroshenko and the country's main ultra-nationalist militia exploded into violence, and it's a week ago today that the President delivered his ultimatum that they be disarmed.
So how's that going? Impossible to tell. It's not a story visible in Western media. I did however make a startling discovery while perusing The Ukrainian Weekly. Turns out those Pravyi Sektor thugs who have been fighting Putin's puppets in eastern Ukraine are themselves stooges of the great chess-master in the Kremlin!
But wait, there's more! The same article informs us that Poroshenko himself has been making secret deals with Putin! Ergo, we are now at the threshold of a three-way civil war in Ukraine, and all three sides are secretly sponsored by Putin!
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Bupkis; that's how much military aid Canada is prepared to give Ukraine
Defence Minister Jason Kenney came clean today about how much lethal weaponry Canada is prepared to donate to Ukraine so it can fend off the forces of Bad Vlad.
Zero.
As in nothing.
Bupkis.
Apparently the Canadian Forces don't actually have any lethal weapons, at least none that they're willing to share out to a bankrupt failed state.
Especially if that failed state is in an on-going squabble with Vlad the Bad.
Yes, Big Steve will continue talking the good talk at least till the autumn election; after all, there's a million Uke-Canuck votes hanging in the balance, and the Harper gang is doing all it can to convince those folks that it's doing all it can to repel "Russian aggression."
But they're not.
And that's probably a good thing!
Zero.
As in nothing.
Bupkis.
Apparently the Canadian Forces don't actually have any lethal weapons, at least none that they're willing to share out to a bankrupt failed state.
Especially if that failed state is in an on-going squabble with Vlad the Bad.
Yes, Big Steve will continue talking the good talk at least till the autumn election; after all, there's a million Uke-Canuck votes hanging in the balance, and the Harper gang is doing all it can to convince those folks that it's doing all it can to repel "Russian aggression."
But they're not.
And that's probably a good thing!
Friday, April 17, 2015
Justin Trudeau is a wanker
To be perfectly honest, I haven't actually voted in anything since a friend of mine ran for MP on the Green Party ticket here.
Before that, you'd have to go back twenty years or more, when I cast my ballot for one of those Marxist-Leninist dudes running for city council in Guelph.
Quixotic idealists, both of them, and you'd be right if you guessed that the handful of votes either of those players got in the great game 'o democracy had no bearing on the big picture.
Which brings me to the upcoming federal election. A lot of folks had high hopes for the spawn of Pierre. The Liberal Party ran through a number of no-name sad-sacks after the retirement of Jean Chretien, all of whom were bulldozed into irrelevance by the neolib Harper machine.
So finally we get a potentially viable alternative, Trudeau Junior. He makes a few socially progressive noises.
Gonna ease up on the "War on Drugs."
Gonna tax the rich, at least a bit, maybe.
But the more you get to know the guy, the more you figure.... maybe not.
He's all aboard for Canada's military adventure against Islamic State.
He's all aboard for our military adventure in Ukraine.
He's supporting Big Steve's Bill C-51 police state legislation.
He's all about being another sock puppet for US Imperialism.
And that must be making his dear daddy spin in his grave.
Before that, you'd have to go back twenty years or more, when I cast my ballot for one of those Marxist-Leninist dudes running for city council in Guelph.
Quixotic idealists, both of them, and you'd be right if you guessed that the handful of votes either of those players got in the great game 'o democracy had no bearing on the big picture.
Which brings me to the upcoming federal election. A lot of folks had high hopes for the spawn of Pierre. The Liberal Party ran through a number of no-name sad-sacks after the retirement of Jean Chretien, all of whom were bulldozed into irrelevance by the neolib Harper machine.
So finally we get a potentially viable alternative, Trudeau Junior. He makes a few socially progressive noises.
Gonna ease up on the "War on Drugs."
Gonna tax the rich, at least a bit, maybe.
But the more you get to know the guy, the more you figure.... maybe not.
He's all aboard for Canada's military adventure against Islamic State.
He's all aboard for our military adventure in Ukraine.
He's supporting Big Steve's Bill C-51 police state legislation.
He's all about being another sock puppet for US Imperialism.
And that must be making his dear daddy spin in his grave.
Friday, February 13, 2015
US working hard to derail Ukraine cease-fire
Here's Sec of State underling Jen Psaki telling us why the Hollande-Merkel cease-fire is a sham.
America's puppet Poroshenko saw with his own eyes, even while he was at peace talks in Minsk, Russian tanks crossing into Ukraine.
As is routinely the case, no on-the-ground journalists nor any of the vaunted NATO satellite imagery were able to verify these claims.
But the US-installed Ukrainian oligarch "president" says so, so a thousand Western media outlets immediately report Poroshenko's fantasies as the "truth."
Support for the US-engineered coup was luke-warm in Ukraine a year ago, even when the odds of success were even.
Almost a year later, when Poroshenko's multiple attacks on the "terrorists" in the East have routinely failed, when conscripts to Poroshenko's "army" are fleeing to Russia by the tens of thousands to avoid the draft, we continue to be inundated by ignorant propaganda about "Russian aggression."
Ukraine is a deeply troubled country; troubled mostly by the fact that her own oligarchs have raped it into the ground, but troubled doubly by the Western interlopers who promise EU access while delivering nothing of the sort.
As Western cheerleaders promote more violence in Ukraine, isn't it time for Ukrainians to make up their own minds?
America's puppet Poroshenko saw with his own eyes, even while he was at peace talks in Minsk, Russian tanks crossing into Ukraine.
As is routinely the case, no on-the-ground journalists nor any of the vaunted NATO satellite imagery were able to verify these claims.
But the US-installed Ukrainian oligarch "president" says so, so a thousand Western media outlets immediately report Poroshenko's fantasies as the "truth."
Support for the US-engineered coup was luke-warm in Ukraine a year ago, even when the odds of success were even.
Almost a year later, when Poroshenko's multiple attacks on the "terrorists" in the East have routinely failed, when conscripts to Poroshenko's "army" are fleeing to Russia by the tens of thousands to avoid the draft, we continue to be inundated by ignorant propaganda about "Russian aggression."
Ukraine is a deeply troubled country; troubled mostly by the fact that her own oligarchs have raped it into the ground, but troubled doubly by the Western interlopers who promise EU access while delivering nothing of the sort.
As Western cheerleaders promote more violence in Ukraine, isn't it time for Ukrainians to make up their own minds?
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Where is the West's outrage as Poroshenko slaughters his own people?
You remember the "slaughtering his own people" meme, I'm sure.
Bashar al-Assad was slaughtering his own people, or was about to, or the thought had crossed his mind, and the editorial writers and TV pundits were unanimous in their outrage, clamouring for the Nations of Virtue to play the "responsibility to protect" card.
Gaddafi was "slaughtering his own people"... well not actually. Well, he might have, had we not stepped in with the R2P gambit... of course we don't know what he might have done, crazy maniac that he was. But thank God we got in there and saved the Libyan people.
Saddam Hussein was just a-slaughtering his people all over the place so often that it's a miracle we found so many more to slaughter when we went in there to save them. Yes, R2P is a serious obligation on the Nations of Virtue; why should we stand by and watch some tin-pot dictator slaughter his own people when we could be doing it?
Yes, it's been slaughterers and slaughterees and our virtuous meddling in joyous abundance... till we get to Poroshenko,not just thinking about slaughtering his own people, but actually following through.
And the Nations of Virtue are not threatening sanctions, not threatening no-fly zones, not threatening to invoke R2P...
The silence is deafening.
Bashar al-Assad was slaughtering his own people, or was about to, or the thought had crossed his mind, and the editorial writers and TV pundits were unanimous in their outrage, clamouring for the Nations of Virtue to play the "responsibility to protect" card.
Gaddafi was "slaughtering his own people"... well not actually. Well, he might have, had we not stepped in with the R2P gambit... of course we don't know what he might have done, crazy maniac that he was. But thank God we got in there and saved the Libyan people.
Saddam Hussein was just a-slaughtering his people all over the place so often that it's a miracle we found so many more to slaughter when we went in there to save them. Yes, R2P is a serious obligation on the Nations of Virtue; why should we stand by and watch some tin-pot dictator slaughter his own people when we could be doing it?
Yes, it's been slaughterers and slaughterees and our virtuous meddling in joyous abundance... till we get to Poroshenko,not just thinking about slaughtering his own people, but actually following through.
And the Nations of Virtue are not threatening sanctions, not threatening no-fly zones, not threatening to invoke R2P...
The silence is deafening.
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Usual American war-mongers having kittens over Ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity
From Bolton to Krauthammer to McCain the big dogs of American war-mongering are discovering that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of at least one otherwise insignificant Eastern European country are suddenly vital to America's interests in the region.
That would be Ukraine, the country where the National Endowment for Democracy has been busily stirring the pot since independence in 1991.
The astute reader will appreciate that the past twenty years have not been notable for America having the slightest regard for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other nations.
Serbia, Bosnia, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya... American bombs and American bullets wreak havoc wherever the whims of "American interests" may take them, with complete disregard for any notions of sovereignty or territorial integrity.
And to the non-stop cheerleading of Messrs Bolton, Krauthammer, and McCain.
For them this does not of course have anything to do with Ukraine.
This is the get-Putin moment they've been waiting so long for.
The people of Ukraine should think twice before welcoming the support of the war-monger faction in Washington.
Those who have in the past welcomed that support in Bosnia, in Libya, and in Iraq have ended up with a bad case of buyer's remorse.
That would be Ukraine, the country where the National Endowment for Democracy has been busily stirring the pot since independence in 1991.
The astute reader will appreciate that the past twenty years have not been notable for America having the slightest regard for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other nations.
Serbia, Bosnia, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya... American bombs and American bullets wreak havoc wherever the whims of "American interests" may take them, with complete disregard for any notions of sovereignty or territorial integrity.
And to the non-stop cheerleading of Messrs Bolton, Krauthammer, and McCain.
For them this does not of course have anything to do with Ukraine.
This is the get-Putin moment they've been waiting so long for.
The people of Ukraine should think twice before welcoming the support of the war-monger faction in Washington.
Those who have in the past welcomed that support in Bosnia, in Libya, and in Iraq have ended up with a bad case of buyer's remorse.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Ukraine in play
The events of the last twelve hours underline the gravity of what is at stake in Ukraine. After the apparent stand-down of the protesters the extremists came back with a vengeance.
This is not a cohort that the West can overtly support, what with the rampant anti-semitism and xenophobia associated with it. We can't be seen to be cajoling Putin about gay rights in Russia while at the same time tying our wagon to even more virulently homophobic elements in Ukraine. The rabid right in Ukraine is a non-starter.
At the same time, that is the nature of the most vehement opposition at the moment, and they do have one feature prized by the West; they are anti-Russian and even more importantly, anti-Putin. A vast cross-section of Congress and the Senate will support them for that reason alone.
This could be the first time in recent history that the Israel lobby can achieve something useful; call off their congressional dogs from their blind anti-Putinism.
This is not a cohort that the West can overtly support, what with the rampant anti-semitism and xenophobia associated with it. We can't be seen to be cajoling Putin about gay rights in Russia while at the same time tying our wagon to even more virulently homophobic elements in Ukraine. The rabid right in Ukraine is a non-starter.
At the same time, that is the nature of the most vehement opposition at the moment, and they do have one feature prized by the West; they are anti-Russian and even more importantly, anti-Putin. A vast cross-section of Congress and the Senate will support them for that reason alone.
This could be the first time in recent history that the Israel lobby can achieve something useful; call off their congressional dogs from their blind anti-Putinism.
Sunday, January 26, 2014
2014: not a good year for the doves of peace
Hope this is not an omen. No sooner does Pope Francis have a couple of his toddler acolytes free up a couple of white doves symbolizing peace, than they are set upon by a crow and a seagull.
He'd just been praying for peace in Ukraine. If the papal doves symbolize peace, what do the attackers symbolize? It's a tough call, but I'm going to go with John McCain as the seagull, and Oleg Tyagnybok as the crow...
He'd just been praying for peace in Ukraine. If the papal doves symbolize peace, what do the attackers symbolize? It's a tough call, but I'm going to go with John McCain as the seagull, and Oleg Tyagnybok as the crow...
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