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| Lenin would approve |
What
the hell is the EU up to in Ukraine?
Over just the last couple of years the EU has spent €389
million subverting Ukraine by means of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. To say the
least, for a country struggling to unite its bi-ethnic population into a
functioning Ukrainian entity this was destabilising. But with Putin’s Russia added to the equation it was foolhardy in the extreme.
More recently the current crisis was precipitated by EU propaganda raising hopes of the bright new European future that would be theirs with closer ties to the Union and then cruelly dashing them by
making impossible demands in the free trade negotiations with Yanukovich.
Later when the negotiations inevitably broke down and the Maidan demonstrators took
to the streets, prominent EU leaders and politicians stoked their resentment by
their vocal support for the protestors and even (like the German Foreign Minister) visits to the
barricades. In effect, the EU’s meddling legitimised the protestors and delegitimized
the Ukraine’s government.
The
flames of protest thus vigorously fanned, the demonstrators got down to some serious regime change, overthrew the democratically elected Ukrainian leader
and replaced him with the losers at the previous election. The EU applauded.
Then
after having encouraged the putsch ringleaders to break their constitution the
foreign ministers of France, Germany and Poland persuaded the new regime to rip
it up altogether. The legitimacy of the new Ukraine is now derived soley from the
approval of the EU and America.
To
celebrate the overthrow of a democracy, that perfect symbol of the democratic
EU, Catherine Ashton, the never-elected-to-anything EU foreign minister, flew into
Kiev to give the new state of affairs her inimitable seal of approval.
From the get go the
weird new coalition of liberals, idealists and anti-Semite looney tunes made it abundantly clear to Ukraine’s Russian speakers that they
would henceforth be second class citizens.
Then
the people of the Crimea who had indicated their opposition to a union with Russia in a poll just the month before were
persuaded by the ranting of our new best friends in Kiev that perhaps joining
Putin’s Russia wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
Now
the EU bleats about the Crimea referendum and the subsequent annexation of the peninsular by the Russians but applies pathetically weak sanctions because of the weakness of Europe's economic recovery.
How
on earth did the people who couldn’t deal with postage stamp sized countries like Bosnia or Kosovo ever think they
could take on Russia with impunity?
The scorecard so far:
We’ve
lost all credibility as promoters of freedom and democracy.
The
EU’s biggest neighbour has been destabilised and is now a real threat to our
security.
The
EU has flaunted its weakness and cowardice to the world.
The
world has also been reminded of our impending bankruptcy.
Mafia
don Putin has been gifted the Crimea and may be tempted to push his luck.
The
feeble economic recovery is being throttled.
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Yes,
I know Yanukovich was an authoritarian, kleptomaniac with zero taste in home furnishings,
but he was their democratically elected authoritarian, kleptomaniac. And anyhow take a look at what our
guys in Kiev are up to!
I’ve
been racking my brains to understand this monumental screw up, and as I see it there are only two
possibilities.
Either
we’ve got an invasion of the body snatchers scenario on our hands where every
major EU leader has been replaced by an alien ignoramus.
Or
EU leaders really are the most ridiculous, arrogant, infantile, ahistorical, incompetent, anti-democratic,
cowardly, egotistical, useless bunch of misfits ever to find themselves in charge
of a state.
These guys are so dumb they make Obama look like Metternich.
These guys are so dumb they make Obama look like Metternich.
Everything
is rotten in the state of Denmark (and the rest of the EU).
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| I hope the enemy trembles as I do at the sight of the defence ministers of Norway, Sweden, Netherlands and Germany |
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| And their opposite number in Moscow, Sergei Shoigu |
I think a lot of it is simply a new form of corporate raiding. A lot of the destabilization In Ukraine and other countries is funded by various billionaire oligarchs in the West. What do they get out of it? Well they get to install a friendly new government which sells them national assets for peanuts or turns a blind eye while the gold reserves are whisked away - basically a robbery.
ReplyDeleteStill lots of good dark rich ukranian soil left to grow the food to feed the new reich
ReplyDelete"They may have lost Crimea but those Ukranians still have plenty of high quality dirt" A.Merkel
DeleteBetter luck EU with Belarus...
ReplyDeleteI tremble at the thought of those 4. Imagine being stuck in a room with 4 female chauvinist sows for a day. You would have to strangle them one by one.
ReplyDeleteJudging by readers comments in the sort of right-wing Daily Mail and Telegraph most see Putin as as someones who stands up for Russia and its interests .U
ReplyDeleteUnlike the leaders of all the three main political parties.Who lack the courage to stand up for the Interests of England . Millions of migrants descend on England and our rulers are too cowardly to stand up to this invasion of England.
The picture of those 'stern' looking female defense ministers tells a thousand words. They probably have children, and would not want to start any confrontation with Russia. Now that the US has realized that its NATO partners would rather cut defense spending, and troop levels (whether you can call them troops is another matter), there is nothing stopping Russian forces from walking unimpeded right up to the English Channel and back again. Social spending has been Europe's modus operandi, and whenever there was a territorial squabble it's been a de facto US-UK force sorting Europe's backyard out (Bosnia and Kosovo are prime examples). After 13 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the US is tired of war, and the American public outside of the neo-con clique is not willing to fund foreign adventures. The EU needs to square up to its responsibilities. Unfortunately it will muddle through like it did during the Euro crisis, and other less than convincing displays of leadership proving, as the picture does, that it is nothing more than a political social club, rather than a body that can be taken seriously.
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