The western commercially-controlled media was full of the wrath of the righteous, pompous demonisation of Russia with little reflection that the US-UK-NATO might have clandestine purposes. The rigidly uniform consensus - near to military standards in its apparent discipline - is that the US-UK-NATO version of events, with minor/trivial adjustments of emphasis, is the only one worthy of reporting. It is the establishment-loyal tub-thumping propaganda that has become so familiar in the run up to war in one way.
This video is a comprehensive exploration of what has been happening in the Ukraine both leading up to and since the violence in Kiev began in late November 2013. Following the violent ousting of the democratically elected government in Mid-February 2014 (an election certified as 'free and fair' by all international observers), the legal basis on which Russia rests its position and reaction to those events is threefold:
Viktor Yanukovych remains the only constitutionally legal representative of the Ukraininan State.
The Kiev vote which claims to have deposed him was made by a rump of its 450 elected members (the remainder having fled to their Eastern constituencies in fear for their lives), acting outside its standing orders with no quorum and with those members who did vote doing so under threat of violence by armed men inside the parliament chamber - in other words under duress.
Russian forces of up to 27,000 personnel are authorised, by treaty with the legal Ukrainian State, to be present in the Crimea and to conduct the operational maneuvers Russia deems necessary to protect the Black Sea Fleet naval base at Sevastopol.
As of 3 March 2014, Russia claims not to have imported any personnel not authorised under the treaty and, in the absence of a legal authority in Kiev, to have merely undertaken patrolling activities requested of it by the legally elected authorities in Crimea itself.
Russia also claims that it has been requested in writing by the Ukrainian President Yanukovych to use its military to restore legal authority to Ukraine [2].
As one of the contributors to the video says: an apt analogy for the respective Russian and US actions since the crisis began is that " Russia is playing chess while the US is playing poker and American football - bluffing brute force with a pair of sevens". President Putin is calling the US bluff and it is to be hoped that the West really IS bluffing because Putin certainly isn't.
It should also be clear to rational observers that, despite western faux-outrage at their claimed "Russian military invasion of a sovereign state", were it not for Russia's actions to date [4 March 2014] and the fact that Russia continues to recognise it as a Unitary State, the Ukraine would have fragmented into civil war. Were Russia to withdraw its recognition, there can be little doubt that open civil war would be the result.
A more disturbing 'reality' possibility
There is a credible alternative interpretation of unfolding events in the Ukraine, authoritatively voiced by Professor Francis Boyle. It is that, based on extensive experience of its earlier 'colour' and 'Arab Spring' revolutions, the whole situation has been very thoroughly gamed by the US-NATO and that Russia has done nothing that was not clearly foreseen and allowed for. Professor Boyle:
“I suspect this entire Ukraine Crisis had been war-gamed and war planned quite some time ago at the highest levels of US/NATO. Notice DOD slipped 2 US warships into the Black Sea just before the Olympics under a patently absurd pretext. In other words, what we are seeing unfold here is a US/NATO War Plan. They instigated the fascist coup against Yanukovich. They anticipated that Putin would then respond by taking over Crimea.
I suspect the US/NATO/EU response will be to introduce military forces into Western Ukraine and Kiev and thus make Ukraine a de facto member of NATO, which has been their objective all along. They have already anticipated what Putin’s next move after that will be. Notice also the massive anti-Russian campaign by the Western News Media working in lock-step with each other. Another sign that all this has been planned well in advance.
I suspect that US/NATO/EU figure that Putin knows they have this offensive, first-strike strategic nuclear capability with a rudimentary ABM/BMD capability so that at the end of the day he will be forced to stand down—or else.Compellence as opposed to Deterrence. Just like during the Cuban Missile Crisis. That is where this US/NATO/EU War Plan is heading on the assumptions that they can keep their deliberate Escalation Dominance under their control and that at the end of the day Putin will be forced to stand down just like Khrushchev did and for the same reasons. That would leave US/NATO/EU in control of at least half of Ukraine as a de facto NATO member state.” Francis Boyle (Feb, 2014) [3]
}} Supporting this analysis are reports of groups of mercenaries - dressed in civilian clothes and carrying bulky packs - arriving at Kiev airport, from whence they are being sent to Odessa, in the south-east Black sea coast and close to the Crimea. They are reported to be employees of Greystone Ltd, [4] a subsidiary of Academi (Fornerly Blackwater]]) [5][6]
It has also been reported that the Ukrainian regime has hired US Greystone mercenaries to suppress dissent in the Eastern regions and cities sympathetic to Russia. The initiative is reported as being financed by oligarchs Sergei Taruta and Igor Kolomoysk appointed by the Kiev regime as governors of Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk regions respectively [7]
Deputy US Secretary of State and US Ambassador discuss who should be Ukraine's next prime minister
An intercepted and leaked telephone conversation between US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, which took place during the third week of December 2013, was posted to YouTube on 4 February 2014. In it they discuss their preferred candidates for ministerial positions in a new Ukrainian government. Nuland reveals both her own and US contempt for the EU in her reply to Pyatt suggesting their preferences might not go down too well in EU circles; "Fuck the EU..." she replies. In the event she got her way with her preferred candidate for prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk[8] ("Yats" as he was dubbed in the conversation) being appointed by the insurrectionists on 21 February 2014 and being immediately recognised by the US and a subservient EU.
"The most blatant coup in history"
In a December 19th interview in the Russian magazine Kommersant, George Friedman, founder and CEO of Stratfor, said of the overthrow of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych that occurred on February 22nd of 2014: “It really was the most blatant coup in history.”
Some snipers killed people on both sides of the Maidan demonstration in Kiev on 20 February 2014, an incident which triggered the overthrow of the government two days later. The identity of these snipers remains disputed.
US Senator John McCain with Jewish 'acting PM Arseniy Yatsenuk and neo-nazi Oleh Tyahnybok. Ukraine Decmber 2013
The footsoldiers of the Ukrainian coup were, by near universal agreement and prevailing western political-spectrum norms, of Nationalist-Right to extreme-Right (ie 'neo-facist') allegiance. By the standards enforced in, for example Germany and France, statements by several prominent coup members would result in immediate prosecution and a prison sentence - for example Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of the Svoboda party is on record as stating that a "Moscow-Jewish mafia" rules Ukraine and that "Germans, Kikes and other scum" want to "take away our Ukrainian state.". [9] It is therefore puzzling (superficially - see below) to note that, not only have the insurgents appointed a Jew, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, as acting prime minister, but that he in turn has appointed a Jewish Olgarch, Ihor Kolomoyskyi [10], as 'governor' of the Eastern Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk. He is ranked the third richest man in Ukraine with an estimated net worth of $2.4billion.[11] He is also the founder of the European Jewish Union [12] He controls his business empire from Switzerland and has joint Ukrainian-Israeli citizenship. President Putin recently called him "A Unique imposter"[11] - clearly the best man for the job of ruling a city with a majority Russian-speaking population.
Ihor Kolomoyskyi
The "influence of the Jews"
The Jewish population of Ukraine numbers 65,000 which is about 0.28% of the total. In spite of that miniscule proportion, it is a truism to state that uber-wealthy oligarchs have, since the demise of the Soviet Union, dominated the politics of the Ukraine and, just as in the immediate post-Soviet Russia of Boris Yeltsin, they are overwhelmingly of Jewish lineage (2 of the 3 richest - Victor Pinchuk [13] and Ihor Kolomoyskyi [14] - are Jews).
The appointed 'Prime Minister' Arseniy-Yatsenyuk, ex-head of the Ukraine Central Bank, has Jewish parents. He heads "The Arseniy Yatsenyuk Foundation" whose primary funding is from The German Marshall Fund The Fund's founder and Chairman until 2012 was Guido Goldman [15]
The following snippet from a speech by British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli to the House of Commons in 1852 is, for inquiring minds, a trenchant thematic guide to events in the Ukraine through the winter of 2013-14:
The influence of the Jews may be traced in the last outbreak of the destructive principle in Europe. An insurrection takes place against tradition and aristocracy, against religion and property... the natural equality of men and the abrogation of property are proclaimed by the secret societies which form provisional governments, and men of the Jewish race are found at the head of every one of them.
Reports of Sponsorship
In "US and EU Are Paying Ukrainian Rioters & Protesters", a Boiling Frogs Post article from February 2014, Dr Paul Craig Roberts alleged that "A number of confirmations have come in from readers that Washington is fueling the violent protests in Ukraine with [US] taxpayer dollars".[16] This possibility is supported by Sibel Edmonds' revelations about Operation Gladio/B.
Events in Odessa culminating in the deaths of 48 (official narrative) and up to 120 (evidence-based alternative narrative) anti-Kiev Junta demonstrators by fire, gun-shots and beatings in and around the Odessa Trade Union building on 2 May 2014
“Unfortunately, it’s US “diplomacy” which brought the US, Russia, Ukraine, and NATO to the current standoff. As the Warsaw Pact disintegrated and the Soviet Union collapsed, US encouragement for those events included pledges that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization wouldn’t take advantage of the situation to expand eastward. Since then, NATO has inexorably pushed in that direction, nearly doubling the number of member states. Thanks, US “diplomacy.”
Things began coming to a head with the US-sponsored coup in Ukraine that replaced its “Russia-friendly” regime with a “US/Europe-friendly” regime in 2014, courtesy of Barack Obama. Thanks, US “diplomacy.”
Then in 2019, the US withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which forbade the US to place missiles within surprise strike distance of Russia, and Russia to place similar missiles within surprise strike distance of NATO. The US followed up by placing exactly such missiles in Poland, courtesy of Donald Trump. Some “diplomacy.”... Then the US went into overdrive (courtesy of Trump and Biden) against the opening of a pipeline (Nord Stream 2) which would have supplied Russian natural gas to Germany. The pipeline would have been a force for peace insofar as Russia likes to sell natural gas (at a fraction of prices the US can offer), and Germans like to not freeze to death.”
A new cold war will follow the 2013-14 events in Ukraine and the secession of Crimea to Russia - This article argues that, from a Russian perspective and although not sought, this may prove positive for Russia's future.
Clear, unambiguous confirmation that the US runs the Ukrainian opposition and that what is going on in Ukraine in 2013-14 is US sponsored "Regime Change". This is how the US installs its puppet governments while feigning outrage at the terrorist violence it organises and provokes to do so".
A letter to 'The American people' from senior Russian academic and advisor to President Putin, Alexander Dugin about the Spring 2014 situation in Ukraine and Russia-western relations generally.
Transcript and translation from the original Russian of Alexei Shukov's press conference following the decision of PACE to impose sanctions against Russia
Global politics used to be a question of Right (Captalist) - v - Left (Socialist) - or so we were expected to believe. Today the dominant question is 'Side with Anglo-US-Nato or oppose it?' - with the full spectrum of Left-Right present in both camps.
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolay Patrushev, interviewed by Rossiyskaya Gazeta on 15 October 2014. The interview makes it crystal clear that a de-facto state of undeclared war exists between Anglo-US-Nato and Russia.
The Ukraine imbroglio is a 100% US engineered event aimed at isolating Europe from Russia and developing US business interests in alternative energy supplies for both Ukraine and Europe
Surprisingly frank commentary and analysis from a mainstream think-tank about the global Anglo-US agenda with particular reference to unfolding events in Ukraine
Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov - a voice of calm reason in a world gone mad - condemns the West for its uncooperative and obstructionist behaviour over the developing situation in Ukraine and appeals for rational cooperation to prevent civil war.
A master-class in how the celebrated 'Free-Press' of the Western commercially controlled media is harnessed to the narrative requirements of the Establishments of which they are a part, turning them into little more than propaganda organs where major foreign policy issues are concerned.
Evidence of a substantial and growing disconnect between the German establishment and its population. The official narrative of an agressive expansionist Russia is being comprehensively rejected and it spells trouble for NATO
February 2008 classified diplomatic cable from US ambassador to Russia William J Burns to the State Department about how Russia views NATO involvement in Ukraine
It has become a predictable and all-to-familiar feature of US sponsored regime-change operations that mysterious snipers turn out to kill both government forces and opposition protesters before disappearing.
An illuminating introduction to extent that control of both gas and oil pipelines defines Usaian global policy and actions - especially in the Middle East, Central Asia and Ukraine. It is essentially anti-Russian and aimed at maintaining Ango-US dominance over the EU and Europe
Vladimir Putin's address to State Duma deputies, Federation Council members, heads of Russian regions and civil society representatives in the Kremlin, following the result of the 16 March 2014 referendum in Crimea which provided overwhelming support for Crimea to become part of the Russian Federation.
An appeal to the citizens of Germany for their help and understanding from a resident of the Eastern Ukraine city of Lugansk. It is representative of the position of the majority of the population in Eastern and Southern Ukraine and which is rigorously suppressed in the western media
Brief introduction to a story of deep in-your-face corruption involving the US Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and the shale gas deposits of Eastern Ukraine
There is Russian saying: "you can't scare a hedgehog with a naked backside". It summarises of this article's analysis of the threatened fourth round of EU Sanctions against Russia and the clownish absurdity of its US puppet leaders
In its eagerness to complete the encirclement of Russia by turning Ukraine into a forward country for positioning NATO bases, the U.S. is paving the way for fraternal genocide and ethnic cleansing.
A hilarious piece of satire - but closer to the truth about who calls the shots on events surrounding the Ukraine coup and what it really about, than any or all of the western MSM talking-heads combined.
Evgeny Fedorov expounds on the developing political situation in Russia following the February 2014 Ukraine coup and the ongoing civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Detail on the Russian 5th column and what lies ahead
A biting satirical appeal to the citizens of a supine occupied Germany being maneuvered for the third time in 100 years into war with Russia - will they ever learn?
The coalition of ultra-nationalist forces and the mainly Jewish oligarch wealth that has both financed the Ukrainian putsch and provided its 'interim prime minister' and several regional governors, is a very unstable one.
Understanding President Vladimir Putin and the dogged, determined unanimity of the western media to demonise and blame him for everything, in near total disregard of the evidence - a surreal situation explained with clarity
An analysis of Anglo-US propaganda techniques from their post-WWI origins to the absurdities of their explanations about the 2014 Ukraine coup and it aftermath. It's author opines that its days are numbered
Press statement and replies to journalists questions following the meeting in Moscow between President Putin and President of Switzerland and OSCE Chairman Didier Burkhalter on 7 May 2014
