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Ukraine: Kiev Fails Again, Propaganda Aims for WWIII
When Kiev announced to use the military in the "anti-terrorist" campaign in eastern Ukraine I wondered:
who from the [Ukrainian] military will sign up for this?
A company force from a Ukrainian airborne brigade, supposed to be the better equipped and able Ukrainian troops, did sign up, or more likely was ordered to act, and immediately failed. The troops were met by unarmed local Ukrainians blocking the roads and demanding that weapons be turned down. Some of the troops gave up their weapons, some just turned their rides around, some joined the locals, some went home. No shoots were fired today. Kiev's "anti-terrorist" campaign has failed. Let us now see what the CIA's Brennan and his puppets in Kiev come up with next. Anti-terrorists drones?
The anti-Russian onslaught in the "western" media continues. According to the now proliferating storyline in many main-stream media comments the issue is this:
"Putin is looking for world domination and taking over Crimea was just a start. The whole Ukraine issue is one big KGB plot. Putin arranged for the U.S. State Department to pay some $5 billion to instigate a coup in Kiev which then enabled Putin to stir up the people in Crimea and to swallow the island into his ever growing dominion. The KGB arranged for the eastern Ukrainians to become terrorists by paying the Kiev coup government to prohibit the official use of the Russian language and by making the Putin pal Tymoishenko threaten eastern Ukrainians with nukes. Russian forces, which miraculously can not be seen, now joined the eastern Ukrainian terrorists in force and are robbing the Ukrainian army of its arms. They will soon be joined by Mongol hordes, march on Warsaw, then on to Berlin and beyond."
Fortunately not everyone is buying into that storyline but there are enough crazies out there who do. They include main-stream editors, useless NATO bureaucrats, politicians, weapon dealers and U.S. oil-men who want to sell very expensive liquid natural gas to Europe to replace the cheap Gazprom pipeline gas. The problem is that these confused storielines und interests, when extrapolated, seem to end up in a marketing campaign for World War III. The world has no need for such.
Rowan, the obvious course, which does not involve trying to dump enormous amounts of one kind of paper in order to get another kind, is to invest in precious metals, gold and silver in particular.
This is what the US Treasury fears and this, according to Craig Roberts, is why gold is constantly being shorted in the markets. And why, when every sign indicates that they are being horded, gold and silver prices defy every rule of the market.
Of course the real problem, for the BRICS, is that their ruling classes, their elites, are as heavily invested in the US dollar as any other. This means, in Russia and Ukraine, for example, that the oligarchs constitute, as they were always intended to, a Fifth Column, insisting that the US be heeded and that conflicts with it never go beyond certain limits, and threaten the plunder that they appropriated from the people.
The most exciting aspect of what is happening in Ukraine is that, at last the bluff of the colour coded, NGO financed, State department “revolutionaries” is being called. Faced with the alternative of surrendering to the US/EU and its creatures, (which include fascists who horrify them and gimlet eyed Thatcherites bent on impoverishing them) the people of large swaths of Ukraine, starting with those in the east who have been publicly threatened with liquidation, are, reluctantly no doubt, taking matters into their own hands. That is what a revolution really is and it is hard to recall one which did not begin as a reaction against extreme provocations by an arrogant and stupid elite class.
If reports of what is nothing less than spontaneous revolutionary actions-the seizure of military vehicles, the surrounding of “cossacks” by masses of unarmed civilians, successful appeals to military units to desert or change side- are true then we are seeing the beginning, at a very bad time for the ruling class everywhere, of a real revolution.
Like all such revolutions this one has, so far, no positive demands. Leave us alone. Go away, is what it is telling the Kiev based “government” and its international allies. But such demands will inevitably come, and like the revolution itself, they will be responses to provocations.
Does the government want to cut pensions? The people will inevitably demand that there be no cuts, in fact that they must be indexed to maintain living standards, that they should be increased.
Do the employers threaten to close down plants, move machinery, dictate politics? Then the people will demand that the plants should be occupied and the owners relieved of their power to dictate.
Does Kiev want a National Guard, officered by its stormtroops? In response the people are organising their own militias to defend themselves and their country.
It will not be long I suspect before the US/EU is begging for Russian troops to intervene and save the oligarchies’ property.
Underlying the clash between national capitals, with the US and its satellites on one side, its enemies on the other and most of the BRICS, committed as they are to the global system, putting off the need to decide what to do, is an elemental contradiction between the capitalist system, on the one hand and, on the other (in the Red Corner) the human species and its old mother, the planet earth. It is a contradiction that cannot remain unresolved for much longer, and the people of the Donbas might be showing us the solution.
Posted by: bevin | Apr 16 2014 22:29 utc | 59
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