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Ukraine: U.S. Campaign Stuck Without Russian Intervention And German Support
Two days ago a mob, supported by the fascists Right Sektor, killed over 30 federalist Ukrainians in Odessa by pushing them from their camp into a building and then setting fire to it. Those who escaped the massacre, not the perpetrators, were rounded up by police. Today pro-federalism people besieged the police headquarter in Odessa until the police released those it had earlier arrested.
In the east some military and National Guard units under government control were in sporadic fights with federalists but right now the government forces seem to be again in retreat. There were attacks on private bank outlets in the east because the owner of the bank, a well known oligarch, is suspected of financing the fascist Right Sektor paramilitaries.
The U.S. plan for Ukraine seems to be to bait Russia into an occupation. This would destroy EU-Russia relations, embolden NATO and help the U.S. to keep the EU as a secondary partner under its control. There would be lots of economic upsides for the U.S. in such a situation. Selling more arms and increasing energy market shares are only the starters.
There are two reasons to believe that this plan will fail:
First: Russia will not take the bait. The people requesting more local autonomy in Ukraine are perfectly able to take a stand on their own. Should a few die, like in Odessa, even more will rise up. Except for the Right Sektor people now included in the National Guard there are no loyal troops for the Kiev coup government to use against the people. The huge mistake the coup government made, repeating a U.S. mistake made in Iraq, was to dissolve the federal riot police Berkut. Those now unemployed trained fighters, together with experienced former Soviet soldiers, are the military backbone of the federalists. There is therefore no need for Russia to openly intervene. The Kiev coup government is already a dying entity.
Second: Many people in Europe have recognized the nefarious U.S. scheme and are protesting against their politicians’ slavishness in following the U.S. lead. The political pressure against Russia bashing is building. Every pro-NATO/anti-Russian report in the media, and there are lots of them, gets trashed in the comment sections. Some of the European elite are openly turning against the U.S. induced anti-Russia propaganda. Even the most staunch transatlantic tabloid in Germany, Bild, today reports (original here) that the CIA and FBI with dozens of agents are running the show in Kiev. The report is based on “German security sources” which lets me believe that the German government is looking for ways to counter Washington’s moves. The German Foreign Minister Steinmeier just called (in German) for a second Geneva conference to solve the situation.
Without Russian intervention and without German support the U.S. campaign against Russia is unlikely to reach its secondary target of isolating Russia. The primary target, Sevastopol harbor in Crimea, was already lost when Russia reunified with the island.
What is left to do then for Washington is to create more chaos in Ukraine and to hope that somehow out of total chaos some new chance may arise to stick it to Russia. For lack of real direction that strategy is also unlikely to succeed.
Interesting When You Slow-Dance with the Devil, You Can’t See His Face | Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada, USA
“For the same day your court in Donetsk ruled to strip [Ukrainian Ultra Nationalist hero Stepan] Bandera of his Hero title, God bestowed the best gift possible to our family: the birth of Stepan Bandera’s fifth great-grandchild… This was the third-generation Stepan Bandera’s open letter to Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych in 2010.
The first Bandera’s grandson is a former editor and reporter for the Kiev Post, and you can read his own take on Ultra Nationalists like Oleh Tyanhybok here.
From a Kiev Post interview lunch with the grandson of national hero Stepan Bandera, by Paul Miazga, Kyiv Post Staff Writer, April 20, 2005:
“Bandera, who currently writes for New York City’s [Ukrainian] Diaspora newspaper The National Tribune , never knew his grandfather, who was killed by a KGB agent in 1959. But he has an affinity with him…. “Our family has always been very tight, very Ukrainian.’ Bandera’s father–also a nationalist activist–died under mysterious circumstances back in 1984, just like his grandfather. “I came to Ukraine looking for a fight,’ he says.”
Aside from being a journalist supporting his family’s claim to an Ultra Nationalist Ukraine, Mr. Bandera plays a much larger role behind the scenes. This second-generation homegrown Canadian Ukrainian Ultra Nationalist helped Americanize the ultra-nationalist movement in Ukraine through his influence in America’s civil, political, and business circles.
The CUSUR (Center for US-Ukrainian Relations) was started as a result of the continuing support for a free Ukraine in three US presidential administrations. The “free” in “free Ukraine” refers to an ultra-nationalist Ukraine that Mr. Bandera’s grandfather would be proud of.
First under President Bill Clinton, and then through two terms of GW Bush, both the US and Ukrainian governments, and businesses in the two countries, built extensive networks that culminated in the event-driving Maidan movement for Ukrainian integration with the West.
The CUSUR and the UCCA (Ukrainian Congressional Committee of America) are intertwined and so powerful in American politics that even a casual glance at their meeting notes or plans will give you the chills. Both groups are in fact OUN (b) (Ukrainian Ultra Nationalist) organizations that operate freely in the US, influencing National Security issues , Foreign Policy , and American National Politics.
Both Congressional Durbin brothers and Secretary of State John Kerry are enthusiastic supporters. Senator Durbin, a Lithuanian-American, has in fact stated during John Kerry’s bid for the Presidency, “If John Kerry is elected, Kerry will work vigorously for Ukraine’s continued independence and prosperity.” That position, of course, supports the UCCA view .
Where does Mr. Bandera fit into all of this? For the last seventy years, the US has only recognized one Ukrainian government. According to CIA-released documents to which I provided links in previous articles, that one government is the Ukrainian government in Exile , led by the Stetskos. That government has now been brought back to Ukraine and cemented with the Maidan.
The Depth of the Bandera Influence
Here’s a quick look at one name that appears on all of the steering committees of the CUSUR. As you’ll see in UA Quest Roundtable Steering Committees , that name is Stepan Bandera…
With Bandera’s involvement, CUSUR has found enthusiastic support from across the spectrum of US universities, think tanks and corporations, and from the US government itself. Sponsor companies and foundations that fund the organization include: American Foreign Policy Council, Atlantic Council, Bechtel Corporation, Coca-Cola Beverages Ukraine Ltd., Canadian Ukrainian Foundation, Delta Airlines, Halliburton, J. P. Morgan, Microsoft, National Endowment for Democracy, Philip Morris Companies, Inc., and, of course, the RAND Corporation–among many others.
At the very least, Mr. Bandera provides the brand name for the new Ukraine that US businesses and the US government can rally around.
Children of the OUN (b)
Oleksandr Ivanovych Muzychko (aka Sashko Bily) was recently gunned down in Rivne. Mr. Muzychko was a leader of the ultra-nationalist umbrella organization Pravy Sector for Western Ukraine. He was also a leader in UNA-UNSD (Ukrainian National Assembly–Ukrainian National Self-Defense), which was originally led by Yuriy-Bogdan Shukhevych, son of OUN General Roman Shukhevych and a friend of the Nazi sympathizer Slava Stetsko. Mr. Muzychko has the distinction of having the same family name as Slava Stetsko ‘s maiden name. It might be noted, too, that Mr. Tyanhybok is descended from a legendary Ukrainain politician, Lonhyn Tsehelsky , and that Mr. Yatsenyuk’s family also has distinguished itself in service to the Nationalist cause. If you look closely at the family histories of today’s Ukrainian politicians, you find that today’s Stepan Bandera shares the company of the children and grandchildren of the men and women that supported his illustrious grandfather.
In the picture below, you’ll find presidential hopeful and EU favorite Vitali Klitschko, his brother and his father. And, yes, that is Oleksandr Muzychko with the number “2” over his head. Mr. Muzychko introduced the Klitschko brothers to connections in America.
How Powerful are Ultra Nationalists in the US Government?
Here’s a short highlight history of how groups openly working with Adolf Hitler entwined themselves and have shaped US domestic and foreign policy for the last 30 years…
In 1977 the UNA gained enough political potency to establish Human Rights Day in the nation’s capital, an event hosted by Senator Bob Dole and attended by 51 members of Congress…
The Chicago School Neo-Cons, including Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and, today, even Victoria Nuland, subscribe to Strauss’ brand of ultra-nationalism. That is what the “American Exceptionalism” they all want to promote is in reality.
The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations ( ABN ) The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) was formed in 1943 by OUN leader Yaroslav Stetsko, who headed it until his death in 1986. Leadership of the ABN then shifted to his wife Slava Stetsko, along with that of the OUN, which had leadership of the entire Ukrainian diaspora.
The UNA, UCCA, and many other groups and foundations all fell under the control of the ABN. After the death of (the first) Stepan Bandera in 1959, control of these groups in the US and abroad fell to the OUN (b) Ukrainian Prime Minister in Exile, Yaroslav Stetsko.
The groups that made up the ABN were and are all radical Ultra Nationalist, or Nazi, when the group leader’s affiliations to Hitler are taken into account. These are the groups from which the Republican Heritage Groups Council was formed…
Jumping to 1988, an article in the Jewish Weekly forced the resignation of six Republican leaders from George HW Bush’s campaign, because of their Nazi ties. All of them were members of the Republican Heritage Groups Council…
Leo Strauss and the Chicago School (the University of Chicago), where our current President was a professor, don’t care whether you’re liberal or conservative, as long as you agree with certain principles. As a government employee, you would be expected, like each of the members of the second group of 100 city designers, to have arrived at the same conclusions as everyone else. That is US government today.
The National Review, a respected Neo-Conservative publication, makes the point this way: ” Nazism may have been an ideology to which the United States was — and to which the President is — implacably opposed, but it is hardly “senseless.’…
In the 1980s, John McCain was on the Advisory Board of the USWF ( United States Council for World Freedom) . Like Presidents Reagan, Bush, and GW Bush, he was in contact with the Stetskos and was in fact chairman of the most important division of Yaroslav Stetsko’s ABN group. McCain eventually resigned from this position, because of the heat you have to expect when you are in the US government and some of your best friends–those in Stetsko’s ABN–are Nazis, Fascists, and perpetrators of genocide…
In 2005, President Obama toured surplus weapons stockpiles in Ukraine with Senator Dick Lugar. The agreement that came out of this visit was that Ukraine would give up its nuclear weapons and, in return, the borders of Ukraine would be guaranteed. Mr. Obama played a large role in creating this pact.
The role of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) makes clear that President Obama’s views on America’s role in the world are on a par with those of John McCain …
If you combine Section 1, parts iv and v, and Section 4(a) and Section 6(c), the order is very clear: Any person, including US citizens that are only writing about the Ukrainian Revolution, or government, who represent Bandera history, philosophy, and politics in any light other than favorable to the new Bandera-led Ukrainian government, is no better than Anwar Awlaki…
I have written about Mr. Kolomoisky in a few of the articles I have published. He was the Oligarch who said about the protests in southeast Ukraine: “Give them what they want. We can hang them later.” Both he and another Oligarch were reported on the news today, because they are hiring mercenary groups to quell any protests and maintain order in the regions they control…
Posted by: ProPeace | May 4 2014 21:35 utc | 55
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