I’m frightened for the wrong reasons.
If I listened and believed what I was supposed to believe I would be afraid that the Russians are provoking the West into military conflict in Ukraine. The problem is that I’m more of afraid of what We are doing to destabilize the situation. John Pilger is with me on this one.
“Washington’s role in Ukraine is different only in its implications for the rest of us. For the first time since the Reagan years, the US is threatening to take the world to war. With eastern Europe and the Balkans now military outposts of Nato, the last “buffer state” bordering Russia is being torn apart. We in the west are backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler.
Having masterminded the coup in February against the democratically elected government in Kiev, Washington’s planned seizure of Russia’s historic, legitimate warm-water naval base in Crimea failed. The Russians defended themselves, as they have done against every threat and invasion from the west for almost a century.
But Nato’s military encirclement has accelerated, along with US-orchestrated attacks on ethnic Russians in Ukraine. If Putin can be provoked into coming to their aid, his pre-ordained “pariah” role will justify a Nato-run guerrilla war that is likely to spill into Russia itself.
Instead, Putin has confounded the war party by seeking an accommodation with Washington and the EU, by withdrawing troops from the Ukrainian border and urging ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine to abandon the weekend’s provocative referendum. These Russian-speaking and bilingual people – a third of Ukraine’s population – have long sought a democratic federation that reflects the country’s ethnic diversity and is both autonomous and independent of Moscow. Most are neither “separatists” nor “rebels” but citizens who want to live securely in their homeland.
Like the ruins of Iraq and Afghanistan, Ukraine has been turned into a CIA theme park – run by CIA director John Brennan in Kiev, with “special units” from the CIA and FBI setting up a “security structure” that oversees savage attacks on those who opposed the February coup. Watch the videos, read the eye-witness reports from the massacre in Odessa this month. Bussed fascist thugs burned the trade union headquarters, killing 41 people trapped inside. Watch the police standing by. A doctor described trying to rescue people, “but I was stopped by pro-Ukrainian Nazi radicals. One of them pushed me away rudely, promising that soon me and other Jews of Odessa are going to meet the same fate … I wonder, why the whole world is keeping silent.”
Russian-speaking Ukrainians are fighting for survival. When Putin announced the withdrawal of Russian troops from the border, the Kiev junta’s defence secretary – a founding member of the fascist Svoboda party – boasted that the attacks on “insurgents” would continue. In Orwellian style, propaganda in the west has inverted this to Moscow “trying to orchestrate conflict and provocation”, according to William Hague. His cynicism is matched by Obama’s grotesque congratulations to the coup junta on its “remarkable restraint” following the Odessa massacre. Illegal and fascist-dominated, the junta is described by Obama as “duly elected”. What matters is not truth, Henry Kissinger once said, but “but what is perceived to be true.”
(Source)
I’m certainly glad that Canada is soundly backing the fascist junta in the Ukraine, I’d hate to think what would happen if we let those people decide for themselves what is best for their country. We most definitely need to
serve our interestsprotect the people of Ukraine during this conflict.
I’m frightened for the wrong reasons…
bleatmop
Mystro
The Arbourist
Dead Wild Roses 
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May 19, 2014 at 6:57 am
N℮üґ☼N☮☂℮ṧ
“In Orwellian style, propaganda in the west has inverted this to Moscow “trying to orchestrate conflict and provocation”
Your source aligns with the link I posted on your “Ukraine – What the hell is going on?” post a while back. Only your source says the U.S. has been in the coup business since 1945 and my source said 1953. What’s 8 years, right?
Sigh — those in power in my country flex their dopamine drenched neuronic muscles again. Here’s what can happen when people are in power for too long. From the book “The Winner Effect: How Power Affects Your Brain” by Ian Robertson, PhD.
“Power changes the brain triggering increased testosterone in both men and women. Testosterone and one of its by-products called 3-androstanediol, are addictive, largely because they increase dopamine in a part of the brain’s reward system called the nucleus accumbens. Cocaine has its effects through this system also, and by hijacking our brain’s reward system, it can give short-term extreme pleasure but leads to long-term addiction, with all that that entails.
Unfettered power has almost identical effects.
But too much power – and hence too much dopamine – can disrupt normal cognition and emotion, leading to gross errors of judgment and imperviousness to risk, not to mention huge egocentricity and lack of empathy for others.”
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Sound familiar? My country is a power junkie — ‘dope’ addict. We should be afraid.
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May 19, 2014 at 9:50 am
syrbal-labrys
You and I fear for the same reasons. You’d think the last decade of war expenses would have taught America to knock it off…but no, apparently not.
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May 19, 2014 at 10:49 am
The Arbourist
What the US did post WW2 in Italy and Greece to people’s movements makes my stomach churn. The litany of atrocities committed by the US extends much farther back that 1945, let me assure you.
Two oceans and a powerful navy have kept almost all of the destruction of 20th and 21st century “over there”. The geographical distances make it easier to disconnect people far away from their humanity.
The crash, when it comes, will be ugly that much is certain.
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May 19, 2014 at 10:54 am
N℮üґ☼N☮☂℮ṧ
Yep — what goes up, must come down; and I concur that the atrocities go back further than 1945. After all, look what they did to the American Indians. :(
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May 19, 2014 at 11:01 am
The Arbourist
@NeuralNotes
Precisely.
We study the (some) of the brutality of European history but are near mute on our own bloody past.
Without independent reading, the likes of Zinn, Chomsky and Tariq Ali for instance, how is one to get an accurate picture of where we come from and the how and why our society works as it does?
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May 19, 2014 at 11:13 am
N℮üґ☼N☮☂℮ṧ
Hell, we can look at primate studies and learn a lot about our ‘cultural’ nature. An example can be seen in the article “Peace Among Primates” by Dr. Robert Salposky from Stanford. Note the section “Left behind”. http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/peace_among_primates
We clearly run into problems in aggressive, highly stratified, male-dominated environments. It doesn’t take a primatologist or neurologist to see what we need to do to became a peaceful species. History is our best teacher. I have to agree with Aldous Huxley when he said:
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
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May 21, 2014 at 1:15 am
bleatmop
You were under the illusion that we were somehow the good guys in this conflict? Don’t get me wrong, Russia isn’t a good guy either. There are no good guys here, only imperial powers trying to bring a failed state into their sphere of influence. In other words, business as usual.
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May 22, 2014 at 10:09 am
The Arbourist
@bleatmop
Oh, no not by a long shot. However, it the officially mandated caricature that we are supposed to embrace, and I run across it often when interacting with people outside my usual circle of acquaintances.
Agreed.
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