Excerpt:
President Obama gave a speech on
Wednesday, in a city most Americans have never heard of, committing the United
States to possible war against Russia. He said that the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, a Western military alliance better known as NATO, would fight to
defend eastern European members like Estonia against any foreign aggression. In
other words, if Russian President Vladimir Putin invades Estonia or Latvia as
he invaded Ukraine, then Putin would trigger war with the US and most of
Europe.
Obama's speech from the Estonian capital
of Tallinn, though just a speech, may well be America's most important and
aggressive step yet against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
You
know, words mean something, especially if they are spoken by the “leader of the
free world”. Using the term “invasion”
when referring to Russia’s protecting the Russian speaking population of Ukraine
is hardly an invasion.
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| Pro-Russian armed militants and activists block access to the residence of Rinat Akhmetov |
Excerpt:
Ukraine's Richest Man
Mobilizes Private 'Army' After Assets Threatened
Rinat
Akhmetov - Ukraine's richest man with an estimated worth of $11.4 billion -
has, as Reuters reports, acquired almost feudal status in the industrial hub of
Donetsk in the past 20 years - but the separatist rebellions there have altered
the dynamics of power. This is not acceptable to the billionaire and so he has
demanded his miners and metalworkers join police on patrol on Mariupol.
As
pro-Russian rebels declaring independence seized public buildings across the
steel and coal belt which is the basis of his colossal fortune, he issued
repeated written statements in support of a united Ukraine... but the media-shy
47-year-old, who has a workforce of 300,000 people on his payroll in the
Donbass, has to tread carefully around local sensitivities and has avoided
specifically condemning the action of the separatists.
Not to be
outdone by Akhmetov, billionaire Kolomoisky has his own private army. From Revolutionary Communist:
Excerpt:
The
Ukrainian billionaire oligarch Igor Kolomoisky pays his own private army
because he does not trust the local police; he offers bounties for captured
opposition fighters. Kolomoisky is governor of Dnipropetrovsk, he has dual
Ukrainian-Israeli citizenship and resides in Switzerland. Over 20 eastern
Ukrainian towns and cities have declared themselves autonomous from the
government in Kiev. The interim government describes these opponents as
‘terrorists’ and vows to annihilate them.
So basically Obama
is committing America’s meager treasures to protect these billionaires’ profits
and the ravaging of the cash poor, resource rich country that is the corn
basket of the world.
President
Vladimir Putin, who has been vilified by the EU, US and Britain for obstructing
the imperialist takeover of the government of Ukraine, has made several
attempts to assist with a peace process in the conflict. However, the Ukraine government in Kiev
bolstered by NATO’s belligerence towards Russia has refused to agree to any
peaceable solution that does not include the people of Ukraine recognizing the
illegitimate government installed in a coup.
NATO’s most recent belligerence
toward Russia was to build a mercenary army to send in to any nation that
fights NATO’s imperialistic aggression. FromCNN :
Excerpt
Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- NATO members
meeting this week in Wales are expected to create "a very high-readiness
force" to deal with Russian aggression in Ukraine and other international
conflicts, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Monday.
In
a speech on the NATO website, Rasmussen said the fighting force will be
part of an overall Readiness Action Plan that "responds to Russia's
aggressive behavior -- but it equips the alliance to respond to all security
challenges, wherever they may arise."
He said this "spearhead" force
would be able to "travel light, but strike hard if needed."
NATO will look at possible upgrades to
infrastructure that could include airfields and ports, he said.
The White House supports the idea of a
rapid response teams for NATO, but National Security Spokesman Caitlin Hayden cautioned that the force would be
"defensive" in posture.
The
new force is "not intended as a provocation, or as a threat to Russia, but rather as a demonstration of NATO's
continued commitment to our collective defense," Hayden said.
Fat chance the “new force”
that travels light but strikes hard is not intended as a provocation or threat
to Russia; that is exactly what it is meant to be. So Putin has come out with a 7 point plan for
a Ukraine cease-fire, something that the Nuland, Biden, Kerry cabal and their
puppet Yats outright reject. From NewYork Times.
Excerpt:
Putin Outlines 7-Point Plan
for Ukraine Cease-Fire
KIEV,
Ukraine — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia listed seven steps on Wednesday
that he said were necessary for a cease-fire in the conflict in eastern
Ukraine. Mr. Putin said he and the president of Ukraine, Petro O. Poroshenko,
had a similar understanding about what was needed, and he urged Ukraine and the
pro-Russian separatists in the east to reach a settlement at talks scheduled
for Friday in Belarus.
The
primary conditions on Mr. Putin’s list are that the separatists halt all
offensive operations and that Ukrainian troops move their artillery back out of
range of cities and large towns in the rebel-held area.
Mr.
Putin also called for Ukraine to cease airstrikes; the establishment of an
international monitoring mission and humanitarian aid corridors; an “all for all” prisoner exchange; and
“rebuilding brigades” to repair damaged roads, bridges, power lines and other
infrastructure…
Mr.
Putin offered his seven-point plan a day before the leaders of the NATO
alliance, including President Obama, are scheduled to meet in Newport, Wales,
with the crisis in Ukraine at the top of the agenda. The alliance is expected to announce that it will create a new
rapid-reaction force for defending its members in Eastern Europe, along with
other measures.
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| Same faces different administration |
As Putin is
reaching for peace for the people of Ukraine, NATO is looking to make an
example of Ukraine for any country that rejects subjugation and austerity as
their homeland is sold to billionaires with private armies. So America, are you ready to commit your Social
Security and your country’s very existence to protect billionaire bankers takeover
of Ukraine?
You know, a recent
guest on C-Span’s Washington Journal program was James Carafano of the Heritage
Foundation, speaking on American foreign policy. The Heritage Foundation is one of the
right-wing think tanks who practically control the agenda at C-Span, like the
Cato Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, The Council on Foreign
Relations, RAND Corporation and on and on.
Carafano was
there to discuss ISIS and the threat to America, and he made a statement in
response to a caller’s question that blew me away.
CALLER
…
I would like to ask you if it was feasible to hire 100,000 mercenaries and keep
them on staff to go out across the world that would be all volunteers and go
out and exterminate these people because our military leaders are being
hamstrung by our political leaders.
CARAFANO, JAMES JAY
The
conflict. So by definition, if you employ mercenaries, that's against U.S. law.
We couldn't do that. So the question is could you have, you know, lawful
military contractors? The answer is the
country would have to allow them to be there, and b, we would have to pay for
it…
Yes, just
overthrow the government in Ukraine and then the installed government can
“invite” the U.S. funded “mercenaries” called private contractors to neutralize
the opposition at U.S. taxpayer expense.
Sweet deal for the cabal of war profiteers controlling U.S. foreign
policy.
But the
mercenaries fighting for the puppet government in Ukraine are getting sick of
dying for nothing. From the ChristianScience Monitor:
Excerpt:
Why should we lose our sons for Donbass?'
The war is also taking a public toll in
Ukraine, where the military reverses of recent days have reportedly triggered
public protests against the corruption and official incompetence which many
hold responsible for the army's failure to defeat the rebels.
The commander of the pro-Kiev Donbass
militia, Semyon Semenchenko, organized a protest in downtown Kiev Wednesday to demand
authorities immediately dispatch reinforcements to save the group, which is
reportedly surrounded by rebel fighters in the town of Ilovaysk, near Donestk.
On his Facebook page, Mr. Semenchenko accused Ukrainian generals of deceiving him and abandoning his men to their fate. He
added that unless help arrives soon, Ilovaysk will become "a mass grave…"
"People are dying, while corruption
in authorities' circles remains rampant," says Vadim Karasev, director of
the independent Institute of Global Strategies in Kiev. "There is a third [conscription drive]
underway, and it's not going well. Mothers are against it, and now they're taking
to the streets in many communities around Ukraine, even blocking roads. 'Why
should we lose our sons for Donbass? Let it go,' you hear people saying more
and more often."
"There's still some enthusiasm for
the fight, particularly in right-wing circles," Mr. Karasev adds,
"but the overall mood overtaking society is one of exhaustion."
Yes
there is a feeling of exhaustion in Ukraine, but the right-wing circles never
tire of killing and death, same as in the U.S.
Good old Poroshenko is having a tough time finding people to fight for
their own destruction to enrich billionaires.
According to the New York Times he’s reinstated the draft:
Excerpt:
Mr. Poroshenko scrapped a trip to
Turkey to deal with the crisis and called an emergency meeting of the Ukrainian
National Security and Defense Council. He dismissed Kremlin claims that any
Russian soldiers in Ukraine were volunteers who had sacrificed their vacations
to help the heavily pro-Russian east suffering oppression from the Kiev central
government.
“Columns
of heavy artillery, huge loads of arms and regular Russian servicemen came to
the territory of Ukraine from Russia through the uncontrolled border area,” Mr.
Poroshenko said. Mercenaries, along with regular servicemen, were trying to
overrun positions held by the Ukrainian military, he said, according to a
statement on his official website…
Russia officials continued to deny
sending soldiers or weapons to Ukraine. But the leader of the main separatist
group in southeastern Ukraine said that up to 4,000 Russians, including
active-duty soldiers currently on leave, had been fighting against Ukrainian
government forces, Russian television reported.
“There are active soldiers
fighting among us who preferred to spend their vacation not on the beach, but
with us, among their brothers, who are fighting for their freedom,” Aleksandr
Zakharchenko, a rebel commander and the prime minister of the self-declared
Donetsk People’s Republic, said in an interview on Russian state-run
television.
It's
going to be tough for Poroshenko to find an army willing to die for E.U.
austerity and U.S. shareholder profits.
According to Wall Street Journal
Excerpt:
Ukraine Taps Volunteers
Fueled by Anger, Bravado…
Ukraine responded in part with
volunteer battalions, tapping into patriotism and anger unleashed by what many
saw as foreign aggression. Fighting alongside regular troops and heavy
artillery, these battalions are a cross-section of Ukrainian society. But they
also include extreme nationalists and people like Mr. Abalmaz, who aren't
prone to showing restraint.
On a recent day, Mr. Abalmaz showed a municipal ID from a
small town where his men had just fought. The card pictured a gray-haired man
who looked to be in his 60s.
"He's lying somewhere rotting," Mr. Abalmaz
said, describing the man as a separatist. "We don't need him alive."
Asked if the man had been armed, Mr. Abalmaz said,
"No, he had no weapon, but they get their weapons at night." Later,
Mr. Abalmaz said the man did have a pistol in his car and was trying to escape.
As Kiev presses its
military offensive against the separatists, these volunteers are playing a key
role. They go into insurgent territory softened up by Ukrainian artillery and
conduct block-by-block clearance operations, which bring them into contact with
the civilian population as well.
Nice, Ukraine’s criminal army goes
block-by-block clearing citizens out of their homes that were “softened up” by
Ukrainian bombing. Sounds like Abalmaz
is a violent criminal with no regard for human life, a perfect match made in
hell.
But for
now, men like Mr. Abalmaz are an asset for the government in Kiev…
Upon his release (from prison), Mr.
Abalmaz says he plunged into another illegal—as well as lucrative and
violent—line of work: black-market coal mines. He created his own private army
to protect himself and his profits.
Obama
also stated "Here in the Baltics, it would mean
positioning more American equipment so it's ready, if needed," Obama said.
"It would mean more training and exercises between our militaries. And it
would mean more U.S. forces, including American boots on the ground, continuously
rotating through Estonia and Latvia and Lithuania."
Obama said NATO member states will provide support to Estonia in
the face of increased Russian aggression. In April, Russia "signaled concern"
about Estonia's large ethnic Russian minority, prompting wary Estonia leaders
to call for military assistance from NATO.
Really,
America? While your Social Security
benefits are being cut, your jobs are gone, your children are uneducated and
hungry are you willing to sacrifice even more for this American imperialism?
From GlobalResearch:
Excerpt:
From the Cold War to NATO’s
“Humanitarian Wars” – The Complicity of the United Nations
Humanitarian
wars, especially under the guise of the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P),”
are a modern form of imperialism. The standard pattern that the United States
and its allies use to execute them is one where genocide and ethnic cleansing
are vociferously alleged by a coalition of governments, media organizations,
and non-governmental front organizations. The allegations – often lurid and
unfounded – then provide moral and diplomatic cover for a variety of sanctions
that undermine and isolate the target country in question, and thereby pave the
way for military intervention. This is the post-Cold War modus operandi of the
US and NATO.
As the Cold War
began to wind down in the late-1980s and early-1990s, NATO saw the opportunity
that would arise from the geopolitical vacuum following the collapse of the Soviet
Union and the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc. Not only did NATO begin transforming from a defensive organization
into an offensive military body, the US-led alliance began to embrace a
supposed humanitarian mandate for this purpose. It is through this
purported embrace of humanitarianism that the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization was able to change into an offensive, interventionist military
force – indeed the largest such force
ever in the history of the world.
What happens to the U.S. when NATO’s
army is stronger than the American military and the U.S. Dollar is no longer
the currency of the world? Seems like those
dopes over at Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute and the like
are only interested in short term gratification. From New York Times:
At the same time, Ukraine and its Western
allies have not responded to criticism that the Ukrainian tactics against the
separatists have included the shelling of civilian areas in rebel strongholds,
with the death toll exceeding 2,000, according to the United Nations.
The United Nations Security Council met in an
emergency session on Ukraine on Thursday afternoon, during which the United States
and other Western allies expressed outrage at what they described as a pattern
of deceitful Russian aggression.
The U.S. is
pushing to world toward World War III while Putin is able to adjust to anything
this right wing cabal throws at him. It’s
time for America to decide, do you want Obama’s World War III or Putin’s plan
of peace, security for its citizens and rebuilding war torn countries? Do you want endless wars of aggression that
will never be won or roads, bridges and schools? Which is it America? Is this what you voted for?
By Patricia
Baeten
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