Note. The two long quotations by Paul Craig Roberts included here are not found in the original article, but have been added by Lasha Darkmoon as appropriate picture captions. (JSM)<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-the-carving-up-of-the-Ukraine.jpg\" "\\"The")
<\/a>The carving up of the Ukraine<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cThe ignorant and stupid American government is now challenging Russia with a strategic intervention in Russia\u2019s back yard. This \u201csuperpower\u201d thinks it is going to take over Ukraine and put US missile bases on Russia\u2019s southern border. Keep in mind that this incompetent \u201csuperpower\u201d was unable to occupy Iraq after eight years and has been defeated in Afghanistan after 12 years of blowing up women and children, weddings, funerals, health centers, aide workers, farmers, entire villages, and kid\u2019s soccer games.\u201d\u00a0 \u2014 Paul Craig Roberts.\u201d [ – 1 <\/span>–<\/span><\/a>]<\/strong><\/h5>\nSoviet leader Josef Stalin used to shrug off critics by his favorite Central Asian saying: \u201cThe dogs bark; the caravan moves on.\u201d<\/h5>\nRussia\u2019s hard-eyed president, Vladimir Putin, is following the same strategy over Ukraine and Crimea. Putin swiftly moved his knight into the empty chess square of Crimea, thereby regaining full control of one of Russia\u2019s four strategic port regions: Sevastopol, Murmansk, St Petersburg and Vladivostok.<\/h5>\nSevastopol, now firmly in Moscow\u2019s hands, is Russia\u2019s sole gateway to the Black Sea, Mediterranean, and Mideast. The vast, co-shared Russian-Ukrainian Sevastopol naval base was a shaky, awkward arrangement doomed to eventual failure.<\/h5>\nSemi-autonomous Crimea, over 60% ethnic Russian, will hold a referendum on 16 March to decide to remain in Ukraine or rejoin Russia. A referendum is clearly the answer to the whole Ukraine-Russia problem.<\/h5>\nUkraine has been a corruption-ridden failed state since it separated from Russia in 1991. This writer has long suggested that partition of Ukraine into Western and Russian-oriented halves is the sensible solution, with Crimea returning to Russia.<\/h5>\nPutin asks if Western-backed Kosovo can go independent of Serbia, why can\u2019t Crimea break its links with Kiev?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\u2663<\/h5>\nThe temporary attachment of majority ethnic Russian Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 after 250 years of Russian rule was unnatural, a ticking time bomb. It has now exploded, triggered in part by the West\u2019s successful effort to overthrow the elected but corrupt government in Kiev of Viktor Yanukovich.<\/h5>\nOverturning regimes deemed uncooperative or hostile has long been a CIA specialty. Its first big success came in 1953 with the subversion of Iran\u2019s democratic-nationalist leader, Mohammed Mossadegh by a combination of propaganda, rented crowds, and bribes. We saw this same technique used \u2013 enhanced by modern social media \u2013 in Ukraine\u2019s first Orange Revolution, Georgia, again in Iran(unsuccessfully), and, with the help of US and British special forces, in Libya and Syria. Egypt came next, where a US-backed tinpot military dictator, the self-appointed \u201cField Marshall al-Sisi\u201d claims he is answering the people\u2019s call.\u201d Not a peep from Washington. Or about the crushing of opposition by Bahrain\u2019s US-backed monarchy.<\/h5>\nRussia, which used to be adept at subversion, has lagged in recent years but it still knows the signs. The Kremlin is convinced that Ukraine\u2019s latest revolution was engineered by Washington. The US Undersecretary of State for Europe admitted Washington has spent $5 billion over recent years in Ukraine to bring it into the West\u2019s orbit \u2013 aka \u201cbuilding democracy.\u201d<\/h5>\nTwo points to note: (1) Did Washington think that tough Vlad Putin would just take its coup lying down? (2) It\u2019s amazing how determined Washington\u2019s cold warriors remain to tear down Russia. The bankrupt US, $17 trillion in debt, running on money borrowed from China, with bridges collapsing and 44 million citizens on food stamps, suddenly finds the money to offer bankrupt Ukraine a new $1 billion loan \u2013 just to compete with Moscow. A loan unlikely to be repaid.<\/strong><\/h4>\nAmerica has a bad habit of personalizing foreign affairs and demonizing uncooperative leaders. Remember when Egypt\u2019s Gamal Abdel Nasser was denounced as \u201cHitler on the Nile?\u201d \u201cKhadaffi, Mad Dog of the Mideast?\u201d Most Americans have little knowledge of geography, history or world affairs so the easiest way to market overseas adventures to them is by creating foreign bogeymen like Khadaffi and Saddam.<\/h5>\nVladimir Putin is the latest. He is being hysterically demonized by the US and British media. Vlad the Bad.<\/h5>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Vlad-the-Bad-Putin-as-the-new-Hitler.jpg\" "\\"Vlad")
<\/a>Vlad the Bad: Putin as the new Hitler<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cPutin\u2019s calm leadership and his insistence on legality and the will of the people stand in stark contrast to the West\u2019s threats and support for violent overthrow of a democratically elected government\u2026. By taking this humane and rational approach, Putin has established himself as the true leader of the world. Washington counters Putin\u2019s leadership with demonization. Putin\u2019s leadership frustrates Washington and now makes Putin a candidate for assassination.\u201d \u2013 Paul Craig Roberts [ – 2<\/span> –<\/span><\/a> ]<\/strong><\/h5>\nDisturbingly, US Republicans and the usual media propagandists are heaping blame on President Barack Obama for \u201closing Crimea,\u201d as if any of them knows where it was before last week. John McCain and his sidekick Sen. Lindsey Graham have been demanding that Obama \u201cget tough.\u201d<\/h5>\nSure. Let\u2019s mine Russia\u2019s ports or blockade its oil and gas exports. Nothing like a nuclear war to show how weak the Democrats are. Thank god McCain did not win the presidency. The dolts at Fox TV can\u2019t tell the difference between caution and cowardice.<\/h5>\nPresident Putin\u2019s ambition is to slowly reassemble some parts of the old USSR, Ukraine being the most important. Doing so is in Russia\u2019s national interest, much as we may not like it. Nearly all Russians believe Putin is on the right track. By contrast, Washington wants to keep Russia weak and treat it as an obsequious, defeated nation, like postwar Germany or Japan.<\/h5>\nThe US won\u2019t accept that Russia has any legitimate spheres of influence, while Washington\u2019s span the globe. Last week, US Secretary of State John Kerry, who used to be a sensible fellow before becoming corrupted by power, blasted Russia: \u201cyou just don\u2019t invade a country under a phony pretext!\u201d<\/h5>\nI guess Kerry has never heard of the US invasions of the Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Libya. I guess he can\u2019t remember Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin incident.<\/h5>\nKerry should cut the hypocrisy and get to work on a diplomatic settlement. Two major nuclear-armed powers cannot \u2013 and must not \u2013 be allowed to confront one another.<\/h5>\n
<\/a>The carving up of the Ukraine<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cThe ignorant and stupid American government is now challenging Russia with a strategic intervention in Russia\u2019s back yard. This \u201csuperpower\u201d thinks it is going to take over Ukraine and put US missile bases on Russia\u2019s southern border. Keep in mind that this incompetent \u201csuperpower\u201d was unable to occupy Iraq after eight years and has been defeated in Afghanistan after 12 years of blowing up women and children, weddings, funerals, health centers, aide workers, farmers, entire villages, and kid\u2019s soccer games.\u201d\u00a0 \u2014 Paul Craig Roberts.\u201d [ – 1 <\/span>–<\/span><\/a>]<\/strong><\/h5>\n Vlad the Bad: Putin as the new Hitler<\/p><\/div>\n \u201cPutin\u2019s calm leadership and his insistence on legality and the will of the people stand in stark contrast to the West\u2019s threats and support for violent overthrow of a democratically elected government\u2026. By taking this humane and rational approach, Putin has established himself as the true leader of the world. Washington counters Putin\u2019s leadership with demonization. Putin\u2019s leadership frustrates Washington and now makes Putin a candidate for assassination.\u201d \u2013 Paul Craig Roberts [ – 2<\/span> –<\/span><\/a> ]<\/strong><\/h5>\nSoviet leader Josef Stalin used to shrug off critics by his favorite Central Asian saying: \u201cThe dogs bark; the caravan moves on.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Russia\u2019s hard-eyed president, Vladimir Putin, is following the same strategy over Ukraine and Crimea. Putin swiftly moved his knight into the empty chess square of Crimea, thereby regaining full control of one of Russia\u2019s four strategic port regions: Sevastopol, Murmansk, St Petersburg and Vladivostok.<\/h5>\n
Sevastopol, now firmly in Moscow\u2019s hands, is Russia\u2019s sole gateway to the Black Sea, Mediterranean, and Mideast. The vast, co-shared Russian-Ukrainian Sevastopol naval base was a shaky, awkward arrangement doomed to eventual failure.<\/h5>\n
Semi-autonomous Crimea, over 60% ethnic Russian, will hold a referendum on 16 March to decide to remain in Ukraine or rejoin Russia. A referendum is clearly the answer to the whole Ukraine-Russia problem.<\/h5>\n
Ukraine has been a corruption-ridden failed state since it separated from Russia in 1991. This writer has long suggested that partition of Ukraine into Western and Russian-oriented halves is the sensible solution, with Crimea returning to Russia.<\/h5>\n
Putin asks if Western-backed Kosovo can go independent of Serbia, why can\u2019t Crimea break its links with Kiev?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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The temporary attachment of majority ethnic Russian Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 after 250 years of Russian rule was unnatural, a ticking time bomb. It has now exploded, triggered in part by the West\u2019s successful effort to overthrow the elected but corrupt government in Kiev of Viktor Yanukovich.<\/h5>\n
Overturning regimes deemed uncooperative or hostile has long been a CIA specialty. Its first big success came in 1953 with the subversion of Iran\u2019s democratic-nationalist leader, Mohammed Mossadegh by a combination of propaganda, rented crowds, and bribes. We saw this same technique used \u2013 enhanced by modern social media \u2013 in Ukraine\u2019s first Orange Revolution, Georgia, again in Iran(unsuccessfully), and, with the help of US and British special forces, in Libya and Syria. Egypt came next, where a US-backed tinpot military dictator, the self-appointed \u201cField Marshall al-Sisi\u201d claims he is answering the people\u2019s call.\u201d Not a peep from Washington. Or about the crushing of opposition by Bahrain\u2019s US-backed monarchy.<\/h5>\n
Russia, which used to be adept at subversion, has lagged in recent years but it still knows the signs. The Kremlin is convinced that Ukraine\u2019s latest revolution was engineered by Washington. The US Undersecretary of State for Europe admitted Washington has spent $5 billion over recent years in Ukraine to bring it into the West\u2019s orbit \u2013 aka \u201cbuilding democracy.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Two points to note: (1) Did Washington think that tough Vlad Putin would just take its coup lying down? (2) It\u2019s amazing how determined Washington\u2019s cold warriors remain to tear down Russia. The bankrupt US, $17 trillion in debt, running on money borrowed from China, with bridges collapsing and 44 million citizens on food stamps, suddenly finds the money to offer bankrupt Ukraine a new $1 billion loan \u2013 just to compete with Moscow. A loan unlikely to be repaid.<\/strong><\/h4>\n
America has a bad habit of personalizing foreign affairs and demonizing uncooperative leaders. Remember when Egypt\u2019s Gamal Abdel Nasser was denounced as \u201cHitler on the Nile?\u201d \u201cKhadaffi, Mad Dog of the Mideast?\u201d Most Americans have little knowledge of geography, history or world affairs so the easiest way to market overseas adventures to them is by creating foreign bogeymen like Khadaffi and Saddam.<\/h5>\n
Vladimir Putin is the latest. He is being hysterically demonized by the US and British media. Vlad the Bad.<\/h5>\n
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<\/a>Disturbingly, US Republicans and the usual media propagandists are heaping blame on President Barack Obama for \u201closing Crimea,\u201d as if any of them knows where it was before last week. John McCain and his sidekick Sen. Lindsey Graham have been demanding that Obama \u201cget tough.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Sure. Let\u2019s mine Russia\u2019s ports or blockade its oil and gas exports. Nothing like a nuclear war to show how weak the Democrats are. Thank god McCain did not win the presidency. The dolts at Fox TV can\u2019t tell the difference between caution and cowardice.<\/h5>\n
President Putin\u2019s ambition is to slowly reassemble some parts of the old USSR, Ukraine being the most important. Doing so is in Russia\u2019s national interest, much as we may not like it. Nearly all Russians believe Putin is on the right track. By contrast, Washington wants to keep Russia weak and treat it as an obsequious, defeated nation, like postwar Germany or Japan.<\/h5>\n
The US won\u2019t accept that Russia has any legitimate spheres of influence, while Washington\u2019s span the globe. Last week, US Secretary of State John Kerry, who used to be a sensible fellow before becoming corrupted by power, blasted Russia: \u201cyou just don\u2019t invade a country under a phony pretext!\u201d<\/h5>\n
I guess Kerry has never heard of the US invasions of the Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Libya. I guess he can\u2019t remember Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin incident.<\/h5>\n
Kerry should cut the hypocrisy and get to work on a diplomatic settlement. Two major nuclear-armed powers cannot \u2013 and must not \u2013 be allowed to confront one another.<\/h5>\n
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