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Democracy Murdered By Protest: Ukraine Falls To Intrigue and Violence
Who’s
in charge? Certainly not the bought-and-paid-for-moderates that
Washington and the EU hoped to install as the new government of Ukraine.
The agreement that the Washington and EU supported opposition concluded
with President Yanukovich to end the crisis did not last an hour.
Even the former boxing
champion, Vitaly Klitschko, who was riding high as an opposition leader
until a few hours ago has been booed by the rioters and shoved aside.
The newly appointed president by what is perhaps an irrelevant
parliament, Oleksandr Turchynov, has no support base among those who
overthrew the government. As the BBC reports, “like all of the
mainstream opposition politicians, Mr. Turchynov is not entirely trusted
or respected by the protesters in Kiev’s Independence Square.”
In
western Ukraine the only organized and armed force is the
ultra-nationalist Right Sector. From the way this group’s leaders speak,
they assume that they are in charge.
One
of the group’s leaders, Aleksandr Muzychko, has pledged to fight
against “Jews and Russians until I die.” Asserting the Right Sector’s
authority over the situation, Muzychko declared that now that the
democratically elected government has been overthrown, “there will be
order and discipline” or “Right Sector squads will shoot the bastards on
the spot.”
The bastards are any protesters who dare to protest the Right Sector’s control.
Muzychko declared, “The next president of Ukraine will be from Right Sector.”
Another
Right Sector leader, Dmitry Yarosh, declared: “the Right Sector will
not lay down its arms.” He declared the deal made between the
opposition and the President to be “unacceptable” and demanded the
liquidation of President Yanukovich’s political party.
The
Right Sector’s roots go back to the Ukrainians who fought for Adolf
Hitler against the Soviet Union during World War 2. It was the Right
Sector that introduced armed fighters and turned the tide of the
protests in Kiev from peaceful protests in favor of joining the EU to
violent attacks on police with the view of overthrowing the
democratically elected government, which the Right Sector succeeded in
doing.
The
Right Sector did not overthrow the Ukraine government in order to
deliver it into the hands of the Washington and EU paid “opposition.”
There
is a tendency to discount the Right Sector as a small fringe group, but
the Right Sector not only took control of the protests away from the
Western supported moderates, as moderate leaders themselves admitted,
but also the Right Sector has enough public support to destroy the
national monument to the Red Army soldiers who died liberating Ukraine
from Nazi Germany.
Unlike
the US orchestrated toppling of the stature of Saddam Hussein, which
was a PR event for the presstitutes in which Iraqis themselves were not
involved, Ukrainian rightists’ destruction of the monument commemorating
the Red Army’s liberation of the Ukraine had public support. If the
Right Sector hates Russians for defeating the Nazis, the Right Sector
also hates the US, France, and England for the same reason. The Right
Sector is an unlikely political party to take Ukraine into the EU.
The
Russian parts of Ukraine clearly understand that the Right Sector’s
destruction of the monument commemorating the stand of the Red Army
against the German troops is a threat against the Russian population of
Ukraine. Provincial governments in eastern and southern Ukraine that
formerly were part of Russia are organizing militias against the
ultra-nationalist threat unleashed by Washington’s stupidity and
incompetence and by the naive and gullible Kiev protesters.
Having interfered in Ukraine’s internal affairs and lost control,
Washington is now issuing ultimatums to Russia not to interfere in
Ukraine. Does the idiot Susan Rice, Obama’s neoconservative National
Security Advisor, think Putin is going to pay any attention to her
ultimatums or to any instruction from a government so militarily
incompetent that it was unable to successfully occupy Baghdad after 8
years or to defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban after 12 years?
In only took a few hours for Russian troops to destroy the American and
Israeli trained and armed Georgian army that Washington sent to invade
South Ossetia.Where does Obama find morons like Susan Rice and Victoria Nuland? These two belong in a kindergarten for mentally handicapped children, not in the government of a superpower where their ignorance and arrogance can start World War 3.
Ukraine is far more important to Russia than it is to the US or EU. If the situation in Ukraine
spirals out of control and right-wing extremists seize control, Russian
intervention is certain. The arrogant and stupid Obama regime has
carelessly and recklessly created a direct strategic threat to the
existence of Russia.
According
to the Moscow Times, this is what a senior Russian official has to say:
“If Ukraine breaks apart, it will trigger a war.” Ukraine “will lose
Crimera first,” because Russia “will go in just as we did in Georgia.”
Another Russian official said: “ We will not allow Europe and the US to
take Ukraine from us. The states of the former Soviet Union, we are one
family. They think Russia is still as weak as in the early 1990s but we
are not.”
The
Ukrainian right-wing is in a stronger position than Washington’s paid
Ukrainian puppets, essentially weak and irrelevant persons who sold out
their country for Washington’s money. The Right Sector is organized. It
is armed. It is indigenous. It is not dependent on money funneled in
from Washington and EU financed NGOs. It has an ideology, and it is
focused. The Right Sector doesn’t have to pay its protesters to take to
the streets like Washington had to do.
Most
importantly, well-meaning but stupid protesters–especially the Kiev
students–and an Ukrainian parliament playing to the protesters destroyed
Ukrainian democracy. The opposition controlled parliament removed an
elected president from office without an election, an obvious illegal
and undemocratic action. The opposition controlled parliament issued
illegal arrest warrants for members of the president’s government. The
opposition controlled parliament illegally released criminals from
prison. As the opposition has created a regime of illegality in place
of law and constitutional procedures, the field is wide open for the
Right Sector. Expect everything the opposition did to Yanukovich to be
done to them by the Right Sector. By their own illegal and
unconstitutional actions, the opposition has set the precedent for their
own demise.
Just
as the February 1917 revolution against the Russian Tsar set the stage
for the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, surprising the stupid
“reformers,” the overthrow of the Ukrainian political order has set the
stage for the Right Sector. We can only hope that the Right Sector blows
its chance.
The
American media is a useless news source. It serves as a Ministry for
Government Lies. The corrupt propagandists are portraying the
undemocratic removal of Yanukovich as a victory for freedom and
democracy. When it begins to leak out that everything has gone wrong,
the presstitutes will blame it all on Russia and Putin. The Western
media is a plague upon humanity.
Americans
have no idea that the neoconservative regime of the White House Fool is
leading them into a Great Power Confrontation that could end in
destruction of life on earth.
Ironic,
isn’t it. America’s “first black president,” the person liberals
thought would restore justice, morality, and reason to Western
civilization, is instead now positioned as the person who will have to
accept humiliating defeat or risk the destruction of life on earth.
Sources:
http://www.channel4.com/news/kiev-svoboda-far-right-protests-right-sector-riot-police 
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Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal, has held numerous university appointments. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.Related content:
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