Now I may not
be able to tell you what happened on some cable television program or
pontificate of what I think may happen on some contrived artificial reality
show, but I am in a position to conjure and offer perspectives on other
contrived non-events such as what is frequently called politics. More
specifically issues of somewhat basic precepts of democratic centralism and
constitutional republics.
I have been
told by the brain trust in the vicinity of the Beltway that self-determination
means nothing anymore, unless it is decided upon by individuals who have no
stake on such self-determination. I say this because from the President down,
seems that the SEO meter is running on a simple phrase that the referendum in
Crimea is illegitimate and illegal, and even that as such, the United States
will not (never ever ever ever even) recognize its right to self-determination.
This is not
only sociopathic but also inconsistent with the plurality evinced in our own
constitution, but even more so in the articles of confederation, the bill of
rights as ascribed via the Treaty of Paris.
It
is as if just by saying such, it makes it a fact or truism.
Since the PEOPLE of
Crimea voted over-whelming for their independence from the Ukraine, every nut
and bolt politician in the United States has been saying the same thing, which
can be summed up by the statement made by Obama’s press secretary, Jay Carney,
who openly informed the world that the Obama Administration would not recognize
the results of the referendum in Crimea calling what Russia did as being
“dangerous and destabilizing”. Thus by fiat extending the assertion that the
population of Crimea has no right to conduct a democratic referendum via the
ballot, to decide if it wants to remain with the Ukraine or join Russia.
Fascinating,
I mean a constitutional scholar (in theory) asserting anti-constitutional
beliefs. This when, if it wasn’t for Washington, and even the EU helping to
overthrow a democratically elected leader of another sovereign nation (Ukraine),
we wouldn’t even be in this mess. Moreover, what makes even more absurd in the
logic offered for this position by the Obama administration, which for the
record asserts that the
referendum cannot be valid unless the entire population of Ukraine votes and
agrees with the decision by Crimean’s. A funny and strange position to take
when you study past U.S. history with respect to the South Sudan (all of Sudan
didn’t vote) and Kosovo from Serbia (no Serbians were allowed to vote via U.S.
dictate).
Then we have the audacity
(like hope) to ridicule Putin for what Bill Clinton did in in Serbia, Bush in Iraq,
and by Obama in Afghanistan, Libya, and trying to do currently in Syria. Were we
this up set in 1967 when Israel committed a real act of war when it took
Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the Syrian Golan Heights and the
Jordanian-administered West Bank, or in 1981 when the same nation, Israel took the Golan Heights.
The simple fact of the matter
is that we, America, should mind our own business and tend to the home front
where we have real interest and not just the plutocratic interest of the ultra-wealthy.
From a historical perspective WE KNOW that the two elephants in the room that
no one is really discussing are: (1) the historical US/NATO desire to be able
to surround Russia militarily and (2) access to the Artic, in particular since
all these international bodies being so concerned with ‘global warming”, have
green lighted more drilling there. These folks have to contain the Russian
military because it will be the only way they can try and get all of the
natural gas it has as well as access the infinite northern border Russia has with the Arctic.
Again, the United States has no interest
that is national in the Ukraine when compared to Russia. Not only do the
Russians have a large naval facility in Crimea, the folk there do speak Russian
and it was conquered originally by Catherine the Great. Moreover, Moscow is not about
to invade Ukraine and we all know this, it just sounds good to make folk believe
that should be a reason for us to be upset. Outside of that, what is our
national interest in the Ukraine? Is it to spread democracy like we did in
Libya and Somalia? I mean fact is where ever we try to spread democracy all we
get is a lot of dead Americans, a destabilized nation, and large Blackwater
contracts.
We should just stay out of this and admit our only goal
is really western control of oil and gas in the region. The Crimean Supreme Council is
already on record saying Crimea wants Gazprom to develop the peninsula's oil
and natural gas deposits and not any western (US company).
This time we have
messed with the wrong cat, a cat from a nation with conviction, who has very
strong leadership skills, and even more than this REAL national interest in the
region. This is aint no doo doo chaser,
this is Putin.
If I may, I would
like to explain the terse yet strange relationship between President Barack
Obama and Vladimir Putin. To use a basic football analogy, like the
Seahawks, Putin has scored on his first five possessions: Syria and Assad,
Edward Snowden, Sochi Olympic with no overt terrorism, China and recently the
Ukraine.
First, the United
States need Russia more economically than Russia needs the United States.
Russia is the world’s largest supplier of Iron ore, coal, and maybe even fish.
Not to mention that in general, Russia is the largest mineral supplier and has
more than twenty percent of the world’s oil and more than fifteen percent of
the world’s coal. I would add that they also have more than 20 percent of the
world’s timber and nickel as well, and I won’t even mention Zinc, or natural gas
(did I do that?). Because when you really have a trump card to play economically,
it would be natural gas. Russia supplies
most of the Natural gas to Europe and if they decided to cut it off, it would
be a big problem for European industry, which happens to be America’s largest
trading partner. Even if Russia doesn’t cut off the gas, folk in the Central
Ukraine might, which still manifest in the same result.
Putin has masterfully
played Obama’s weakness and shown the world how empty his rhetoric is. No US
propaganda spouted from main stream media can undo this. While Obama speaks of
respecting the sovereign boarders of independent nations, he does the opposite
in Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, and Pakistan. Thus any credibility in his
oratory pertaining to the Ukraine is disingenuous.
In Syria, Obama has
thrown his support behind Al Qaeda against the will and majority of the Syrian
people and in Ukraine; he has thrown his support being mostly fascist neo-Nazis.
It is well documented that most of the key positions in the newly formed Ukrainian
government have been given to neo-Nazis via the tacit financial support of the
United Sates government. I mean ask yourself, who comprises the Svoboda political party? Then, most of the
popular protest openly is against what Obama is for politically. The demands
of the Ukranian people in Kiev are anti-abortion, anti-welfare, closed
immigration, “ethnic mongrolization”, homosexuality and abortion. Yes, Obama
has thrown his backing behind the largest population of ultra-nationalist, fascist,
and racist in Europe who don’t even support his progressive belief orientation.
Now on the day that I
am about write and post this essay, we find out Putin has sent as many as 6000
troops to the Crimea and earlier on Saturday, the speaker of the Russian
State Duma Council Valentina Matvienko supported his actions. Elsewhere China has filed a case against Ukraine at the London
Court of International Arbitration for US$3 billion from Ukraine for the breach
of a loans-for-grain contract signed in 2012. Plus, the Swiss financial regulator FINMA, has started a
money-laundering investigation into ousted Ukrainian President Viktor
Yanukovych.
Truth be told, in my
ignorant opinion, the Ukraine , like Syria is a no win situation. In fact it
may evince to be 1853 all over again. And we all know what that means.
