C'mon baby, light my (Crimean) fire

[bemildred]

March 16 is C Day. The Crimean parliament - by 78 votes with 8 abstentions - decided this is the day when Crimean voters will choose between joining the Russian Federation or to remain part of Ukraine as an autonomous region with very strong powers, according to the 1992 constitution.

Whatever "diplomatic" tantrums Washington and Brussels will keep pulling, and they will be incandescent, facts on the ground speak for themselves. The city council of Sevastopol - the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet - has already voted to join Russia. And next week the Duma in Moscow will study a bill to simplify the mechanism of adhesion.

Quick recap: this is a direct result of Washington spending US$5 billion - a Victoria "F**k the EU" Nuland official figure - to promote regime change in Ukraine. On the horizon, Crimea may be incorporated into Russia for free, while the "West" absorbs that bankrupt back-of-beyond (Western Ukraine) that an Asia Times Online reader indelibly described as the "Khaganate of Nulands" (an amalgam of khanate, Victoria's notorious neo-con husband Robert Kagan, and no man's land).

What Moscow regards as an illegal, neo-nazi infiltrated government in Kiev, led by Prime Minister Arseniy "Yats" Yatsenyuk - an Ukrainian Jewish banker playing the role of Western puppet - insists Crimea must remain part of Ukraine. And it's not only Moscow; half of Ukraine itself does not recognize the Yats gang as a legitimate government, now boasting a number of oligarchs imposed as provincial governors.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-070314.html

[Catherina]

1. Rec'd n/t

[bemildred]

2. Thanks. I did find it interesting how much Cheney and Zbig agree. nt

[Catherina]

3. What's there for them not to agree on?

Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard" is the precursor to PNAC.

Look at what google just spat out, from DU too

Zbiggie is neocon lite. Hell, he should be mad they stole his shit. Rebuilding America's Defenses is basically a ripoff of Zbig's Grand Chessboard, from controlling energy supply and chokepoints, all the way down to the Pearl Harbor catalyzing event. Zbiggie is just mad the neocons are carrying out the plans poorly.

Few people on this site realize Brezezinski's The Grand Chessboard, ...

1997, was used as cliff notes for the PNAC aspirations. There was not one original thought in the PNAC documents, their plans were in total a rip-off of Brezezinski's 'geostrategic imperatives'. From thoughts of domination through economic and military hegemony, to managing Eurasia (like it was our lone superpower right), the arrogance that is solely attributed to Bush and the neo cons first found forum in "The Grand Chessboard".

From page 40 a quote that says it all ...

~~In brief, for the United States, Eurasian geostrategy involves the purposeful management of geostrategically dynamic states and the careful handling of geopolitically catalytic states, in keeping with the twin interests of America in the short term preservation of its unique global power and in the long-run transformation of it into increasing institutionalized global cooperation. To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to a more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep the tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together. ~~

It is the savage bungling of his master plan and the means of implementation he speaks against, not the imperial hegemonic goals of control of the resources and economic wealth of the world.

Who? The big Zbig?

The person openly calling for ruling the entire planet via USA? Who is more megalomaniac him or Bush?

He just doesn't like that the PNACers poorly executed what he had in mind. Watch him sqeal as Russia, India and China unite to control the Eurasia.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3003510


History just keeps repeating itself, right under our very noses.

[bemildred]

4. That's my point. nt

[Catherina]

5. And a damn good one it is n/t

[bemildred]

6. Sometimes, most of the time, I tend to be oblique.

Nice to see you around.

[Catherina]

7. I noticed that and don't know why I forgot it

And I tend to take people too literally

Thanks bemildred. It's nice to see you here still posting it as it is

[Jefferson23]

8. Escobar's take on the region is always of interest to me, and his wit too, lol. n/t

[bemildred]

9. I just beat you to it, anyway. nt

[Jefferson23]

10. It was your posts long ago, that turned my attention to him.

[bemildred]

11. That's why I come here, I don't have to do all the work myself.

But thanks, and I do read a lot, like a lot of people here. It's one of our strengths, the "crowd sourcing". I learn more than I teach, and that's why I'm still here.

[Jefferson23]

12. True, I read all types of opinions here, some I would never have time to persue on my own time nor

necessarily find them on my own. DU keeps me curious to learn more.