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(20,582 posts)Preparing the Ground for NATO
by William Blum / March 8th, 2014
.....Since the end of the Cold War the United States has been surrounding Russia, building one base after another, ceaselessly looking for new ones, including in Ukraine; one missile site after another, with Moscow in range; NATO has grabbed one former Soviet Republic after another. The White House, and the unquestioning American mainstream media, have assured us that such operations have nothing to do with Russia. And Russia has been told the same, much to Moscows continuous skepticism. Look, said Russian president Vladimir Putin about NATO some years ago, is this is a military organization? Yes, its military.
Is it moving towards our border? Its moving towards our border. Why?1
The Holy Triumvirate would love to rip Ukraine from the Moscow bosom, evict the Russian Black Sea Fleet, and establish a US military and/or NATO presence on Russias border. (In case you were wondering what prompted the Russian military action.) Kievs membership in the EU would then not be far off; after which the country could embrace the joys of neo-conservatism, receiving the benefits of the standard privatization-deregulation-austerity package and join Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain as an impoverished orphan of the family; but no price is too great to pay to for being part of glorious Europe and the West!
The Ukrainian insurgents and their Western-power supporters didnt care who their Ukrainian allies were in carrying out their coup against President Viktor Yanukovych last month
thugs who set policemen on fire head to toe
all manner of extreme right-wingers, including Chechnyan Islamic militants2
a deputy of the ultra-right Svoboda Party, part of the new government, who threatens to rebuild Ukraines nukes in three to six months.3
the snipers firing on the protestors who apparently were not what they appeared to be A bugged phone conversation between Urmas Paet, the Estonian foreign minister, and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, reveals Paet saying: There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers it was not Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new coalition.4
neo-Nazi protestors in Kiev who have openly denounced Jews, hoisting a banner honoring Stepan Bandera, the infamous Ukrainian nationalist who collaborated with the German Nazis during World War II and whose militias participated in atrocities against Jews and Poles.....
http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/03/preparing-the-ground-for-nato/