EXPANSION OF A COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY SAMUEL
OSBORNE IN THE INDEPENDENT
“Donald Trump blames
Barack Obama over Russia's annexation of Crimea”
Well, if Obama isn't to blame for Crimea, who is? Of course,
using the word “annexation” is not factually accurate and deliberately
provocative, but, whatever you choose to call the set of events, Obama is
unquestionably responsible.
He instigated a stupid coup against an elected government in
Ukraine.
We know, thanks to arrogant big-mouth Victoria Nuland, formerly
of the State Department, that the CIA blew $5 billion on the project.
In order to make it happen, all kinds of weird right-wing
militias and crypto-Nazis were used, the same kind of people that you may
easily find living in Aryan Nation compounds or abandoned missile silo sites
across the Western United States. Only Ukraine’s ugly tribes are heavily armed
and financed, many having military uniforms and regalia, thanks to Obama and
the CIA.
These ugly folks still threaten Ukraine’s internal security,
including Poroshenko's own rule and life. Poroshenko, America’s appointed seemingly-decent
face of the coup, likely lives in more secret fear of these nasty groups than
he does from Russia, but he can’t say that or he’d be through. So, he blubbers
on about Russia to keep the plug-uglies happy, both those from outfits like the
Azov Battalion and from the CIA.
The government America installed proved utterly incompetent
and block-headed, trying among other things to suppress the Russian language,
which is the language of nearly one-third of the nation’s residents.
Well, you can't carry on like that without consequences. So,
Russian speakers in two regions rebelled and did so successfully.
The coup-government of Ukraine proved so divided and
incompetent that it failed in trying to suppress the rebellions, despite having
overwhelming superiority in numbers and weapons.
The people of Crimea, who are overwhelmingly
Russian-speakers and have a history as part of Russia since Catherine the Great,
only being joined to Ukraine as an administrative move under the former USSR,
opted for independence from Ukraine and for renewing their centuries-old ties
to Russia.
Their efforts were at least as legitimate as those in Kosovo
or indeed what eventually happened to East Germany, where, by the way, Mrs.
Merkel grew up.
The battle in Eastern Ukraine, still going on, is kept alive
by crypto-Nazi outfits like the Azov Battalion, outfits the central government
cannot really control. There are other such large organizations, too, such as
the Right Sector.
The incompetent central government tried hard to raise
levies of men in Western Ukraine, but people there just ran away, wanting
nothing to do with the army and an unnecessary war.
Of course, along the way with so many other disasters, the
incompetents running Ukraine managed to shoot down a civilian airliner, MH-17,
but the US stepped in and largely made the consequences disappear. Clearly, the
public shock at the truth would have collapsed the infant coup government, so a
couple of years later we have an American-pressured Dutch investigation which,
after a record of extreme carelessness in even collecting evidence, still has
solved nothing in a case which should have taken weeks.
Ukraine's economy has done nothing but seriously decline. It
cannot even pay for adequate energy supplies. And the break-away Eastern
provinces have now nationalized Ukrainian industrial assets in their regions and
ceased shipping coal to Ukraine.
The main lesson to be learned from all of this is that it is
absolutely stupid and destructive to do what Obama did in Ukraine. I believe
American officials in private actually understand that, but they do not want to
be embarrassed over an admission of such complete failure and pretty much hate
Putin for outplaying them in geopolitical chess.
If you recall, at the end of the Vietnam War, a truly
pointless ten-year long exercise in massive brutality, American officials were
so angry and embarrassed about having lost that they wouldn’t talk to the
Vietnamese for years and never paid the war reparations they were obliged to
pay. Immense power such as America’s comes with immense arrogance.
Obama was largely incompetent in foreign affairs, and by
listening to the wrong people in Washington, he managed to kill several hundred
thousand and destroy the lives of millions. The bodies produced by his policies
lie rotting in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Eastern Ukraine, and a few other
spots. The millions of refugees he created are huddled in temporary shelters at
various locations, and their very movements in such large numbers have helped
de-stabilize the EU and create waves of bad feelings against refugees in the
West.
But the corporate press still treats Obama as a worthy
figure. He is always in their pages and broadcasts the smiling-boy face with a
good heart. That fact should tell us all something.
