Legally, Washington and its European allies haven’t a leg to stand on. Both can be rightly accused of violating international law from their gross interference in Ukrainian sovereign affairs – from the instigation of violent street protests that led to the sacking of an elected president and government, to the […]
Tag: 2014 coup d’etat in Kiev
Beijing: Backing Russia is in China’s interests
The US announced Monday it would put trade and investment talks with Russia on hold. It also suspended military ties with Russia. US President Barack Obama condemned Russia’s violation of Ukrainian sovereignty, and said Russia is “on the wrong side of history,” warning that the US and its allies are […]
Six Cold-War-era coup d’états that the Euromaidan leaders should know about
“They shall no more prevail than we give way to.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII “King Henry the Eighth, to six wives he was wedded. One died, one survived, two divorced, two beheaded.” English mnemonic device From the early 1950s until 2000 the United States supported a number of quasi-fascist regimes […]
European policy of appeasement to ultranationalists in Ukraine – Video
The ongoing political crisis in Ukraine triggered by the unconstitutional forceful actions of the armed opposition that used to be backed by a number of Western governments, urges us to raise and try to answer the following questions: – Was the European policy towards Ukraine for the last years a […]
Divide and conquer: West replays old partition game in Ukraine (II)
Part I Spinoffs for the West Ukraine is an insanely industrious country, with a fertile bread basket in the west and a highly industrialised east. If the country’s 46 million people are added to the Western alliance it would be a huge untapped market for American armament companies and German […]
Russia is back
The date March 1, 2014 has already entered the annals of history, simply because that day marks the formal recognition of something that had already been going on for several years – the post-Soviet period has come to an end, the unipolar world is now a thing of the past, […]
Divide and conquer: West replays old partition game in Ukraine (I)
By taking sides in the political divide in Ukraine, the West has sent the country of 46 million hurtling towards fragmentation. This is deeply ironic because the Ukrainian capital Kiev – where the medieval state of Kievan Rus’ was based – is acknowledged as their historic homeland by the Slavs […]
Russian intervention in Crimea: for peace, not war
The Russian upper chamber has unanimously approved President’s Putin requests for troops to be used in Ukraine. The fist word that comes to mind is intervention. The images that are drawn in one’s imagination parallel those of the devastating pictures from Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. But what will we see […]
Ukrainian nationalism – its roots and nature (II & III)
The Saker’s analysis of the situation in Ukraine done in the midst of the coup d’etat and Crimean events at the end of February 2014.
Worst Man for the Job : What the Hell is Obama Thinking?
Nothing is quite as nauseating as watching the hypocrisy and hubris with which President Obama ’warns’ the Russian president not to ’interfere’ in Ukraine, telling the Russians there would be ’costs to pay.’ It’s a surreal move, echoed by his equally creepy and out-of-touch consigliore and chief “diplomat,” the morally […]
Costs President Obama is about to pay in Ukraine
Yesterday the United States lost the propaganda war on Ukraine. President Obama made a reluctant and senseless statement which Washington Post entitled “There will be costs”. He pronounced standard phrases like “the Ukrainian people deserve the opportunity to determine their own future”, proposed Russia to be a “part of an […]
Crisis in Ukraine: imagine the shoe on the other foot
BREAKING: Putin, Xi, Maduro and Castro arrive in Quebec to negotiate a transitional government and protect the breakaway province from reprisal by “English-speaking cultural hegemony.” Putin accuses Obama of ‘interfering’ as riots grip Toronto and Montreal, aided by covert Russian and Chinese training and funding. Lavrov is caught on tape […]
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