Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
The Czech Republic\u2019s President Milos Zeman said, in an interview, in the January 3rd edition of Prague\u2019s daily newspaper Pravo<\/a><\/em>, that Czechs who think of the overthrow of Ukraine\u2019s President Viktor Yanukovych, on 22 February 2014, as having been like Czechoslovakia\u2019s authentically democratic \u201cVelvet Revolution\u201d are seeing it in a profoundly false light, because, (as Russian Television translated his statement into English<\/a>) “Maidan was not a democratic revolution.\u201d He said that this is the reason why Ukraine now is in a condition of \u201ccivil war,\u201d in which the residents of the Donbass region in Ukraine\u2019s southeast have broken away from the Ukrainian Government.<\/p>\n He furthermore said<\/a> that, “Judging by some of the statements of [Ukrainian] Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, I think that he is rather a prime minister of war because he does not want a peaceful solution, as recommended by the European Union (EU), but instead prefers to use force.\u201d (By contrast, George Soros, who has invested in Ukrainian bonds<\/a>, and whose International Renaissance Foundation<\/a> \u2013 also called The International Renaissance Fund<\/a> \u2013 helped finance the overthrow of Yanukovych<\/a>, as well as the hate-mongering<\/a> Hromadske TV in Ukraine, is proud of it<\/a>, and has repeatedly<\/a> said that the EU must<\/a> invest whatever is necessary for Ukraine to win its war against the residents of Donbass, and carry the war to victory against Russia<\/a>. His alleged passion for \u2018democracy\u2019 has evidently been actually a hatred of Russians; it wasn\u2019t an opposition to communism, after all; he hates Russians even after they have abandoned communism. Today\u2019s Czech President is instead committed to democracy, not to hatred<\/a> and bigotry<\/a> of any sort. He\u2019s a real<\/em> democrat.)<\/p>\n Zeman added, by way of contrast to Yatsenyuk, the possibility that Ukraine\u2019s President, Petro Poroshenko \u201cmight be a man of peace.\u201d So: though Zeman held out no such hope regarding Yatsenyuk (who was Obama\u2019s choice to lead Ukraine<\/a>), he did for Poroshenko (who wasn\u2019t Obama\u2019s choice, but who became Ukraine\u2019s President despite Obama\u2019s having wanted Yatsenyuk\u2019s sponsor, the hyper-aggressive Yulia Tymoshenko, to win the May 25th Presidential election, which was held only in Ukraine\u2019s pro-coup northwest, but claimed to possess authority over the entire country).<\/p>\n What this statement from Zeman indicates is that the European Union is trying to deal with Poroshenko, as the \u201cgood cop\u201d in a \u201cgood cop, bad cop\u201d routine, with Yatsenyuk playing the bad cop; and, so, the EU\u2019s policies regarding Ukraine will depend upon what comes forth from Poroshenko, not at all upon what comes from the more clearly pro-war, anti-peace, Yatsenyuk.<\/p>\n Furthermore, Zeman\u2019s now publicly asserting that the overthrow of Yanukovych was a coup<\/a> instead of having merely expressed the democratic intentions of most of the Maidan demonstrators, constitutes a sharp break away from U.S. President Barack Obama, who<\/a> was behind<\/a> that Ukrainian coup<\/a> and who endorses its current leaders.<\/p>\n Zeman isn\u2019t yet going as far as Hungary\u2019s President Viktor Orban did in his siding with Russia\u2019s President Putin against America\u2019s President Obama<\/a>, but Zeman is indicating that, unless Obama will get Poroshenko to separate himself more clearly from Yatsenyuk (whom the U.S. State Department\u2019s Victoria Nuland actually selected on February 4th to become Ukraine\u2019s Prime Minister<\/a> in the coup just 18 days later, and so there can be no reasonable question that he is an Obama stooge), Czech policy regarding Ukraine will separate away from Obama\u2019s war against Putin, and will join instead with Putin\u2019s defense against Obama\u2019s Ukrainian assault.<\/p>\n Zeman is thus now in very much the same position that Orban had been prior to Orban\u2019s clear decision recently to side with Putin: each is a head-of-state of a former Soviet satellite nation, which had waged a democratic revolution (in 1956 in Hungary, and in 1968 in Czechoslovakia) against the Soviet communist tyranny. He is saying to his own countrymen, that the tyrant now is the United States, under its President Barack Obama, and is not Russia, under its President Vladimir Putin. That\u2019s a seismic shift, away from the U.S., because of the Ukrainian coup.<\/p>\n Zeman was careful in his selection of which Czech news-medium would hold this interview with him. As wikipedia has noted, Pravo<\/em><\/a> \u201cis the only Czech national daily that is not owned by a foreign company.\u201d The message that this fact sends to Czechs is that Zeman wanted to make clear that foreign influences, and any currying of favor with aristocrats (who own the \u2018news\u2019 media) in foreign countries, will not dictate his policies; only the Czech Republic\u2019s own democratic values, and the behavior of Poroshenko, will. Zeman is indirectly telling Obama: Back off from me \u2013 you\u2019re trying to get too close, and I won\u2019t tolerate this. When Victoria Nuland said \u201cF\u2013k the EU,\u201d<\/a> she expressed Obama\u2019s view, and all of them recognized the fact; some, like Orban and Zeman, don\u2019t like to be treated this way; others, such as Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel, seem not to mind.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also interesting that the first two EU nations to indicate that they might leave the EU for an alliance with Russia are both former Soviet satellite countries that revolted against the Soviet dictatorship; both are Eastern European, not Western European. Perhaps these leaders are more loathe to be controlled by tyrants than are the ones for whom the very idea of being subordinate to a tyrant is just a mere abstraction. (Merkel, however, seems simply to love whatever is conservative, even if it might happen to be nazi, as in Ukraine<\/a>.)<\/p>\n In any case, Ukraine\u2019s coup has already produced one earthquake of historical magnitude, in Hungary, with Orban, and might soon do the same in the Czech Republic, with Zeman (which will depend upon Poroshenko reducing his war against Ukraine\u2019s former east \u2013 which, in turn, will depend upon what instructions Obama provides to Poroshenko).<\/p>\n The European Union could actually be in the process of breaking up; and not only because of the Ukrainian civil war, but also because Obama\u2019s forcing each and every one of the EU nations to choose up sides in Obama\u2019s Ukrainian war against Putin will have very different economic effects upon the various individual EU member-nations, some of which will lose far more business with Russia, from adhering to Obama\u2019s sanctions against Russia, than will others that go along with those sanctions.<\/p>\n U.S. President Obama is thus now pressing his pedal to the metal in order to achieve maximum destructive force against Russia, regardless of how many or what nations will follow him \u2013 perhaps even over the cliff, into a nuclear war. Obama is, in effect, now saying to each and every European head-of-state: Either you\u2019re with us, or you\u2019re against us. He\u2019s George W. Bush II, only with regard to Russia, instead of to Iraq.<\/p>\n It\u2019s \u201cchoosing up sides\u201d time, yet again; and, this time, Obama and Putin are both waiting, no doubt each somewhat nervously, to see what his team will consist of, and what the opposing team will turn out to be.<\/p>\n However, there can be no reasonable doubt that Obama was the aggressor here<\/a>. A coup<\/a> followed by an ethnic cleansing<\/a> is nazi, not at all democratic<\/a>. That\u2019s not opinion; it\u2019s fact<\/a>; and so it warrants to be noted in a news report, even though (if not especially because) others don\u2019t report this fact, so that it\u2019s still news, for long after it should have been reported as being \u201cnews.\u201d Unfortunately, it remains as news, even today.<\/p>\n And, so, Zeman now clearly knows that the United States is no longer on the side of democracy. Excerpts from his speech were elsewhere translated and published as \u201cZeman Hits Out at Ukraine,\u201d<\/a> in which he was quoted as saying:<\/p>\n \u201cI was browsing the internet yesterday evening and discovered a video showing the demonstration on Kiev\u2019s Maidan on January 1. \u2026 These demonstrators carried portraits of Stepan Bandera, which reminded me of Reinhard Heydrich [Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia]. \u2026 The parade itself was organised similar to nazi torchlight parades, where participants shouted the slogan: \u2018Death to the Poles, Jews and communists without mercy\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He obviously now recognized the type of person that Barack Obama actually is. Americans generally didn\u2019t, but he did. Keeping it a secret in Europe would be much more difficult than keeping it a secret in America. Many Europeans had had personal experience of nazis. They knew that nazis are bottom-of-the-barrel. The American aristocracy had kept the focus only against communists; but, in Europe, blinding the public regarding the barbarism of nazis wasn\u2019t quite so easy.<\/p>\n ———-<\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> and of \u00a0CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse The Czech Republic\u2019s President Milos Zeman said, in an interview, in the January 3rd edition of Prague\u2019s daily newspaper Pravo, that Czechs who think of the overthrow of Ukraine\u2019s President Viktor Yanukovych, on 22 February 2014, as having been like Czechoslovakia\u2019s authentically democratic \u201cVelvet Revolution\u201d are seeing it in a profoundly false light, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":142487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[115,30,32,96,535,59,527,524,523,49,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-142869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-cia","12":"tag-cover-up","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-nuclear-war","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-usa-news","19":"tag-warfare","20":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}