{"id":144510,"date":"2015-03-15T02:06:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T02:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=144510"},"modified":"2015-03-15T04:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T04:47:20","slug":"eu-splits-on-ukraine-how-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/eu-splits-on-ukraine-how-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Splits on Ukraine — How and Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

The issue is whether to supply weapons to Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday, March 13th, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko\u00a0announced<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0referring to himself in the third person, that:<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Head of State has informed that Ukraine had contracts\u00a0with a series of the EU countries on the supply of armament,\u00a0inter alia, lethal one. He has reminded that official embargo of\u00a0the EU on the supply of weapons to Ukraine had been\u00a0abolished.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words: Some EU nations, and he is keeping secret for now the identity of which ones, have contracted to supply to Ukraine\u2019s \u2018Anti Terrorist Operation\u2019 or \u2018ATO,\u2019 weapons to assist Ukraine in its \u2018Anti Terrorist Operation.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, on Saturday, March 14th, Russian Television, Russia\u2019s equivalent of Britain\u2019s BBC and America\u2019s PBS, headlined\u00a0“Poroshenko: 11 EU states\u00a0struck deal with Ukraine\u00a0to deliver weapons,\u00a0including lethal,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and added further details, besides (presumably from Russian-Government intelligence) the specific number (11) of the nations that would be supplying weapons to Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are\u00a028 member-nations<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in the EU. Apparently, 17 of them do not want to sell weapons to the Ukrainian Government. That\u2019s 17 EU nations which are apparently siding with Russia in opposing the\u00a0extermination of the residents in the region of the former Ukraine, Donbass<\/span><\/a>, where\u00a0the residents had voted 90% for the Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0whom the Obama Administration overthrew in\u00a0a violent coup in February 2014 under the cover of the \u201cMaidan\u201d anti-corruption demonstrations.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

11 EU nations want to exterminate those residents and are supplying weapons that will assist in the effort. However, Ukraine\u2019s President Poroshenko (who was elected\u00a0not by all of Ukraine but only by voters outside Donbass and especially in Ukraine\u2019s northwest,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0but who still claims to represent and to be the legal President of the residents in Donbass, whom he\u2019s\u00a0bombing<\/span><\/a>) refuses to identify which ones they are.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, a minority of the EU nations are assisting the U.S. to exterminate<\/span><\/a> the residents in Donbass<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, during the past few days, German Economic News<\/i> has specifically identified the following EU nations that are strongly opposed to this supplying of weapons to Ukraine: Spain<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Germany<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Greece, Cyprus, Hungary, Italy<\/span><\/a>, France<\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0Slovakia<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore,\u00a0Italy is increasing its cooperation with Russia.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

And, early in January, the Czech Republic made clear its separation from the U.S. on this matter.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

But that\u2019s only 9 of the 17 EU nations that openly oppose the U.S. Probably most of the remaining 8 are silent on account of their recognition how fateful their actual abandonment of the U.S. could turn out to be, and so they want to leave all options open, for as long as they can \u2013 and since they still can.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover,\u00a0Germany lost 40 billion Euros, over $40 billion, in 2014 because of Obama\u2019s sanctions against Russia<\/span><\/a>, and other EU nations have also been enormously harmed by them.\u00a0Angela Merkel wants to end sanctions and knows that this cannot happen until the U.S. stops its proxy-war against Russia in Ukraine.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the U.S. aristocracy has benefited from these sanctions. For example, U.S. arms manufacturers are booming now, and so are the former U.S. (and still strongly Republican-Party-backing) mercenary firm\u00a0Blackwater, now called Academi<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, on March 11th, German Economic News<\/i>\u00a0reported<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUkraine will increase the share of military expenditure in GDP from 1.25 to 5.2\u00a0percent and spend $ 3.8 billion, the Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia\u00a0Jaresko [who is an American financier whom the Obama regime placed into that Ukrainian-Government post] says. The defense orders were received mostly by US companies like Network\u00a0Technologies Corporation.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Jaresko announced on Tuesday that\u00a0Ukraine plans to increase its national defense spending this year to 5.2\u00a0percent of GDP. Last year, that proportion was 1.25 percent of GDP. In sum, 2015 is planned to spend a total of 3.8 billion dollars on armaments.”<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So:\u00a0\u201cThe Americans have stopped the EU efforts to lift the sanctions against Russia.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0This has intensified the split between the U.S. and EU.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, though European governments are very harmed by what the U.S. Government is doing, some<\/i> of Europe\u2019s aristocrats are benefiting from it, and they have considerable influence within their own governments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The politically extremely knowledgeable, superb classical pianist,\u00a0Valentina Lisitsa<\/span><\/a>, who was born in Kiev but now resides in North Carolina, was\u00a0interviewed by German Economic News<\/i> on 19 January 2015<\/span><\/a>; and the following excerpt provides insight on this matter, and also on some of the far-right American political connections:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/i>German economic news:<\/i><\/b>\u00a0Who benefits\u00a0from the war in the Ukraine?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Valentina Lisitsa:<\/i><\/b>\u00a0People\u00a0on all levels.\u00a0For\u00a0example the arms companies, it will benefit the\u00a0EU States, which are monopolized by a\u00a0nontransparent hysteria, pushing to modernize\u00a0their existing weapons arsenals.\u00a0But even small\u00a0government officials in Ukraine earn money; they\u00a0take kickbacks from Ukrainians who buy their\u00a0freedom from military service.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

There are many mercenaries [the euphemism for them is \u2018volunteers\u2019] on both sides, and\u00a0the private companies that are behind these\u00a0guys make enormous profits.\u00a0You have\u00a0mercenaries from various nations on both\u00a0sides.\u00a0But it is interesting to observe that no\u00a0one is attacking the coal mines and factories of\u00a0the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov [Ukraine\u2019s richest person] in the Eastern\u00a0Ukraine.\u00a0Akhmetov sees with both sides to\u00a0arrange that he will suffer no\u00a0economic disadvantage.\u00a0He\u00a0supports both sides.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

German economic news:\u00a0<\/i><\/b>A former\u00a0Commander of the battalion of Azov was\u00a0appointed the Chief of police of Kiev.\u00a0How is it\u00a0possible that a radical rightist receives such an\u00a0important position?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Valentina Lisitsa:<\/i><\/b>\u00a0There are two aspects.\u00a0First of all, the Azov battalion is indeed a\u00a0radical right-wing organization.\u00a0In the course\u00a0of the civil war, Azov members have\u00a0participated in numerous atrocities.\u00a0It is not an\u00a0exaggeration to say that Azov members are\u00a0as brutal as ISIS members.\u00a0These are not average Ukrainians.\u00a0They are\u00a0indoctrinated and are at the service of the\u00a0oligarchs.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The second issue is more complicated.\u00a0In\u00a0Ukraine, there are the so-called Academy of\u00a0Personnel Management (MAUP)\u00a0Dnipropetrovsk.\u00a0This is a private college,\u00a0emerged from the very many bureaucrats of the\u00a0Ukrainian State [as it devolved from communism].\u00a0However, the facility is known\u00a0for anti-Semitism, xenophobia, homophobia\u00a0and right-national ideas.\u00a0David Duke is a\u00a0graduate of the MAUP Academy, and did also\u00a0an apprenticeship there.\u00a0Duke is a former member of\u00a0the U.S. House of Representatives, and was an\u00a0active high-ranking member of the Ku Klux\u00a0Klan.\u00a0He is a world-renowned anti-Semite.\u00a0MAUP\u00a0also receives donations from Saudi Arabia.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

If you consider the second aspect, it may not surprise you\u00a0that a person such as ex-Azov Commander Vadim\u00a0Troyan was appointed the Kiev Chief of\u00a0Police.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

So: Obama chose the nazis to run Ukraine because they\u2019re committed to destroying Russia, and because they\u2019re also amenable to being controlled by the aristocracy. Decent Europeans are appalled, and they\u2019re the majority of Europeans; but because of the extreme media-censorship in the United States, where virtually all \u2019news\u2019 media that have a significant-sized audience are owned (or minority-controlled) by members of the American aristocracy, which benefits from weakening Europe and destroying Russia, there are only few Americans who even know about what is happening (except the U.S. propaganda, which demonizes Putin<\/span><\/a>, and which is controlled by the U.S. Government on behalf of America\u2019s aristocrats).<\/span><\/p>\n

The closer that things get to an irreversible harm to Russia that would spark a nuclear attack against the United States \u2013 and possibly also against Europe \u2013 the bigger the split within the EU will become, and some nations might also leave NATO and ally directly with Russia, or else go neutral, in order to avoid America\u2019s nazi (i.e., racist-fascist, anti-Russian) leadership. After all: Europe suffered greatly from Hitler\u2019s Nazis. No major nation supports Ukraine\u2019s nazis to the extent that America does.<\/span><\/p>\n

Would the U.S. then militarily target such a former ally? Might the U.S. attack Italy, for example? Might the U.S. attack France? Might the U.S. attack Germany? If U.S. forces are still in those countries, which will almost certainly be the case, such attacks would be extremely unlikely, and they wouldn\u2019t be nuclear ones. Only Russia would get the nuclear bombs, if and when there will be a WW III. The U.S. and Russia would be destroyed, and everyone else would envy them, for their being already dead.<\/span><\/p>\n

More and more people in Europe are coming to know how dangerous the United States Government is. In 2013, it was\u00a0already recognized, even in Europe, as being by far the most dangerous government on the planet<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and this was before the coup in Ukraine. (That poll from WIN\/Gallup has not been repeated \u2013 or at least not publicly \u2013 since 2013, and wasn\u2019t much publicized even at the time, because it was sponsored largely by the U.S. Government, which didn\u2019t like the results and didn\u2019t want them to become generally known. For example, the poll, of 65 countries, found that, in Ukraine in 2013, “33 percent of respondents choose the U.S. as the\u00a0greatest danger, compared to just five percent\u00a0who picked Russia.\u201d This did not fit the line that the U.S. Government and its aristocrats\u2019 servants in the American ‘press\u2019 indoctrinate into the American people. In other words: right before the coup in Ukraine, far more Ukrainians thought that the U.S. was scary than thought that Russia was. Americans\u2019 views of foreign affairs are almost exactly the opposite of reality. For more about the systematically deceived American public, see this<\/span><\/a>, and this<\/span><\/a>. Every high school student in America should look at those shockingly realistic videos. It might even help to make the U.S. become a democracy again, if a WW III doesn\u2019t destroy everything and thus simply eliminate all progress.)<\/span><\/p>\n

———-<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i>\u00a0and of <\/span>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>, and of Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse The issue is whether to supply weapons to Ukraine. On Friday, March 13th, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko\u00a0announced,\u00a0referring to himself in the third person, that: “The Head of State has informed that Ukraine had contracts\u00a0with a series of the EU countries on the supply of armament,\u00a0inter alia, lethal one. He has reminded that official […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":140184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[115,30,32,96,535,59,527,526,524,523,49,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-144510","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-propaganda","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-usa-news","20":"tag-warfare","21":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144510","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=144510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}