The desire of Washington to integrate NATO with Ukraine, steps of which have already been taken, is a driving force behind the recent coup in Ukraine, another diving force of which is the fascist Neo-Nazi’s who now are integrated into key ministerial positions within the government and parliament. Pepe Escobar reports:[RT, Pepe Escobar, March 24 2014, http://rt.com/op-edge/eu-annex-ukraine-nato-agreement-829/]
Article 7.2. of the association agreement [between the E.U. and Ukraine] states that Ukraine will have to comply with the common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and the European security and defense policy (ESDP). The conditions are spelled out here and here.
The obscure – even for most Europeans - ESDP happens to be the key European pillar of NATO. Translation: it details how the EU is subordinated to the US (which controls NATO). For instance, the EU may only act in a determined case if NATO first declines to. Additionally, the March 2003 Berlin-plus agreement allows the EU to use NATO’s hardware and software for military operations if NATO declines to.
What this essentially means is that Ukraine is on the road to become legally bound to NATO’s overall project. Along with other independent analysts, I’ve argued from the start thatthis whole geopolitical drama is first and foremost about NATO annexing Ukraine.
Ukrainian speaker of parliament and interim president Olexander Turchynov (R) speaks with U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman (2nd L) during a meeting prior to talks in Kiev on March 20, 2014. (AFP Photo)
The NATO-Ukraine twisted love affair started in the early 2000s. After some soul-searching, it was decided NATO or no NATO should be the subject of a national referendum in the future. In the 2008 Bucharest summit NATO opened its arms, stating that Ukraine could join as soon as it met the criteria. In 2010 Yanukovich announced Ukraine was not interested anymore. Still, Ukraine remains quite a muscular member of NATO’s innocent-sounding Partnership for Peace (PfP).
No wonder NATO is now in overdrive selling the notion that Ukraine is “under threat” – and should join as soon as possible. NATO’s secretary-general – the astonishingly mediocre American poodle, Anders Fogh Rasmussen - said we’re living the most serious threat to Europe’s security since the end of the Cold War: “This is a wake-up call. For the Euro-Atlantic community. For NATO. And for all those committed to a Europe whole, free and at peace.’’
He forgot to add: a Europe under free and peaceful submission to the Pentagon.
And behind all of this NATO fervor are the 'pre-NATO' paramilitary forces in the form of brutal, organized Neo-Nazi groups Right Sector, Svoboda and UNA-UNSO. Here F. William Engdahl reports from Boiling Frogs Post on the role of these thuggish, racist fascists (SHOCKING VIDEO EVIDENCE OF BRUTAL ULTRA-NATIONALISTS):[Boiling Frogs Post, William Engdahl, March 25 2014, http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/03/25/shocking-videos-here-is-ukraine-since-the-nato-coup/]
In the days since the US-backed coup, according to citizens in Ukrainian I am in contact with, after the new regime dissolved the National Police, members of the Right Sector took over police functions in Kiev. Groups of young men, mainly members of Right Sector, have been patrolling the streets armed with baseball bats and weapons. In some documented instances according to these reports from ordinary Ukrainians, they come in groups to homes of people identified as “pro-Russian” and force them out of their homes or take their possessions, as they term it “privatization” actions. The population lives in a state of terror they liken to the Stalin-era terror.There are reports that the some 5,000 members of Right Sector are being incorporated into a newly-organized National Guard. Right Sector is trying fast to clean up its image. Last week the group issued a VKontakte (Russian Facebook equivalent) appeal to anyone in the West with ability to edit Wikipedia, asking them to delete references to their anti-semitic and neo-fascist background.According to Wikipedia’s logs, on a Monday the Right Sector entry described the party as having “borderline fascist or neo-fascist views.” On Tuesday the page was modified 174 times, including changes to describe Right Sector as an “organization to protect demonstrators” and a “youth patriot organization.” After the intervention of Wikipedia administrators, the page was locked and reverted to saying that Right Sector was “described by major Western newspapers as having far right or neo-fascist views.” [3]A relevant question is what role NATO and the US intelligence and special forces have played in training and deploying Right Sector (Pravy Sektor) as well as Svoboda and, especially, UNA-UNSO in Ukraine.This is now the regime the United States State Department has forced on Ukraine. This side of the Ukrainian opposition has yet to be honestly reported in any of the mainstream Western media. We might ask, Why?
For speculation as to 'why?' see my latest report: http://undergroundreports.blogspot.com/2014/03/neo-nazi-media-black-out-lifted.html?m=1