Viktor Yanukovych is not known for personal courage or taking sides. When the fascist forces overthrew his government in Ukraine in 2014, he did not stand and fight, let alone exercise his legal right to call in international allies to help him. He could well have set up his government in Kharkov or indeed in Donetsk and asked strong foreign allies to help to restore power.
Sputnik – February 22, 2017 Ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych wrote a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Polish President Andrzej Duda, as well as the heads of European bodies. Ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych calls for a referendum on the status of the southeast Ukrainian region […]
The infamous Russian prank phone callers Vovan & Lexus are at it again. Recently they called up California Congresswoman Maxine Waters pretending to be Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman. They told the Congresswoman, who stated that Russia had invaded Korea, that Russia is now invading Limpopo and that the US must combat this aggression.
Limpopo is a region of South Africa, although this hardly seemed to matter during the course of the increasingly hilarious conversation.
To understand the west’s inanity over the ‘Ukraine issue’, one must examine the founding and break-up of Yugoslavia.
In 1918 The Kingdom of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes formed in the Balkans. It was an attempt to create a young state from the ashes of war and centuries of foreign occupation. In 1929 this became the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and after 1945, the partisans who fought valiantly and bravely against fascism formed the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.
Kiev has declared a state of emergency throughout Ukraine, in a further sign that the fascist regime may well collapse under its own weight.
Power stations throughout the country have been switched to emergency operations as neo-Nazi extremists physically block shipments of coal from the industrial Donetsk and Lugansk republics to Ukraine.
As the fascist forces escalate their aggression against the Donbass Republics, many are questioning what the future of the Republic of Ukraine will look like in the medium and long term. The state as presently compromised will not survive but a few more years at the very most.
History is full of states coming and going/changing their borders. The idea that this state will evaporate into the annals of history is not novel. It will be one of many.
Here’s why.
1. There is no historical precedent for such a state
Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov has stated his desire to arrange a meeting with Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the soonest possible date in order to discuss the pressing issues of Syria and the war in Donbass. As the lyrics to the T. Rex song go, ‘Get it on’.
But there is a problem when it comes to getting it on, most of Trump and Tillerson’s new team are not yet in place.
Lavrov stated the problem quite clearly,
As the fascist forces of the Kiev junta become increasingly desperate, they are resorting to assassination upon assassination of commanders from the Donetsk and Lugansk republics.
Days ago Lugansk Colonel Oleg Anashchenko had his car blown up and today it is Donetsk Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Tolstykh, affectionately known by his call sign Givi.
Yulia Tymoshenko is best remembered as a totally corrupt Ukrainian Prime Minister who served under the equally compromised and corrupt President Victor Yushchenko.
Although Yushchenko’s regime was more or less doomed to infamy from the start, having come to power in the wake of the so-called ‘Orange revolution’, Tymoshenko did her best to play all sides against each other, opting to lie prostrate under any world leader or domestic oligarch, in order to attempt to enhance her domestic standing and her personal wealth.
In many ways, Donbass will be Donald Trump’s first big test in foreign policy. It will be his chance to show pragmatism over dogma and moreover, to demonstrate his willingness to see the bigger picture in respect of potential good relations with Russia vis-à-vis loyalty to a fascist regime in Kiev which presents opportunities for no one and economic strain for anyone who puts money into the a regime that represents the second worst sovereign investment after Somalia.
