Ukraine
on the brink
 Half
a year ago, in the very last day of May I came to an age-old tiny
and tranquil Ukrainian town with its ancient church of Our Lady of
Intercession looking onto a slow river from its high bank, and I
was swept off my feet by a flash-flood of young maidens, fresh and
sixteen, celebrating their high school graduation in a park under
an open warm blue sky, wearing white bands and garlands of flowers
in their golden hair, and white ceremonial aprons on top of dark
and mercilessly short skirts leaving open their graceful knees
above high white socks and dark sleeveless tops flashing tender
arms and elbows, blue eyes a-gleaming in the shade of black
poplars. My Greek friend also fell silent and pensive, and told me
with stifled voice: the Ukrainian girls are the most beautiful; we
have nothing like that in our part of the world.
This
image came back to me as totally different images of the Orange
Revolution flowed from television screens; and the disintegration
of Ukraine became a question of weeks, if not days. This country
in its present borders came into being quite recently, in 1991; the chances are, Ukraine will be split between West and East; with or without
a civil war. The important achievement of Stalin who brought back
the Western Ukraine into the Orthodox fold from its long captivity
under the Western yoke was undone. It is possible that the border
between the two parts will move further East, where it was in the
beginning of the 17th century. Geopolitically, it is an
additional (on top of dismembered Yugoslavia) catastrophe for the
Russians and for Eastern Orthodoxy. The Western forces will
advance eastward and threaten Russia from the positions they lost
in the long series of wars that started with Ivan IV’s Livonian
War and ended in the partition of Poland in XVIII century. For
geopolitics, ideology plays only a subservient role in the
long-term confrontation and cooperation of civilisations. The
Orthodox, the West and Islam are three big constants; from this
point of view, the Orthodox had lost, and the West gained in the
centuries-long game. The net gainer is the US who realised its wet
dream expressed by Brzezinski: break Ukraine away, for Russia
can’t be superpower without Ukraine.
In
Ukraine, the US attained victory that eluded them in Iraq.
However, the identification of the US with the West is far from
perfect. Carl Schmitt preferred to view England and the US as an
“Atlantic” force of the Sea opposing the Continental forces of
Western Europe, Russia and the Islamic world. In my view, the
“Atlantic” force is as religiously grounded as the three
others; I called it “Neo-Judaic civilisation”. Ukraine,
together with other East European states, will present an American
‘Neo-Judaic’ outpost, so-called “New Europe”, flanking
independently-minded Europe from the East and Russia from the
West. Western Europe stood by the US in its confrontation with the
East (The Cold War), but the New Europe will forever keep the old,
Western Europe in the siege ring. Thus the US victory in Ukraine
is a cause for grave concern for Europeans and for Russians, as
well as for the Islamic world.
For
the people of Ukraine, the future is gloomy. The pro-American
claimant for Presidency Victor Yushchenko is a devotee of
neo-liberal economics; a supporter of full privatisation and
forced sale of Ukrainian assets to US companies for their
soon-to-be-worthless dollars. In the part of Ukraine he will
succeed in keeping (if any), a new American colony will be
established, where US troops will threaten Moscow and control the
profitable oil route. They could learn of their fate from an
amazing book by John
Perkins, a self-described “economic hit man” - a US
intelligence professional who cheated countries around the globe
out of trillions of dollars. In an interview[i]
Perkins explained his job:
“Our
job is to build up the American empire. To create situations where
as many resources as possible flow into this country [the US], to
our corporations, and our government, and in fact we’ve been
very successful. We’ve built the largest empire in the history
of the world. This empire, unlike any other in the history of the
world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation,
through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our
way of life. We give countries debts they can’t repay, most of
it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the
debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our
servants, our slaves.”
American
support of Yushchenko means that Yushchenko agreed to do its will,
to turn the people of Ukraine into American slaves. Yushchenko is
also supported by the World Bank and by the IMF. Neo-liberal
‘market doctrine’ promoted by the World Bank had killed
millions of Russians, Africans, Latin Americans whose governments
followed their blue-print. Ukraine has also had its fair share of
‘market economy’ and its population is steadily decreasing.
Yushchenko pushed for neo-liberalism when he was the prime
minister; now he promised to push even stronger for it.
The
pro-American forces in the Western Europe, yesterday’s predator,
also want to get a share of the spoils, as German observer Susanne
Scheidt wrote:
“If
Yushchenko will get hold of the government, he will make sure
that the privatization programme drawn up by the World Bank will
go on as scheduled. On behalf of this programme, German banks
have planned huge investments in Ukraine that amount to a
take-over of Ukrainian public utilities, networks and gas
transport. The German giant Ruhrgas AG has already signed a
deal with Yushchenko to import gas through the Ukrainian corridor
from US investors in Azerbaijan, whereas the present Ukrainian
government has always refused to sign such a deal”.
Another
great supporter of Yushchenko is a group of Russian Jewish
oligarchs kicked out of Russia by Putin. Extremely wealthy,
dreaming of revenge, hating Putin’s Russia, this offshore gang
of Berezovsky, Gusinsky and other ex-Yukos oilmen provide a big
share of financial support for the Orange revolution. They also
pay for the services of Russian Israeli PR experts who organise
the show in Kiev. They are supported by the network of the
powerful Ukrainian Jewish community; while behind them stands
George Soros, the Jewish international magnate actively pumping
money and organisational capacities into the Orange forces of
Yushchenko. These external forces rely upon local young men who
received training and advice from the experts who already
organised similar putsches in Georgia, Serbia, Romania.
Internal
supporters of Yushchenko consist of two quite different groups.
The biggest is the nationalists of Galichina, West Ukraine. While
Galichina is a beautiful land with its own traditions, friendship
with the Russians is not one of them. For centuries Galichina
belonged to Poland or to the Austro-Hungarian Empire; their
religion is Uniate Christianity; their language is half-way
between Polish and the language spoken in Kiev. Galichina has a
strong nationalist tendency; during the World War Two they formed
an SS division fighting on the German side. Nowadays, they form
the base for such groups as swastika-bearing Svoboda (formerly Ukrainian
National Socialist Party), UNA and UNSO who venerate Bandera, the
Ukrainian nationalist and supporter of Hitler. Today they are
united in support of Yushchenko.
They
do not mind that Yushchenko
is supported by the Jewish oligarchs; the oligarchs do not mind
them, either. Soros even financed them. So much for antisemitism:
the Jews remember to mention it only when it suits them. In my
view, nationalism is often used as cheese in mousetrap. Bandera
the nationalist supported Hitler, but Hitler did not even think to
establish a strong Ukrainian state; he just used the Ukrainian
nationalists to undermine Russia. The same thing happened
everywhere: Breton nationalists supported Hitler for they thought
he will establish an independent Brittany. They were disappointed,
for Hitler thought they are unnecessary after he took over France.
Arab nationalists undermined the Ottoman Empire on the service of
the West just to find themselves sold out to the Zionists. Now the
Ukrainian nationalists do the same mistake again – they support
the US; but eventually they will lose for the US does not need a
strong independent Ukraine.
Another
group of Yushchenko
supporters is liberal, relatively wealthy and pro-Western. Many
people, especially in the capital Kiev find their livelihood
connected with the West. There are dozens of very rich bankers and
businessmen, thousands of those who work in NGOs, receive grants
of Soros or of the EC, there are small importers, upmarket tarts;
there are tens of thousands of aspiring young men and students who
still hope to ‘make it’ in the capitalist competitive society.
We know that they will be disappointed just as it has happened in
so many countries; the West is not going to wait for millions of
educated Ukrainians to take their place at the top. But in
Ukraine, as in Russia there are millions who still believe in the
American dream, and America spends a lot of money to keep this
dream alive.
The
future of Ukraine may be bleak: the beautiful girls I saw on the
shores of Dnepr River will be shipped to cathouses of Tel Aviv and
Istanbul; their boyfriends will fight for America in Iraq and
elsewhere, their coal mines will be privatised, sold for peanuts
and closed down. Ukraine can be free in union with Russia – or
in thrall to the West and the Jews. Whatever the final result of
elections – and it will be disputed - Eastern Ukraine probably
will join Russia; Western Ukraine will be taken up by Poland or
will remain an ‘independent’ stub of a state. There is still a
chance to repeat the victory of Chaves or the Miracle of Minsk,
where Lukashenka succeeded to defeat the local agents of Soros and
Berezovsky, for they are not invincible; but Yanukovich is not
made of stern stuff; Putin is not a daring politician, and the
Slav Orthodox world feels itself lost. Maybe that is why tens of
thousands of Russians came spontaneously to visit the tomb of
Joseph Stalin on 21 December, on 125 year jubilee of the great man
who restored fortunes of Russia, beat off the western attacks and
united the Ukraine.
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