Attempts of EU, Far-right Imperialist Proxies to Set Up Ukraine Government Collapse
By Malik Sekou Osei February 26th, 2014
As of this week, the world’s people have seen the sterile dance of the dance of the coward harlot within the state of Ukraine. As the social toadstool of the Eastern European counter revolution has begun their political narcissistic prance of arrogance and power over the leaderless and unorganized people of Ukraine. Attempts to set up a government by the Western-backed Ukrainian opposition forces that seized power in Saturday’s fascist coup have collapsed amid rising demands for social attacks on the people of Ukraine from Washington and the European Union (EU), and with growing military tensions with Russia.
EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton 
EU foreign policy Chief Ms. Catherine Ashton left Kiev Monday (February 24th) after two days of futile talks trying to bring the different opposition parties together in a government. The coup, sarcastically hailed by the Western media as a struggle for “democracy,” is proving to be an operation to forcibly install a grubby junta of imperialist finance capital. Opposition officials estimated this week that Ukraine needs up to $35 billion to refinance its debts. Nonetheless, the major international banks have in effect cut off credit to Ukraine, charging ruinously very high interest rates that Ukraine cannot afford. For the meantime, Russia has removed its offer of $15 billion in aid after the coup toppled Russian-backed President Viktor Yanukovych.
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EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials are insisting a number of austerity measures, such as deep cuts to state subsidies for consumer energy prices, in exchange for a $1o R2 billion payment to stave off abrupt bankruptcy. Yanukovych was to disallow a planned association agreement with the EU entailing such cuts last autumn—the decision which led to the opposition protests against him—fearing that the cuts might lead to social upheavals that would bring down his government.
Now, the pro-Western opposition, supported by gangs of fascist thugs from the Svoboda party and the neo-Nazi Right Sector group, is trying to push this reactionary, anti-democratic agenda through. Arseniy Yatsenyuk of billionaire oligarch Ms. Yulya Tymoshenko’s Fatherland Party, whom Washington has recognized as its favored right-wing figurehead in Ukraine, called on the opposition to join government and do the banks’ bidding despite popular opposition. “This is about political responsibility. You know to be in this government is to commit political suicide, and we need to be very frank aopen,” Yatsenyuk told reporters outside Parliament.
Such comments underline that the opposition aims to run roughshod over the Ukrainian people, trying to use violently anti-working class forces like Svoboda or Right Sector, which openly glorify Nazism and the Holocaust, to crush whatever popular opposition emerges. Reports of broader public opinion in Ukraine indicate popular hostility not only to Yanukovych, but also to the leading opposition oligarch, Tymoshenko. One woman told the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, “They are all crooks, the ones like the other, and Yulya [Tymoshenko] is no better.” (Will Ukrainian people become austerity guinea pigs?
Hostilities are mounting and intensifying with Russia over the Western powers’ move to snatch Ukraine from Russia’s sphere of influence. In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry attacked US and EU policy in Ukraine as driven “not by a concern for the fate of Ukraine, but by unilateral geopolitical calculations … A course has been set to use dictatorial and sometimes terrorist methods to suppress dissenters in various regions.”
Speaking to Interfax on Monday, Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev criticized the coup in Kiev. He said, “Strictly speaking, there is no one to talk to there. The legitimacy of a whole host of government bodies raises huge doubts … If people crossing Kiev in black masks and Kalashnikov rifles are considered a government; it will be difficult for us to work with such a government.”
Medvedev added, however, that Russia would honor legally-binding energy contracts to provide Ukraine with natural gas. “Those agreements which are legally binding must be honored. We are not cooperating with personalities or isolated individuals. These are inter-state relations. We are neighbors, close nations, and we cannot run away from one another. Whatever has been signed must be honored. For us, Ukraine remains a serious and important partner.”
The opposition has abolished the status of the Russian language—which is widely spoken, particularly in the east of Ukraine—as an official language. There is widespread fear of possible fighting, including Russian intervention, if opposition forces in Kiev attempt to conquer the east or take over Russian military installations in the Crimea.
NATO commander in Europe General Philip Breedlove spoke with Russian Chief of General Staff General Valery Gerasimov in a tense exchange on Monday, in which both “expressed concern over the situation in Ukraine.”
Such remarks highlight the bankruptcy of the Russian regime of President Vladimir Putin, and the disastrous geo-strategic implications of the bureaucracy’s dissolution of the USSR, 23 years ago. Dependent on Ukrainian pipelines to transport its natural gas to European markets, the Kremlin oligarchy has no more popular base than the corrupt Yanukovych regime. It is vulnerable to similar right-wing provocations by middle class opposition forces or internal ethnic conflicts, such as the one in Chechnya, fueled by the United States and its allies. To the extent that it tries to use its military machine to block the offensive of imperialism’s far-right proxies, Moscow only runs the risk of triggering all-out war with NATO.
The only way forward is to mobilize the working masses in Ukraine and internationally against the imperialist powers’ drive to impose far-right, neo-colonial regimes throughout the former USSR. In the lack of this level of organization of political resistance, the imperialist powers and their proxy harlots will simply swarm ahead with mobilizing right-wing, middle class forces to weaken the entire region, ultimately targeting to dismember Russia. The ex-Soviet republic of Georgia, whose US-backed government fought a brief war with Russia in 2008 after attacking Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia, is now applying for an EU association agreement like that turned down in Ukraine by Yanukovych.
In last Tuesday, Süddeutsche Zeitung (The Real Revolution in Ukraine Still Lies Ahead by Stefan Kornelius), Lilia Shevtsova of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think-tank in Moscow has shown that pro-Western opposition forces are preparing for operations like the Ukrainian fascist insurrection throughout the territories of the former USSR, including in Russia itself.
Lilia Shevtsova goes to say: “If Yanukovych loses control, Kiev could drop the western regions, or the Russian-dominated eastern regions could declare their independence and agree on a tax union with Russia” (Despite Denials, Moscow Works behind the Scenes in Ukraine by Julian Hans February 25, 2014)
Praising the fascist-led coup in Kiev in Orwellian fashion as “a new form of national self-realization, with its own leaders and heroes,” and calling for Ukraine to join NATO, Shevtsova goes to say: “Ukraine proved to be the weakest link in the post-Soviet chain. One must keep in mind that similar uprisings are also possible in other countries.”
Pointing to the foreign policy of German President Joachim Gauck, who has called for Germany to abandon restraints on its foreign and military policies observed since the fall of the Nazi regime, Shevtsova raised the possibility that Berlin might support similar operations against Russia.
She wrote, “One can therefore hope that the Ukrainians will not be disappointed in Europe again, and also that the democratic forces in Russia will be able to overcome their current disappointment with Europe.”
While after reading this we see, the articulation of the social toadstool of reaction given voice by the empty and sterile dance of an arrogant harlot of counter revolution and imperialism, only to give rationalization to the growing vulgar oppression of the peoples of Ukraine and to imposed a social and economic underdevelopment only to gain access to worthless EU dollar.
The people of Ukraine as the world’s humanity will be force to confront and understand that they cannot compromise with fascism and imperialism and expect to live or their children to live a full human existence, but only the soiled door mat of the rich and power.
For Ukraine is no different from Haiti, no different from South Africa, no different from Turkey, no different from Kenya, no different from Nigeria, No different from Florida with Trayvon Martin, no different from Brooklyn and gentrification, no different from Philadelphia and Mumia Adu Jamal, no different from Bangladesh and working people being crush in cheap garment factories with little and non-existence pay; no difference of resistance
For History Is On Their Side, But Not Time
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