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Is Ukraine a rehearsal for things to come in USA?
Obama’s Presidency Hangs by a Thread in Ukraine, Updated to 31 July 2014
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Obama’s U.S. Presidency Now Is Definitely Crashing and Burning, in Ukraine.
Kiev’s Government, Which Obama Installed in February Coup, Now Collapses.
Eric Zuesse
BACKGROUND:
TODAY’S SITUATION:
That brings us to now.
After the announcement was made on July 24th, “Collapse of Ukraine Government: Prime Minister Yatsenyuk Resigns,” news
came on July 26th of (and with photo of) an alleged leaked document
from the head of the Ukrainian Security Service, V.O. Nalyvaichenko,
to the President of Ukraine, P.A. Poroshenko, seems to indicate that the
ethnic-cleansing operation by the Obama-coup-installed Ukrainian government is now collapsing, and that Obama’s forces in Ukraine (that Government’s soldiers) are fleeing for their lives.
Headlining, “Catastrophic Desertions and Losses in the Ukrainian Army – Official Ukrainian Reports, July 19, 2014,” the alleged document includes this alleged report to Ukrainian President Petro A. Poroshenko:
“In the period from July 14th to 19th, 2014 we
witnessed a catastrophic increase (of 3473 people, or 47%) in the number
of deserters in the units of the Army and the National Guard –
in comparison with last week’s numbers (1847 people, 25%).
Apart from that, during the stated period the number of missing
in action had increased as well (1344 people, 47%, last week –
344 people, 10%).
This phenomenon is connected to increased activity of
the enemy in the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions as well as to the
increase in the numbers of casualties in the ranks of the
above-mentioned structures.
This fact [negatively] influences the combat-worthiness of the
personnel and makes continuation of the ATO [Anti-Terrorist Operation,
their euphemism for the ethnic-cleansing operation] impossible. …
I
estimate that 2/3 of the active combat military units
currently participating in the ATO will simply cease to exist in as
little as 4 to 5 days.”
It includes also what alleges to be a report by Arsen
Avakov, Minister of Interior, and co-mastermind (along with oligarch
Ihor Kolomoysky) of the May 2nd burning-alive of regime opponents inside
the Odessa Trade Unions Building, which was the event that commenced
the civil war.
It says that “for the period July 9-15,” there were
“Total Ukrainian Losses” of 1600 “Killed in Action,” and 4723 “Wounded
in Action,” while there were “Total Militia Losses” (their enemies) of
48 killed in action, and 64 wounded in action.
This was alleged to be the report filed immediately prior
to Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s July 24th announcement of his
resignation due to the collapse of negotiations over the crucial IMF
loans, and over the terms of privatizing fracking industry...
If these things are true, then not only is there no money
with which to pay troops, but troops are fleeing for their lives.
Nalyvaichenko: “I am proposing that we perform a withdrawal maneuver.”
However, Republicans are trying to throw Obama a hail-Mary pass to save the day for his Ukrainian coup-regime: U.S. Senate Bill 2277, with 26 sponsors, all of whom are Republicans, is now in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Paul Craig Roberts says that
“If the bill passes, which it likely will, Washington becomes
empowered to bypass NATO and to grant the status of ‘allied nation’ to
Ukraine independently of NATO membership.
By so doing, Washington
can send troops to Ukraine and thereby commit NATO to a war with Russia”
(which has been Obama’s objective all along).
If Paul Roberts is correct that this all-Republican bill
“likely will” pass the currently Democratic-majority Senate, then it
will also easily pass the Republican-majority House and so win Obama’s
eager signature and become law.
I doubt that there are enough Republican
“Democrats” in the Senate to pass it, but perhaps I am wrong and
Roberts is right.
My own sense of the situation is instead that Obama’s Ukrainian ploy is simply going down in flames.
But, we shall see.
If things are going in Ukraine the way that I think they
are, then there would be no excuse whatsoever for any congressional
Democrat who avoids introducing or supporting a resolution to impeach
Obama; and that, in turn (a Democratic impeachment of Obama) would be
the only way to avoid having the Senate being taken over by the
Republicans, and Obama ruling as President in his final two years with
both houses of Congress being under Republican control.
That’s what’s important to avoid, because if Republicans
control both houses, then the extremist conservative (though
rhetorically liberal) Obama will finally be free to reign as the
extremist conservative President that he has always hoped he would have
the opportunity to be, and he would then end his Presidency in a blaze
of conservative legislative glory.
But if his intervention in Ukraine
will soon be turning that country into two or three utterly failed
states, as I expect, then that blatantly clear disaster might prevent
him from having any power at all, and it could even end up actually
enabling him to be impeached and the Democratic Party thus salvaged,
instead of going down along with him in flames (as will be the case if
Democrats fail to impeach him).
UPDATE (July 29th): I had written this article on
July 26th but not published it until now, because I wasn’t sufficiently
confident of the document’s authenticity.
However, during the subsequent
days, there has been the following new information coming in, which
suggests to me that there are sufficient grounds for the document’s
authenticity, so as finally to publish it:
“URGENT: UPDATED – Warning of Impending Terrorist Acts by the Kiev Junta, July 26, 2014″
presents
the type of narrative follow-up that is consistent with desperation on
the part of Obama’s forces, particularly on the part of Ihor Kolomoysky,
whom Obama’s regime made into the co-mastermind (along with Arsen
Avakov) of the ethnic-cleansing campaign.
(Kolomoysky has hired Joe
Biden’s son as a lawyer and made him a board member of one of the
oligarch’s gas-operations that operates in the conflict-zone.
Both
Kolomoysky and Avakov were chosen for their positions by Victoria
Nuland, Obama’s agent, who basically took the advice of Yulia
Tymoshenko, “the Gas Princess.”)
Here is the July 26th statement:
Kolomoiskiy and the Kiev Junta have prepared groups of
Russian-speaking militants who, under the guise of militiamen, will
organize a “night of long knives” in Pavlograd.
Hundreds of peaceful
civilians will die!
This will be staged as “payback” for those
[Ukrainian Government troops] who died in the Lugansk and the Donetsk
Republics.
False witnesses, who will confirm this, have already
been prepared.
It may happen as soon as this night!
The Nazis should not
be permitted to kill with impunity!
Please repost this message to all your acquaintances
and love ones, call them!
The more people know about this, the lower the
likelihood that it will happen!
This was accompanied by an address to residents in the area, telling them what to do,
and explaining that only if the residents are duly prepared against the
attack can there be any likelihood of its being called off.
The address
mentions that the forewarning came via unnamed officials in Kiev, who
are “concerned about their future … after putchists in Kiev would
inevitably fall,” or, in other words, who fear that they will become
scapegoats for the atrocities after defeat, which they now expect.
“The
operation, codenamed ‘slept at Temyravi’ — ‘Flash in the Dark’ — would
be supervised by an … SBU (Ukrainian State Security) Major calling
himself Alexey Nikonov, who is close to Mr. Nalivaichenko,” who is the
signatory shown on the alleged report to Poroshenko.
Thus far, that attack hasn’t happened.
This doesn’t mean
it wasn’t planned.
What it means is that any “false flag” operation can
only fail if it’s suspected in advance.
This video and message were spread in the target region.
It can’t be fake, because then the people living there would know that
they’re being lied to by their own military, which would be a terribly
stupid thing to do.
I have seen other evidence as well.
Igor Strelkov, the
commander over the resistance forces, has not been shy in the past to
admit when he has been pessimistic.
However, in his report on July 27th, he says:
Recently, we have been observing a sharp increase in
the number of servicemen within the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
unwilling to continue fighting a fratricidal war against their own
people and refusing to obey the criminal orders of their command.
Despite being subjected to various types of punishment by
their commanders and to violent duress by the Nazis, all the way up to
extrajudicial executions, such servicemen, nevertheless, do not
surrender to the forces of the DPR Militia, fearful of being subjected
to repressions by the latter.
Guided by considerations of humanity in
the name of stopping the bloodshed and saving the lives of
Ukrainian servicemen, who were forcibly sent into the area of the
fratricidal war,
I HEREBY ORDER:
All the commanders and the fighters of the forces of
the DPR Militia not to open fire on groups or individual servicemen of
the Ukrainian Armed Forces that have raised a white flag or signified
their intention to surrender in another manner.
After disarmament and
inspection to ensure that they carry no weapons, such persons are to be
permitted through the battle ranks of the Militia and concentrated in
special collection points for further transportation to the deep rear
under guard.
Those persons are to be assigned the status of POW
[Prisoners of War].
In accordance with the Geneva Conventions “Rules of Conducting Warfare”, …
This does not sound like the statement by a pessimistic general.
You ought, dear colleagues, to understand me correctly.
Our government currently has no answer to the question, “With
what should we pay salaries?”
With what should I fuel the APCs [Armored
Personnel Carriers] tomorrow morning?
How can I pay the people who died,
and their families?
From where?
With what money?
How should we finance
the Army and the Armed Forces?
How do we not demoralize the spirit.
Republicans in the U.S. Congress are trying to pass S. 2277, a Senate bill with 26 co-sponsors, none of whom are Democrats, all of whom are Republican Senators, though the New York Times says it’s “bipartisan,”
and which would authorize Obama to provide direct military assistance
to the Ukrainian Government, and U.S. weapons, to salvage the Ukrainian
nazis and their effort to ethnically cleanse Ukraine’s southeast.
Only if the Republicans win both houses of Congress in the
November elections, as is predicted by 6 to 1 odds to occur, can Obama
have even a chance to salvage his attempt to impose fascism on the
entire world.
If Democrats retain control of the Senate, then Obama’s
Presidency, his dreams of imposing global fascism, will effectively be
over.
UPDATE (July 31st): I posted the above article on July 30th at
Among its reader-comments is the following one from
George Eliason, an American who lives and works in Ukraine’s
conflict-zone:
Eric well done.
The information is entirely true about
the situation.
However the Ukrainian junta raised the draft again to
age 65. At the bottom end they are considering 15 yrs old.
Instead of taking conscripts from the west and central
areas- or from Maidan supporters they are now conscripting from
refugees and the regions they regain control of and forcibly
conscripting men.
Just before Koval was replaced as head of the
A[nti]T[errorist]O[peration] a leaked document outlined a problem they
were having with officers deserting.
The solution was to threaten the
officers familys with “separatism” charges which is life in prison or
death.
Many of Kievs forces cannot surrender because of the
same threat.
The ulta[nationalist]s like Pravy Sektor don’t fight.
They
stand behind the conscripts and kill them if they refuse to fight.
The
larger threat is the soldiers family will be charged and executed or
become victim to brutal cleansing.
One of Kievs officers near me verified this to a town official here.
They would leave if they could.
The Ukrainian soldiers that were treated for wounds in
Russia are a prime example.
There was no other place to go to get
treatment.
As soon as they were shipped back they were charged with
desertion.
Kiev has not paid penny one to most of the troops.
There is no money for even fuel- hence the missiles.
Its going to get much worse soon.
Starvation across the region is beginning.
To this, I replied:
Oh, this is appalling: conscripting their own victims,
like has often been done in sub-Saharan Africa — using one’s slaves as
one’s soldiers.
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