The
Ukraine has the fourth lowest
birth rate in the world and only 44 million people. It is a productive place
with a large land area that reasonable should have a rapproachment with the new
Russia that itself may evolve a
free enterprise democracy free of rampant corporatism in time. When Russia raised its tricolor flag
on 26 Dec. 1991 to declare itself an
independent new nation free of Soviet control it began the long process of
repairing the damages done by the Dictator from Georgia Joseph Djugashvilli and
the Soviet communist party. Repressing the desire of Russia to secure its traditional
lands in its possession prior to the Soviet revolution isn’t reasonable. The
Soviet communists were not elected to power by popular vote to start.
The
Ukraine and the vast 2000 Mile + Dneiper River Basin
GNU Free
Documentation Licence-attribution Francis McLoyd
One
wonders where statesmanship and wisdom depart to after a nation experiences
international political success. The axiom that some can’t stand prosperity
evidently applies to foreign policy too. After the end of the cold war the
United States managed to botch relations with the new Russia, pile up $17
trillion of public debt and outsource so many jobs while concentrating wealth
and degrading democracy. The Congress can’t even pass a budget. U.S. leadership still has time
to bugger up international relations and the media too much sound jingoistic in
being Don Quixote cold wars tilting against the Soviet Union in the 21st
century of imagination.
The
Ukraine was taken away briefly from
Russia by V.I. Lenin and Trotsky
who cut a deal with the Kaiser so they could quit W.W.I Yet that giveaway was
reversed at the Treaty of Versailles concluding W.W.I. The Ukraine was divided up in three
parts with the Soviets getting the eastern part. During the war 3.5 million Ukrainians
fought for Russia and a quarter million fought
on the other side.. The U.S. Government in effect has the same policy as Kaiser
and Hitler toward the Ukraine in that it should all belong to someone else than
Russia. Yet Ukraine is as much Russian
homeland as Israel is for Jews although
other people live their too.
The
Ukraine emerged as independent January
24 1991
following the dissolution of the former Soviet Union . In the absence of a government in Russia and with pressure and
support from the West political independence was an obvious evolution from the
failed system. It does not necessarily follow however that Russia should forfeit claim to
its traditional lands though Russia itself had been taken
over by Soviet coup. Russia is a perennial land much
like Britain in that regard even if Scotland moves for independence a
rump state of Britain will remain.
Weak
Soviet and Russian leaders have been pressurized by the west to give up the Ukraine before. Lenin, and
Yeltsin signed treaties about the Ukraine and Hitler just took the
western part and that could never have occurred without the threat or use of violence.
Ukrainian leaders cooperated with the Nazi’s after the
invasion as they hated the Soviets because of the mass starvation Stalin
directed. Ukrainian auxiliary police helped round up Jews for the holocaust.
-quote from Wikipedia article on Ukrainian Collaboration
With the Nazis…
“The atrocities against the Jewish population during the Holocaust started within a few days of the beginning of German occupation. There are indications that the Ukrainian auxiliary police was used in the round-up of Jews for the Babi Yar massacre[8][9] and in other Ukrainian cities and towns, such as Lviv,[10][11] Lutsk,[12] and Zhytomyr.[13] On September 1, 1941, Nazi-controlled Ukrainian newspaper Volhyn wrote "The element that settled our cities (Jews)... must disappear completely from our cities. The Jewish problem is already in the process of being solved."[14]
In May 2006, a Ukrainian newspaper Ukraine Christian News commented: "Carrying out the massacre was the Einsatzgruppe C, supported by members of a Waffen-SS battalion and units of the Ukrainian auxiliary police, under the general command of Friedrich Jeckeln. The participation of Ukrainian collaborators in these events, now documented and proven, is a matter of painful public debate in Ukraine.".[15]”
Russia
has never backed down from a peer war and has won a few, almost always in
defense. Russian fought for 500 years to get the Mongol hordes out of their
country. The United States has no comparable
history. Custer lost a battle against Indians fighting for honor while Bill
Clinton had Janet Reno protecting his flank yet blew it anyway. Respect Russian
history and give their present status honor, they have overcome dictators in
ways the U.S.A. can’t even imagine, and
may need to one day. The end of history did not occur in Dec. 1989.
New
York Times Map from 1918
In
an era short of easy lands to colonize around the globe the Russian lands in
the late Soviet
Union
are easy back-yard pickings for N.A.T.O., Boston and Washington D.C. as irresistible as a
bucket of Colonel Sanders chicken with original formula, gravy, biscuits,
mashed potatoes and cole slaw on the side.
Today’s
western political carpet baggers and the Nazis looked to the fertile Ukraine as blingin booty. The Ukraine is the third largest
grain producer in the world and a major exporter to global food supply.
With
a corrupt national economic policy without the derivatives and banking scams
available presently the plundering of historically Russian territory like the Eastern Ukraine and Crimea is about all that’s
available. Destabilizing Russia by emasculating their southern
nether regions is not in the long range interest of stable world peace.
Obviously wars pay good money to arms manufacturers and defense contractors in
the U.S.A. though.
Since
President Wilson signed a separate peace with Germany at the end of the First
World War that did not guarantee French security the U.S.A. has implemented
malfunctioning international security arrangements for short-term profit. From
the Paris peace talks ending the Vietnam conflict to the failed
nation rebuilding policy of Iraq and Afghanistan U.S.
foreign policy has been malfunctional. Abusing post-Soviet Union Russia now with
N.A.T.O. bullies so martinets can plunder Russia for-profit is senseless.
A stable Russia sharing the Ukraine with locals would remove
the real threat to Russia of aggressive western
military build up and that intimidating concern on its borders. Washington D.C. forces its dresses upon
foreign leaders and their populace wherever it can these days in order to
conform to the image of the godless beast of scientism.
The
Ukraine provided troops that
fought for the Nazis in the Second World War. It is always possible to find
those that will fight for any cause viewed as promoting narrow self-interest.
When the United States helped stage a coup
against the Iranian Prime Minister a half century ago it built a foundation for
troubles that never ceased. With so many enemies in the world today and with so
vast of a public debt is it a good idea to place Russia permanently on the side
of those that have been unfairly wounded by U.S. foreign policy and so
build a future of existential instability?
It
is important to see the woods as well as the trees in making strategic foreign
policy decisions. Continuing with inertia from old cold war criteria is
understandable for Senator McCain who was eight years a P.O.W. yet for President
Obama it’s disingenuous; he was living in Indonesia or paradise island. President
Suharto was no communist.
U.S.
Secretary of State Kerry said his generation of vets were war criminals. Changing
sides from that of sailor and decorated veteran to anti-war protest leader and
heroic symbol of turncoat to left counter-culture regardless of the merits of
that movement John Kerry used that platform to run for political office, become
a Senator and take an heiress wife of a multi-billion dollar ketchup empire.
Profiteering is in the blood. The Ukraine is the present l.e.m. of
desire. Obama, Kerry et al are procuring a corporate annexation of land that
should be shared with Russia on the east side of the
river Don and Nazi-corporatist/Boston D.C. axis of gay symps on the left ought
be considered.
Reagan
wins the peace, the follow up profligate boomer military runts acting like
carpet baggers should leave off with the idiocy and just let Russia renormalize to a stable
configuration. That does not include the Baltic Republics or the other now
independent nations of the former Soviet Union unless they freely want
to associate with a renormalized post-Soviet non-communist Russia .
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