Christopher Bollyn: Understanding the Crisis in Ukraine

Understanding the Crisis in Ukraine

Updated March 6, 2014

Added material about the Israeli soldier leading anti-government fighters in Kiev followed by report that snipers were used by the opposition to commit an atrocity that could be blamed on Yanukovich government. See final section - THE SNIPERS.

'I think,' said Sidonia, 'that there is no error so vulgar as to believe that revolutions are occasioned by economical causes.’
- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli (1844)

This political cartoon suggests that the crisis in the Ukraine, which has been fomented by the Neo-Con Kagan family and their Zionist masters, will fail in the Ukraine. Americans should ask why is the United States government pursuing such a destructive and reckless foreign policy, which is clearly detrimental to our national interest?

Sen. John McCain, the leading supporter of the Zionist war agenda in the U.S. Congress, talks to Arseniy Yatsenyuk (left), the new provisional prime minister, who happens to be Jewish, and Oleh Tyahnybok (center) of the "neo-Nazi" Svoboda party, in the Ukraine in December 2013.  Isn't it odd that a Ukrainian Jew and a neo-Nazi should be working so closely together?

Oleh Tyahnybok says a "Moscow-Jewish mafia" rules Ukraine and that "Germans, Kikes and other scum" want to "take away our Ukrainian state." In 2005, Tyahnybok, a trained medical doctor, co-signed an open letter to President Yushchenko calling for a parliamentary investigation into the "criminal activities of organized Jewry in Ukraine."

  

A battalion of Patriots of Ukraine paramilitaries tooled up in the midst of the protests.

The far-right mobs were the vanguard of a protest movement that deposed the elected government of Ukraine, but who was directing the mob?

THE ISRAELI PLATOON LEADER "DELTA" - One of the leaders of the Svoboda mob of anti-government protestors is "Delta", an Israeli veteran of the IDF's Givati infantry brigade, according to a report from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA.org).  Delta, an Orthodox Jew in his late 30s, headed a force of 40 men and women, including several fellow IDF veterans, in violent clashes with government forces.  As platoon leader, Delta says he takes orders from activists connected to Svoboda:  “I don’t belong [to Svoboda], but I take orders from their team. They know I’m Israeli, Jewish and an ex-IDF soldier. Delta says he has frustrations related to being an outsider: “Sometimes I tell myself, ‘What are you doing? This is not your army. This isn’t even your country.’”

The crisis in the Ukraine is a very serious matter that pits the United States against Russia. While we don’t know how this crisis will end, we certainly know how it started and who has guided it to this dangerous point.  In order to grasp what is really going on in Kiev, we need to understand who is pulling the strings in the so-called EuroMaidan protests and who has been appointed to head the unelected provisional government of the Ukraine.

I happen to have been reading Douglas Reed’s excellent historical analysis of Zionism, The Controversy of Zion, during the time when the world witnessed a regime change in the Ukraine, a regime change which has been forced on the people of the Ukraine by violent protestors in Kiev, the capital.

The Controversy of Zion is an excellent historical analysis of Zionism.  This book explains the roots and diabolical and destructive goals of Zionism.  It is highly recommended reading.

In the chapter entitled “The Warnings of Disraeli”, I found a most apt quotation for the situation in the Ukraine in a speech Benjamin Disraeli, the first Jewish prime minister of Britain, gave in the House of Commons in 1852:

The influence of the Jews may be traced in the last outbreak of the destructive principle in Europe. An insurrection takes place against tradition and aristocracy, against religion and property... the natural equality of men and the abrogation of property are proclaimed by the secret societies which form provisional governments, and men of the Jewish race are found at the head of every one of them.

After violent protestors seized government buildings, President Viktor Yanukovich fled the capital due to fear for his life and his family. This allowed the people guiding the protests in the street to push through appointments for a provisional government, which is headed by Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

While violent protests created a coup situation, Victoria Nuland of the U.S. State Department chose Arseniy Yatsenyuk (right) to be the prime minister of Ukraine. 

As Ben Judah wrote in his 2009 article for ISN Zurich, “Ukraine: The Rise of Yatsenyuk”:

Yatsenyuk has two major issues that will come to a head before the elections. Firstly he is Jewish, which according to political analyst Taras Kuzio, could pose a major problem… Yatsenyuk’s Judaism is not his only identity related political problem. Members of his family were prominent in the Ukrainian nationalist movement, which will doubtless cost him votes in the country’s Russian-speaking east.

What is most disturbing about the regime change that brought Yatsenyuk to power is that he seems to have been put in that position through the actions of Victoria Nuland, an official of the U.S. State Department who is married to Robert Kagan. The Kagan family, Lithuanian Jews of Khazar ancestry, seems to have a permanent fiefdom at the State Department. [Kagan and Kahn are Khazar names that derive from a title of imperial rank in the Mongolian and Turkic languages equal to the status of emperor and someone who rules a khaganate.]

Robert, Fred, and their father, Donald Kagan, were the founders of the Project for a New American Century, which aggressively pushed for war against Iraq during the Clinton and Bush administrations. Rather than being allowed to start new wars, the Kagans should be prosecuted for their roles in the conspiracy to wage a war of aggression against Iraq.  (See:  "Russia Under Attack")

Victoria Nuland Kagan of the U.S. State Department made a media event out of supporting the anti-government protests in Kiev. How would the U.S. government respond to a foreign diplomat taking such actions with protestors in front of the White House? Is this not improper meddling in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation?

To understand the illegal role that Victoria Nuland of the U.S. State Department played in setting up the provisional government in Kiev, just read this extract from her phone call with the U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine. This phone call preceded the appointment of Yatsenyuk by about two weeks:

Nuland: Good. I don't think Klitsch [Vitali Klitschko] should go into the government. I don't think it's necessary, I don't think it's a good idea.

Pyatt: Yeah. I guess... in terms of him not going into the government, just let him stay out and do his political homework and stuff. I'm just thinking in terms of sort of the process moving ahead we want to keep the moderate democrats together. The problem is going to be Tyahnybok [Oleh Tyahnybok, Svoboda party] and his guys and I'm sure that's part of what [President Viktor] Yanukovych is calculating on all this.

Nuland: [Breaks in] I think Yats [Arseniy Yatsenyuk] is the guy who's got the economic experience, the governing experience. He's the... what he needs is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside. He needs to be talking to them four times a week, you know. I just think Klitsch going in... he's going to be at that level working for Yatseniuk, it's just not going to work.

Pyatt: Yeah, no, I think that's right. OK. Good. Do you want us to set up a call with him as the next step?

THE NEW UKRAINIAN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

The coup in Kiev also made Oleksandr Turchynov the acting President of Ukraine. On February 25, Turchynov assumed the duties of the supreme commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. While some American Baptists are reporting that Turchynov is a pastor or an elder at his church, the Word of Life Center in Kiev, they are missing the point. The Word of Life is a Zionist organization posing as a church. It was established by a Swedish Jew named Ulf Ekman, who created a church called “Livets Ord”, which established evangelical churches throughout the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s with the express purpose of finding and funding Jewish emigration to Israel.  

The Word of Life church in Kiev...

and its pastor, the former head of Ukrainian intelligence, Oleksandr Turchynov, who is now the acting president of Ukraine.  Pray tell, what kind of church is this?

As the Wikipedia article about “Livets Ord” says: In conjunction with Christian Zionists in the United States, Livets Ord operates a fund to supply money to Russian Jews who want to move to Israel. The fund, named "Operation Jabotinsky", is named after Russian Vladimir Jabotinsky. 

Vladimir "Ze'ev" Jabotinsky (1880–1940), was a radical (i.e. revisionist) Zionist leader who established a number of Jewish terrorist organizations such as Beitar, Hatzohar, and the Irgun. The Irgun is the terrorist group, headed by Menachem Begin, that bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.  Begin founded the Likud party from the former members of these Zionist terrorist groups in the 1970s.  The fact that “Livets Ord” runs "Operation Jabotinsky" to find Jews in the former Soviet Union to send to Israel indicates that it is working closely with the Mossad, the branch of Israeli intelligence that was originally created to facilitate Jewish emigration to Palestine.

As I discovered in Estonia, a pastor from “Livets Ord” went on to work for U.S. military intelligence (See: “Note from Christopher Bollyn”, March 28, 2009).  This brings me to another aspect of the EuroMaidan protest that reeks of U.S. meddling in the internal politics of the Ukraine.

What I found in Estonia was that the so-called patriotic press was controlled by U.S. military intelligence asset Aleksander Einseln. Einseln was the retired U.S. Army officer from California who went to Estonia in the early 1990s to head the military of the newly-independent Estonia. What I discovered through this contact was that this “patriotic press” outfit controlled by General Einseln had several hundred skin-heads that it could mobilize for mob actions. This indicated that the "skin-head" movement in Estonia was actually a controlled mob that could be called upon by agents of U.S. military intelligence to create mob violence wherever and whenever needed.

Given what I have seen about how the U.S. military intelligence has cultivated hordes of agents in every country of the former Soviet Union through its programs at the Marshall Center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, I would think that the skin-head situation in the Ukraine is not very different from what I found in Estonia.  Their bosses probably attended the same courses at the Marshall Center.

THE SNIPERS 

On February 20, snipers opened fire on the protestors and the police, killing many on both sides with shots to the head.  This is the same kind of false-flag terrorism tactic that has been used by the rebels fighting against the Syrian government.  An atrocity is committed with the intention that it will be blamed on the targeted party, in this case the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich.

According to a leaked report from an Estonian diplomat who was in Kiev shortly after the killings, it now appears likely that the snipers were working on behalf of the opposition - not the Yanukovich government. Video evidence taken during the shooting indicates that the protestors were being fired on from the rear, probably from the multi-story hotel controlled by the Maidan protestors behind them.

In an intercepted phone call between Estonian Foreign Affairs Minister Urmas Paet and EU Foreign Affairs chief Catherine Ashton, Paet, who had just been in the Ukraine, can be heard telling Ashton that it was not Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich who was behind the sniper killings of people in the Maidan, “but it was somebody from the new coalition.” This exchange can be heard from about 8:15 to 9:15 in the video that contains the entire phone call between Paet and Ashton.

Urmas Paet:  What was quite disturbing, this same Olga told as well that all the evidence shows that the people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among policemen and then people from the streets, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides.

Ashton:  Well, yeah…that’s, that’s terrible.

Paet:  She then also showed me some photos she said that as a medical doctor she can say that it is the same handwriting, the same type of bullets, and it’s really disturbing that now the new coalition, that they don’t want to investigate what exactly happened. So there is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new coalition.

The whole telephone conversation can be heard here: 

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.se/2014/03/intercepted-phone-call-between-estonian.html

Sources and Recommended Reading:  

“In Kiev, an Israeli army vet led a street-fighting unit” by Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, February 28, 2014
http://www.jta.org/2014/02/28/news-opinion/world/in-kiev-an-israeli-militia-commander-fights-in-the-streets-and-saves-lives

"Khagan" definition, Wikipedia, March 4, 2014
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khagan

“Kiev snipers were Opposition hitmen” by Vladimir Radyuhin, TheHindu.com, March 5, 2014
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/kiev-snipers-were-opposition-hitmen/article5754177.ece

"Livets Ord" (Word of Life), Wikipedia, March 3, 2014
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livets_Ord 

"Marshall Center – Creating Agents for the Empire", RumorMillNews.com, by Christopher Bollyn, March 26, 2004
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi/read/46557 

"Neo-Nazis and far-right protesters in Ukraine", libcom.org, Jim Clarke, January 23, 2014
libcom.org/news/neo-nazis-far-right-protesters-ukraine-23012014

“Note From Christopher Bollyn”, TheTruthSeeker.co.uk, March 28, 2009
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=10499

"Russia Under Attack" by Christopher Bollyn, February 15, 2014
www.bollyn.com/14562/

“Ukraine: The Rise of Yatsenyuk” by Ben Judah, ISN Security Watch, Zurich, August 5, 2009
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Articles/Detail//?lng=en&id=103593

“Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call,” BBC News, February 7, 2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957 

"Ze'ev Jabotinsky", Wikipedia, March 5, 2014
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze%27ev_Jabotinsky 

- See more at: http://www.bollyn.com/#article_14573

Eric Walberg: Ukraine & Egypt: A tale of two coups

Ukraine & Egypt: A tale of two coups

Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك ولبر    Monday, 03 March 2014 08:28

US plans for Egypt and Ukraine are falling apart and Russia is scrambling to pick up the pieces.

In the latest color revolution, it was not an army but a rump parliament that pulled the plug on the elected president on a wave of protest, pushing out Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovich on 22 February. He apologized from exile in the Russian city of Rostov-on-the-Don for his weakness during the uprising, but his fate was sealed when he was disowned by his own Party of the Regions, the largest party in the fractious parliament. The rump parliament unsurprisingly ordered the release of Yanukovich’s arch rival, ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from prison, a condition for Ukraine’s signing a European Union Association Agreement.

The collapse of authority in Ukraine led to what appears to be the breakaway of an already autonomous Crimea, now to be aligned with Russia. The frigate Hetman Sahaydachniy (the flagship of the Ukrainian Navy), on NATO maneuvers in the Gulf of Aden, refused to take orders from Kiev and raised the Russian naval flag as it returned to Simferopol. Simultaneously, Russian troops blocked three Crimean bases, demanding Ukrainian forces surrender. Residents have announced they are going to hold a referendum on 30 March to determine the fate of Crimea.

High ranking Ukrainian military and security officials swore their allegiance to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, rejecting the new government in Kiev as illegitimate. Acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov dismissed his newly appointed Navy commander Denis Berezovsky when he took the oath of allegiance to “Crimean people”, accusing him of treason. “This is actually a declaration of war to my country,” exclaimed the outraged Ukrainian interim PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Oh really? Is this a case of Russian aggression, or the new humanitarian justification for intervention R2P (right to protect)? Or is it something much simpler?

Russia modern, Ukraine postmodern

The post-Soviet New World Order that the West is trying to impose in Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Ukraine, etc. requires obedient “postmodern states”, open to “free trade” (in US dollars) and “free” elections (preferably with short terms making for weak presidents), the whole process monitored by a “free” media (read: privately controlled) and western NGOs. It’s a very expensive racket—the winner is generally the best-funded and most widely advertised in the “free” media. Sometimes it’s even a military dictator, as long as he can arrange to be elected.

Occasionally things go awry—a populist like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gets elected and re-re-elected, and must be subverted through media and NGO targeting, or a country like Iran opts out of the whole circus and survives to tell the tale. But the immense power and prestige of the empire usually asserts itself after chipping away at the offender long enough to bring the renegade’s supporters to their knees.

However, this scenario is still not the order of the day when it comes to Russia. “Foul!” cry President Obama and western politicians, unanimously buttressed by screaming media headlines, at various anti-empire moves by the Russian bear. This is the case now, with Russia’s move to fill the dangerous vacuum in Ukraine and assure its continued control of the strategic Crimean peninsula, which has for centuries been Russia’s main Black Sea outlet and is populated largely by Russians.

Ukraine has always been Russia’s twin. Long ago it was the elder twin, as in Kievan Rus, the federation of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia in the 9th–13th cc. The next seven centuries were messy ones, with the Tatar invasions, and Poland and Russia battling it out on the Ukraine’s fertile black earth. Catherine the Great put an end to the Cossack ‘Ukraine’ in 1764 (and to the Crimean Khanate in 1776), though it could hardly be called a state. ‘Ukraine’ can really only claim ‘independence’ as a modern state for a few months following the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917. In the Polish-Soviet Peace of Riga in 1921, it was shorn of its western and northern regions to Poland and Russia, and became a Soviet republic.

Ukraine’s very spotty experience as an state since is hardly much better—Stalin’s reincorporation of a very unreceptive western Ukraine following WWII, and Khrushchev’s thoughtless gift of Crimea in 1954, when Soviet borders were of no importance. The ‘independence’ ‘won’ in 1991, when Soviet-era leaders in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia secretly agreed to abandon the Soviet Union, precipitating its collapse, was a faux independence within the US-dominated ‘peaceful’ world order.

This finally reached a breaking point when President Yankovitch was given an ultimatum by the EU last year. The choice was to submit to the EU proposed association agreement (and face drastic disruption to its economic relations with Russia), or reestablish itself as part of the Russian ‘near abroad’, now being reorganized as a Eurasian customs union (where it would arguably have more real ‘independence’ than it would under the EU’s highly integrated economic, political and legal system).

EU accession—as a prelude to NATO membership—is vital to securing the rather shaky empire, which has recently suffered a string of debacles, notably in the Muslim world. The problem is that Ukrainians are evenly split on the EU vs Russia as chief partner. A Johns Hopkins Center for Transatlantic Relations study concluded, “The main obstacle” to Ukraine’s joining the organization “is not Russian opposition but low public support for membership in Ukraine itself.”

Freedom and Fatherland

So to overcome this hurdle, a coalition that would embrace right wing nationalists and Europhiles was necessary to defeat the pro-Russians, a repeat of the 2004 color revolution that brought the Europhiles to power but left Ukraine in even worse shape than it was. And because a repeat performance of 2004 would not get the same response from a jaded populus, it was necessary to allow the neo-Nazis to be at the forefront of the resistance, given their enthusiasm for violent confrontation in the name of the fatherland. Ironically, they gather under the misnomer Freedom Party, while their Europhile allies-of-convenience (ex-PM Tymoshenko and current PM Yatsenyuk) gather under the equally misnamed Fatherland Party. 

Neofascists and neoliberals are joined in an unholy alliance for ‘freedom’ and ‘fatherland’ against a weak, waffling government less pretentiously merely trying to placate conflicting groups, with the US finding itself on the side of the neofascists. Does this sound like Egypt, Syria, Libya? Writes Israel Shamir, “Liberals do not have to support democracy. They can join forces with al-Qaeda as now in Syria, with Islamic extremists as in Libya, with the army as in Egypt, or with neo-Nazis, as now in Russia and the Ukraine.” 

Even if we could believe the opposition’s rousing rhetoric of ‘freedom’ and ‘fatherland’, there is no room anymore for either in the empire. EU President Herman Van Rompuy confirmed this when he said that “the time of the homogenous nation state is over. The belief that countries can stand alone is a lie and an illusion.”  

Belarus (or Belorussia, meaning white Russia) under its stern populist Alexandr Lukashenko realized the illusory nature of the Euro offerings long ago, negotiating an unprecedented voluntary commonwealth with Russia in 1996, though putting the Eurasian Humpty Dumpty together again is proving to be as hard as the fairytale suggests, even for the stalwart Lukashenko. 

This Ukraine is not the one the EU bargained for. The new government includes Freedom (read: neofascist) Party officials in control of the armed forces, national security, the economy, justice and education. They include the “kommandant” of the EuroMaidan movement Andriy Parubiy as the new secretary of the National Security and National Defense Committee, Oleh Makhnitsky as the new prosecutor-general of Ukraine, Serhiy Kvit as the new education minister, to name a few. This no doubt gives heart to neofascists in western Europe, who are itching to join similar governing coalitions.

It is not the Ukraine Russia bargained for either. It certainly looks like Ukraine will be pulled into the EU now, and despite support for closer relations with Russia by half the population, it will be officially firmly anti-Russian (unless it splits apart). 

Russian hardball

Early fantasies by Russian liberals of joining the empire as an obedient postmodern EU member-state evaporated as the empire’s plans became clear in the 1990s, and mutual EU-Russian hostility became entrenched. Russia’s reassertion of control of Chechnya and refusal to abandon allies in Ossetia and Abkhazia, and its newly assertive policy in the Middle East and elsewhere are further proof that it will not join the empire as a subservient member. 

On the contrary, apart from Ukraine, it faces off against the West in Syria and now in Egypt. It is reestablishing a military presence in the world distinct from the empire’s, a presence which includes its traditional base in Crimea, the Syrian port at Tartus, and—the week before Ukrainian president’s resignation—a $2b arms deal with Egypt’s junta. 

Russia’s gentlemanly agreement with the previous Ukrainian government for use of Simferopol till 2042 was voided by the recent coup. Unless Russia plans to join NATO itself, the prospect of paying rent to NATO to use its own Black Sea docking facilities doesn’t make much sense. Simferopol and Tartus are stepping stones to allow Russia an international naval presence, as Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu alluded to last week when he announced the military was engaged in talks with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Algeria, Cyprus, the Seychelles, Vietnam and Singapore for use of naval facilities.

It looks now as if the EU will have its cake—minus Crimea, but it is bound to be inedible. It has no money to spare for the gargantuan task of incorporating Ukraine as it did the neighborhood Latvias. Britain has already given the EU notice after the Polish invasion. There will be no stomach for tens of thousands of desperate Ukrainians selling their labor or whatever. Already the coup is unraveling, an unstable mix of neofascist xenophobes and neoliberal Europhiles. Rebel leader Aleksadndr Muzychko has threatened to assassinate the new interior minister after his pledge to investigate Muzychko for some of his recent actions. Sound like Libya?

Compare this ‘populist coup’ with another carried out on a wave of US-cheerled anger—in Egypt last July. There, it was by the army. In Ukraine, it was by the parliament (Ukraine doesn’t have much of an army). Both featured the standard occupation of the main square in the capital. However, in the Ukrainian protest center, western Ukraine’s Lviv, the mayor assisted demonstrators to take control of the local police station and distribute arms to create a citizen militia to replace the police. In Egypt, in contrast, the police and army actively conspired with the demonstrators to overthrow the president, making the coup a walk-over. In both cases, the demonstrators were a coalition of liberals and right-wing nationalists. 

Both coups succeeded because they were backed by the empire, but will be faced with unsolvable economic problems and a fractured, weakened state, in desperate need of handouts. The Russian response to both was neither aggression nor R2P, but rather calculated realpolitik—salvage the Crimea in Ukraine (albeit full of loyal Russians), try to wean the coup makers in Egypt from their total reliance on what is clearly a fickle US. Not a pretty picture, but there it is. Save the collapse of the EU or the empire itself, the writing is on the wall. Welcome to the world of postmodern imperialism.