U.S.
President Barack Obama apparently is going ahead with his plan for NATO
missiles to be placed in Ukraine aimed against Moscow, but found a way
to do it that won’t violate the warnings by Russia’s President Vladimir
Putin against Washington’s directly supplying those arms to Ukraine
(such as is demanded of Obama by congressional Republicans, and even by a
few hawkish Democrats — all passionate supporters of Hillary Clinton).
Obama’s subordinate (or dependent local leader), the President of
Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, is now arranging to receive those weapons via
a less direct channel; and this arrangement couldn’t happen if the U.S.
White House were opposed to it. The idea might even have originated
inside the White House.
On Tuesday, 24 February 2015, in Abu Dhabi, the capital of United Arab Emirates, Poroshenko
placed the finishing touches on the purchase of Western, mainly U.S., weapons, via the UAE,
from Western firms such as, perhaps, Lockheed, GE, Krupp, Euromissile,
etc., which will be paid for by Western taxpayers, via IMF ‘loans’ to
Ukraine, which money comes from taxpayer contributions to the IMF, but
which ‘loans’ can never be paid back to the IMF — they’ll inevitably
default, because these ‘loans’ are at the very end of the long line of
creditors of Ukraine, which is a bankrupt country, having been looted
for decades (and
especially during
the past year)
by its aristocrats (called “oligarchs”), who have already spirited tens
if not hundreds of billions of dollars off to Western tax-haven
countries, so that only Ukraine’s public (who received little if any
benefit from those debts of the Ukrainian Government) will pay even the
pennies-on-the-dollars that Ukraine’s bondholders will be receiving (and
the recipients will be only the holders of the
oldest of Ukraine’s bonds, which won’t be the IMF, EU, or U.S., Ukraine’s
post-coup ‘lenders’).
This
is called the IMF’s “austerity” program, for looted nations such as
Greece and Ukraine, and it holds sacred the thefts by aristocrats, while
it transfers all of aristocrats’ losses off onto their respective
publics, who (as Ukrainians now will) pay it via their stripped
governmental services and hiked taxes; and these poor people then serve
aristocrats as virtual slaves (low-wage labor), many of whom thus
migrate to wealthier countries, which, in turn, reject the burden of
caring for them, thus producing yet more resentments and hatreds against
these poor people, regardless of how they behave.
Here is the way this Ukrainian arms deal works:
The deal itself was publicly, but only vaguely, announced on Tuesday, the 24th, along with
“what
Poroshenko described as a ‘very important negotiation about the
facilitation of the United Arab Emirates investment in the Ukraine.’ He
declined to provide specifics of the deal.” The reason why Arabic royals (in this case the
Al Nahyan family that controls Abu Dhabi)
are naturals for this — the logical persons to serve as the middle-men
to sell Western-made weapons to Russia’s new (since the time of
Obama’s February 2014 Ukrainian coup)
enemy, Ukraine — is that the U.S. aristocracy has, for at least 70
years, been allied with Sunni aristocracies, against, originally, the
Soviet Union, and then Russia. Russia had been the chief supplier of oil
and gas to the other Soviet republics; it was and is the local
oil-and-gas giant. Whereas Russia’s aristocrats bonded instead with Shia
Iran (which alliance was interrupted during 1953-79 by the CIA’s coup
there and then the Shah’s ultimate overthrow and then the restoration of
Iran’s alliance with Russia), the American aristocrats had bonded with
Sunni Saudi Arabia, and with other Arab royals, in UAE, Qatar, Bahrain,
etc. So, with the exception of Armand Hammer’s Occidental Petreoleum,
which bonded with Libya’s pro-Soviet Sunni anti-imperialist and
anti-Western Muammar Gaddafi, Western oil companies generally allied
with the Saud family, who had allied with the most intensely Sunni
clergy of all, who were the followers of
Muhammad
ibn Abd al-Wahhab, who had personally agreed in 1744, with Muhammad bin
Saud, that the Sauds and Wahhabs would jointly control the Kingdom and
ultimately the world — Wahhabs controlling the laws, and Sauds
controlling the military.
In
short: America’s aristocracy bonded with Sunni aristocrats, and
Russia’s aristocracy bonded with Shia ones. Ukraine has now joined the
Sunni alliance, and this is done with Obama’s blessing.
America’s
progressives might find it hard to understand, but America’s far-right
aristocratic Koch brothers, who are allied with Big Oil on almost
everything else, have no part in Big Oil’s alliance with the Sauds, and
consequently the Kochs’ Cato Institute actually did
an honest analysis of U.S.-Saudi relations, concluding,
“The
United States should reassess the current Washington-Riyadh axis. The
American commitment to the Saudi royal family is a moral blemish and a
practical danger. It has already drawn the United States into
one conventional war and has helped to make Americans targets for
terrorism, which generated far more casualties in one day than did the
Gulf War, the Kosovo conflict, and the Afghanistan campaign (so far)
combined.”
Instead, most of America’s aristocrats who are heavily invested in crushing Russia are Democrats, such as
George Soros and
Pierre Omidyar. These are the
CIA Democrats. Another example of that is
Markos Moulitsas. Of course,
CIA Republicans dominate
the anti-Russian campaign, but virtually the entire U.S. aristocracy is
either funding it or else doesn’t much care either way about it. None
cares about the extermination of the residents in Ukraine’s former
Donbass region. This is why the U.S. media are now pouring forth with
virtual unanimity against Russia — as if it were Russia that were
surrounding NATO, instead of NATO that’s surrounding Russia. Even though
Obama’s Ukrainian Government is carrying out
an ethnic-cleansing campaign, its victims are being portrayed as if they were ‘terrorists’ and even ‘Russians.’ The victims are just
former Ukrainians.
On 11 February 2015, I headlined
“Al Qaeda’s Bookkeeper Spills the Beans” and
reported that the person who had kept the financial books for Osama bin
Laden’s Al Qaeda during the period leading up to 9/11, and who entered
each and every donation into their financial books, including each one
of the many multi-million-dollar donations, which poured in from Saudi
and other Arab royals, provided sworn testimony recently, in a U.S.
prison where he has been held incommunicado for more than a decade in
order to protect Saudi and other Sunni royals — testimony that he swore
upon the Quran, which he holds dearer than anything else — and, in this
sworn testimony he explained in detail the profound interdependency
between the Wahhab clergy and the Saud family, and the resulting
dependency that Al Qaeda had upon both that clergy and that royal
family, so that even the other Sunni royal families (such as in Qatar,
Bahrain, and UAE) are beholden to the Saudi royal family and its
Wahhabist clerics.
A little-noticed news story in
Al-Monitor,
on 27 January 2015, from Bruce Reidel, reported that, “ Feb. 14 marks
the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the US alliance with the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. On Feb. 14, 1945, President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt met with King Abdul-Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud in Egypt and
the two forged a partnership that has endured despite occasional severe
strains for the last 70 years.” Reidel went on:
“The
meeting was a closely held secret for security reasons. Only a handful
on each side knew it was coming. FDR and Ibn Saud met on the USS Quincy,
a cruiser, in the Great Bitter Lake along the Suez Canal, as World War
II was coming to an end. FDR arrived from the Yalta summit with Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Roosevelt’s health was very poor; he had only weeks to live. Ibn Saud
had come from Jeddah on an American destroyer, the USS Murphy, with an
entourage of bodyguards, cooks, slaves, an astrologer, a fortune-teller
and other retainers and some sheep. The king only reluctantly agreed to
leave his wives behind in Jeddah. It was his first trip outside the
Arabian Peninsula aside from a brief visit to Basra in Iraq. The two
agreed to work together to ensure stability in the post-war Middle East.
The United States would ensure security for the kingdom, and the Saudis
would ensure access to their oil fields. The United States acquired use
of Dhahran air base for operations in the Middle East. US oil companies
were already operating in the kingdom. Saudi Arabia declared war
on Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan two weeks later, securing a seat in
the United Nations.”
Barack
Obama wants to continue the program that George H.W. Bush, Bill
Clinton, and G.W. Bush, worked on before him, to surround Russia with
NATO missiles. The takeover of Ukraine, and the enlistment of the Arabic
oil sheikhs in assisting further to
turn the screws against Russia, are key components in doing that: crushing Russia’s resistance to American domination.
Whereas,
for FDR, the alliance with Sunni Islam was purely anti-communist,
against the Soviet Union, the U.S. Presidents after 1980 were and are
anti-
Russian,
and it has nothing whatsoever to do with ideology. The U.S. aristocracy
intend to dominate the aristocracy in every other nation, and Russia is
the only militarily powerful nation that is opposed to being controlled
by this global Empire. Consequently, President Obama, who is an agent
for America’s aristocracy, wants to cripple if not destroy Russia. And
this is why, in his
National Security Strategy 2015,
17 of the 18 times he uses the term ‘aggression’ are applying it
against Russia. Russia’s President Putin would have to be an idiot not
to recognize that today’s United States (its aristocracy,
not the American public, who are quite different) is extremely hostile.
Russia
could be the bulwark that, along with the rest of Europe and America,
could restrain Islamic extremism; but, since America’s aristocracy is
primarily concerned with crushing Russia, Islamic terrorism will
probably only continue to grow.
Furthermore,
events such as 9/11 are necessary for the Arabic aristocrats in order
for them to keep their clerics with them and thereby control their own
nation’s public.
Here is an official photo of Poroshenko with Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Al Nahyan:
So:
the U.S. ends up being allied with Islamic terrorists, while accusing
Russia of backing ‘terrorists’ in the former Ukraine, whose only crime
is that they don’t want to be
slaughtered.
On 12 February 2015, was issued a
“Statement by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Ukraine,” which
opened: “Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), statement today in Brussels, Belgium: ‘I am pleased
to announce that the IMF team working in Kiev has reached a staff-level
agreement with the Ukrainian government on a new economic reform
program that would be supported by an Extended Fund Facility of SDR
12.35 billion (about $17.5 billion, €15.5 billion) from the IMF, as well
as by additional resources from the international community.” Violating
even the IMF’s own prohibitions against pouring loans into a nation
that’s at war, the IMF was here making clear that they were 100% behind
Obama’s Ukrainian proxy war against Russia. This is where the money will
come from to finance Ukraine’s acquisition of more weapons to
exterminate or else drive out the residents in
the area of Ukraine that had voted 90% for the democratically elected Ukrainian President that Obama overthrew.
It’s ongoing mass-murder on the installment plan, with the IMF providing most of the funds.
Because
the loaned money is going to pay the ethnic-cleansing campaign, it’s
not going toward the needs of the Ukrainian people. This is extreme
austerity, and it started immediately, a day after the day, 26 February
2014, when Arseniy Yatsenyuk became appointed to run the country, as
he had been selected to do by Victoria Nuland of Obama’s State Department 22 days prior. As
Kommersant reported, on 6 March 2014:
“the strategy of the government was approved in Parliament on 27
February and on 3 March the Ministry of Finance sent an action plan for
approval to the Ministry of Economic Development. The document is
striking in its scale. … ‘Under the Knife’ go social costs. Already in
March, the payment of pensions will be reduced to only 50% of the
designated pension amounts.” But an uproar held that up. However, now
it’s being done.
On December 11th:
“Cabinet wants to reduce schooling to 9 years [from 12 years], to
reduce the cost of the budget Finance Ministry proposes to amend the
legislation governing the humanitarian sphere, the sphere of public
administration, pensions, social security, the work of the prosecution
and the army.”
On December 19th: “Education Minister Sergey Kvit noted that the department, which he heads, will never agree to such a proposal.”
Pensions
are now set to be halved, even in the greatly depreciated Ukrainian
currency; and public schooling is to be reduced to only 9 years. All of
that IMF (and U.S., and EU) money goes instead to pay to mass-murder the
residents in Ukraine’s former Donbass region,
the area shown on this map in which the residents voted 90% for Viktor Yanukovych,
whom Obama overthrew, and where all of the residents are officially
’terrorists.’ The phrase for that used to be: “free-fire zone.” Obama
wants the residents exterminated, and the IMF and EU are going along
with that.
The
circuitous way in which Ukraine will be buying its weapons is designed
to avoid triggering a declaration of war by Vladimir Putin, or else to
make non-obvious to the public why he would be justified in doing so.
