Ukraine Crisis: A 'Geostrategic Game' Of The West, Most Notably US

[Purveyor]

A huge crowd of demonstrators has surrounded the US embassy in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, protesting against Washington’s meddling in the country’s internal affairs. That’s according to local media reports. The event was organized by Kievans for Clean City, a new pro-government activist group which opposes violence in downtown Kiev. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that the situation in Ukraine was getting out of control, calling for dialogue between all the parties. Marcus Papadopoulos, Publisher/Editor of Politics First and Russia First magazinesб talked with the Voice of Russia about the evolving crisis in Ukraine.

Marcus, you claim that the Ukrainian protests are nothing more than a provocation on the part of the European Union and the United States. Why? Do you have any sufficient evidence proving your allegations?

I certainly do. I believe that what we are seeing in Ukraine is not what Western media and Western politicians are portraying it is – a matter of freedom versus tyranny. That’s absolute nonsense. If Ukraine was a tyranny, there wouldn’t be protesters out in the streets in the first place. It is quite simple. What we are seeing in Ukraine is an attempt by the opposition forces, which are in fact taking their orders, being encouraged by certain Western countries (most notably the US), to bring down a democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych and install a pro-Western government, which would in their ambitions allow Ukraine to join NATO and then the EU.

And that is what the reality of the situation is. It is a geostrategic game that the West is playing. And the game is this – in the last 20 years, ever since the Soviet Union collapsed Washington has been attempting to place what I call a sanitary cordon around Russia on its western borders. Now, all your listeners need to do is take a map of Europe and they will see that on Russia’s western borders it is pretty much surrounded by countries which are in NATO and which are in the EU. For example, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Romania.

And this goal of America, it goes back to a doctrine known as the Pentagon’s Defense Planning Guidance of 1992 or more commonly known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine, known after Paul Wolfowitz – its architect. And it basically stated that Russia is the only country in the world that is capable of challenging American global dominance and, therefore, steps must be taken to limit Russia’s influence in the world. And the steps which need to be taken focus on bringing those countries that used to be part of the Eastern Bloc and that used to be part of the Soviet Union, on bringing them into fold of the West.

And also, a very prominent American writer Zbigniew Brzezinski, who used to be the National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter…

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[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. What a bunch of steaming bullshit this piece is.

The fact that some guy from "Russia First" magazine is weighing in and framing the Ukrainian crisis as something Russian (and not Ukrainian) is symptomatic of the overall problem and the reason why many are in the streets in Ukraine.

Yes, Marcus, the protests are about tyranny and the fact that protesters are in the streets does not negate the fact that the Yanukovych government has made numerous moves towards a closed tyrannical government and that people are hopping mad.

That, and having been under Moscow's thumb for centuries before finally gaining independence, Ukrainians are naturally weary of Yanukovych's overtures to Russia and the promise of further meddling from Russia in Ukraine's affairs is upsetting. And when you hear that the Russian Foreign Minister deems the situation "out of control" and is "calling for dialogue" (wink, wink), it tells you all you need to know about what has people all over Ukraine all riled up.

Bottom line, Ukraine is not Russia, and Russia needs to stay the fuck out and not pretend that they are the greatest concern in the matter.