Charge of the Right Brigade: Ukraine and the Dynamics of Capitalist Insurrection

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Charge-of-the-Right-Brigad-by-Jim-Kavanagh-Crimea_Right-Of-Revolution_Ukraine_Ukraine-140322-241.html

A treatise on the upheaval in Ukraine, in eight takes.

Charge of the Right Brigade: Ukraine and the Dynamics of Capitalist Insurrection
By Jim Kavanagh
OpEdNews Op Eds 3/22/2014 at 17:55:37

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As tensions rose on the streets of the Russian-speaking eastern portion of Ukraine, the response of the new government in the capital on Sunday was not to send troops, but to send rich people.

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Yanukovych was so corrupt

He certainly was, before and after his election. But so are his political opponents, all of whom are in the pockets of one oligarch or another. This includes his former nemesis, and the woman some in the West see as "almost as a modern-day saint,"Yulia Tymoshenko, who is a corrupt oligarch in her own right. She made a fortune in sweetheart natural-gas deals in the 1990s with then-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko--deals for which Lazarenko was prosecuted and convicted, and Tymoshenko named as a co-conspirator, in the United States. This earned her the nickname of "The Gas Princess," and because she was very cozy with Russia in these deals--before, fortune made, she became all anti-Russian and pro-Western--she is also known on the street as "Putin in a skirt."

As one commentator remarks:

In a country with endemic and rather extraordinary corruption--which is really the most important issue for many Ukrainians--Tymoshenko's best hope may be that Yanukovych has left behind such obvious symbols of his stupid cupidity.

Now, The Economist reckons: "One [clear thing] is that the government is going to be controlled by Yulia Tymoshenko. She has no official post, but Mr [Alexander] Turchinov (speaker of the parliament and acting president) is her right-hand man and Mr (Arseniy) Yastsenyuk (the new Prime Minister) is the leader of her party, Fatherland." Actually, I think this may be true in the short run, but it's not a sure bet to last.

[Jesus Malverde]

1. There are many who see the situation in a clear black/white, good vs. evil sort of way.

They are either naive and regurgitating what the boob tube taught them, or disingenuous and promoting a neocon agenda.

One minute a referendum is the will of the people, the next a referendum is an invasion. Which ever narrative fits the agenda they will go with it.