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Yanukovych Proposes Solution to Ukraine's Civil War; It Fits Obama's Plan.

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Commentary by Eric Zuesse

The Ukrainian President whom U.S. President Obama overthrew in a violent coup this past February is now proposing that "people will be able to negotiate and Ukraine will once again be united."

The former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, in a lengthy interview published on Christmas Eve day in Russia's weekly newspaper, "Arguments and Facts," says this after having asserted in the very same statement, "Ordinary Ukrainians from the west and east have nothing to share."

So: he's advising that the people in Donbass in Ukraine's southeast, who, since soon after his overthrow, are being bombed and gunned down by Ukraine's military from Ukraine's northwest, should nonetheless negotiate with and come to agreement with them -- a government they played no part in electing and that has been trying to kill them. He says they should be ruled by a Government that's largely elected by people in Ukraine's northwest, with whom they "have nothing to share" (such as this Gallup poll confirmed to be the actual case: the gulf between Ukraine's east and west is, indeed, enormous).

In other words, Yanukovych wants Donbass to be ruled by the Obama-installed gang that are trying to exterminate the residents in Donbass and to control the land in Donbass but with the residents gone from it.

This is like proposing that Germany's Jews should have accepted Hitler's ruling over them, or that Israel's Palestinians should accept zionists ruling over them, or that Shia in Syria and Iraq should accept being ruled by ISIS Sunnis ruling over them. Yanukovych's statement is equally insensitive, equally stupid, equally anti-democratic, and equally repugnant, as that.

He modifies this by saying that it should happen only "as soon as the current policies are gone," but he doesn't say how this miracle can even possibly happen. He vaguely asserts that it can occur via "negotiations." The exterminees are supposed to "negotiate" with their exterminators until "the current policies are gone." This idea is morbidly fit for "Saturday Night Live" -- to be laughed at -- but certainly not for any real political leader. In fact, it's an insult to the people who voted 90% for him, that's to say, to the people who live in Donbass (it's shown there as the purple area on the far-eastern side of that map). He's metaphorically spitting on the graves of his former voters.

This is yet another in a long line of indications that the rulers in Ukraine, at least since the time of the breakup of the Soviet Union, are so profoundly corrupt that they don't even think seriously at all about the welfare of the people they rule over (not even of their former supporters). They just live in their secure and corruptly gained wealth, with no concern for the people over whom they rule or have ruled.

The Government of Ukraine might be as psychopathic as America's Government is -- maybe even more so, if that's possible. The major difference between the two Governments is that America's wasn't always this way; Ukraine's unfortunately has been.

Today's American Government is now so psychopathic as to be seeking to surround Russia with NATO missiles, even for them to be in Ukraine (with a Ukrainian Government that's elected by the people in the Russia-hating northwestern portion of that country), despite the fact that when the Soviet Union in 1962 tried to install nuclear missiles into Cuba off our own shores, our President at that time, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, made clear that if they did it, we would launch a nuclear war against the Soviet Union.

Why isn't Russia's President Vladimir Putin publicly telling Obama and Obama's NATO exactly what JFK publicly told Nikita Khrushchev: Don't do that, or else our nukes will fly against you, because doing that will be a mortal threat against all Russians. You must leave your military away from our borders, just like we left our military away from Cuba. (Of course, he should first privately tell Obama this; then, if Obama refuses to back off, Putin should publicly warn it; but Obama hasn't backed off, and we don't know whether he's yet been privately warned.)

Yanukovych is proposing a final solution in Ukraine that's just as psychopathic as is Obama's final solution to the whole world, which is: either you accept U.S. rule (or "hegemony") over this entire planet, or else we shall crush you.

President Obama's speech at West Point, on 28 May 2014, propagandized for (i.e., rationalized) this conquer-Russia viewpoint, on the part of America's aristocracy, who want to control the aristocracy in every other nation including in Russia, and he lied there about such things as "Russia's aggression" (when the world's huge problem is actually America's aggression, against Russia, and against many other countries; not Russia's 'aggression' against Ukraine) while he asserted: "Russia's aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while China's economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle classes compete with us." He was telling West Pointers that the emerging newly important national economies are "competing" with us, and that this is the U.S. military's business, to deal with by weapons and by force, not really by economic competition at all (which isn't supposed to be the military's business). Obama was also making clear to the graduating West Point cadets that the "BRIC" countries are America's enemy (that Russia, and its leading supporters of international independence, are the enemies against a mono-polar or "hegemonic" world, American Empire), from the standpoint of America's aristocracy, whom the U.S. military now even so blatantly serves to the exclusion of any authentically public-interest at all. Ours want to crush the aristocrats in Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The newly graduating professional U.S. killers at West Point are being given their marching-orders from our 'democratically' elected President, their Commander-in-Chief. He said there: "So the United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. That has been true for the century passed [properly spelled 'past,' but this is his text] and it will be true for the century to come."

He might as well have been Hitler there, or Stalin, or Attila the Hun, all of whom could have said the same thing to their troops. It makes sense, then, that in the 2013 WIN/Gallup international poll, the nation that's considered the biggest threat to world peace is the United States -- not, as Obama said: "Russia's aggression." In fact, this poll found: "Rather surprisingly, in Ukraine, which is often described as being deeply divided between pro-Russian and pro-Western camps, the U.S. did not fare well -- 33 percent of respondents choose the U.S. as [presenting] the greatest danger, compared to just five percent who picked Russia." Moreover: "Germans were more ambivalent, with the U.S. selected as the greatest threat (17 percent), just ahead of Iran (16 percent); as were British respondents, who put the U.S. and Iran in joint first place among threats to peace (15 percent each). " In Spain -- while not in the same league as Greece -- respondents also had a dim view of the U.S., with 25 percent picking it as the greatest danger, compared to just 11 percent for North Korea and 10 percent for Iran."

So: Obama is scaring-up America's future warriors against Russia, by lying to them about "Russia's aggression," and telling them that "Russia's aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe," and by not telling them that those "capitals" are controlled by America's aristocracy, and that Russia's is not. He is indoctrinating them with lies, not educating them with truths.

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