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I do believe it is interesting that the vote in the Crimean Autonomous Region to hold a referendum to determine secession from Ukraine is being called "illegal" by Kerry and his buddies. This is after encouraging every sort of secession in Europe and beyond, whether by ballot or bullet. And it is in context of referring to the violent coup d'etat in Ukraine as if it were the legitimate, elected government it replaced.
The broader point is: these people never mean anything principled in what they say. (news flash, I know) They just make stuff up to bolster their current tactics (I am not saying strategy, because strategy implies a long-term analysis of the developing situation).
Currently, for reasons I do not pretend to understand, Kerry and the rest of them have closed ranks behind Angela Merkel's desire to dump German goods in Ukraine without regulation or taxes. This is not good for Ukrainian workers. A certain nasty part of me thinks this fact alone is sufficient for the one percent to be in favor of it. But I'm really not completely sure that these guys have enough perception or imagination to care one way or the other about what happens to people. I mean, clearly, US politicians hate American workers (well, should we say workers when work is being so determinedly witheld from them?) passionately and want them to suffer in every way possible -- just listen to their rhetoric about, well, anything -- but I'm not sure any of these politicians in any of these countries feel the same way about workers outside their own countries. I'm not sure they know they exist, even though they do keep demanding austerity and suffering everywhere.
So anyway, for some reason the secession of Crimea seems to these fellows like a thing that will make it harder for Merkel to have her way in Ukraine, so they're against it. The secession of Ukraine (how many years ago now?) seemed like a thing that would make it easier to do whatever mischief they were up to at the time, so they were for it.
I'm not going to bother with pointing out that Crimea was never part of Ukraine till Kruschev put it there, because that was a long time ago and it doesn't matter anyhow. These borders are all just weapons the ruling classes use in their little spats with each other, and more importantly weapons they use in their ongoing one-sided war against the rest of us.
The broader point is: these people never mean anything principled in what they say. (news flash, I know) They just make stuff up to bolster their current tactics (I am not saying strategy, because strategy implies a long-term analysis of the developing situation).
Currently, for reasons I do not pretend to understand, Kerry and the rest of them have closed ranks behind Angela Merkel's desire to dump German goods in Ukraine without regulation or taxes. This is not good for Ukrainian workers. A certain nasty part of me thinks this fact alone is sufficient for the one percent to be in favor of it. But I'm really not completely sure that these guys have enough perception or imagination to care one way or the other about what happens to people. I mean, clearly, US politicians hate American workers (well, should we say workers when work is being so determinedly witheld from them?) passionately and want them to suffer in every way possible -- just listen to their rhetoric about, well, anything -- but I'm not sure any of these politicians in any of these countries feel the same way about workers outside their own countries. I'm not sure they know they exist, even though they do keep demanding austerity and suffering everywhere.
So anyway, for some reason the secession of Crimea seems to these fellows like a thing that will make it harder for Merkel to have her way in Ukraine, so they're against it. The secession of Ukraine (how many years ago now?) seemed like a thing that would make it easier to do whatever mischief they were up to at the time, so they were for it.
I'm not going to bother with pointing out that Crimea was never part of Ukraine till Kruschev put it there, because that was a long time ago and it doesn't matter anyhow. These borders are all just weapons the ruling classes use in their little spats with each other, and more importantly weapons they use in their ongoing one-sided war against the rest of us.
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Which is why I keep finding this era of German economic relationship kind of difficult to wrap my brain around. OTOH, what the soviet Russians did in Ukraine is just about as evil and wide-spread.
The past is always with us. Our murderous ways make that inevitable.
Love, C.