While the initial installation of an interim government in the Ukraine centered around long-standing allies of Yulia Tymoshenko, the government’s effort to curry favor with protesters and secure influence in eastern areas with secessionist ambitions has them courting two factions for their government, the neo-fascist Right Sector and the powerful oligarchs.
The Right Sector was hugely influential within the protest movement, and has gone from a virtual non-player politically, dismissed as neo-Nazi linked thugs, to a major player in the new Ukraine which styles itself a “youth patriot organization.”
Their leader, Dmytro Yarosh, made headlines over the weekend for urging Chechen terrorist leaders to launch strikes on Russia, presenting them as ideal allies for the new Ukraine. Now, he’s running for president, and while it’s not clear if he’s the front-runner at this point, he is considered a credible candidate with a legitimate shot at winning.
The Right Sector won a lot of credibility in the west for its violent role in the protests, but in the far east, where ethnic Russians dominate, it is billionaire oligarchs that are getting appointed in hopes of tamping down the secessionist fervor that’s got Crimea just over a week from a referendum for independence.
These punks sound like a renewed UPA.
If they want enemies they will get them all over.
The events in Western Ukraine will result in "do-over" of the Orange Revolution that was backed by the West, occurred ten years ago and failed due to overall theft and corruption. The right-wing guys will be used as a tool to "bust heads" and then discarded. The same crooks, Tymoshenko, the Clinton's buddy, Viktor Pinchuk, and the Israeli 'boss of bosses', Semion Megolievich will wind up in the driver's seat. The new Ukraine will be become a new opportunity for the London banks to push their ruinous debt, a location for American missiles and dungeons, and eventually another PIGG for the EU.
Anyone who equates this all with freedom for the Ukrainian people is morally bankrupt
The problem with using thugs to gain political ground is that once elevated the fascists are going to be very difficult to send packing. The list I saw last week indicated that a large portion of the "new" Ukrainian governing coalition was from the right-wing: ultra-nationalists and the rejuvinated Banderas. I don't think they're going to be able to get rid of them that easily, They're obviously enticing the disaffected young Ukrainians to join them – fodder for old repudiated ideas and a little willful violence. Methinks this will get much uglier before it settles down – and that's just on the Ukrainian side…do as much damage as they can before the people realize how big a mistake they've made.
curmudgeonvt,
The real weakness of the right-wing is that they are sometimes bothered by such factors as patriotism, respect for fair play, and occasionally mercy or "enough is enough". The neocons are immune to such factors. With them , it is always selfishness or, at best, tribalism, and enough is never "enough". That is why, I am betting on the neocons – when it comes to slitting throats, they never hesitate to consider the needs of the victim.
We do have a right-wing here in America and we also have neocons. Who runs things?
Which is merciless? Which wants every nickel ever coined?
I agree and we have the experience of 1930-1933 Germany to which to point. The conservative "gentlemen" of the German right thought that they could control Hitler and he ultimately wound up controlling them. Eventually, that came to include the Army as well. Yet not a word of alarm about these filth is being voiced by the power worshiping American media and we have the example of history right before our eyes. Its my understanding that Right Sector has announced an intention to ban the Communist Party. Another memorable refrain.
I am convinced that one of the most pernicious aspects of our society today is the failure to engage in self-introspection…so the failure of the MSM – not to mention government players like Kerry and Clinton and Obama (I won't include McCain and Graham because I think they're just twisted) – actually does not surprise me, given who they really work for. I remember distinctly when McCain and the rest of the Stooges were yammering for Obama to back the "rebels" in the Syrian civil war, there was little mention that these were people who up until that day McCain had his picture taken shaking hands with one of their leaders were fighting against the US and the US policies in the ME. In Ukraine, there is even less mention that the "leaders" of the Maidan Square were the ones pushing the violence, and that they have a history of advocating violent dissent as well as extreme Nationalistic attitudes towards others in the country who aren't like them.
Ever since 9/11 – where it became obvious to many around the world that the actions of the USG in the affairs of others has repercussions. The last thing our "leaders" want to or will do is admit that they (and the government) were wrong and made mistakes.
Be especially careful of Kolomoysky who will try to take control and/or dismantle and sell the industriesin the province in Eastern Ukraine where he was appointed governor. He is the third wealthiest man in Ukraine and controls its most important bank and much of the media including the Jewish press. connection to Israel and the leadership position with the European Zionist community points to an Israeli connection not unlike the oligarchy that tried to rape Russia, and which is imbedded in Georgia, Azerbaijan and elsewhere in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
This appointment was an in your face appointment to take control of the East Ukraine. Expect also that he will receive Saudi funding. This is a cancer that will need major surgery.
Yet another Nuland screw-up! But as Stalin used to say, you have to walk with the devil until you get to the other side of the bridge. Incidentally, the European media, notably the BBC are increasingly reporting that the supposed wish of people in the east of Ukraine to join Russia ia a myth and that the number of people in Crimea who want to do so is actually quite small. One Greman reporter put it as low as 12%. Also resistance to a Russian takeover seems to be building (again, according to the BBC). Slowly but surely, the neocon scam is unravelling.