The February Maidan revolution in Ukraine saw a pro-Russian government replaced by a pro-EU one, with the protests overwhelmingly led by far-right ultranationalist factions. Since then, those factions have served as volunteer paramilitaries for the Ukrainian government in fights against the ethnic Russian east.
Their far-right agenda hasn’t gone anywhere, however, and their leaders are warning in the wake of the most recent election that they’re not going to wait long for the new government to start implementing their demands.
“We’re going to give them half a year to show the country has somehow changed,” insisted Yuriy Bereza, the leader of the Dnipro-1 militia. Another leader of that militia, Vitaly Feshchenko, warned ominously that “there won’t be a third Maidan if that happens. There’ll be a military takeover.”
Given the Ukrainian military’s serious struggles with the comparatively small eastern rebellion, and their terrible morale problems, it’s hard to envision them putting up a serious fight if the Euromaidan revolutionaries come out in force with an eye on installing a more fascist government.
If they follow through on the threat, it could be another major game-changer for Ukraine, which has been a ship adrift in recent years, torn between being a de facto vassal of Russia or the West. The ultranationalists would clearly be hostile to Russia first and foremost, but would probably not be much friendlier to the EU in the long run.
It seems to me that the cycle of events unfolding in Ukraine has to end up at that point, with either the triumph or defeat of fascism. Much as it may be their dream come true, bourgeois oligarchs can never succeed in "using" fascism to achieve their ends. It invariably ends up either with a social rejection of fascism, or fascist victory. Von Papen and his counterparts never prevail.
Libya – Iraq – Afghanistan in Europe.
Nice going Vicky and friends. See how long "your" nut jobs remain "your" nut jobs before becoming………..well,……..just nut jobs.
See anything else than needs wrecking?
There is obviously only one force which can prevent or reverse a fascist military coup in Kiev. That is not NATO. It is Putin. How dumb of you Mr. President Obama to try to weaken Putin at a time when you need him. Unbelievable? No, believable. That is the government we are blessed with. Under God. Right?
PUTIN 2016
And the USA will immediately embrace said new dictatorship with full recognition and support. That is the American way.
Perversely I would like see major nazi egg on the face of Euroleaders.
The sort of coup Yuriy Bereza and company are talking about would be marketed as removal of corrupt politicians, with idealistic patriots stepping in, to put the country on track towards economic reform and real democracy.
Don't count on Euroleaders to admit they have egg on their faces.
When the rich rule government — The wealth dictates
Russia is essential to the mining and industrial manufacturing economy of East Ukraine, surely the fascist Ukraine government has nothing but slavery in mind for those who are pro-Russia and in ways too numerous to mention East Ukraine should be allowed to rejoin Russia where it has always belonged.
Instead, Putin agrees to sell fascist Ukraine all the natural gas it desires, without demanding that the electrical black-out of East Ukraine be terminated.
Instead, Putin sends East Ukraine some food while most everyone is destitute from a tanked economy. Surely, Putin is a slave to his $148 billion and must do what his wealth dictates.
"would probably not be much friendlier to the EU in the long run"
Since WW2, the US has used fascists quite openly. It always betrays them in the end of course. It uses them in the sure certainty they have no place else to go, rather like the liberal wing of the Republican-Lite Party has nowhere else to go, so is used and betrayed.
These fascists may think they'll rebel, but they've got nowhere to go except a North Korea-like isolation, without even a China to protect them as a border buffer.
They are vicious bloodthirsty fools. Likely they shot the protesters on Maiden. For sure they would have.
These Ultra nationalists are straight out NAZIS, this is why the eastern Oblasts are so worried, when I first heard the words, referencing the Eastern Ukrainian's as "Sub Human, Russian speaking scum", I understood that the Eastern Ukrainians were not rebelling they were literally fighting for their lives and Property! what is worse is that the United States and the EU, for the want of putting missiles on the Russian Border are closing their eyes to the mess they have created! The big hint should have been when the Western Ukraine Interim Government just days before the Election, celebrated the formation of WWII Ukraine Nazi SS units as patriots! Where and When were Nazi SS units something that one could consider GOOD?
How much truth there is in the article linked to remains to be seen. It may just be US neocons trying to salvage something from the wreckage of Nuland's fiasco by their usual trick of trying to manufacture "reality". The neocons want to exhume the Soviet Union so that it will serve as a barrier to the eastern expansion of the EU and the northward exspansion of China, which they seem to see as the principal challenges to US hegemony. In other words, Putin's "Eurasian Union" is intended to be America's Principal Poodle, propping up the US hegemony essential to the defence of Israel, not challenging it, as Putin claimed to want in his Valdai speech. That's where von Papen comes in. Like the German industrialists, who thought they could manipulate and control Hitler, the oligrachs backing Putin, who seem to be close to the US neocons, think they can control their puppet. That's why I think, now that the whole Ukrainian scam has gone awry, that Vlad will either be removed by some sort of palace coup or he will start WWIII and will have to be removed by force.
PUTIN 2016–>> Amerika's only HOPE..
Russia is trending toward more freedom while the US and EU are becoming totalitarian regimes.
why not atleast look at one simple truth there are patriotic ukrainians who are tired of being used as puppets in the new great game and their country's sovereignty has been threatened and their land is no longer their own.on one side they have russian pawns and on the other side the ruling elite is made up of western yes man. nationalistic fervor would always turn into ultranationalistic fervor.
From Maydan time these militia warned the Kiev governement that the new power have to implement their point of view.They repeated it during their bombing of Donbass region,because they were not paid.Now they reiterate their position because they entered in the rada via groups like the party of Liashko.They never diseapered from the ukrainian politics because the people at the power now are regularly using them.These guys were founded with the american money.They are fanatic and agressive they will not go away from themselves.