Insight: Eurasia On The Brink
This 2017 analysis provides important background information which informs current events in the Ukraine, including the 2014 coup d'รฉtat.
I have long held the view that it is important to look back and learn as we keep moving forward.
The informed Insight: Eurasia On The Brink (2017) discussion (linked above) is hosted by UK Columnโs Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen with analysts Alex Thomson and Eric Zeusse providing important insights into the history of Eurasia. Initially focused upon Georgia, the discussion not surprisingly leads to the disturbing events which occurred in the Ukraine from 2013 which culminated with the atrocities of the May 2014 Maidan massacre. The importance of the gas pipeline from Russia to the EU is also discussed.
Alex began his segment by analysing this historic quote:
Whilst both Alex Thomson and Patrick Henningsen are regular contributors to UK Column, the work of Eric Zeusse can be found at Strategic Culture and other platforms.
Given the current situation, I am sharing this recent 26th February 2022 post by Eric Zeusse which provides some key aspects of the back story of the intimate involvement of the U.S. during the 2013-2014 coup d'รฉtat in the Ukraine and the Nord Stream pipeline which is currently playing a pivotal part on the world stage.
Eric Zuesse: The Real History Behind Ukraine, Putin, The EU, Gas, & Donbass
-by Eric Zuesse
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Russiaโs long-predicted invasion of Ukraine finally happened, but the reasons for it are widely misrepresented. Basic history is necessary in order to understand it.
The Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, from Russia, under the Baltic Sea, to Germany, was planned in order to enable greatly increased sales-volume of the lowest-cost natural gas, which came from Russian, into the EU,without having to rely upon the irregular pipelined supplies through the unstable and unpredictable nation of Ukraine. In fact, the planning-document noted on its page 12 that โImport of Russian natural gas to Europe takes place through three main routes, whereof 80% of the gas is in transit through the Ukraine.โ They didnโt need to say that that was unstable; everyone knew it was; so, diplomatically speaking, this unfortunate fact about Ukraine wasnโt mentioned by them in the document, though the fact was a crucial reason for the Nord Stream project, which would transmit gas directly from Russia to Germany, no longer through unstable Ukraine.
On 8 November 2011, the BBC headlined โNord Stream gas pipeline opened by Merkel and Medvedevโ, and Russiaโs RIA Novosty presented this happy photo of the signing-ceremony:
From left to right, Gerhard Schroder had been Germanyโs Chancellor; Francois Fillon had been Franceโs Prime Minister; Johannes Teyssen was the CEO of multinational German electrical utility E.ON; Angela Merkel was Germanyโs Chancellor; Mark Rutte was Prime Minister of Netherlands; Dmitry Medvedev was Prime Minister of Russia; Alexey Miller was Chairman of Russiaโs Gazprom; Guenter Oettinger was the European Commissionโs V.P. in charge of Energy; Kurt Bock was CEO of Germanyโs BASF; and Erwin Sellering was Germanyโs Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
None of those people are or had been pro-Nazi. However, ideological anti-Russian racist-fascists (or nazis) dominated in Ukraineโs far-western provinces, near to Poland, of Lviv, Tarnopil, Volyn, and Ivano-Frankivsk; and, so, there was, in Ukraine, intense nationalistic and nazi opposition to replacing Ukraine as the main transit-route for the crucial commodity of natural gas, from Russia into the EU, which new pipeline into the EU would greatly reduce the gas-transit-fees that were being paid by Russia into Ukraineโs Government-- and reduce the geostrategic importance of their country (something that nazis tend to be very concerned with, since theyโre supremacist-nationalists, not merely supremacist-racists). This proposed pipeline (which had been pressed upon Merkel by leaders of German industry, who needed cheaper energy) was viewed by those far-right Ukrainians as being an anti-Ukraine Russian scheme, even though Nord Stream was actually planned simply as a necessary business-deal between Germany and Russia. Thatโs what it actually was. And it also enjoyed considerable support elsewhere in the EU, such as in Netherlands, and France.
U.S. President Barack Obama intended even when he entered office in 2009, to replace Syriaโs Government, but his decision to replace Ukraineโs Government didnโt come right away. On 12 April 2010, Ukraineโs democratically elected President, Viktor Yanukovych met the democratically elected U.S. President at the White House, to which Obama had invited him, but Yanukovych refused Obamaโs suggestions that Ukraine join Americaโs alliance against Ukraineโs next-door neighbor Russia. (Obama wanted to take over Russiaโs main naval base, which since 1783 has been in Crimea, which the Soviet dictator had transferred to Ukraine in 1954, so it was then in Ukraine-- Obama was planning for that Russian naval base in Ukraine to become another U.S. naval base, and for Ukraine to be brought into NATO. But Yanukovych said no.) On 2 July 2010, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Yanukovych held a joint press conference in Kiev, where she said that she had discussed with Yanukovych joint military exercises with U.S. forces against his neighbor, Russia. Yanukovych again declined the demands. Obama then assigned Victoria Nuland, Hillaryโs friend (and the wife of the famous neoconservative-- or American-imperialist-- writer, Robert Kagan) to organize a coup against Ukraine, to place it under U.S. control. Planning for the coup was already under way by no later than 23 June 2011, which was even before the Nord Stream project had yet been signed. But after Nord Stream was agreed to later in 2011, the proposed pipeline was immediately added to the Ukrainian-takeover target, as something that needed to be cancelled. (Ukraineโs gas-transit fees were crucial financial support to Ukraineโs government, and Obama wanted those fees to be supporting a post-coup Americanized Ukraine.) As CNBC accurately summarized on 11 July 2018: โPresident Barack Obama opposed Nord Stream 2 and President George W. Bush came out against the original Nord Stream prior to its completion in 2011. Like the central and eastern European countries, they worried it increased Russian influence over the Continent.โ Post-WW-II American Presidents wanted America to control Europe, as key allies to conquer Russia. The Nord Stream project was, to a large extent, a European bid to work cooperatively with Russia and finally free itself of U.S. domination over European countries.
Nuland got caught managing the coup when on 4 February 2014 a phone call from her to the U.S. Ambassador in Kiev got posted to YouTube in which she instructed him to get โYatsโ or โYatsenyukโ appointed to run the post-coup government, and โYatsโ was a rabidly anti-Russian and pro-nazi politician, who, unlike some others that the U.S. regime had been considering for the purpose, didnโt yet have any clear or blatantly expressed racist-fascist sentiments (which would have meant bad PR), but who, once he did get appointed on 22 February 2014 to run the government, promptly replaced the generals with ones who favored exterminating enough people in the heavily pro-Yanukovych areas of Ukraine so that, in subsequent Ukrainian national elections, rabid anti-Russians like โYatsโ would be able to become โdemocratically electedโ to lead the country. The objective wasnโt only to kill enough of those pro-Russian voters but even more importantly to scare enough of the residents there to escape to Russia, so that theyโd be gone altogether from Ukraineโs voting-rolls (either by fleeing or by having been killed). Videos were posted online of some of the Obama-instigated local Ukrainian extermination-and terrorism operations, such as in Odessa, and in Donbass, and, of course, in Crimea, but those were basically covered-up and/or lied-about in the โnewsโ-media of the U.S.-and-allied (which included EU) regimes, because Obama needed those allies to agree with the U.S. regimeโs anti-Russia sanctions, so as to block the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from being allowed to operate (which would strengthen not only Russia but Europe). This wasnโt merely in order to weaken the economies in Germany as well as those throughout the EU and make them more dependent upon the U.S.; it was also in order to replace Europeโs low-priced Russian pipelined natural gas with Americaโs costly tanked-and-shipped expensive liquefied natural gas, so as to enrich Americaโs billionaires who financed Americaโs successful politicians. It was to force Europe to pay Americaโs prices.
As a result of the success of Obama and Trump and Biden-- and of Congress-members of both of Americaโs two political Parties (this bipartisan effort)-- the inexpensive Russian pipelined natural gas has, indeed, become replaced by the incredibly expensive canned American liquefied and cross-Atlantic-shipped natural gas, so as to weaken European industries, in the name of โprotecting Ukraineโs democracyโ, and this con-game strengthens the U.S., at Europeโs expense, and keeps Europe in its place as a U.S. vassal-region, which has consistently been ever since the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. U.S. gas producers are laughing all the way to the bank, while blaming โthe aggressive dictatorโ or โtyrantโ, Putin, who is condemned by both Americaโs Republicans and Democrats. (Both of Americaโs Parties are nearly 100% neoconservative.)
On 17 February 2022, a retired head of Britainโs MI6, Sir John Sawers, was interviewed by NATOโs PR firm the Atlantic Council, and he seconded Nulandโs phone-call assertion that the U.N should โglue this thingโ, when he used the phrase in a different context, saying that โIf you try to install a new government which has no legitimacy, youโve got to glue it in place.โ She had said:
โNuland: Ok. Heโs now gotten both Serry and Ban ki-Moon to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday. That would be great, I think, to help glue this thing, and to have the UN help glue it, and, you know, fuck the EU.โ
The last three words there, โfuck the EU,โ were the only part of the entire phone call that the โnewsโ-media in The West publicized; and, of course, The Westโs widely deceived audiences had no idea, no way of knowing, what she was actually talking about, or why. The incuriosity of the masses in The West prevented the U.S. public from demanding or requiring to have more honestly informative and authentic news-media that would make more sense than simply displaying the U.S. Presidentโs assigned diplomat for Europe privately referring so contemptuously to Europeans. And, so, under Obamaโs V.P., Biden, now as the U.S. President, sheโs assigned the #2 role at the U.S. State Department, and Americans arenโt shocked and repelled at that fact. Americaโs leaders also hold Americaโs own public in contempt. Only Americaโs billionaires are not. Only they are not viewed as chumps-- to be deceived and exploited-- because Americaโs billionaires are the politiciansโ bosses.
Here's the ten-minute video that places this โFuck the EUโ into its correct perspective:
Here is an even fuller perspective on the matter. And geostrategic expert Alexander Mercouris has well explained the historic significance of what has just happened.
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I personally refuse to verify my age to Big Brother Google/YouTube by either using โa credit card to verify immediatelyโ or โsubmit an image of a valid ID like your driverโs licence or passport, which may take up to 3 days to verifyโ in order to listen to the recording of the telephone call embedded in Ericโs post above.
As such, I found another 5:17min. version of the infamous leaked telephone call between then U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt which took place on the 4th of February 2014 which includes the key aspects and most quoted part.
Comment from the uploader:
โWhat's really important here is the level of planning for the coup that overthrew the elected President Viktor Yanukovych, which brought to power (as heard on the recording) a group of select individuals described as "moderate democrats." In fact, most of them, including Oleh Tyahnybok (whom Nuland insists the new head of state consult four times weekly), are a far-right nationalist faction with overt and long-standing ties to the neo-Nazi movement. Meet the characters in the story that led to what's called "the worst crisis since the old cold war" and which Russia experts at American universities describe as a new cold war more dangerous than the first.โ
Thank you for this review and assessment. I had seen some of it previously, and it corresponds well with a review of the alternate routing of mideast hydrocarbons through Turkey to the Mediterranean and the war in Syria.
The comparison is even more evident with the same players' obstruction of the Keystone XL pipeline! I would say "Be careful what you wish for" if it was not evident that this was a desired outcome.
I have recently finished reading "The New Silk Roads", Peter Frankopian ( 2015) which illuminates the history of the world in this context for the past two millennia. His review of American and British foreign policy in this region for the past 500 years makes it easily credible that US dirty tricks (CIA instigated regime change), NATO expansion, and BioLab support are real incentives for the Russian assault in the Ukraine.
I am offering a Loonie to anyone who thinks Joe Biden understands this better than Vlad. Putin.
The joker in the deck is the WEF and the "Schwab Youth" and their NWO and Great Reset. Most of the players are involved and I can't see the third and fourth order results, except for the Chinese "Social Credit System" implicit in the Government Digital ID's (VaxxPasses), CBDC's, and ambition for a planetary population under a billion. The Global Warming scam is part of the programme, linked to reduced population and "Green" energy.