Washington’s Arrogance, Hubris, and Evil Have Set the Stage for War | Global Research

Washington’s Arrogance, Hubris, and Evil Have Set the Stage for War | Global Research

In some quarters
public awareness is catching up with Stephen Lendman, Michel
Chossudovsky, Rick Rozoff, myself and a few others in realizing the
grave danger in the crisis that Washington has created in Ukraine.  

The puppet politicians who Washington intended to put in charge of
Ukraine have lost control to organized and armed neo-nazis, who are
attacking Jews, Russians, and intimidating Ukrainian politicians.

The government of Crimea, a Russian province that Khrushchev
transferred to the Ukraine Soviet Republic in the 1950s, has disavowed
the illegitimate government that illegally seized power in Kiev and
requested Russian protection.  The Ukrainian military forces in Crimea
have gone over to Russia.  The Russian government has announced that it
will also protect the former Russian provinces in eastern Ukraine as
well.

As
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn pointed out, it was folly for the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union to transfer historic provinces of Russia into
Ukraine. At the time it seemedto the Soviet leadership like a
good thing to do.  Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union and had been
ruled by Russia since the 18th century.  Adding Russian territory to
Ukraine served to water down the nazi elements in western Ukraine that
had fought for Hitler
during World War 2.  Perhaps another factor in the enlargement of
Ukraine was the fact of Khrushchev’s Ukrainian heritage.

Regardless, it did not matter until the Soviet Union and then the
former Russian empire itself fell apart.  Under Washington’s pressure,
Ukraine became a separate country retaining the Russian provinces, but
Russia retained its Black Sea naval base in Crimea.