February 25, 2022
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
Ukraine: The New American War for Righteousness
Friends,
Ever since the fall of the Communist system and the fracturing
of the old Soviet Union in 1989-1991, the globalist foreign policy hawks in the
American state department and their dutiful minions in the media and amongst both
political parties have actively pursued a program of what the late zealous Neoconservative
Fox News pundit Charles Krauthammer termed a “unipolar” world. By that Krauthammer
meant a post-Communist (and essentially secularized) world in which the
established form of American “liberal democracy” would now succeed in imposing
a new world order. In the words of prominent Neocon author Allan Bloom: "And when we Americans
speak seriously about politics, we mean that our principles of freedom and
equality and the rights based on them are rational and everywhere applicable.
World War II was really an educational experiment undertaken to force those
who do not accept these principles to do so." [Allan Bloom, quoted in Paul Gottfried, War and Democracy: Selected Essays, 1975-2012 (London: Arktos Media, 2012), p. 110] (my Italics in the text)
But, in
fact, as the late Sam Francis explained in various books and essays (e.g., Leviathan
and Its Enemies, 2016), this Neocon vision of a new world order is nothing
less than a form of managerial kleptocracy, the control by powerful elites
in our (permanent) government and big corporations who talk incessantly about
democracy, but in fact use that term to disguise the increasing dominance
they exercise over every facet of public and private life, whether in the
United States, Western Europe, or since 1991 over most of the former Eastern Bloc.
Do we need further examples of this closer to home than the recent
authoritarian actions by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or the extra-constitutional
actions by what is euphemistically called “the January 6 Committee” in the US
Congress? Stand in the way of the Deep State administrative managers, and you
get suppressed, cancelled, and arrested, and held in a Federal jail for months
without bail or trial.
The present crisis in Ukraine has everything to do with the
objectives and maneuvers of this managerial kleptocracy, and its attempts to
force post-Communist—increasingly anti-Marxist—Russia to accept such a template.
Recall a bit of history: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and
Secretary of State James Baker (representing President George H. W. Bush) solemnly
agreed in principle that the old USSR would disintegrate into various new “republics,”
and in return NATO would not advance beyond its current borders, that
is, would not take in those former Eastern Bloc countries (e.g., Poland,
Romania, Slovakia, the Baltics, etc.), an action which would be seen as
directly hostile and offensive to a greatly reduced Russian Federation. Indeed,
after the end of the Soviet Union, its dismemberment, and the rise of an
avowedly traditionalist and pro-Christian leadership in Moscow (no less a
figure than the Reverend Franklin Graham noticed this), was there any reason
for NATO even to exist, as President Trump once mused…other than as a means for
continued and increasing managerial control (following the Bloom paradigm)?
Professor Richard Sakwa (University of Kent, UK), in his
excellent and very detailed study, Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands
(December 2014), has termed what
happened after the fall of Soviet Communism the triumph of “asymetrism,” by which he means that instead
of welcoming the new, post-Communist Russia, which had now publicly rejected
and repudiated the seventy years of brutal years of Marxist domination, as an
equal partner in a “Greater West,” our foreign policy and Neocon managers in
Washington and Brussels demanded that Russia give up any pretense of real
independence or true partnership with the West.
This process occurred in steps, each time with agreements or
protocols or memoranda, which were solemnized between the parties, but then
essentially undermined by the US or by our client regime in Kiev. During the
Clinton administration, and continuing on until 2020, one by one the former Eastern
Bloc countries were admitted
as members of NATO, including the Baltic states. In effect, the promises of
Baker and the elder Bush meant nothing. What then were the Russians to think?
Much is made of the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances
of December 5, 1994. Through that protocol Russia,
the US and the United Kingdom “confirmed their recognition of Belarus,
Kazakhstan and Ukraine becoming parties to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation
of Nuclear Weapons and effectively abandoning their nuclear arsenals to Russia.”
In return, Russia recognized the integrity and sovereignty of a neutral,
non-militarized, non-hostile Ukraine. And accordingly, despite political turmoil
and internal conflict within the Ukrainian state, from 1994 until the violent,
American-sponsored Maidan coup d’etat revolution of February 2014 (again, recall
US Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland’s direct involvement), that
agreement held. But with the flagrant violation of a truce between organized Kiev
protesters (who had received from the US over $5 billion to foment revolution) and
the popularly-elected government of Viktor Yanukovych (who was seen by the Ukraine
revolutionaries as pro-Russian), and the subsequent seizure of power by US-backed
Ukrainian irredentists who then proceeded to severely persecute Ukraine’s very
large Russian-language and ethnic minority, the Budapest protocol was
effectively abrogated (cf., Sakwa, Frontline Ukraine, pp. 86-88 et seq).
It should be noted,
as well, the United States never considered the Budapest Memorandum legally
binding (Statement
of April 12, 2013) or in the category of a concluded treaty.
Russia responded by
acceding to the overwhelming vote of citizens of the Crimean peninsula, which
had never been Ukrainian, only forcefully “given” to the artificial “Ukrainian
Socialist Republic” in 1954 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (allegedly after
a night of riotous drinking). For the Crimea includes the major Russian Black
Sea naval base at Sevastopol, supposedly guaranteed by agreement to Russia, but
which after the Maidan coup, the new American-sponsored regime in Kiev now threatened
to take.
Russian president
Vladimir Putin
responded via a press conference on March 4, 2014, to a question about Russia’s supposed violation (in Crimea) of the
Budapest Memorandum, describing the current Ukrainian situation as a revolution:
"a new state arises, but with this state and in respect to this
state, we have not signed any obligatory documents." The Ukrainian
state as envisaged by the Budapest Memorandum had, effectively, ceased to
exist, and in its place an American-CIA-US State Department-created state had
been forcibly implanted.
Further,
Russia declared that it had never been under obligation to "force any part
of Ukraine's civilian population to stay in Ukraine against its will,"
including the two newly-independent heavily-Russophone states of Donetsk and
Lugansk in what was eastern Ukraine (those provinces, like Crimea, had never
been a part of any independent Ukrainian nation, but were forcibly given to the
artificial Soviet republic by Vladimir Lenin in 1922).
Once
again, whether through the so-called “Rose Revolution” in Georgia, or the
American debacle in the Balkans, which only succeeded in creating an Islamist
republic—Kosovo—in the heart of Europe, the “Orange Revolution” in Kiev must be
seen in context as part and parcel of the overall Neocon and globalist effort
to advance their internationalist aims. And those goals, let it be said, have
nothing to do with traditional Western and Christian beliefs and values.
Rather, they were and are a manifestation of what globalist Klaus Schwab, head
of the World Economic Forum, defined as “the Great Reset,” the
“window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world.”
In
fact, the Russian incursion into Ukraine comes as a direct and cumulative result
of actions which our State Department and intelligence community, with its
minions in Western Europe, have engineered for thirty years: to, as it were, “put
Russia in its place—at the back of the bus.”
President
Zelensky of Ukraine, most recently implied that Ukraine might well go back and
reconsider its decision to de-nuclearize. This, then, along with the
violent persecution of the huge Russophone minority within Ukrainian borders,
precipitated Putin’s decision to take action. After decades of broken promises,
broken treaties, and violated protocols, whether at Budapest or the Minsk
Agreements (which could have settled the issues equitably), which Ukraine, encouraged
by our globalists, never implemented, the Russian bear had its back against the
wall: either stand up to those who would subjugate you, or fight back.
Recall
again the words of that great anti-Communist novelist, anti-totalitarian and fervent
Christian, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Moscow News, interview with W. T. Trietiakov published 28
April/4May 2006):
“Events
in Ukraine, ever since the time of the referendum in 1991, with its poorly
formulated options, have been a constant source of pain and anger to me. I have
written and spoken about this often. The fanatic oppression and suppression of
the Russian language there (a language which polls show is consistently the
preferred language of 60% of the people there) is a beastly methodology aimed
primarily against the cultural prospects of Ukraine itself. The vast
territories which were never part of
historic Ukraine, such as Crimea, Novorosiya and the entire southeast were
forcibly and arbitrarily consumed into the territory of modern Ukraine and made
hostage to Ukraine’s desires to join NATO…. It is all a simple minded, indeed
simpleton and cruel joke perpetuated against the entire history of XIX and XX
century Russia. Given these circumstances, Russia will never, in any way,
betray the many millions of Russian speaking peoples in Ukraine. Russia will
never abandon the ideal of unity with them.”
No
one—no one—wants war, with the resultant terrible destruction, loss of
life, and mayhem it inevitably brings. But as I have written in previous essays,
if you search for the profound cause for what has happened, it is not the
invading Russians, it is not really the regime in Kiev, but rather it is the sponsoring
apparatchiks in Foggy Bottom along the Potomac, in Brussels, and in the houses
of Congress (the Lindsey Grahams and Roger Wickers who actually urge our potential
use of nuclear weapons against Russia), and what Dr. Paul Craig Roberts calls the
“pressitutes” in American media, from Fox News to MSNBC (which now are like an
indistinguishable, foaming-at-the-mouth phalanx in their defense of the aggressive
managerial world revolution).
The
blood spilt will be on our hands, that is, on the hands of our elites. As
cartoonist Walt Kelly once put it: “We have met the enemy and he is us!”
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