[patriots] Fwd: Farcical "Elections" in Ukraine: Staging Ground for Escalation of Conflict, Hostilities
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> Farcical “Elections” in Ukraine: Staging Ground for Escalation of Conflict,
> Hostilities
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> By Daniel Patrick Welch
> Global Research, May 26, 2014
> Url of this article:
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/farcical-elections-in-ukraine-staging-ground-escalation-of-conflict-hostilities/5383868
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>
> It was a classic circus, as much of a fairy tale ‘election’ as one might
> expect from oligarchical fascists backed by the most murderous empire in
> human history. Burning down offices of opposition parties, outlawing them,
> shooting, torturing and killing opponents… mobilizing the military power of
> the state to conduct a massive terror campaign against nearly half the
> country.. not to mention the only candidate who might appeal to the
> disaffected southeast of the country, Oleg Tsarov, beaten to a pulp by a
> fascist mob while police watched and did nothing–who later has his house
> burned down by more fascists.. the list goes on.
>
> On election day neatly stacked blocks of ballots appeared at the bottom of
> lucite ballot boxes, and the pre-determined and US chosen winner was duly
> announced from election commissions guarded by Right Sector thugs.
>
> Within a couple hours of voting, miracle working counters tallied millions of
> paper ballots and announced– ta da–a 55% or 57% victory for billionaire
> oligarch and chocolate magnate–dubbed Willy Wonka by cynical Ukrainians,
> thereby equally miraculously circumventing the need for a messy second round.
>
> A Czech source quoted at 17.52% turnout–the junta claimed, at one point, 38%.
> No matter. As one friend in Kharkov exclaimed in frustration,
>
> “I wouldn’t look for too much accuracy or accountability in numbers. Fascists
> don’t know or care. That’s how fascism works.”
>
> The western press will collude in rubber stamping this fiction, and the Kiev
> regime’s legitimacy will be further tarnished everywhere but inside the echo
> chamber. A larger question lays bare the absurdity of this process: after a
> “revolution,” isn’t it a logical first step to agree on a new governing
> framework–a constitution, a basic law to replace the order the people have
> supposedly rejected. In this sense, exactly what office is Willy Wonka
> assuming. Over what, exactly, is he presumed to “preside?” The answer, of
> course, is that he is merely the new face of oligarchic rule in Ukraine,
> hand-pre-picked by the US to have a fig leaf to cover the devolving train
> wreck that is their disastrous and reckless policy in the country.”
>
> The real news, of course, is what happens now. Willy Wonka made some
> incredible promises during his ‘campaign,’ which, if he meant them seriously,
> are incredibly alarming. Apparently the real mistake made by the junta was
> that they were too cheap. Poroshenko pledges to correct this error by
> drastically raising the pay for those he still expects to send to murder
> their brothers in the east. Not, of course, the thousands of regular army,
> special forces and local police who have refused to do so. He probably means
> selected fascist mercenaries who will ‘do it right,’ and do not need to be
> summarily executed for disobeying orders to engage in ethnic cleansing.
>
> Perhaps even more alarmingly, one of his first declarations after the
> “elections” was that his first visit will be to Donbass, or Novorossiya in
> the restive east, and even that he intends to hold his infraudulation
> ceremony there as the new face of oligarchic control. Nothing could be more
> of a provocation and a declaration of war against the people of the east. In
> order to hold an ‘orderly’ inauguration, the east would have to be
> ‘pacified.’ This is a clear a signal as any that there can be no negotiating,
> no reconciliation, no recognition of the legitimate aspirations of almost
> half the country. It is an aggressive declaration that the only way forward
> will be military confrontation. This man is a dangerous fascist, like all
> oligarchs.
>
> Right when casting his ballot, Poroshenko recited the Banderite slogan “Slava
> Ukraine! Geroiam slava!”
>
> The clear message is that Banderism–Ukrainian ultra nationalism–is the
> ongoing state ideology that excludes and vilifies citizens a huge section of
> the country. His ‘victory speech’ only added salt to this endless wound,
> confirming that he, too, sees citizens resisting the junta’s authority in the
> east as ‘terrorists,’ only a step above the ‘insects’ (Colorado beetles)
> which is the favorite dehumanizing term used by the nazis of the Right
> Sector. He even went so far as to pledge to “cleanse” these terrorists from
> streets and towns of the region and posited himself as a ‘liberator’ of
> Crimea, whose inhabitants have shown no desire for such liberation.
>
> These are extremely alarming developments. The US will scream and bellow
> that, an election having been held, he will have every right to take such
> actions–which by sheer coincidence dovetail with the US’ own agenda. An
> ‘elected president’ can quite legitimately (according to those who accept him
> as such) order the suppression of rebellion on his country’s territory. He
> can have deserters and traitors shot and imprisoned, and consolidate and
> focus military force as he deems fit. Regular army soldiers have already been
> summarily executed for refusing to shell cities and kill civilians, so this
> is just ratcheting up the terror. Moreover, he appears quite willing to take
> advantage of a ‘honeymoon period’ when some confusion will make many people
> go along with his legitimacy. This is, to be blunt, some scary shit.
>
> The rhetoric of resistance, which has always been very compelling, was that
> the junta had no authority. Troop defections were massive under this line of
> reasoning, and have been getting bolder–hence the summary executions. But
> Willy Wonka–deemed a ‘legitimate’ leader–will appoint ministers, dutifully
> rubber stamped by the Rada; Russia will recognize the election while
> condemning the new government’s actions, etc etc etc. Large numbers of
> Ukrainians, while still not wanting their sons to fight, of course, will be
> fine with paying thousands of nazis and psychotic killers to do the work,
> convincing themselves that they have now ‘turned a corner’ with peaceful
> elections. Russia will still refuse to step in, leaving Donbass to rely on
> its ragtag army of self-defenders against an increasingly vicious and
> increasingly well-armed (by NATO/CIA) group of fanatics… It is a complete
> nightmare..
>
> My fear–I hesitate but will say it openly–is that Putin may have
> miscalculated by seeming to play along with this election farce. By giving
> hints that he will recognize the winner, he has been party to what will be an
> enormous escalation of violence and attacks on Donbass. He may not like the
> increasingly class character of those rebellions, but their fate is also his.
> While I am not privy to the Russian game plan, I am certain that they realize
> that this is a severe existential threat to the Russian state itself, and has
> been designed as such. The west makes no similar mistake in vilifying the
> Syrian election two months before they happen. They have *never* wavered for
> a second in their promise that they will not only not recognize the results,
> but will continue and escalate their bloody and illegal assault on Syrian
> sovereignty. Fascists (and the oligarchic capitalists with whom they are
> closely aligned) want to *kill* anyone who dares to resist. There is no deal
> to be worked out, or any rhetorical or political avenue that isn’t a trap.
> Not one.
>
> Without wanting to end with a cliffhanger, there is very little except for
> the above that is clear at this point. But the reason I rush to write it is
> that the information war is emerging as perhaps one of the most important
> fronts in the attempt to resist and push back against this push to globalize
> IMF austerity using outright fascist allies as the witting or unwitting shock
> troops in this campaign. The empire is angry and threatened by losing any
> control of the narrative at all, and is fighting back with a vengeance. Just
> on the eve of the election farce in Ukraine, a particularly bold attack
> destroyed thousands of files posted on YouTube by Anna-news, an emerging
> resistance outlet which has quickly become one of the most popular and
> reliable sources of information for those resisting empire in Syria and
> Ukraine. “We have learned an important lesson from this: the truth is the
> means for victory.”
>
> Many of us who consider ourselves to be part of this information resistance
> will redouble our efforts. As a certain philosopher once said, we have
> nothing to lose but our chains, and we have a world to win. Make no mistake,
> however. While it is also a war of words, and words are crucial, this is now
> a hot war, and the forces of evil–at this moment in the hot spot of
> Ukraine–have made open military conflict a necessity and an inevitability. It
> is a scary and dangerous time.
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