Real Ukraine Issue: Rogue Reactors and Putin’s ’No-Bama’ Zone in Crimea
Source: 21stcenturywire.com
Another week into the ‘Crimea Crisis’ and the kamakizi war rhetoric is still spewing out of Washington, London and their multinational corporate media arms.
You’d think it was Red Dawn all over again, only it’s not.
It all sound very impressive and pumped up in the news rooms, but is there any real substance in it – other than keeping oil and gas prices high, and Pentagon contractor shares riding high? Arms sales reps like John McCain seem to think so, as Washington’s lunatic fringe goes for broke – literally.
And you can ignore all the righteous ‘freedom and democracy’ righteous indignation and concern from corporate lackies like John Kerry, William Hague and Victoria Nulan. Neither they, nor CNN, or the BBC will lay out the core issues for their public because “it’s just too complicated”. The big issue is, and always will be… the nukes.
Washington’s Lame Duck Still Quacking
While the Obama White House fumbles the Ukraine crisis with even more intensity than it fumbled the Syrian crisis, China’s exports for 2014 to date show a 20 percent-plus fall in exports to other BRICs countries and a “highly unusual” trade deficit of more than $22 billion ($22.98 bn) for February.
China has already shown its distinct lack of interest in McCain-type war hungry proposals for making the Crimea a “red line in the sand”, partly due to the red ink coming out of Chinese economic data but the reality of sluggish-at-best pseudo recovery in the US, European and Japanese economies could open up a new window of opportunity for the Obama crew. Allowing a repeat of the 2009 market crash would be easy, after which an openly-declared national austerity plan in the US can be palmed off as “caused by the Chinese”.
The blame shifting can also finger Washington’s latest comic book villian, ‘Vlad the Vampire’ Putin, the alleged Crimean war criminal, who has cornered the Ukraine in this game of geopolitical chess – knowing full well that this country intended joining the Debtors Union of the EU28, bringing at least $35 billion of new and unfunded sovereign debt. Only a pinprick to be sure – for the ECB and IMF – but useful as a prop for more QE.
After the regrettable market crash, Obama will be surfing on middle class public acclaim in his electric golf buggy for the remaining months of his second and last ‘mandate’.
Putin has done plenty to help the scenario gell out. March 8, in Crimea, The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) representatives were again sent packing when they tried to cross into Crimea – with a few gunshots in the air to remind them they are unwelcome, uninvited and have no business in Russian Crimea.
The OSCE Tweeted this comment, 8 March:
“Military assessment visitors from OSCE States returning to Kherson to plan next steps after being denied entry to Crimea at Armyans’k today”.
That shouldn’t surprise anyone, except for maybe John Kerry, John McCain and William Hague.
Getting Serious – Scrap the 2010 START Treaty?
Cited by Associated Press, 8 March, Russian news agencies carried statements by an unidentified Russian Defense Ministry official, saying that Moscow now sees the trend of Obama diplomacy regarding Ukraine and the Crimea “as a reason to suspend U.S. inspections in Russia as provided by the 2010 (renewal of the) START treaty”, which sets out to cut U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, and the 2011 Vienna agreement that envisages mutual inspections of Russian and NATO military facilities as part of confidence-building measures.
To be sure, any suspension or abrogation of the 2010 START Treaty extension and renewal would signal that Russia has lost all interest in complying with its anti-proliferation provisions.
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