[News] The New Great (Threat) Game in Eurasia

[Anti-Imperialist News]

**The New Great (Threat) Game in Eurasia**
By Pepe Escobar 3/12/2014
*http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-120314.html*

In Ukraine, the West supported an unconstitutional putsch against an 
elected government perpetrated, among others, by fascist/neo-nazi storm 
troopers (Svoboda, Right Sector) instrumentalized by US intelligence. 
After a Russian counterpunch, US President Barack Obama proclaimed that 
any referendum in Crimea would "violate the Ukrainian constitution and 
violate international law."

This is just the latest instance in the serial rape of "international 
law". The rap sheet is humongous, including; NATO bombing Serbia for 78 
days in 1999 to allow Kosovo to secede; the 2003 US invasion and 
subsequent trillion-dollar occupation and civil war creation in Iraq; 
NATO/AFRICOM bombing Libya in 2011 invoking
R2P ("responsibility to protect") as a cover to provoking regime change; 
US investment in the secession of oil-wealthy South Sudan, so China has 
to deal with an extra geopolitical headache; and US investment in 
perennial civil war in Syria.

Yet Moscow still (foolishly?) believes international law should be 
respected - presenting to the UN Security Council classified information 
on all Western intel/psy-ops moves leading to the coup in Kiev, 
including "training" provided by Poland and Lithuania, not to mention 
Turkish intelligence involvement in setting up a second coup in Crimea. 
Russian diplomats called for an unbiased international investigation. 
That will never happen; Washington's narrative would be completely 
debunked. Thus a US veto at the UN.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also called for the Organization 
for Security and Co-operation in Europe to objectively investigate those 
snipers shooting everyone on sight in Kiev, as revealed by Estonia's 
foreign minister to EU foreign policy supremo Catherine "I love Yats" 
Ashton. According to Russia's ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin, "a 
completely different picture would be drawn compared to what is being 
depicted by American media and, unfortunately, by some American and 
European politicians." Needless to say, there will be no investigation.

*Hi, I'm your good neo-nazi*
Everyone remembers the "good Taliban", with which the US could negotiate 
in Afghanistan. Then came the "good al-Qaeda", jihadis the US could 
support in Syria. Now come the "good neo-nazis", with which the West can 
do business in Kiev. Soon there will be "the good jihadis supporting 
neo-nazis", who may be deployed to advance US/NATO and anti-Russian 
designs in Crimea and beyond. After all, Obama mentor Dr Zbigniew "The 
Grand Chessboard" Brzezinski is the godfather of good jihadis, fully 
weaponized to fight the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan.

As facts on the ground go, neo-nazis are definitely back as good guys.

For the first time since the end of World War II, fascists and neo-nazis 
are at the helm of a European nation (although Ukraine most of all 
should be characterized as the key swing nation in Eurasia). Few in the 
West seem to have noticed it.

The cast of characters include Ukrainian interim defense minister and 
former student at the Pentagon Ihor Tenyukh; deputy prime minister for 
economic affairs and Svoboda ideologue Oleksandr Sych; agro-oligarch 
minister of agriculture Ihor Svaika (Monsanto, after all, needs a chief 
enforcer); National Security Council chief and Maidan commander of Right 
Sector neo-nazis Andry Parubiy; and deputy National Security Council 
chief Dmytro Yarosh, the founder Right Sector. Not to mention Svoboda 
leader Oleh Tyanhybok, a close pal of John McCain and Victoria "F**k the 
EU" Nuland, and active proponent of an Ukraine free from the 
"Muscovite-Jewish mafia."

As the Kremlin refuses to deal with this bunch and the upcoming March 16 
referendum in Crimea is practically a done deal, Team "Yats" is fully 
legitimized, with honors, by Team Obama, leader included, in Washington. 
To quote Lenin, what is to be done? A close reading of President Putin's 
moves would suggest an answer: nothing. As in just waiting, while 
outsourcing the immediate future of a spectacularly bankrupt Ukraine to 
the EU. The EU is impotent to rescue even the Club Med countries. 
Inevitably, sooner or later, threat of sanctions or not, it will come 
crawling back to Moscow seeking "concessions", so Russia may also foot 
the bill.

*Meanwhile, in Pipelineistan ...*
Meanwhile, the New Great (Threat) Game in Eurasia advances unabated. 
Moscow would willingly compromise on a neutral Ukraine - even with 
neo-nazis in power in Kiev. But an Ukraine attached to NATO is an 
absolute red line. By the way, NATO is "monitoring" Ukraine with AWACS 
deployed in Polish and Romanian airspace.

So as the much lauded "reset" between the Kremlin and the Obama 
administration is for all practical purposes six feet under (with no 
Hollywood-style second coming in the cards), what's left is the 
dangerous threat game. Deployed not only by the Empire, but also by the 
minions.

That monster collection of Magritte-style faceless bureaucrats at the 
European Commission (EU), following on the non-stop threat of EU 
sanctions, has decided to delay a decision on whether Gazprom may sell 
more gas through the OPAL pipeline in Germany, and also delay 
negotiations on the legal status of South Stream, the pipeline under the 
Black Sea which should become operational in 2015.

As if the EU had any feasible Plan B to escape its dependency on Russian 
gas (not to mention eschew the very profitable financial game played 
between key European capitals and Moscow). What are they do, import gas 
on Qatar Airways flights? Buy LNG from the US - something that will not 
be feasible in years to come? The fact is the minute a gas war is on, if 
it ever comes down to it, the EU will be under immense pressure by a 
host of member-nations to keep (and even extend) its Russian gas fix - 
with or without "our (neo-nazi) bastards" in power in Kiev. Brussels 
knows it. And most of all, Vlad the Hammer knows it.

/*Pepe Escobar* is the author of /Globalistan: How the Globalized World 
is Dissolving into Liquid War 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0978813820/simpleproduction/ref=nosim> 
/(Nimble Books, 2007), /Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the 
surge 
<http://www.amazon.com/Red-Zone-Blues-snapshot-Baghdad/dp/0978813898> 
/(Nimble Books, 2007), and /Obama does Globalistan 
<http://www.amazon.com/Obama-Does-Globalistan-Pepe-Escobar/dp/1934840831> /(Nimble 
Books, 2009).

He may be reached at pepeasia at yahoo.com./
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