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<b><big><big><strong><font size="3"><big><big>The New Great (Threat)
Game in Eurasia</big></big></font></strong></big></big></b><br>
By Pepe Escobar 3/12/2014<br>
<b><small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-120314.html">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-120314.html</a></small></small></b><br>
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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."
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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
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
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<b>Hi, I'm your good neo-nazi</b><br>
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. <br>
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As facts on the ground go, neo-nazis are definitely back as good guys. <br>
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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. <br>
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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." <br>
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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. <br>
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<b>Meanwhile, in Pipelineistan …</b><br>
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. <br>
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
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<i><b>Pepe Escobar</b> is the author of </i><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0978813820/simpleproduction/ref=nosim">Globalistan:
How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War</a> <i>(Nimble
Books, 2007), </i><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Zone-Blues-snapshot-Baghdad/dp/0978813898">Red
Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge</a> <i>(Nimble
Books, 2007), and </i><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-Does-Globalistan-Pepe-Escobar/dp/1934840831">Obama
does Globalistan</a> <i>(Nimble Books, 2009).
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He may be reached at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pepeasia@yahoo.com">pepeasia@yahoo.com</a>.</i>
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