Ukraine Prime Minister "Yats" Invokes Nazi Rhetoric

While Americans who are dependent on the corrupt state-corporate media fail to understand anything that is really going on in Ukraine, such as their tax dollars being used to support murdering neo-Nazi militias the mask slipped a bit in the aftermath of the shooting down of a Kiev junta military aircraft. The plane, ferrying military troops to the east for the ongoing ethnic cleansing operations sanctioned by the Obama-Kerry-Nuland dream team with a domestic media blackout to keep the war crimes hidden from the American people was taken out by an anti-aircraft missile outside of Luhansk killing 40 paratroopers and the crew. This elicited cries of outrage from the puppet government of recently 'elected' western puppet Petro Porshenko aka the Chocolate King as well as a vow of vengeance that will probably make the atrocities at the Odessa trade union building last month look like child's play.

But it was Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland's guy, the pencil necked geek technocrat Arseniy "Yats" Yatsenyuk, the sitting Prime Minister installed by the US backed coup d'etat against the democratically elected Viktor Yanukovych who during a speech channeled his inner Stepan Bandera. The following is excerpted from a story on the website of the missing airplane network CNN:

Hundreds gathered in Kiev's Independence Square on Sunday to honor the victims of violence that has ravaged Ukraine for months, including 49 people killed when a military plane was shot down.

Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko had declared Sunday a day of mourning. The crowd in Kiev observed a moment of silence at noon local time (5 a.m. ET).

"We bow our heads to the heroes who lost their lives for the sake of their country, to prevent the war from coming into the house of each of us," Prime-Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.

"They lost their lives because they defended men and women, children and the elderly who found themselves in a situation facing a threat to be killed by invaders and sponsored by subhumans," he said. "First, we will commemorate the heroes by wiping out those who killed them and then by cleaning our land from the evil."

The "subhuman" reference is a major faux pas from "Yats" and it is being spun on message boards and in comments sections on stories as being more of a reference to the phantom Russians that the US-EU-NATO Axis of Aggression and their Kiev puppets have insisted are operating in the eastern region that is largely populated by ethnic Russians. Still, no matter the polishing of the turd that slid out of Yatsenyuk's mouth the term conjures up ugly historical images, particularly in a country where many collaborated with the Nazis and the last time such rhetoric was not only used but accepted Jews were summarily rounded up, murdered or forced into concentration camps and then gassed and incinerated. The "subhuman" reference has since been scrubbed by the Ukrainian embassy website and replaced with "inhumans" but the enterprising souls at the Moon of Alabama blog were able to get a screenshot in it's original version. Also see the Wikipedia entry on the actual Nazi term Untermensch which means "subhuman".

But the coup regime and it's new figurehead Poroshenko aren't known for their subtlety with their unconditional backing of the US establishment. If it isn't "Yats" invoking Nazi phraseology there is the far more Americanized version of rhetoric that fits our star-spangled Idiocracy which was delivered to an angry mob that gathered outside the Russian embassy in Kiev as delivered by junta Foreign Minister Andrii Deshchytsia as excerpted from a story in The Guardian "Ukraine minister's abusive remarks about Putin spark diplomatic row":

Ukraine's foreign minister has become embroiled in an unusual diplomatic row after he was caught on camera making abusive remarks about Vladimir Putin outside the Russian embassy in Kiev on Saturday evening.

As the conflict in eastern Ukraine has deepened in recent months, the chant of "Putin khuilo" has become ever more popular among Ukrainians who blame Russia for stoking discontent in the east. Khuilo is a Russian swearword that approximately translates as "fucker" or "dickhead".

Andriy Deshchytsia, the country's acting foreign minister, arrived at the Russian embassy to reason with crowds who had gathered outside, angered that pro-Russia rebels had brought down a Ukrainian transport plane near Luhansk early on Saturday, killing 49 people on board. The crowds threw rocks and eggs at the embassy, destroyed diplomatic vehicles, and painted swastikas on the gates, chanting "Putin is a fascist" and "Putin khuilo".

Deshchytsia tried to calm some in the crowd, telling them Russia should answer for its actions but that storming the embassy was not the correct response. When he was shouted down by the angry mob, he responded: "I am for you protesting. I am ready to be here with you and say 'Russia, get out of Ukraine'… Yes, Putin is a khuilo, yes."

Seizing on his words, a delighted group of protesters then struck up a "Putin khuilo" chant, leaving the minister looking somewhat bemused.

The incident prompted fury in Moscow, where officials are already incensed by the attack on the embassy and its property.

Hardly language becoming a high official and it certainly is not very helpful in deescalating a situation that seems to be very dangerously morphing into something that could develop into World War III with Obama sending nuclear capable bombers to Europe and Russia cutting off the gas to the deadbeats in Kiev today. The Russians aren't stupid, they have seen this movie before and the Sunday comments of  Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are telling:

The Ukrainian authorities "act with impunity" on various issues because they are "shielded by our Western partners, or by some of them, at least," and their "irreconcilable" position in talks on natural gas trade with Russia is one way this "impunity" manifests itself in, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday.

"We hope this arrogant and uncompromising position is not backed by a third power, although we have some reasons to think so."

"It's a source of worry for us that this impunity manifests itself increasingly often," he said, mentioning repeated arrests of Russian journalists and "the disgusting attack on the Russian Embassy" on Saturday.

Short of the Kiev fascists being reigned in by some sort of adult leadership on behalf of the USA!, USA!, USA! which has yet to manifest itself in any way the use of Hitlerian rhetoric won't be the only similarity to World War II - the body count has the potential to be astronomical when millions are cremated by some idiot in the US or NATO losing his temper and unleashing the nukes.

Neocons Dragging US Back to Iraq

Now that the region is erupting anew with the storming of Iraq by radical jihadist elements such as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) and the franchise that is al Qaeda the warmongers and neocons in The Homeland are shrieking like banshees over Obama's "loss" of Iraq. The current chaos though would not be possible were it not for the original sin of attacking Iraq in 2003, toppling Saddam Hussein who was subsequently lynched and showing that America was no better than it's former puppet in continuing the torture at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. The country was also plunged into sectarian violence, bombed to smithereens - the civilian death toll is staggering - and had the indignity of having to see one US puppet replaced with another with no real benefit to the country nor the people. Now it is all going up like a flaming bag of dogshit in Uncle Scam's hand.

To be fair on this one the disaster in Iraq is not Obama's fault, were the Bushreich not to have lied the American public into an illegal and unnecessary war based on a pack of lies about Saddam's phantom weapons of mass destruction there would still be stable country, granted that Saddam was a bastard but he was our bastard. Obama has been far too busy avenging his offense at being humiliated by Russian leader Vladimir Putin over his giving asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and later intervening to stop what would have been a catastrophic war in Syria. Obama has more important things to do than dick around with Iraq with pushing to start a new Cold War and perhaps stumble into World War III. Robert Parry at Consortium News puts it best in his latest piece over at Consortium News entitled "Blaming Obama for Iraq's Chaos" from which I excerpt:

After Islamic militants captured the major Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, the danger of Official Washington’s false narratives again asserted itself, a direct consequence of the failure to enforce any meaningful accountability on the neocons and others who pushed the Iraq War.

The emerging neocon-preferred narrative is that the jihadist victory in the northern city of Mosul and the related mess in neighboring Syria are the fault of President Barack Obama for not continuing the U.S. military occupation of Iraq indefinitely and for not intervening more aggressively in Syria’s civil war.

For instance, the New York Times on Wednesday wrote that “the swift capture of large areas of [Mosul] by militants aligned with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria represented a climactic moment on a long trajectory of Iraq’s unraveling since the withdrawal of American forces at the end of 2011.”

What is perhaps most striking about such accounts, which are appearing across the major U.S. media, is that the narrative doesn’t go back to the most obvious starting point: President George W. Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003. It was that invasion and the ensuing occupation that hurtled Iraq and – to an extent – Syria into their current chaos.

Bush’s invasion, which was justified by bogus claims about Iraq hiding weapons of mass destruction, was in clear violation of international law, lacking the explicit approval of the United Nations Security Council. Yet, even after the WMD falsehoods were exposed and the body counts soared, there was almost no accountability enforced either on the public officials who carried out the aggressive war or on the opinion leaders who rationalized it.

In many cases, the same pundits and pols continue to shape U.S. public opinion today and are dominating the narratives on Iraq and Syria. Thus, there is almost no attention to the fact that before the U.S. overthrow (and subsequent hanging) of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, there was no al-Qaeda threat in Iraq or Syria.

Mr. Parry goes on to debunk the myth of "The Surge" which was nothing more than a propaganda term for a brief escalation of violence led by the hallowed General David Petraeus and his rat pack of media whore supporters as well as the always bloodthirsty Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham. The "Surge" was of course bullshit and primarily targeted at putting a sunny side up spin on what was in essence a humiliating defeat for the US and the neocons of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) whose lunacy had contributed to the disaster in the first place. Now in 2014 many of the same culprits for the Iraq debacle are being afforded legitimacy that then don't deserve by a corrupt media whose only purpose it to shill for wars and protect the interests of the oligarchy and the political elite who serve them. Case in point - the New York Times has once again featured a story by the dutiful neocon lackey Michael Gordon "Iraq Said to Seek U.S. Strikes on Militants" which will be what the war party will push along with their standard "stabbed in the back" whining as they agitate for a re-engagement of US forces in Iraq to "finish the job" this time.

The neocon propaganda beacon over at the Washington Post has a real knee-slapper today, a column by an Iraq war veteran decrying the overrunning of Iraq entitled  "Iraq veteran: This is not what my friends fought and died for" rehashing the old Vietnam canard of "they didn't let us win".  The writer is described in the sub-header as:  John Nagl, a veteran of both Iraq wars, is the headmaster of The Haverford School and author of the forthcoming "Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War." - just another death pimp hustling a book and playing on the gullibility of Americans whose bogus concern for veterans only surfaces when political fodder is needed. So the neocons will be doing what they always do in caterwauling about the global Islamic takeover and calling for the government to send more US servicemen and women to die for their vainglorious stupidity and failed ideology.  This should do wonders for the collapsing house of cards economy that has already been gutted by wars of choice as well as the entire Veterans Administration healthcare system that is understaffed, underfunded and can't book appointments fast enough for the victims and buddies of guys like Nagl let alone a new wave of permanently damaged victims who will be sacrificed upon the neocon altar of lies. 

Sanction This Obama! Russia Signs Gas Deal With China

The damage inflicted upon the USA, USA, USA both economically and in terms of credibility thanks to the Obama all star foreign policy team of unrivaled buffoons will truly not be understood until well into the future as the rubble from the collapse is sifted through by historians but the most important point is that it was all so unnecessary. Not that a happy ending to the neocon instigated overthrow of a democratically elected leader and the installation of a puppet regime backed by fascists and neo-Nazis could be expected and heads are likely exploding throughout Washington over the backfiring of their scheme.

There is just no way to look at America these days and now be astounded at the dismal quality of the US political class in that the savvy and demonized Vladimir Putin has just punked Obama and his minions yet again. First there was granting asylum to Edward Snowden, that blistering September 11, 2013 New York Times op ed in which Putin called out the ridiculous concept of American exceptionalism, the intervention to stop what was to be a massive attack on Syria (that one really pissed Obama off) and now the best of all in making the entire US establishment and their loyal winged monkeys in the state corporate media look like a pack of chumps by showing them exactly where they could stick their economic sanctions.

The 30 year, $400 billion deal illustrates how far that US Empire of war, greed and stupidity has fallen - picking up speed since 2001 - and the failure of Obama and Kerry's 'we'll huff and we'll puff and we'll blow your house down Mr. Putin' economic punishment over not falling in line with the US-EU-NATO Axis of Aggression and allowing for the absorption of Ukraine. Despite perhaps the greatest US media propaganda campaign in history (it put even the run up to the Iraq attack to shame) all that America is now left with now that the prestige and moral high ground have left the barn forever is a mammoth, money-sucking military machine, a rotten to the core political system, obsolete and crumbling infrastructure that is blown away by any advanced country, a workforce that cannot compete in a global world because the lack the necessary intellect and skills, an economy that only consists of pushing bad paper through above the law Wall Street casinos and a surveillance system that has no peer. Americans have a very bleak future indeed thanks to the series of failures by an arrogant, short-sighted political class and that doesn't take into account skyrocketing food and gas prices a good percentage of whom to blame for the coming food crisis can be laid at the foot of commodities speculators operating with impunity and big agribusiness that operates on a greed crazed, inefficient model that has driven locally produced food out of business. Dark days are coming and coming soon.

As far as the Russia-China gas deal, the virtual holy grail for the countries to which the future belongs I excerpt the following from The Guardian:

Russia and China have signed a 30-year, $400bn (£237bn) deal for Gazprom to deliver Russian gas to China in a deal that underscores Russia's shift towards Asia amid strained relations with the west.

The contract to provide 38bn cubic metres of gas each year was signed by the state-owned gas companies Gazprom and CNPC (China National Petroleum Corporation) in the presence of the countries' leaders, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, at the end of Putin's two-day visit to Beijing.

The Russian president – who has been pushing to close the deal after almost a decade of negotiations – called the agreement "the largest in the gas sphere during the era of the USSR and Russia".

But one British energy expert warned that the move could drive up prices for European gas consumers who are becoming increasingly dependent on Russia and now face competition for supplies.

Aled Jones, director of the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University, warned that the Britain had the equivalent of only three years of North Sea gas left on the basis of current consumption and without the use of imports. "Russia's new pipeline to China will increase competition for natural gas from 2018 and will most likely increase the cost we pay for natural gas here in the EU. It will certainly increase the pressure on European countries to find alternative gas supplies," he said

I am sure that the people of Europe facing rising fuel costs due to the stupidity of their leaders and their failure to do anything but lick Uncle Sam's red, white and blue jackboots will be positively thrilled to shell out more money due to the blowback from the Ukraine disaster. At least Europe has a history of revolutions and a public that has managed to climb out of the mental morass of primitive religion that has exploded across The Homeland, it would do the peasants well to begin to ponder storming the castles and bring back the guillotine for their own rancid and corrupt political leaders.  It won't be long until there is a realization that the expansion of NATO and the botched coup in Kiev aren't the only things that the US establishment has lied about - that little miracle of abundant energy due to the "fracking" boom may not be all that it is cracked up to be.

More importantly though is how the US will react to this latest running drop kick in the balls from Putin. Do Obama, the buffoons at Foggy Bottom and the think tank dwelling ideologues finally back down or do they go down with all guns blazing in one final Wild Bunch style suicide charge and drag the rest of us down with them.

Nice Job Neocons: Now What?

Nothing can be more exceptionally American than the shock and arrogance expressed by the US political class in the aftermath of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. They are outraged, I tell you, outraged that the loathed Russian President Vladimir Putin would call their bluff and refuse to sniff the glove after they had pissed on his prized showcase of the Sochi Winter Olympics and then with assistance of fascists, neo-Nazis and assorted other anti-Semitic miscreants toppled the democratically elected government that sits on his borders. The nerve of Putin to not submit to having yet more NATO missiles surrounding mother Russia and to dare to sign off on the absorption of Crimea and then to give a speech blasting US hypocrisy, just who in the hell does this guy think that he is?

Nice job to the neocons who pushed all right buttons of the idiotic overmatched dupe that is Barack Obama, it was just as easy as having Cheney and Rummy goading Dubya into attacking and invading Iraq over resentment towards his old man. Now like the 2003 “Shock and Awe” campaign that brought chaos and sectarian vengeance to Baghdad and its surroundings, where the stars and stripes flew proudly over Saddam’s torture gulag at Abu Ghraib prison next to an ‘under new management’ sign the very same cadre of mouthy embedded deep cowards have gotten us into the mother of all messes. They have no shame about it either, the chickenhawk leader of the movement William Kristol, a modern incarnation of Joseph Goebbels just published a screed in his vile propaganda organ The Weekly Standard that called out Americans for not being sufficiently enthusiastic about World War III. Like all of the others with the exception of the fanatical war criminal John McCain whose acts of wartime bravery consisted of dropping jellied fire on Vietnamese women and children and Lindsey Graham whose USMC service consisted of flying a desk ALL neocons are chickenhawk cowards. Kristol likes to toot his own horn, in particular when advocating for the children of American mothers to be fed into the meat-grinder for his on aggrandizement yet his copious biography is strangely (or not so) devoid of military service. 

I excerpt the following from Kristol (whose amazing proclivity for being wrong about every aspect of American foreign policy just landed him a gig at ABC) and his piece "War Weariness as an Excuse":

Are Americans today war-weary? Sure. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have been frustrating and tiring. Are Americans today unusually war-weary? No. They were wearier after the much larger and even more frustrating conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. And even though the two world wars of the last century had more satisfactory outcomes, their magnitude was such that they couldn’t help but induce a significant sense of war-weariness. And history shows that they did.

So American war-weariness isn’t new. Using it as an excuse to avoid maintaining our defenses or shouldering our responsibilities isn’t new, either. But that doesn’t make it admirable.

What a preening little shitbag, if he is so hellbent on war then give the man a rifle and send him to Ukraine, or Iran, Iraq, Syria, Venezuela, Somalia, Egypt, Libya or any of the other countless dozens of countries that the American war machine is meddling in. I will tell you what is definitely not admirable and that is driving the US of A and its citizens into a state of indentured servitude to continue to finance the splendid little wars of cowardly bastards like William Kristol and his ilk. Included in his company is the current stammering ass of a Secretary of State John Kerry who is doing his damned level best to create the conditions for a global thermonuclear war when Russia fights back - this is not some dipshit little country like Iraq and they are not going to just roll over.

The longtime member of elitist swine that is Yale’s Skull and Bones society,  Mr. Kerry has that certain sneering contempt of the elite, particularly with his ongoing asinine threats of economic sanctions and his snobbish revisionist history that fails to include the United States out of the list of countries who illegally invade and occupy countries while killing their inhabitants for the spoils of war. It is the same sort of flagrant dismissiveness that in a previous period of history led a similarly holier than though and corrupt ruling class marched to the guillotines. We could never be so lucky as to have such a sentiment manifest itself within the television addled hive minds of the lethargic lemmings that populate this woebegone land of war and dumbness.

“Yats”, our man in Kiev, acting every bit the pencil-necked little bureaucratic lickspittle who hit it big isn’t helping matters either. The unelected puppet of the western backed global finance mafia has ordered Ukranian troops to shoot to kill as of today. Infused with hubris over his recent visit to the White House Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a typical four-flushing little dipshit risks an ugly fate if he is unable to deliver to the global predatory capitalists the prize of Ukraine without the very lucrative chunk of Crimea missing from what was to be an enormous bounty. It would be nice to see him suffer the same fate of Nicolae Ceausescu or better yet the prototype fascist Benito Mussolini when economic hitmen/women the likes of Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland are passing out cookies to the crowds outside his window. When you make a deal with the devil you had better be damned sure that the man gets paid.

Just when you would think that it couldn't get any worse that moronic asshole Joe Biden has shown up in Lithuania to commit the US to engaging in Baltic region war games to further push Russia into a corner.

Now about those guillotines.....