We hear so much about how Russia has violated International
Law by accepting the will of the majority of people in the Crimea to be annexed
into Russia. But really, before 1954 the
Crimea was in fact part of Russia. The decision to partition out Russia was made
back then by that devilish Soviet Union, and so you would think that with the
end of Soviet Union, that the International Maps would have or should have been
rolled back to the way they were before, and that would have meant re-incorporating
the Crimea back into the Russian State.
There has been much disingenuous propaganda against the
Russians. We have Secretary of State
Keary saying that the Crimean Referendum was held under the “barrel of a gun”,
that the Russian troops were under arms, and therefore must have made the
Crimean People vote under armed duress.
Honestly, we must remember, if he should ever run for higher office,
that he is comfortable at twisting words and events around to suit his own pleasure
– he argues like a lawyer and so we only get the one side out of him. So, what really happened in the Crimea? Well, the Russians were there to assure that
the Ukraine and its police and military did not interfere in the Crimea People’s
Referendum. After all, we see that it was
the Ukraine that claimed that the Referendum was illegal, and the Ukraine would
have stopped it going forward if the Russians had not stepped in to prevent
them. Oh, and about the Americans and
the Europeans claiming that the Referendum was ‘illegal’, well, ‘illegal’ does
not mean ‘immoral’, and it was only illegal because Ukraine, an interested and
opposed Party to it all, made it ‘illegal’, with a vote, just to suit their own
ends.
Oh, and WHAT Ukrainian Government? The Majority of Ukrainians had voted for a
Government that was clearly Pro-Russian.
It just so happens that the Capital of Ukraine is situated in the West
of Ukraine, where the people hate Russia and had, incidentally, fought on the
side if Hitler in World War II. These
people, displeased with how Democracy had worked out for them, started protests
which became ever more violent and revolutionary. They began taking over Government Buildings
and murdering police. To keep these
Riots from spinning up into a full civil war, the Elected President of Ukraine
decided to defuse the situation by leaving town. He did no resign. The Protestors swept in and took over the Government,
and the United States and Europe, so fussy about International Law in regards
to the sacredness of borders, had no
problem at all with the violent overthrow of a democratically appointed
Government. Well, should we, then, really
care what an unelected and illegitimate ‘Government’ calls ‘illegal’. My God, that we should take such irony
seriously! Rather than catering to their whims, true
justice could only be served if these usurpers where hanged for armed rebellion
and treason. But I guess to the United
States and the European Union, there are good terrorists and bad terrorists,
and they are measured by just how much they contribute to American and European
national interests.
Oh, and did it help that the first thing the Usurping Protestor
Government of the Ukraine did was to
strip away the rights of Russian Speaking Ukrainians. You see, the Russian Speaking Segment of
Ukraine, the ones who fought against Hitler in World War Two, well, they appear
to be in the majority and have been stifling the efforts of the Pro-German
Ukrainians to capture political power for themselves. Therefore we see this attack on the Ethnic
Russians and their Language.
You would think the Pro-German Ukrainians would therefore welcome the
opportunity to cut off the Crimea and give it over with pleasure to the
Russians, for without the large Pro-Russian Vote coming out of the Crimea,
well, the right wing nationalist Ukrainians could probably actually win an
election, and take the Government without
having to resort to Violence, Riot and Mayhem.
Oh, and about the sacredness of borders. The Americans and Europeans complain that
the Big Lesson of World War Two was that borders were to be treated sacredly,
as though God Himself had descended upon the Clouds and drawn them upon the map
with his own Hand. Well, really? They are referring to Hitler having annexed into
Germany certain counties that had been reassigned to other Nations by the
Treaty of Versailles after the First World War, or earlier, by the Treaty of
Paris after the Battle of Waterloo. At
first nobody minded. Remember, that the
American President, Woodrow Wilson, had come to international fame by preaching
the Doctrine of Ethnic Self-Determinism, that Democracies would eventually
resolve into fighting over issues lined up in regards to purely Ethnic considerations
unless the Ethnic Composition of the
Democracies were uniform enough to preclude inter-ethnic hostilities. So for Democracies to work in regards to
purely political Issues, they would have to be formed in regards to Ethnic
Self-Determination – borders would need to be ‘re-districted’ in regards to Ethnic
homogeneity , just as American Congressional Districts are now re-districted
for political homogeneity. Ethnically
Uniform Countries could put Democracy to practical uses, whereas, Ethnically
diverse Countries would only use Democracy to keep up a constant electoral
battle between the different language groups and ethnic factions. So, yes, Hitler was annexing various German
Speaking counties bordering on Germany, all the while quoting Woodrow Wilson ,
and nobody much objected. So, what
changed? Well, when Hitler signed the Berlin-Moscow Pact in 1938, it was
perceived by Britain, France and America that Germany had gone from being
Pro-Western and Anti-Soviet to being Pro-Soviet and Anti-Western. While Hitler had been considered
Pro-Western, he could do no wrong, but after seeming to align himself with the
Soviet Union, well, then, apparently he could do no right. World War Two was therefore declared by
Britain against Germany simply because Hitler had annexed one small German
speaking city in Polland, and without firing a shot. According to the West, that had constituted an
‘Invasion’ of Polland… just as now they speak of Russia having ‘Invading’ Crimea.
Just a few years back, well, the United States did not
technically ‘invade’ Serbia, but they did take over the Serbian Skies and bombed
Belgrade and bombed and strafed the Serbian Military that was fighting to keep
its territorial integrity together. When
the Serbians had been bombed and machine-gunned by the Americans into a state
of helplessness, then, what did the American’s do? They partitioned out Serbia, creating the new
State of Kosovo. So, why is it that International
Borders need to be sacred to the Russians, but only a matter of political
convenience for the Americans?
