An Objective Look At Crimea, The Ukraine and Russia

 

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?

 

Actually, I am only half-hearted in my defense for Ethnic Self-Determinism.  Whether Nationally or Internationally, Ethnic Divisions, Language Divisions, Religious Divisions, and even Class Divisions, well, none of these Divisions are healthy, and I wish some advanced Civilization, such as one from from Outer Space, would take over and impose a new order on everybody, and that everybody would hate it equally, and then be united in Heart by the common hatred of the Outsider… that is, for about 3 generations until the Children would inevitably be Co-opted by the New and Superior Civilization, much to the grumbling of their Grandparents.   And so against our Will, fighting and kicking against it, we should eventually be lead to Civilization and Perpetual Peace.   Yes, I can only imagine how the Tea Party would hate that.