Ukraine — Catalyst for Multipolar Advocacy Over Unipolar Hegemon
— Should we be shaking hands with Russians rather than flipping the bird at them?
Vladimir Putin is a man immensely hated by Western media and oligarchy — perhaps he is the ultimate enemy to global elites. A concert pianist, chess enthusiast, hockey player, driver of Harleys and tractor trailers, he’s also a former member of Russia’s KGB. Strong governance — Russia being the 9th least-indebted nation worldwide — has rewarded Putin with an 81% favorable rating.
Geographically, Russia is a huge multiethnic country that is super rich in mineral resources and the size of 12 time zones. Russia owns 53% of the Arctic coastline which is seriously melting and will soon become widely available for resource exploration and shipping transport on a massive scale. Russia’s contribution to China’s Belt Road Initiative (BRI) has been, is and will remain extensive.
Known to consult with Eurasian scholars before teaming with China, here is Putin’s score card prior to the recent Chinese-Russian partnership:
In fact, Russia and China are today partners in just about everything. Each nation strongly supports the other.
Together, they nurture the BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) which represents 43% of the world’s population. They are also founding members — along with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan — of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization which, according to Google, covers 60% of Eurasia, 40% of the world’s population and 30% of the world’s GDP.
Also noteworthy is the fact NATO nations account only for 15% of the world’s population.
Much like Western nations formed the famous G-8 — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, EU and US, a new consortium of alternative G-8 nations is being formed. It is expected China, India, Russia, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Iran and Turkey will be participants.
The notable difference between the competing G-8s?
The older G-8 is comprised of predominantly white populated nations and profiteering with elite old-time money influence and tactics; whereas the new G-8 is completely diverse, economically near-virgin and excited to share (not extract for profit) international resources. Also, the new G-8 has a significantly greater population and therefore intensive access to important economic markets.
A great way to balance what the future will look like based on the behavior of the past would be to read the below article I wrote about Africa on May 23, 2022. Just imagine how differently Africa will become developed, how African people will benefit, under the influence of a world organized from a multipolar perspective. Imagine world development organized without the influence of greed and profiteering.
The US-led hegemonic militaristic domination of the world, its banking system and economic markets are either over or rapidly declining. In simple language, the world wants and is willing to try multipolar, not unipolar, leadership.
Ukraine as Catalyst
Interestingly, the war in Ukraine has become the catalyst for this. It is a fact Putin did not rush into war and that he studiously tried to avoid it from happening. After the 2014 rightwing nationalist coup, Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk declared independence. Crimea then voted by national referendum where 85% agreed to rejoin Russia. But the two breakaway Dombass republics declared their own sovereignty, wanted their own independence.
This prompted Russia to articulate the UN-sponsored 2014 Minsk Agreements, which featured involvement from Ukraine, France and Germany. The two signed Minsk Agreements provided Luhansk and Donetsk with their own autonomy, but they would remain part of Ukraine. According to Putin’s plan, Ukraine would be kept whole.
Ukraine agreed to this, but never upheld its end of the agreement. It failed to establish meaningful communication with Luhansk or Donetsk. Ukraine took no steps towards implementing the Minsk Accords. Moreover, in 2019 Ukraine broke the 1997 Russian–Ukrainian Friendship Treaty which prohibited each nation from invading the other.
Instead, Ukrainian Nazi and fascist militia elements began attacking the two breakaway nations. After eight years of conflict, 14,000 people were killed. Prior to Putin responding to requests from Luhansk and Donetsk for help and prior to the Russian parliament formally recognizing their sovereignty, Ukraine had stationed nearly100,000 soldiers at the Dombass borders, full ready for war.
Video shows Ukraine built apartment-like living constructed within a massive underground entrenchment system. It was from here that innocent civilians were continuously shelled and bombarded by the likes of the Azov Nazi militias. Ukraine also imposed restrictions preventing Ukrainian citizens from speaking Russian and all political parties opposing Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky were banned.
Essentially, Ukraine used the Minsk Agreements as a shield to build its enormous military. This past June, former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko (2014–2019) did several media interviews. Among them, he told German Deutsche Welle Television and US state-run Radio Free Europe-Ukraine the following:
“We had achieved everything we wanted … Our goal was to, first, stop the threat, or at least to delay the war — to secure eight years to restore economic growth and create powerful armed forces.”
Ukraine, as the poorest nation in all of Europe, did not need to become the European nation with the 2nd-largest military. By construct of US design the Ukrainian military became fully NATO trained and equipped. Ukraine’s military got organized under the influence of Eric Prince highly-trained (Blackwater) private mercenaries, dedicated Azov Nazi soldiers and neo-fascist/neo-Nazi groups like Right Sector, C-14, Svoboda and smaller-scaled Stepan Bandera militia groups. Ukraine became intent on waging war with Russia. It was only a matter of time.
Many Ukrainian fascists got high appointments throughout Ukraine’s government:
The table now set, the US — accustomed to getting its way via control of Western media, sanctioning powers, economic clout, military might, manipulating UN agencies or outright thievery — egged Russia into committing its military into Ukraine, convinced it created a well-laid a trap for Putin.
But for eight years Putin was stubborn. Russia repeatedly asked Ukraine to ultimately accept the Minsk accords, to commit to neutrality from NATO, to cease its militarization against Luhansk and Donetsk, to discontinue blocking Crimea’s primary fresh water supply and to remove substantive Nazi and fascist influences within the Ukrainian government.
Ukraine’s Zelensky, elected as a peace candidate, instead went on a public relations campaign begging US and the European Union to supply Ukraine with more powerful weapons, even bragging Ukraine could revive its once extensive nuclear program from the old Soviet Union days. It appears Zelensky boasting to bring back Ukrainian nukes tipped Putin over the edge. A couple days after Zelensky’s nuke remarks Russia commenced with its Special Military Operation, what the US routinely calls a “military incursion.”
Russia militarily moved into Ukraine!
The US, EU and NATO response was to send US soldiers into NATO nations, freeze and commandeer Russian assets, blacklist Russian artists, intellectuals and sports performers from international events and impose severe economic sanctions on Russia and its citizenry— all of this in a belief heavy sanctioning could ruin Russia’s economy, bring Putin’s nation to its knees and effectively amount as a blow to the mat and a beginning of his downfall.
Russia’s money and assets were stolen and removed from the global banking system. It was thought Russia’s currency, the ruble, would outright collapse. The talking head pundits on news television took great delight salivating over this condition. Little did they know how clueless they would soon appear.
Yes, the Western world got deeply bogged down supporting Ukraine. It was in a belief Ukraine was a perfect proxy nation (see US defense thinktank Rand Corp reports). Defense media experts filled the airwaves espousing a prolonged war would weaken Russia, perhaps bring about regime change possibly remove Putin. The West seemed visibly happy!
There was also a belief that resultant widespread dissatisfaction among Russia’s citizenry could eventually cause Russia to break into smaller territorial nations.
This would then become a Western oligarch’s wet dream for resource profiteering and a reminder of the good ole’ Boris Yeltsin days where corruption and oligarchy reigned, where a billion here and a billion there easily was gotten. Of course, back then, the US could easily interfere with a Russian election.
It was also back then when the Russian mob grew into international prominence. Elements of it landed on Brighton Beach outside of New York, in Miami and elsewhere. Don’t forget. After Yeltsin’s regime, Putin kicked the greedy bad oligarchs out of Russia, each of them then becoming arch enemies of Putin. You better believe Western media has tapped into this opinion and accounts for much of the negativity Putin receives.
Now you know and understand some of the Russians types with whom Trump became friendly, why the casino and real estate tycoon Trump always seemed to have a Russian connection. It had nothing to do with Hillary Clinton or Russiagate. I’m convinced Putin always viewed Trump more as a nuisance — Clinton too! — and that Putin would much prefer to have back the nuclear treaties the wretched Trump Administration dismantled.
Turns out Putin not only played piano, rode Harleys and drove tractor-trailers, he also proved a damn good chess player relative to political brinkmanship. He, and his foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, knew precisely how to respond to the whole Western affront, which they saw coming long in advance. The below investigative reporting by Vijay Prashad pretty much sums it up:
Conclusion
As noted earlier, Putin checks in with an 81% favorable rating. Comparatively, US President Joseph Biden keeps an under 40% favorable rating while members of the US Congress historically hold a 20% favorable rating coupled to an astonishing never-ending 95% reelection rate. Something is seriously wrong with America’s democracy!
Key question: Why are US politicians so protected and why do they become so wealthy?
Among the populace, as a nation, the US is deeply divided. Some argue we are close to a point of civil war. Recent elections have been controversial and little trust exists among the electorate. Worse, the country is ruled not by opinion or democratic ideals, but more by what I call Oligarch Protection Units (OPUs), meant to preserve only oligarchy.
And so America!
Meanwhile, as a boomerang response to the Ukrainian crisis due to the anti-Russian sanctions, European leaders of Britain, Italy, Bulgaria and Estonia have resigned; French president Emanuel Macron lost his party’s control of parliament; nearly everybody in Germany is on the seat of revolt and the folks in smaller European nations are burning mad as farm tractors roll along in protest.
Europe appears headed for an increase in the cost of goods, food shortages and skyrocketing fuel prices that’ll hurt nearly everyone, both individuals and businesses. You see, Russia traditionally has supplied gas and oil to Europe. It also supplied lots of wheat, barley, corn and fertilizer. The fact is Europe needs Russia!
The question lingers: As the war in Ukraine rages on, what will this coming winter be like for Europeans?
Another important question: Why must Ukraine keep fighting what is a losing war, a war where 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers get killed every day? Lots of the seasoned Ukrainian soldiers have died and today we see mostly young conscripts and recruits being killed.
End this war immediately!
Very Interesting US and Russian Comparatives:
Let’s do a comparative. Russia may not be perfect, but neither is the US. Let’s compare some strengths Russia may hold over the US. But, first, let’s remember America is a nation that historically has prided itself on freedom and liberty:
Other interesting facts:
- Russia is the 9th least-indebted nation compared to US being the 12th most-indebted nation.
- Russia was first nation to legalize abortion.
- Russia has banned genetically-modified foods.
- Russia offers universal health care.
- Russia offers free education.
- Russia offers pensions (women retire at age 55 and men at age 60).
- Strong protections and benefits to workers.
- Russia offers child care/family leave.
- 82% of Russians own homes compared to 65% of Americans.
- Homelessness in Russia per 10,000 citizens is 4 compared with 17.7 for Americans.
- Prisoner rate per 100,000 shows Russia at 341 and the US leading the world at 639.
- Russia has no death penalty.
- Russia has strict gun controls.
- Rock n’ roll, punk rock and heavy metal is all throughout Russia and the Moscow and St. Petersburg discos stay open all night long. Not many folks realize that Pussy Riot was more of a protest art collective than a punk rock band.
- Russia also produces very great chess players and hockey players.
Finally, I understand the American mentality. You’ve been conditioned by Western media to see and think of Putin as only bare-chested on a horse, and too often tugging Trump along. Perhaps you need to see this photo in order to at least consider and understand some of what I’ve written above. Here you go — this is for red and blue warmongering neocons!
