As we have mentioned here throughout the beginning of this year, Ukraine
has been (and continues to be) a major “flash point” that holds dire
consequences for a Europe already in tatters. Ukraine is also a major
spot of contention between Russia and the United States. To recap,
presently we have a President intent on a new era of relations between Vladimir
Putin and his government. The problem lies in what the U.S. has done in
the past five year under the Obama-directed State Department (courtesy of
Victoria Nuland). That State Department was aided and abetted by none
other than Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
As mentioned in other articles, the situation in the Eastern Ukrainian provinces is serious.
Although the Minsk accords provided for an official ceasefire between the
Kiev government under President Petro Poroshenko and the separatist militias
in the Donbass region, the former has been clearly guilty of violating it
repeatedly. These violations have taken the form of prohibited armored
vehicles and artillery barrages in numerous cities.
At the very beginning of the U.S.-sponsored coup d’état that ousted
legally-elected President Viktor Yanukovych and sent him fleeing to Russia,
the Maidan movement (comprised of Ukrainian ultra-nationalists) began
protests and riots that led to fighting. Maidan was (and is)
being both encouraged and supported financially by none other than George
Soros. The intent for Ukraine with Soros is no different: to crush the
opposition of separatists and enable the U.S.-installed government to rail
Ukraine into NATO and the IMF.
Once this has been accomplished, Soros has the “master plan” of
taking over a large portion of the Eastern provinces because of the
tremendous amounts of minerals and natural resources he wishes to buy for
“pennies on the dollar” and then bleed the country white while taking the
profits out of the country. As of this writing, Maidan is at it again.
Photo: RT News
According to an article released by RT News, Maidan has
organized a blockade of coal shipments. This is not a small shutdown by
any means. The article, entitled Maidan 2.0: Ukrainian Nationalists Provoking Political Crisis
with Coal Blockade, by Valentyn Ogirenko has reported
that approximately 74,000 cargo cars have been
prevented from crossing any lines between the separatists and the Poroshenko
government. On average, an open railroad car holds 115 tons of coal.
This amounts to approximately 8,117,000 tons of coal.
That is a staggering amount. So staggering, as a matter of
fact, that Kiev has claimed it is an emergency.
Here is an excerpt from that article:
“The blockade organizers boasted over social media that they have stopped
some 74,000 cargo cars from crossing the disengagement line between
Kiev-controlled and rebel-held parts of Ukraine. Thousands of wagons
filled with coal cannot leave the Donbass area, Donetsk Region, as pro-Kiev
activists block train lines leading to government-controlled
territories. The nationalists argue that buying coal from mines
controlled by the rebels in the East is equivalent to treason. However,
without the necessary coal supplies Ukrainian power plants are threatened
with closure. Kiev has declared a state of emergency for the nation’s
energy industry.”
RT also conducted an interview with a former U.S. diplomat to Ukraine
concerning the significance of it by the name of Jim Jatras.
His comments pertain to the Ukrainian nationalists (Maidan). This next
excerpt shows the delicate nature of the crisis and what it means overall, as
explained by Mr. Jatras:
“Frankly, I think they [Maidan and the Ultra-nationalists] are not sure
what to do. They know that this is extremely damaging to the Ukrainian
economy, as of February 15 they said they had 40 days reserve and we’re going
to be coming up on the exhaustion of those reserves very quickly. The Prime
Minister Mr. [Volodymyr] Groysman has said that 300,000 jobs are potentially
going to be lost here if they are not able to maintain coal supplies – this
is 12 percent of the country’s production. They cannot sustain this. You
would think that this kind of illegal activity – there is no legal authority
for this blockade – would be something that the government would step in. I
can only imagine that they don’t do it because they feel too weak to do it.
They are afraid of the kind of ultranationalists that are behind this, and
that if they try to take forceful action against them, it will provoke a
resort to violence that they may not be able to handle.”
This is serious business, and even more in that Maidan
wants to stop the flow of coal into the Donbass and Eastern Ukraine, yet it
is hurting the interests of the entire country. Keep in mind: we
haven’t even mentioned the activities of outside influences, such as the U.S.
and Russia. The U.S. has an arms package (approved in both 2015 and
2016 by the Congress and prodded by Obama) that is expected to deliver
weapons, munitions, and other military supplies to the Kiev government this
year, in 2017.
On the other side of the Ukrainian border, Russia is continuing to supply
the separatists who (as mentioned in other articles) are Ukrainians of
Russian ethnic derivation who feel a strong sense of allegiance to Russia and
wish to separate (as Crimeans voted to do so prior to the Russian annexation
of 2014). In addition, Sputnik News just released a piece on 2/20/17 by
Sergey Averin entitled Quarter of Russians back potential recognition of Donbass
republics. In a poll, over half of Russians think that the
Russian government should help the separatists of Lugansk and Donetsk.
In addition to this, Vladimir Putin ordered agencies in Russia last week
to accept the documents and passports issued by these two separatist regions
of Ukraine, along with visa-free travel to Russia if they possessed such
documents. Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister said this was
necessary for the war-torn areas to provide relief to those residents who
wished to flee to Russia.
The U.S. is not yet officially weighing in on this, as before the
elections the support was for the Kiev government. Now we have an
American President who is determined to reset the relations with Russia, and
U.S. policy, while not in Tartarus as is was last year, is still in
limbo. Until the President clarifies the direction the State Department
will travel and reigns in the rogue Congress such as Sen’s. McCain and Graham
(who serve the MIC, or Military Industrial Complex first and then the United
States, if it isn’t inconvenient).
In the meantime, fighting is still occurring in the Eastern provinces and
now we have Maidan (a Soros-backed destabilizing organization) coming to the
forefront again. It will take some shrewd diplomacy and perhaps some
restructuring within the Ukrainian government (internally) to bring these
troubles to a rest. Make no mistake, though: It is far from over and is
a powder keg that can escalate and involve other countries in Europe, as well
as spark action between Russia and the United States.
Jeremiah Johnson is the Nom de plume of a retired Green Beret
of the United States Army Special Forces (Airborne). Mr. Johnson is
also a Gunsmith, a Certified Master Herbalist, a Montana Master Food
Preserver, and a graduate of the U.S. Army’s SERE school (Survival Evasion
Resistance Escape). He lives in a cabin in the mountains of Western
Montana with his wife and three cats. You can follow Jeremiah’s regular
writings at SHTFplan.com or
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