In 2004 Hungary joined the EU, expecting streets of gold. Instead,
four years later in 2008 Hungary became indebted to the IMF. The rock
video by the Hungarian group, Mouksa Underground sums up the result in
Hungary today of falling into the hands of the EU and IMF.
The song is about the disappointing results of leaving socialism for
capitalism, and in Hungary the results are certainly not encouraging.
The title is “Disappointment with the System Change.” Here are the
lyrics:
Over twenty some years now
We’ve been waiting for the good life
For the average citizen
Instead of wealth we have poverty
Unrestrained exploitation
So this is the big system change
So this is what you waited for
No housing No food No work
But that’s what was assured wouldn’t happen
Those on top
Prey upon us
The poor suffer everyday
So this is the big system change
So this is what you waited for
(Repeat)
When will real change occur?
When will there be a livable world
The ultimate solution will arise
When this economic system is forever abandoned
So this is the big system change
So this is what you waited for
(Repeat)
There is no solution but revolution
Perhaps if the Kiev students had listened to the Hungarian rock group
instead of to Washington’s NGOs, they would understand what it means to
be looted by the West, and Ukraine would not be in turmoil and headed
toward destruction.
As Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland made clear in her
speech last December and in the leaked recording of her telephone
conversation with the US ambassador in Kiev, Washington spent $5 billion
of US taxpayer dollars engineering a coup in Ukraine that overthrew the
elected democratic government.
That it was a coup is also underlined by the obvious public lies that
Obama has told about the situation, blaming, of course, the overthrown
government, and by the total misrepresentation of Ukrainian developments
by the US and European presstitute media. The only reason to
misrepresent the events is to support the coup and to cover up
Washington’s hand.
There is no doubt whatsoever that the coup is a strategic move by
Washington to weaken Russia. Washington tried to capture Ukraine in 2004
with the Washington-funded “Orange Revolution,” but failed. Ukraine
was part of Russia for 200 years prior to being granted independence in
the 1990s. The eastern and southern provinces of Ukraine are Russian
areas that were added to Ukraine in the 1950s by the Soviet leadership
in order to water down the influence of the nazi elements in the western
Ukraine that had fought for Adolf Hitler against the Soviet Union
during World War 2.
The loss of Ukraine to the EU and NATO would mean the loss of
Russia’s naval base on the Black Sea and the loss of many military
industries. If Russia were to accept such strategic defeat, it would
mean that Russia had submitted to Washington’s hegemony.
Whatever course the Russian government takes, the Russian population
of eastern and southern Ukraine will not accept oppression by Ukrainian
ultra-nationalists and neo-nazis.
The hostility already shown toward the Russian population can be seen
in the destruction by Ukrainians of the monument to the Russian troops
that drove Hitler’s divisions out of Ukraine during World War 2 and the
destruction of the monument to Russian General Kutuzov, whose tactics
destroyed Napoleon’s Grand Army and resulted in the fall of Napoleon.
The question at the moment is whether Washington miscalculated and
lost control of the coup to the neo-nazi elements who seem to have taken
control from the Washington-paid moderates in Kiev, or whether the
Washington neocons have been working with the neo-nazis for years. Max
Blumenthal says the latter: (Is the
U.S. Backing Neo-Nazis in Ukraine?)
The moderates have certainly lost control. They cannot protect public
monuments, and they are forced to try to pre-empt the neo-nazis by
legislating the neo-nazi program. The captive Ukrainian parliament has
introduced measures to ban any official use of the Russian language.
This, of course, is unacceptable to the Russian provinces.
As I noted in a previous column, the Ukrainian parliament itself is
responsible for the destruction of democracy in Ukraine. Its
unconstitutional and undemocratic actions have paved the way for the
neo-nazis who now have the precedent to treat the moderates the same way
that the moderates treated the elected government and to cover up their
illegality with accusations of crimes and arrest warrants. Today the
illegally deposed President Yanukovych is on the run. Tomorrow will the
current president, Oleksander Turchinov, put in office by the
moderates, not by the people, be on the run? If a democratic election
did not convey legitimacy to President Yanukovych, how does selection by
a rump parliament convey legitimacy to Turchinov? What can Turchinov
answer if the neo-nazis put to him Lenin’s question to Kerensky: “Who
chose you?”
If Washington has lost control of the coup and is unable to restore
control to the moderates whom it has aligned with the EU and NATO, war
would seem to be unavoidable. There is no doubt that the Russian
provinces would seek and be granted Russia’s protection. Whether Russia
would go further and overthrow the neo-nazis in western Ukraine is
unknown. Whether Washington, which seems to have positioned military
forces in the region, would provide the military might for the moderates
to defeat the neo-nazis is also an open question, as is Russia’s
response.
In a previous column I described the situation as “Sleepwalking
Again,” an analogy to how miscalculations resulted in World War 1.
The entire world should be alarmed at the reckless and irresponsible
interference by Washington in Ukraine. By bringing a direct strategic
threat to Russia, the crazed Washington hegemon has engineered a Great
Power confrontation and created the risk of world destruction.
Source: paulcraigroberts.org
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