Kermit Heartsong - Ukraine - ZBIG's Grand Chess Board & How The West Was Checkmated

Unlike Kosovo (wherein no election was held and extortion led the day), Croatia and Slovenia (illegal referendum, 1991), Bosnia (referendum in violation of its own constitution, 1992) Scotland (2014), or Quebec (1980, 1995), all of which the West immediately recognized or ignored, the Crimeans, in the opinion of the West, were not entitled to the same rights and privileges. However, the Crimeans weren’t listening.

On March 6, 2014, the Supreme Council of Crimea decided to join the Russian Federation. On March 11, the Parliament voted for a declaration of independence, as legally required, to underpin the current referendum (Cunningham 2014). On Sunday, March 16, 2014, roughly 82 % of Crimeans participated in the referendum with approximately 96 % voting to join Russia.

Odessa

This action [in Odessa] was not prepared at some internal level, it was a well-planned and coordinated action in which some authorities’ representatives have taken part.

— Oleh Makhnitsky, acting Attorney General, Ukraine

On May 2, 2014, in the city of Odessa, Ukraine, a horrific massacre was about to take place between those aligned to the coup-installed government in Kiev and ethnic Russians who did not approve of either the coup and or the neo-Nazis that had consequently risen to power.

Resistance to Kiev’s coup-installed new government was not only being witnessed in Eastern Ukraine, but it was rising in the South as well. And when coup leaders found themselves unable to press the Ukrainian troops to fire on civilians, they sought other ways of suppressing dissent.

The coup leaders turned to Andriy Parubiy, a self-described neo-Nazi and the founder of Svoboda, for solutions. Parubiy had become Ukraine’s National Security Chief as a result of the coup. His solution to the growing resistance was to employ the neo-Nazi shock troops, formerly the Maidan self-defense forces: the same troops that had proven themselves so valuable in the violence that had led to the coup.

As detailed by Parry (2014) in the article, “Burning Ukraine’s Protesters Alive. Neo-Nazi ‘Shock Troops’ Supported by US,” the National Guard units:

Were drawn primarily from well-organized bands of neo-Nazi extremists from western Ukraine who hurled firebombs at police and fired weapons as the anti-Yanukovych protests turned increasingly violent. (Parry 2014)

These were the units that the new coup-installed government “dispatched to the east and south to do the dirty work that the regular Ukrainian military was unwilling to do” (Parry 2014).

On May 2, a soccer game had been scheduled between Odessa’s local soccer club, FC Chernomorets Odessa, and Kharkov’s FC Metallist.

The train from Kharkov arrived in Odessa at 8:00am that morning. The Kharkov soccer fans then made their way to the soccer stadium. As the Kharkov soccer fans reached the “Afina” shopping center at the intersection of Greek Street and Vice Admiral Zhukov, they were attacked by balaclava clad (a common accessory of neo-Nazi attire) gunmen, who were wearing St. George ribbons, a symbol adopted by Russian Separatists, and red armbands, perhaps, as an additional more clandestine identifying mark (Valiente 2014).

After a short bout of fighting, the balaclava clad “Russian Separatists,” responsible for the violence then directed the Kharkov soccer fans to Kulikovo Field, while they subsequently fled into the Afina shopping center under police protection.

In late February, Kulikovo Field had become home to a tent camp of Odessa residents who opposed the new coup-installed regime in Kiev. Over the ensuing months, thousands of like-minded Odessa residents would visit the tent city in a show of support.

As the soccer fans made their way to Kulikovo Field, it appears that balaclava clad “Russian Separatists” sped ahead to warn the Kulikov Field residents that the “Right Sektor” was on its way to kill them. And as reported in the article, “Odessa Massacre Planned and Executed by the Fascist Rulers of Ukraine” (Valiente 2014):

Led by the provocateurs [balaclava clad “Russian Separatists”], many activists entered the House of Trade Unions instead of scattering throughout the city. Some of them went down to the basement from which no one emerged alive — there they were tortured, killed, and butchered with machetes. Others headed upstairs. Gasoline was mixed with napalm to form deadly, acrid carbon monoxide. The recipe for these deadly cocktails was created by chemists from Independence Square, but they were not used there. In Odessa, the mixture was employed for the first time and this was no accident: a massacre with a large number of fatalities was needed in order to terrorize the entire country. (Valiente 2014)

The massacre that took place at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa lasted several hours and would result in the horrific deaths, officially, of some 46 people, whose bodies had been horribly charred from the fires that raged within.

Yet even more horrific was the fate of the Odessa residents who managed to escape the burning building, only to be strangled, shot, and beaten to death.

It is believed that the unofficial death toll of the Odessa massacre is between 120 and 130 people.

Perhaps the Crimean people were prescient when they voted to separate from the Ukraine and join the Russian Federation.

War by any other name: Eastern Ukraine

Who in their right mind would allow the US to “assist” in restoring stability, unity and political and economic health? It has set out to [sic] destabilize, divide and cripple Libya, Syria, and Iraq by military means and continues to terrorize civilian populations with drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It has been responsible for millions of deaths as a result of its military [escapades]. Time and again, the US-led alliance has violated international laws and demonstrated no respect whatsoever for any notion of national sovereignty or territorial integrity with its invasions as well as its illegal mass surveillance courtesy of the NSA and Britain’s GCHQ.

— Colin Todhunter, Global Research

When Novorossiyans, a majority of whom are Russian speakers and of Russian heritage, realized that the Western supported coup had, indeed, brought a coalition of oligarchs and neo-Nazis to power, they too sought independence. And as their suspicions were verified — their language threatened, violence against Ukraine’s Russians rampant, the Party of Regions members intimidated and forced to resign, and the Communist Party outlawed — they too sought to distance themselves from the new coup-installed coalition. It was, however, a move that would find every man, woman, child, and infant designated as terrorists for seeking to escape a growing tyranny spreading from Kiev and set in motion by the West. Perhaps in this same light the founding fathers of the US might have themselves been considered terrorists by Kiev’s coup-installed government for seeking to distance themselves from Great Britain.

However, despite the various events taking place across the country documented by numerous sources, US Secretary of State John Kerry provided an alternative explanation for the events on the ground, free from facts or a scintilla of actual documented or forensic evidence. This would serve as the framework for Secretary Kerry’s future statements to the Western media:

It's an incredible act of aggression. It is really a stunning, willful choice by President (Vladimir) Putin to invade another country. Russia is in violation of the sovereignty of Ukraine. Russia is in violation of its international obligations. (Dunham 2014)

Given the Secretary’s preceding statement, one questions if Secretary Kerry is (or was) in full possession of all of his faculties, if he has no memory, whatsoever, of the recent past (Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, etc.), or if duplicity reins supreme in the US State Department. The charge would amount to breathtaking hypocrisy, given the facts on the ground, finding the Secretary’s statement, at best, a grim fairytale.