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

Military

Several of the military objectives long associated with shifting the Ukraine into the Western geostrategic orbit include:

•The expansion of NATO and the continued military encirclement of Russia with a ring of bases stretching from the Ukraine and tying those to the Baltic states and the Balkans and from Turkey to the Caucasus (Petras 2014)

•The eviction of Russia from its centuries-long military and naval base in the Crimea and the subsequent leasing of that base to NATO

•The conversion of Ukraine into a springboard for penetrating southern Russia and the Caucasus; a forward position to politically manage and support liberal pro-NATO parties and NGOs within Russia (Petras 2014)

•The termination, retooling, and evisceration of Ukrainian factories purposed with supplying key sectors of the Russian military (Petras 2014)

And, perhaps, the most significant reason militarily for what now transpires in Ukraine (and around the world), as summed up by Peter Koenig in his article, “Civilization of the Neocons”:

Wars must go on. The US neoliberal economy depends on them. The war machine and its ramifications contribute more than 50 % to the US GDP. Without wars, the country would collapse. All peace talks and negotiations initiated or feigned by Washington are fake, a deception, propaganda for the goodness of the naked emperor. Kudos for the exceptional nation. World peace would mean a black hole for the United States, demise. (Koenig 2014)

Economic

The economic objectives for the West associated with the Ukraine are varied and many, as Western rescue events are generally predicated on enriching numerous factions (energy companies, the military-industrial complex, other corporate multinationals, banking concerns, foreign policy objectives of aligned countries, geopolitical enrichment, etc.).

However, another parallel facet of the Chessboard Strategy regarding Russia’s military isolation is its economic isolation from the world, witnessed by successive sanctions leveled by Western countries.

Economically, what might be considered a rather brazen and telling geopolitical enrichment maneuver, heavily seasoned with nepotism, is the appointment of Hunter Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, to Burisma Holdings, Ukraine’s largest private gas producer, on May 13, 2014 (Messayan 2014). Mr.Biden, however, will not be lonely as he will be joined by Devon Archer, the chair of the support committee for the 2004 presidential campaign of current Secretary of State John Kerry (Messayan 2014).

Also missing entirely from the Western narrative was one of the first official acts of welcoming Ukraine into the Western sphere of influence, the stealth removal of thirty-three tons of Ukraine’s gold reserves (Kranzier 2014). Other financial objectives include:

•Control (and or cessation) of the energy transport corridor which crosses Ukraine and links oil and natural gas reserves from the Caspian basin to European markets

•Sabotage of overall trade relations between Europe and Russia, in order to disempower both Europe and Russia

•A $10 billion shale gas deal with Chevron, that would allow Chevron to explore the Olesky deposit in western Ukraine that Kiev estimates holds 2.98 trillion cubic meters of gas (Ahmed 2014) (Chevron has announced in December that it will be pulling out of this deal)

•An IMF Austerity plan which will facilitate the “financial robbery of public goods, reduction of pensions, minimum wages, social services, privatization of education and health, expropriation and privatization of natural resources by foreign corporations” (Koenig 2015)

As Naomi Klein points out in her book The Shock Doctrine , the West has made quite a profitable business out of destroying other nation-states, privatizing resources, stripping assets, and then “attempting to rebuild” the destroyed infrastructure while murdering millions, in the process, to feed, what can only be labelled, sociopathic avarice. To date, it has been a very profitable gambit.

However, US exceptionalism may yet be imperiled, as Damoclesian swords fall earthward toward Neocons, Neoliberals, and us all. As summed up by Mr. Orlov (2014):

…the US is a dead man walking: unless it can continue rolling over trillions of dollars in short-term debt every month at record-low interest rates, it won't be able to pay the interest on its debt or its bills. Good-bye, welfare state, hello riots. Good-bye military contractors and federal law enforcement, hello mayhem and open borders. (Orlov 2014)

So great is the voraciousness among the world’s 1 percent for money and power that they now appear to imperil the world and themselves by the serial ruination of nation-states, planned chaos, and the subsequent economic maelstrom that even now continues to build in the Ukraine.

planned Chaos

In order to stop, or at least forestall this downward slide into financial/economic/political oblivion, the US must move quickly to undermine every competing economy in the world through whatever means it has left at its disposal, be it a bombing campaign, a revolution or a pandemic (although this last one can be a bit hard to keep under control). Russia is an obvious target, because it is the only country in the world that has had the gumption to actually show international leadership in confronting the US and wrestling it down; therefore, Russia must be punished first, to keep the others in line.

— Dmitri Orlov, Author Reinventing Collapse

Another strategic aspect of the Western endgame and, in particular, the US’s endgame in the twenty-first century (and, no doubt, long before) is the policy objective of planned chaos . It is a policy inextricably linked to the debt situation in the US, which some believe equals no less than $220 trillion dollars and is mathematically incapable of being paid down (Lawler 2012). Thus, it is imperative to stave off the final reckoning, the any-second-now margin call , by systematically destroying economically viable nations and their economic systems, plundering any and all assets (to pay the pushers of banking), and then instilling planned chaos to keep said nations and their economic systems perpetually nonviable (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, etc.).

And in the case of rising countries that are competitive and also not bereft of teeth (an actual military — air force, navy, special forces, medium-/long-range ballistic missiles, associated attack craft, and other viable means of defense) warfare is waged via economic sanctions, color revolutions, military encirclement, extensive propaganda campaigns, and various other isolation mechanisms.

And though “terrorism,” “freedom,” “democracy,” and the “Right to Protect (R2P)” have long served as the cover story for US imperialism/adventurism/gangsterism abroad, planned chaos is consistently the desired end result. In this scenario, the least chaotic and most heavily armed nation is king; and, of course, able to extort, plunder, and propagandize at will.

In other words, chaos seems to provide the heavily armed, sclerotic, and declining US empire with the means to appear dominant among economically crippled nations. It is this selfsame policy that allows the US to strategically pillage, asset strip, “color revolutionize,” terrorize, and pauperize via economic warfare as waged by the banking programs of the IMF and World Bank. And their victims are legion. The Ukraine currently serves as testament to the policy objective of planned chaos as witnessed by asset pillage (gold reserves appropriation), wanton death and destruction, ethnic and ideological division (divide and conquer), lickety-split pauperization (IMF Austerity Plans), and war — chaos. Of course, the icing on the cake for the US is that the chaos is all happening on Russia’s border.