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

Use all appropriate elements of United States national power…to protect the independence, sovereignty, and territorial and economic integrity of Ukraine and other sovereign nations in Europe and Eurasia from Russian aggression… [This includes] substantially increasing United States and NATO support for the armed forces of the Republics of Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia… [and] substantially increasing the complement of forward-based NATO forces in those states.

This is not the response of reasonable, sane people to a potential world-ending nuclear conflagration, this is the response of madmen, zealots, sociopaths, high priests and priestesses of a religious cult begging to be destroyed.

Having lost our minds and fixated on our brains, we have been taught to be determined, not free. And whether consciously or unconsciously, most have obliged.

— Edward Curtin, Sociology Professor Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

At one rally, the speaker is forced to change his speech halfway through to point out that Oceania is not, and has never been, at war with Eurasia. Rather, the speaker says, Oceania is, and always has been, at war with Eastasia. The people become embarrassed about carrying the anti-Eurasia signs and blame Emmanuel Goldstein’s agents for sabotaging them. Nevertheless, they exhibit full-fledged hatred for Eastasia.

— George Orwell, 1984

The first quote was taken from a very interesting article called “The Propaganda Trap, Tranquilized by Trivia.” In it, Professor Curtin explains how Americans have been programmed twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week to remember and repeat the company line. Its persistence is for us what water is to fish — always there and never questioned or considered.

The second quote taken from Orwell’s dystopian saga 1984 finds a present-day parallel as one enemy of the West (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iran, Russia) is continually switched out for another, right before our very eyes.

So it goes in the Ukraine, as innocent aunts and uncles, grandmothers and grandfathers, wives and husbands, newborns, children, and siblings are labelled as terrorists and killed for the benefit of a defunct strategy and for men and women far too wealthy, powerful, ignorant, and dangerous to be in control of anything, let alone the world.

The West’s pursuit of ever more at all costs or with “everything on the table” has led to its moral, cultural, social, and economic bankruptcy and its inevitable decline, now taking place at something near light speed.

Russia pivots east, with its natural resources, flush bank accounts, massive gold reserves, thousands of nuclear missiles, and a rising tech sector, into a bear hug with a dragon, China, also flush with gold, over flowing bank accounts, and its currency flirting with center stage.

The East will continue its now-accelerated rise. The balance of the world will gravitate toward this new magnetic pole and away from the New World Order of the West and its gargantuan hypocrisy, war zealotry, extortive austerity initiatives, and its hyper-gangsterism.

The East with its New Development and Investment Banks, a philosophy that offers constructive engagement, geopolitical pragmatism and win-win investment strategies will be a clear and compelling choice for the world.

The isolation of Russia and China will not materialize from the West/NATO’s latest poorly devised gambit, as their attempts to isolate are based upon a seventy-year-old cold war strategy, developed for a world, geostrategic relations, a mindset, and a time that no longer exists.

The world has changed dramatically in the past quarter century. The rise of opposing state media, alternative media, and the internet have made the world smaller, more transparent and the citizens (of at least some countries) more aware of the dynamics at play. It could be argued, though, that karma alone could see an isolated and impotent West.

The various organizations outlined above — BRICS, CTSO, SCO and the countries therein — are not the balls and chains that the former Soviet satellites were. They are all viable independent nations that are rising in their respective geographic sectors.

In the wake of political, economic, geo-strategic, and military dynamics in the year 2014, as a direct result of the US policy on Ukraine, and based upon our prior arguments, the Grand Chessboard strategy, developed and championed by Zbigniew Brzeziński et al. has failed, irrefutably. Irrefutably in that its implementation, over the course of the past two decades, has brought about the precise outcomes that it sought to avoid — Western hegemonic implosion and the formation of multi-poles of power, featuring a rising East and a declining, heavily-indebted and increasingly violent West.

There is a final caveat and that is this: if the West fails to wake from its omnicidal fundamentalist trance, if pragmatism, common sense, morality, and decency go unremembered, then there may be war, accidental or purposeful, and as Albert Einstein so presciently stated:

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.'

— Albert Einstein

afterword

The Russians and Chinese have just signed another mega-billion gas deal reported to be worth $325 billion, which brings the total for the year to three quarters of a trillion dollars. There is no precedent in the history of the world for contracts of this magnitude. The contracts will, no doubt, be conducted in rubles and yuan, which will further displace petrodollar hegemony. This, in turn, will provide a rather impressive turbo charge to the New Silk Road, while, of course, belying Russia’s “isolation” and its “economic implosion.”

Elections were held in Western Ukraine on October 26, 2014 and in Eastern Ukraine on November 2, 2014.

The elections in Kiev were widely celebrated across the Western capitals as Kiev’s “Pro-Western” parties decided, in lockstep, to move Westward.

However, the salient point missing from the “analysis” and praise gushing forth from the West was the intimidation, destruction and outright banning of two of Ukraine’s East leaning parties — the Communist Party and the Party of Regions — that had long represented the people of the Donbas. As documented earlier, the various representatives of these parties were intimidated, beaten, publicly tortured, and killed. This is, of course, an inconvenient truth that must be suppressed and ignored by Western governments and mainstream Western media.

Additionally, as stated by Gilbert Doctorow, a research fellow of the American University in Moscow, author, reporter, and one of two members of a fifteen member European Parliamentary Voter Observation Party sent to monitor the elections in Kiev, “that when they decided to visit the city of Dnepropetrovsk, they witnessed massive cases of violence and intimidation” (RT 2104).

The elections held in the Donbas on November 2, 2014 were widely attended with turnout at 70 percent, nearly two times what it would be in the US (36 percent) in the following days. The voters in Eastern and Southern Ukraine elected a full slate of representatives, with no reports of violence or intimidation.

These elections, however, despite their democratic nature and high voter turnout were both “undemocratic” and “illegal” as voiced by the West and attendant media and once again in lockstep.

Ironically, as a result of the elections, what the Euromaidan activists sought when they waged the protests against President Yanukovych’s government — fairness, absence of corruption, a judicial system run by the people — was not what they would get (RT 2014). Instead, they would get more of the same — oligarchs, but now with a sprinkling of neo-Nazis in their Verkhovna Rada parliament.