US Backs Kiev Regime and «Final Solution» Mindset

Finian CUNNINGHAM | 17.06.2014 | 22:33

The Kiev power-grabbing regime is not only acting like Nazis, it is now sounding like the Third Reich. The latest outburst comes from the pretend Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk who has labeled the people of Eastern Ukraine «sub-human».  Yatsenyuk’s statement was made in English, but the reference to «sub-human» has an unmistakable Nazi connotation, harking back to the Third Reich’s description of «Untermenschen» for populations whom that erstwhile regime targeted for extermination. Foremost among the victims of historic Nazi genocide were the Slavic people of Russia, Ukraine and other Eastern European countries, as well as Jews and Romany. It seems significant that Yatsenyuk’s abhorrent rhetoric was published on the website of the Ukrainian embassy in the United States. It is just the latest in a long list of provocations emanating from the Kiev regime that appear to be directed under Washington’s tutelage to maximize aggression towards Russia.  Over the past three months, the US has clearly emerged as the main sponsor of the Kiev junta. When the Western-backed regime change plot in Ukraine got underway with earnest last November, the US, Berlin and other EU allies were all playing prominent roles in destabilizing the government of elected President Viktor Yanukovych. Since the Western-backed regime seized power at the end of February, Washington has increasingly taken the role as the main foreign sponsor. Indeed, the personnel line-up of the Kiev junta – with Yatsenyuk in the driving seat – follows the prescription formulated just before the regime came to power by US State Department’s Victoria Nuland in her notorious leaked phone call, which also disclosed her vulgar desire to sideline the European Union.  It is fair to say that the EU has shown much less appetite for imposing sanctions on Russia compared with Washington. There is more than a sense that the flurry of visits to Europe in recent months by US President Barack Obama, his sidekick vice president Joe Biden, as well as the US Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, is all aimed at trying to goad European leaders into conforming to a tough American line towards Russia.  The corollary of this aggressive American policy is the notable way that the Kiev regime is showing such intransigence over the gas dispute. The EU’s energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger has backed Moscow’s recent offer of cutting the price of gas to Ukraine to $385 per 1,000 cubic meters down from $485 as «a reasonable compromise». But «Washington’s man» in Kiev Yatsenyuk turned around and ignored the EU’s advice, and is now insisting on further Russian concessions.  Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev alluded to Washington’s malign interference in the EU-Russia-Ukraine gas talks when he said following the breakdown of negotiations that «there is a factor of other parties that have an influence».   Now, pointedly, Washington is telling Moscow to return to the negotiating table with the Kiev regime and to come up with an even bigger compromise, that is an even bigger giveaway on its gas revenues and outstanding bills owed by Kiev.  This is all the while that the Kiev regime is conducting massive crimes against humanity in Ukraine with Washington’s approval. These crimes include the attack on the Russian embassy in Kiev, the detention and killing of Russian journalists, the artillery shelling of civilian centers in Lugansk and Slavyansk, including the use of White Phosphorus firebombs that are banned under international law.   Admittedly, the ethnic Russian populations in the East of Ukraine are not taking this repression lying down. Self-defence militia are returning fire with deadly results, the biggest assault being the downing of an aircraft last week with the death of 48 pro-Kiev forces onboard.  But the Kiev regime – which openly eulogizes the Ukrainian Nazi collaborators during World War II led by Stepan Bandera – is driven to escalate the conflict with a policy of «collective punishment» against civilians. The cutting off of water and electricity supplies to civilians, not to mention again the indiscriminate bombardment of these same areas, is criminal behavior worthy of the Third Reich.  Yatsenyuk declares his forces to be «heroes». In his latest statement denouncing ethnic Russian «sub-humans», he says: «[W]e will commemorate the heroes by wiping out those who killed them and then by cleaning our land from the evil.» This is the abominable language of the Nazi’s «final solution» and the frightening rhetorical process of dehumanization that paves the way to it.  The Kiev junta, horrible and criminal that it surely is, would never get away this outrage were it not for the indulgence afforded to it by Washington. Washington is thus responsible for sponsoring a Nazi «final solution» mindset on Russia’s doorstep; and yet the Americans in their arrogance expect Moscow to make concession upon concession.