archived from March 4, 2014
by Scott Creighton
While the MSM focuses on demonizing Vladamir Putin or dramatically asks what happened to our standing as the world’s sole dictator of what everyone else’s domestic/economic policies should be, the masters of the universe are making haste in the process of chopping up Ukraine’s public resources and their banking system, making them ready for our oligarchs to profit off them just as soon as they can.
It’s mergers and acquisitions on a nation-sized scale. It’s vulture capitalism. And make no mistake, it’s the entire point behind our latest color revolution.
This statement discussing the full aid package for our new puppet regime is from the White House (see full statement at the end of the article) makes the entire point of all of this very clear:
Critical assistance with economic reforms, including by cushioning their impact on vulnerable Ukrainians: The U.S. Administration is working with Congress and the Government of Ukraine to provide $1 billion in loan guarantees aimed at helping insulate vulnerable Ukrainians from the effects of reduced energy subsidies. At the same time, the United States is moving quickly to provide technical expertise to help the National Bank of Ukraine and the Ministry of Finance address their most pressing challenges. The United States is dispatching highly experienced technical advisors to help the Ukrainian financial authorities manage immediate market pressures. The United States will also provide expertise to help Ukraine implement critical energy sector reforms.
The hypocrisy is obvious. Every statement from President Obama’s administration touts their efforts to simply help the Ukrainian people decide their own course of action; their own fate. But that is obviously not the case while we are currently shipping neoliberal economic hit-men into the country like so many pallets of subsidized GMO corn. We are imposing a brutal and unfair economic model on a nation on behalf of the IMF and various billionaire masters of the universe (like Glenn Greenwald’s new sugar daddy) and making no real attempts to hide that fact.
For the most part, the MSM is frothing at the mouth like a crackhead hooker during Fleet Week in support of this policy of crooked economic warfare:
True, there’s space for essentially technical reforms. For example, the country’s energy sector combines state ownership with heavy subsidies, which are wasteful, unsustainable, and contribute to the country’s dependence on imports of natural gas from Russia. The situation can be remedied if energy markets are deregulated and privatized and if private investors start exploiting domestic natural gas sources. CNN
Deregulation, privatization.. the hallmarks of neoliberal structural reforms, the kind that makes the rich even richer and everyone else either a well-paid sycophantic apologist or a beggar to their own demise.
The privatization of the energy sector has already begun. The blood from those “protesters” shot by neo-Nazi sniper thugs was still warm and wet on the pavement when those technocrats were typing out the needed constitutional reforms to make that acquisition a reality. Laughably, they claim the deregulation and privatization of all of those resources will reduce corruption.
The government of Ukraine has the idea of privatization of the energy sector in the country, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said… The premier stressed that Naftogaz Ukrainy is “a burden for the budget and a non-transparent monster.” According to him, privatization will help stop corruption in the energy sector. Interfax Ukraine
Perhaps it’s not altogether too ironic that our puppet prime minister in Ukraine stated the other day that he intends to “collaborate” with the IMF on all of their structural reforms just as soon as he possibly can. The last time someone in Ukraine talked about “collaboration”, it was a couple decades ago. But even back then it was with a group of fascists so what’s old is new again I suppose:
He told reporters at a news conference at the central bank that the interim government is determined to make the reforms called for by the International Monetary Fund in return for loans: “A key priority is resuming the programme of collaboration with the International Monetary Fund. And we will fulfill all the conditions, I repeat, all the conditions, that are necessary for this loan, and Ukraine’s parliament and the coalition will vote for the laws that are necessary for receiving this money.” EuroNews
And let’s wrap this up by putting it into complete perspective for all of you still trying to pay attention:
Among the reasons Mr. Yanukovych turned away from signing political and trade accords with Europe in November was his unwillingness to carry out austerity measures and other reforms that the International Monetary Fund had demanded in exchange for a large assistance package. New York Times
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Full White House statement on Ukrainian aid package:
· Critical assistance with economic reforms, including by cushioning their impact on vulnerable Ukrainians: The U.S. Administration is working with Congress and the Government of Ukraine to provide $1 billion in loan guarantees aimed at helping insulate vulnerable Ukrainians from the effects of reduced energy subsidies. At the same time, the United States is moving quickly to provide technical expertise to help the National Bank of Ukraine and the Ministry of Finance address their most pressing challenges. The United States is dispatching highly experienced technical advisors to help the Ukrainian financial authorities manage immediate market pressures. The United States will also provide expertise to help Ukraine implement critical energy sector reforms.
·Conducting free, fair, and inclusive elections: The United States will provide technical assistance to train election observers, help bring electoral processes in line with international standards, and promote robust participation by civil society organizations and a free and independent media.
·Combatting corruption and recovering stolen assets: The United States is preparing to help the government respond to the clear demands of the Ukrainian people for more robust safeguards against corruption and additional efforts to recover assets stolen from the people of Ukraine. The United States will support the government as it takes tangible steps to reduce corruption and increase transparency, including in areas such as e-government and public procurement. The United States is deploying an interagency team of experts to Kyiv this week to begin to work with their Ukrainian counterparts to identify assets that may have been stolen, identify their current location, and assist in returning those assets to Ukraine.
·Withstanding politically motivated trade actions by Russia, including in the area of energy: The United States is preparing to provide technical advice to the Ukrainian government on Ukraine’s WTO rights with respect to trade with Russia. At the same time the United States is ready to provide assistance and financing to help Ukrainian businesses find new export markets and adjust to trade pressures and to enhance energy efficiency, helping to reduce dependence on imported gas.
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