This article originally appeared at Czech Free Press. Translated for RI by Anthony Grulich
Somewhat symbolically, at a time when we mark the seventieth anniversary (March 15th 1939) of the solemn Nazi occupation of Czech lands and subsequent proclamation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, I cite the words of the Ukrainian prime minister Arseny Yatsenyuk, delivered with a certain amount of conceited pride, that “the Ukraine is in a state of war with a nuclear-armed state, namely the Russian federation”.
This man is boasting that he is in a battle with Russia. That Ukrainians, citizens of the same country, are killing one another just because some people in Ukraine allowed themselves to be lured and bribed to cede the Ukraine to foreign interests and its capital. It’s not Russia, not Putin who is interested in the Ukraine, but the US, NATO, and some hawks from the EU. Russia is only defending itself from the advance of a supposedly defensive pact (NATO) which is trying to get as near as possible to Russian federation territory.
The Ukrainian Prime Minister has repeatedly made clear his tenets and stance on the situation in the Ukraine. Regrettably they are heard only by those close to him, or those who expect it from him and want to hear such. By and large nothing he has stated should be entered into the annals of history, though the above mentioned statement in its own way probably should. Memorable statements are recorded into the annals of history mainly because they have some deeper human value for mankind, a humane thought or rational, beneficial idea of global dimensions. This much cannot be said about the statements of A. Yatsenyuk in good faith. Rather they are statements worthy of condemnation because they are spoken by a seriously corrupt political dilettante alias idiot.
Apart from the recent pompous, defamatory, false and inflammatory words addressed to president Putin and by extension, the former USSR of its invasion of the Ukraine and then Germany itself during WWII, as well as several other verbal excesses, Yatsenyuk’s vanity and arrogance has lead to further infantile even devout statements addressed towards his western “friends”. This latest of which can be considered a complete loss of judgment and rationality, because to declare that and I quote:
“None of our western partners eight months ago believed that our army, which was completely destroyed by the Yanukovych regime with the direct support of the Russian federation, would be able to hold back tens of thousands of Russian terrorists and Russian soldiers,” Yatsenyuk stated with confidence.
In his opinion, this apparently de facto proves that “the Ukraine has proved itself to be a worthy European state”.
On the one hand, Yatsenyuk is affected by a total loss of sound judgment and unbridled rectal alpinism up the asses of western politician’s on the other. Both arise from false notions about the grandeur of his own persona, considering himself exceptional even, because western politicians express certain (fake) sympathies towards him. However, due to his own blindness, he is unable to discern if those sympathies are friendly or phony and therefore downright opportunistic. This behavior is further bolstered by the fact that he has allegedly been granted English (Canadian?) citizenship in case he has to take to one’s heels, which he will probably not be able to avoid unless he happens to meet a different just fate.
Or likewise, that this person belongs in an asylum for what he declared about the invasion of the USSR into the Ukraine and Germany. His xenophobic statements regarding sub-humans from eastern Ukraine and his war crimes that he has allowed to occur as the Prime Minister of the country by sending the Ukrainian army to murder civilians in the Donbas belongs behind bars or on the gallows! Nevertheless, his statement, that “the Ukraine is in a state of war with a nuclear-armed state, which is the Russian federation” is made in such a way as if he’s declaring to the world, that he has agreed to end mutual hostilities with Putin and make the PM of Ukraine look ordinary boor, who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. To an extent that almost begs the question, if Yatsenyuk is or sometimes is under the influence of some psychotropic or narcotic substances.
Considering the position that Yatsenyuk holds, it just proves how incapable (if at all) he is to hold the post of PM (regardless of the Ukraine’s internal situation). The Prime Minister, as a qualified politician should know for one, that making statements about war with another state is a very serious and delicate issue, which is best not to be trifled with! Such statements can have far-reaching consequences and it is only the Russian side’s comprehension that takes into consideration Yatsenyuk’s dishonest politics as well as his mental and moral instability (and therefore idiocy) that they have graciously ignored them. Another remarkable conceited, arrogant and seriously misguided statement by Yatsenyuk: “None of our western partners eight months ago believed that our army, which was completely destroyed by the Yanukovych regime with the direct support of the Russian federation, would be able to hold back tens of thousands of Russian terrorists and Russian soldiers,”
This vain, smug, sold-out puppet of the West with fascist inclinations can’t so to speak “see into his own mouth” and in his vanity does not realize how he humiliates himself with this statement. The Ukrainian army, as a force, armed and state-controlled, completely burned out because it was morally in complete shambles irrespective of the quality of its armor. In comparison to the “guerrilla” methods of battle applied by the rebels (separatists) at the beginning of the conflict, the Ukrainian army under normal circumstances with quality armor and command would have “crushed the rebels in their tracks”. However, this did not happen and that the insurgents were later assisted by Russia is but a small consolation to the success that Yatsenyuk boasts about.
The Ukrainian army though, got a real thrashing and it is not clear what Yatsenyuk is actually boasting about. It is laughable when he speaks of thousands of Russian terrorists and thousands of Russian soldiers that the Ukrainian army supposedly managed to “hold back”. What were they held back from? Were the so called separatists preparing to conquer the whole of Ukraine? After all, they were only defending their territory from the advance and desire for conquest of the Ukrainian army and oligarchs sent to kill their own people, to reclaim the eastern Ukrainian territories of Donetsk and Luhansk, which the insurgents achieved. Thus it is no success of the Ukrainian army but the success of a David, who defeated Goliath. A victory of the insurgents over the regular Ukrainian army, the Right Sector and a sizable army of the oligarch and gubernor Kolomoysky, which had played a significant role in the fighting.
A drowning man grasps at straws and Yatsenyuk with the fake ode of an extolled Ukrainian army doesn’t see weakness, fatal shortcomings or failures. Quite the contrary he pulls up his prime ministerial suspenders by completely disregarding the valiant resisters from Donetsk and Luhansk (de facto fighters of oligarch Achmetov’s army) in the battles with the Ukrainian army and places at the fore, virtual Russian terrorists and Russian soldiers! Why the poor fellow is no longer even able to define or differentiate between terror and regular combat. Drawing on the analysis of Yatsenyuk’s militant thinking he could not come to any other (il)- logical conclusion than that of “the Ukraine has proved itself to be a worthy European state”. The poor fellow cannot even imagine a real war, let alone a war with Russia.
I don’t know exactly who stated that “If Putin wanted to militarily conquer the Ukraine, he would have been in Kiev a long time ago”, which only indicates how Yatsenyuk would most likely end up if something like that were to occur. It is true that there are certain animosities, irregularities and enmity between the Ukraine and Russia but that is still a far cry from the war that Yatsenyuk has in mind. Rather, it is a projection of his “innermost desire” because should such an open incident take place, the Americans, other democrats and Eurofans would welcome them with open arms. Not only would thus the whole of the Ukraine fall “into their lap” but they would place themselves within striking distance of Russia itself. This goal was and is the original objective and priority of US engagement in the Ukraine as is this entire confrontation and affair, even though its factual beginnings are to some extent completely different in character. Nothing more than a fight over, possessions, money, influence and power among Ukrainian oligarchs, which turned into a fratricidal war, if not outright genocide in the east of Ukraine. But that is another chapter.