Ukraine the Failed State

An expression often heard is, “we don’t hear much about Ukraine these days.” In the run-up to the Washington DC instigated coup of February 2014 mainstream media was rolling news on the subject.

The conventionally elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted and it was mission accomplished. Mainstream editors and journalists slapped their hands and congratulated themselves. The coup had delivered Ukraine’s natural and industrial wealth to the corporations of the West. The primary aim of America’s regime change coup had been to bring about a Russian ~ Ukrainian divorce.

Never forgiven was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s restoration of Russian wealth to Russian control. The West’s ousting of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was pay-back time. Sadly, Europe’s largest country Ukraine is now where President Yeltsin’s Russia was in 1999. Ukraine’s natural resources and industrial heartlands are plundered. Ukraine today is crime ridden and divided into oligarch fiefdoms. Ukraine today is reeling from 46% inflation. Ukrainians are starving and describe what is happening as yet another Holodomor (artificial famine).

The minimum Ukraine wage is 1550 hryvnia ($62) per month.  The normal salary for a factory worker is 2000 hryvnia ($80) of which about $60 is tax deductible. Protestors are routinely arrested and gaoled. The average pension is $55 per month.

The Global Peace Index 2016 Institute for Economics and Peace Report ranked Ukraine as 156^th in the league of most dangerous countries in the world. This alarming figure reveals that Ukraine under U.S ~ EU tutelage is now one of the ten most dangerous nations in the world; Syria at 163th place is marginally ahead.

As I write Ukraine is a country in which conscription applies to all men aged 18-years and over. Mobilisation in August 2015 resulted in 50 per cent of those called up refusing to do so. Over 400 prison sentences have so far been handed out for draft avoidance. Many men receiving their call-up papers join the Jehovah’s Witnesses as being the better option than prison or conscription. As many as 16,000 personnel from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, many of them armed, are believed to have deserted the conflict zone in Kiev’s so-called ‘anti-terrorist operation’ in eastern Ukraine. Europe’s biggest nation is today a vast concentration camp where no one of conscript age can receive a visa to leave Ukraine.

Because so few Ukrainians can afford healthcare thousands of young and old die needlessly. An estimated 1.5 million Ukrainians have so far sought sanctuary in Russia. To these exiles from fate can be added recently resigned Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.  No one knows the whereabouts of this Jew oligarch who had built a 2,000 km fence to prevent Ukrainians from fleeing to Russia.    

You might recall mainstream in spring 2014 gleefully showing images of ousted President Yanukovych’s palatial home being wrecked by U.S paid insurgents. What media overlooked explaining is that the residence was state owned as is the White House and 10 Downing Street. It was not as they claimed the home of Yanukovych. Their replacement president is worth an estimated ~ wait for it ~ €700 million; but, we won’t talk about that will we. Jewish oligarch President Pytor Poroshenko enjoys only 10 per cent electoral support. This makes him possibly Europe’s most unpopular head of state.

A recent Gallup poll revealed that 81 per cent of Ukrainians don’t think that the government is doing enough to fight corruption. Corruption in Ukraine today: Transparency International ranked Ukraine as 142^nd out of 175 investigated countries. 

Unlikely to receive further credit from the IMF President Poroshenko senses civil unrest or worse ahead. In August he asks the Ukrainian Rada (parliament) to green light his proposals to install martial law. The fear is that if Ukraine collapses the flood of refugees would be unsustainable. Ukraine’s population is 44 million; Syria’s population is 22 million. This and much more explain why ‘one never hears of Ukraine now.’

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