Ukraine: Elections or Emergency Rule?

[Peter Presland]

One possibility is that this will lead to a civil war and division of the country along national and/or political lines. This will still bring NATO to the new 'Russian' border. The west will be pleased with that outcome and a divided and weak balkanised Ukraine to play with in future.

That pretty much chimes with the piece that started this thread a week before the elections and I agree, it is still very much a possibility. Western covert doctrine is to foment division of the most brazen and viscous types as means to influence and eventual control and as a 'bad-loser' way of scorching the earth so to speak. It's been played out time and time again ad nauseam all over the world, so much so that it must be blindingly obvious to ANYONE aspiring to non-Western aligned power by now.Frustrating that doctrine and strategy is quite another matter though. The US/NATO axis, with its global hard power/surveillance, economic (waning hopefully) and covert ops projection capabilities is pre-eminently in the position of being able to make offers that cannot be refused - to use that telling old 'Godfather' analogy.

I know how words and tones can be twisted by the press but the twist to those Magda posted are unusual. Tymoshenko comes across as petulant and divisive with her 'surrendering the country to criminals' remark. Whereas Yanukovich, whilst forthright, appears the statesmanlike one.

I still think this whole issue is pivotal for NATO. Cursory scanning of Rick Rozoff's 'Stop Nato' Yahoo list shows that it is chock full of reports - and I mean 5 - 10 per day from Russia and all over the Caucasus and Central Asia - with stories of NATO's push to deploy missiles in the Black Sea and generally dominate it. Hardly any of it appears in the Western MSM but that in itself tells a story.