{"id":4551,"date":"2014-03-19T15:47:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T22:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2015-10-19T00:02:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T07:02:54","slug":"dont-crimea-river-over-ukraine-crimea-referendum-in-former-soviet-republic-strongly-favors-re-unification-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/dont-crimea-river-over-ukraine-crimea-referendum-in-former-soviet-republic-strongly-favors-re-unification-with-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Crimea River Over Ukraine – Crimea Referendum in Former Soviet Republic Favors Re-unification with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Vladimir<\/a><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Crimea River Over Ukraine\u2026 <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Crimea Referendum in Former Soviet Republic\u00a0Favors Re-unification with Russia. <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Europe and America Refuse to\u00a0Recognize\u00a0Results of the Referendum. <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

By Scott Rohter, March 2013<\/span><\/p>\n

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It all started with a little lie, but that was\u00a0so\u00a0long\u00a0ago\u00a0that it really doesn’t\u00a0matter.\u00a0 What\u00a0matters in Ukraine\u00a0right now is\u00a0that the residents of Crimea\u00a0held a public referendum on the question of whether they wanted to\u00a0become\u00a0part of\u00a0Russia\u00a0or not after a popular uprising in\u00a0Kiev overthrew their democratically elected\u00a0President and left\u00a0most Crimeans\u00a0feeling like they were out in the cold.\u00a0And speaking of cold… what are we really trying to do in Ukraine anyway? Are we trying to start another Cold War with Russia? <\/span>What is the connection between the\u00a0popular uprising known as the\u00a0Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the fracking revolution\u00a0in the oil industry right here in America?\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The result of the referendum in Crimea was that ninety five percent of the Crimeans\u00a0strongly favored reunification with Russia.\u00a0Of course that doesn’t seem to matter to the\u00a0government in Kiev, nor to the European Union,\u00a0nor to the United States of America which only wants to capitalize on\u00a0the political turmoil\u00a0going on there and seize this opportunity to\u00a0export\u00a0American natural gas\u00a0to Europe. This would\u00a0decrease the supply and drive up\u00a0the prices\u00a0here at home. That is the connection between the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the fracking revolution\u00a0<\/span>in America. That is the missing link between these two\u00a0almost simultaneous revolutions.\u00a0Our State Department supported and funded the Ukrainian\u00a0revolution that ousted Viktor Yanukovich.<\/span><\/p>\n

My\u00a0personal opinion is that we should keep American oil and gas right here at home in America to fuel American business and heat American<\/span> homes. We should let Europeans\u00a0settle their own battles. If they want to\u00a0impose tough sanctions on Russia\u00a0because of\u00a0Crimea or try to dictate Russian foreign policy to the Kremlin and subsequently they freeze their heineys off\u00a0in the\u00a0middle of winter in Paris and Berlin\u00a0that\u00a0is none of\u00a0our\u00a0business. <\/span><\/p>\n

Within weeks of the favorable referendum in Crimea the<\/span>\u00a0Russian\u00a0Duma\u00a0formerly approved\u00a0Crimea’s request for political re-unification.\u00a0\u00a0What is happening in Crimea is not\u00a0a secession from Ukraine as\u00a0the American mainstream media\u00a0puts\u00a0it, but\u00a0rather it\u00a0is\u00a0Crimeans exercising their right to self determination and political re-unification\u00a0with Russia\u00a0after a mob in Kiev staged a coup\u00a0which\u00a0overthrew their legally elected government… It is the desire of\u00a0a former\u00a0Russian territory\u00a0to become a part of\u00a0Russia once again. So what is the matter with that? Don’t we respect the right of people in other countries to vote\u00a0in elections\u00a0and to determine their own destiny?<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Yulia<\/a>

Yulia Tymoshenko<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course the\u00a0illegitimate \u00a0government in Ukraine does not accept the result of the Crimea referendum. They claim that the vote was illegal under their Constitution and they refuse to recognize it, but\u00a0its hard for these Ukrainians to be taken seriously when they just\u00a0staged a coup\u00a0which overthrow their own democratically elected government and they ran\u00a0their President Viktor Yanukovich out of\u00a0the country\u00a0in violation of their own laws and Constitution. Then they urged the residents of Crimea not to participate in the referendum on the grounds it is not permitted by their Constitution.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u00a0sounds like the makings for a pretty\u00a0good\u00a0soap opera if you ask me, but the current Ukrainian government\u2019s objections can hardly be taken seriously.\u00a0\u00a0It is not even a legitimately elected government. What grounds do they have to complain about Crimeans exercising their\u00a0right to vote? Apparently a coup in Kiev is legal under international law\u00a0as long\u00a0it gives the European Union and the United States the\u00a0government\u00a0they want in Ukraine, but a public referendum in Crimea in which Crimeans actually vote to become part of Russia again is not legal\u00a0because it gives them\u00a0the government they want.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Regardless of what we want or\u00a0we don’t want,\u00a0the people of Crimea have spoken loudly for\u00a0the whole world to hear.\u00a0It is about what they want. They spoke in a more civilized manner\u00a0then the street mobs did in Kiev last month. They used the legitimacy of a\u00a0referendum without any violence and the\u00a0United States\u00a0and the European Union are calling this vote illegal and a violation of international law. How can you support free speech\u00a0for violent street demonstrators in Kiev,\u00a0but not for peaceful voters in a peaceful referendum in Crimea? Ask Barack Obama and John Kerry. Maybe they know. The Ukrainian objections to the Crimean referendum seem like a lot of sour grapes to me.\u00a0Russians have always viewed Crimea as a part of Russia.\u00a0They\u00a0only agreed to incorporate\u00a0Crimea into Ukraine while Ukraine was still a part of the former Soviet Union, but today there is no U.S.S.R. anymore and Ukraine is not a Soviet Republic\u2026 It is a sovereign country in a state of turmoil. The residents of the semi-autonomous region of\u00a0Crimea have a right to determine their own destiny just like the people of Kiev do. They have a right to decide if they want to remain in Ukraine in view of the recent turmoil there or if they want to become part of Russia again.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Europe and the United States are supporting the new, interim government in Kiev with the same resolve that they\u00a0helped to overthrow the pro-Russian government of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.\u00a0 As expected Russia has thrown in with the mostly Russian inhabitants of the semi-autonomous region of Crimea. This is the first major east-west confrontation between Russia and N.A.T.O. in the 21st Century and it all started with a little lie. What was this lie?<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAm I my brother\u2019s keeper?\u201d<\/i> \u00a0Ever since those famous words were uttered by Cain thousands of years ago in a transparent attempt to hide the world\u2019s first criminal endeavor, the descendants of Adam and Eve have been committing more and more crimes and telling more and more lies to cover up their crimes. One of the most recent lies was just fabricated in order to cover up American and European crimes in Ukraine. The lie is that it was all the fault of Viktor Yanukovych that Ukraine did not sign the agreement with the European Union for Ukraine to forge closer ties with Europe\u2026 Actually Europe issued an ultimatum to Yanukovych and the E.U. set a deadline for him to respond. It was not entirely his fault that Ukraine did not acquiesce to the E.U.\u2019s terms. <\/span><\/span><\/span>In the United States virtually no politician tells the truth anymore. Our political leaders\u00a0act like they\u00a0have a divine right to lie to us. In fact, the Washington State Supreme Court actually said that they do. Judging by the look of things I would venture to guess that many of Cain\u2019s descendants actually work in politics or journalism today.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are other truths that have not been disclosed\u00a0to the American people about what our government is actually doing in Ukraine. \u00a0The American media has not disclosed to the American public the fact that our State Department actually funded the civilian uprising\u00a0which\u00a0led to the overthrow of Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected President. According to Russia\u2019s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, his country did not even object to Ukraine forging closer ties with Europe. Russia was just concerned that those new ties would come at the expense of Ukraine\u2019s existing ties with Moscow. Russia felt that Ukraine should maintain their close ties to Moscow at the same time they were building\u00a0closer\u00a0ties to Europe. It didn\u2019t have to be one way or the other. It didn\u2019t have to be an either\u00a0\/ or proposition as the European Union desired. What seems to be driving this whole diplomatic and political crises is Europe’s desire to circumvent the Russian monopoly of their natural gas supply, but that doesn\u2019t sit well with Moscow who views the natural gas as the main source of revenue for their country and also has strategic interests in the Black Sea port of Sebastopol. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Viktor Yanukovych<\/p><\/div>\n

If the government of Viktor Yanukovych was corrupt, there was\u00a0a legal process available to Ukrainians to prosecute their President on\u00a0charges of corruption.\u00a0 Allegations of corruption did not entitle Ukrainians to overthrow their government and unlawfully run their President out of the country. The street demonstrators were obviously angry over the charges of corruption, but there were also elements in the Ukrainian revolution that were anti-Russian and anti-Semitic. Some individuals were circulating\u00a0propaganda at the street demonstrations which claimed that ethnic Ukrainians were culturally superior to Russians. This is the same type of unwelcome, racist propaganda that the Nazi party circulated in Hitler\u2019s Germany. Interestingly enough one of the groups behind this anti-Russian propaganda in Ukraine is an organization called Svoboda. This is the Ukrainian National Socialist Party which has long standing ties to the Nazi Party of Germany.\u00a0According to Mr. Lavrov Russia was merely acting to protect ethnic Russians from an existential threat. These explanations are never mentioned in the American mainstream\u00a0media because it doesn\u2019t serve their purpose. Our media does us all a great dis-service by not telling us the whole truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Meanwhile Secretary of State John Kerry and Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are beating the drums for war again. They want tough economic sanctions and some sort of increased American intervention in Ukraine. That would be unwise. \u00a0We don\u2019t need another Cold War with Russia. <\/span>Yesterday John Kerry said that, \u201cNo government in the 21st Century should invade the sovereign territory of another country and seek to impose its will upon it at gunpoint.\u201d <\/i>Hey John, Isn\u2019t that just what America did in Iraq and Afghanistan?\u00a0\u00a0Didn\u2019t you also support the bombing of Libya, and the overthrow of the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak ?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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It all started with a little lie, but that was so long ago that it really doesn’t matter… or does it? What matters of course in Ukraine today is that the residents of Crimea just held a public referendum on the question of whether or not they want to become a part of Russia again after a popular uprising in Kiev overthrew their democratically elected government and left most Crimeans feeling like they were out in the cold. What is the connection between the popular Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the fracking revolution right here in America? Well the result of the referendum in Crimea was that about ninety five percent of the people who cast their ballots in the hastily called special election said that they want Crimea to become a part of Russia again. Of course that doesn’t seem to matter to the people of Ukraine, nor to the European Union, nor to the United States of America which only wants to capitalize on the political turmoil and seize the opportunity to export American natural gas derived from fracking to Europe in order to increase demand and drive up prices here at home…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,20],"tags":[515,516,521,514,520,519,518,522],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":76,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7064,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions\/7064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}