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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Connection between the Orange\u00a0Revolution in Ukraine <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n and the Fracking Revolution\u00a0in\u00a0<\/span><\/i>America.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n They are still complaining\u00a0about results of\u00a0the referendum in Crimea as if it was\u00a0some kind of a\u00a0tragic injustice to\u00a0let the people of Crimea\u00a0actually have a voice in determining their own future. They are\u00a0whining about the results of the special election and how the Russian Duma subsequently decided to annex the\u00a0region after it\u00a0was clear that\u00a0the overwhelming majority of Crimeans\u00a0preferred a political\u00a0re-unification with Russia to their former status as a semi-autonomous region of Ukraine.\u00a0Some\u00a0government officials in Kiev claim it was a violation of the Ukrainian Constitution and others in Washington and New York claim it was a violation of international law\u2026\u00a0I guess they don’t\u00a0believe in free and fair elections. Perhaps that is why\u00a0so many\u00a0European\u00a0governments were\u00a0reluctant to\u00a0let their own citizens\u00a0vote on the question of\u00a0joining the European Union. Maybe that is why they chose instead to let their national legislatures\u00a0vote on\u00a0behalf of their citizens\u2026\u00a0\u00a0as if their citizens couldn’t\u00a0be trusted to\u00a0make up their own minds\u00a0for themselves. It is a very peculiar double standard that\u00a0European leaders employ whenever it suits them. On the one hand they call for democracy to be implemented in other countries, but on the other hand they refuse to\u00a0let it operate within their own countries. They refuse to give it a chance to actually work for their own people…<\/span><\/p>\n As if the unruly actions of\u00a0lawless street mobs in the Ukrainian capitol city, Kiev which ousted\u00a0President Viktor Yanukovich were actually legal under some form of international law. I am sorry to tell\u00a0you this, but Ukrainians should be the last ones to\u00a0complain about their constitution being violated\u00a0by a referendum in Crimea as they were the ones who\u00a0actually threw it out in a coup when they ousted their\u00a0President. The political overthrow of Viktor Yanukovich was a direct violation of the\u00a0Ukrainian Constitution, but I guess that hasn’t occurred to any politicians in\u00a0Europe or America. <\/span><\/p>\n Now\u00a0the Europeans are depicting\u00a0the Russians as\u00a0violators of international law\u00a0instead of the\u00a0actual street mobs in Kiev which overthrew their own government. They are depicting the Russians as the aggressors who unlawfully annexed a region of Ukraine. Let me remind you that the Russians only responded to an official request from the legally elected President of Ukraine to put down a rebellion in his own country. Furthermore they only annexed Crimea after a publically held referendum indicated overwhelming support for political re-unification with Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n Reports are now being circulated in the western\u00a0media that Russian troops are poised on the border\u00a0with Ukraine ready to take over\u00a0more\u00a0territory at Putin’s command.\u00a0That is blatantly false according to Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister. The western press is only peddling these unreasonable fears in order to\u00a0arouse\u00a0concern in\u00a0other former Soviet Republics: Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia who each have sizable Russian minorities living in them.\u00a0Alarm is also spreading in other European countries as well. The whole world seems sympathetic to the plight of Ukraine even though it was the Ukrainians themselves who are really responsible for their\u00a0own predicament.\u00a0Russia is always portrayed as the bad guy in the\u00a0media, but\u00a0our government is only beating a dead Crimean horse into a Ukrainian Trojan Horse in order to end the Russian natural gas monopoly in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n It is utter nonsense to portray the events in Kiev and Crimea as\u00a0merely Russia\u2019s fault. The European Union shares\u00a0some of the blame.\u00a0The United States\u00a0shares even more of the blame for supporting the overthrow of the legally elected government of Ukraine. Europeans\u00a0gave President Viktor Yanukovich an ultimatum to join the European Union and they set a deadline\u00a0by which\u00a0he had to respond.\u00a0It was not an open ended\u00a0invitation. If\u00a0Yanukovich delayed\u00a0making a decision it was at least partly Europe\u2019s\u00a0fault for the way in which their offer was extended. Furthermore Europe precipitated the current\u00a0international crises in Kiev for\u00a0their own\u00a0selfish reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n Then the\u00a0United States government\u00a0supported and funded the street demonstrators in Kiev which brought down\u00a0Ukraine’s\u00a0pro-Russian government. We had our own selfish reason for doing this. It was mostly to accede to the demands of\u00a0American oil companies for new energy markets abroad for their surplus oil and gas supplies. What is the connection between the Orange Revolution in Kiev and the fracking revolution in America? Why did our own State Department fund and support the unruly street mobs in Kiev which took down their government?<\/span><\/p>\n Most of the natural gas that heats European homes comes\u00a0from a Russian natural gas pipeline that runs through Ukraine. Along with Europe which\u00a0precipitated the crisis in Ukraine the United States also stands to benefit from the current turmoil going on there.\u00a0 The crises provides Europe with a good\u00a0reason to find an alternative supplier of natural gas\u00a0while it also provides the United States with an alternative market for our\u00a0own surplus energy supplies derived from fracking. This will increase the demand for American natural gas abroad and that will help\u00a0keep energy prices high here at home. That is why our government is\u00a0meddling around in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n If you liked this article please let me know by clicking the LIKE Button below and don’t forget to sign up for my free RSS Newsfeed at the top or bottom of the page. That way you will get all my articles delivered right to your desktop free.<\/p>\n