Albright's own fantasy, delusion and lies
- By Zhao Jinglun
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How about Svoboda, a neo-fascist party founded in 1991, as the Social-National Party of Ukraine? The name sounds eerily like the German National-Socialist Party (Nazi). And it pursues similar policies -- both ultra-nationalist and anti-Semitic. It is a major force in the coup and the interim government in Kiev. Party leader Oleh Tyahnybok is a top official in the Ukrainian Parliament. Another Svoboda member of Parliament, Oleh Makhnitsky, is prosecutor-general. Additionally, neo-Nazi right wing leader Dmytro Yarosh now heads the police. He is even running for president.
As Albright tried to play down the role of the violence-prone Svoboda in the interim government, the head of Ukraine's First National TV was attacked in his office on March 19 by members of the far-right Svoboda party, including at least one member of Parliament who serves on the parliamentary committee on freedom of speech. The attackers accused the station of airing a live broadcast of the signing of the agreement between Russian President Putin and Crimean authorities. The attack was condemned by Heather McGill of Amnesty International. The Western media on the other hand basically kept mum.
Remember Yalta on the north coast of the Black Sea in Crimea? Roosevelt and Churchill met Stalin there in February 1945, when they were allies in fighting the Nazi regime. Now, Washington and Brussels are aligning with the neo-Nazis in Kiev against their erstwhile ally Russia.
Madeleine Albright's brain child Serbia is in no better shape than Kiev. After NATO's rape of Serbia, that country has been independent and sovereign in name only. The government is put together by Brussels and Washington, and the country is run by EU and U.S. sympathizers who regard Serbian identity, history and interests as "baggage of the past," and the abolishment of them to be necessary for the sake of a brighter European future.
The situation in Kosovo is even sadder. There is what is called the "Ahtissari Plan," which envisages two forms of international supervision of Kosovo after independence: the International Civilian Office (ICO), which would monitor the implementation of the plan and would bear a wide range of veto power over legislative and executive actions.
Then there is the European Union Rule of Law Mission to Kosovo (EULEX) which would carry the tasks of deploying police and civilian resources with the power of arrest and prosecution. The ICO was phased out in September 2012, but EULEX continues its existence under both Kosovo and international law. Kosovo is now in effect an EU protectorate.
Albright celebrated the signing of an "association agreement" between the EU and Ukraine. Will it now turn Ukraine into another Kosovo, or Greece?
The former Secretary of State's epithets for Putin fit herself beautifully.
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