The Next Kissinger: Part 2

From Ukraine to Gaza, tracing the bloody footsteps of Anthony Blinken

With the election of Joe Biden as president in 2020, Tony Blinken finally stepped out of the shadows of obscurity and took on a public role as the Secretary of State for the new regime. However, operating in the light did not change Blinken. He remained the same warmonger that he had always been, seemingly relishing the role of the fall guy for the insane, belligerent policies of the Biden regime.

While his role in the Russo-Ukrainian war of 2022 is well known, Tony Blinken has long taken a stance of maximum escalation in Ukraine.

Blinken with Dmytro Kubela in 2021. Source: The Atlantic Council

It should be pointed out here that the western narrative surrounding the Russo-Ukrainian war is simply not true. The reality is, NATO has been playing a dangerous game in Ukraine since at least 1991. After the illegal dissolution of the USSR, against the will of it’s people, NATO has been pumping the nation full of it’s agents of influence in all sectors of society. Most damaging has perhaps been the educational sector, where NATO linked NGOs such as the Open Society Foundation and International Renaissance Foundation printed new textbooks glorifying a far-right, nationalist vision of Ukraine. This created a new generation of Ukrainians who had been fully indoctrinated with a violent, nationalist view which glorified Holocaust perpetrators and Nazi collaborators as heroes, while Ukrainian patriots who fought against foreign domination were vilified as “Asiatic” Muscovites.

A “Hero of Ukraine”

Despite a professed commitment to democracy from their new western patrons, the reality is that Ukraine has never been close to that ideal. There has never been a truly fair election in Ukraine. When the Communist party won the first two elections held in the new state, the western backed leaders went to extreme measures to prevent the will of the people from being made manifest. Rather than let the Communists take power, they dissolved the government, forced through 6,000 changes to the proposed constitution without the Communists present, and then all but openly stuffed the ballots to prevent a third Communist victory. All the while, Ukraine was mercilessly looted by Western financiers and industrialists. The standard of living plummeted as the country and it’s people were raked over the coals.

Almost overnight, one of the most prosperous regions of the USSR turned into one of the poorest regions in all of Europe. Before the war, the standard of living in Ukraine after 30 years of western “freedom” was lower than that of Albania. In less than three years after it’s “liberation”, Ukraine’s GDP had shrunk by a staggering 40% as the new bandit state and it’s western backers stole everything that wasn’t bolted down.

Fearing that the nation was leaning back towards the Russians, the US carried out a color revolution, the so called “Orange Revolution” in 2004. Spearheaded by former banker Viktor Yushenko, the revolution succeeded in taking power after a contested election, but then failed miserably at the task of governing Ukraine. The 2008 financial crisis devastated the country and the resulting chaos caused the bourgeois-democratic revolution to collapse under the weight of factionalism and corruption. When the opportunity arose in 2010 the Ukrainian people rejected the Orange Revolution and voted in a moderate pro-Russian leader Viktor Yanukovych and the Party of Regions in an election that both the United States and the EU certified free and fair.

Yanukovych attempted to play both sides, working with the World Bank and IMF while also still negotiating with Russia. When the EU tried to force Ukraine to accept utterly ruinous loans as a condition of their accession into the union, Yanukovych refused. The EU-IMF loans would have put hundreds of thousands out of work due to the forced “restructuring” of non-competitive Ukrainian industry and forced Ukraine to remove price subsidies on housing, heating oil and food. It was this refusal to further immiserate his own country for the benefit of Euro-American finance that sparked the Maidan coup in 2014 which removed Yanukovych from power.