Unelected Ukrainian Government Creates 'Facts on the Ground' - No One Protests

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:51 UTC

The USA’s unelected man in Ukraine signs a deal with the EU

I don't understand the Ukrainian 'revolution'.

Before the Ukrainian protests kicked off last October, a general election was scheduled for 2015. As the protests grew and intensified, the elected Ukrainian president, Victor Yanukovych, agreed to bring elections forward to this year and to implement a host of measures, including reverting to the 2004 constitution, which drastically reduced Presidential power.

On paper, these changes met the vast majority of protestors' demands, and promised a new government this year, via elections. Yet just as this agreement was being signed, the violence in Kiev flared and 100 people, including policemen, were shot dead...by someone.

The result was the appointment of a new president, a new prime minister and a new cabinet, with "ultra-nationalists" in many high-profile positions and in control of the army. None of these people were elected by the Ukrainian people, and the Prime Minister is the man named by US Asst. Sec. of State Victoria Nuland as the US choice for Prime Minister.

So while we are asked to believe that the goal of the protests in Ukraine was to bring an end to government corruption and unaccountability, bizarrely, they have resulted in a totally unelected and therefore unrepresentative Ukrainian government taking power. If I were Ukrainian, I'd be a little disappointed. I might even protest.

Admittedly, there are elections scheduled for May this year, and the current administration is only 'interim', yet the USA's choice of 'interim' Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, appears to be establishing some 'facts on the ground' that are unlikely to be up for debate come May. For example, today he signed a deal with the EU, and talks with the IMF and NATO, are in process. Again, if 'democracy' and the 'will of the people' were important to me, I'd be a little put out if I were Ukrainian.

So my question is; why, if the Ukrainian people are so determined to have 'real Democracy', are there no 'people power' protests in Ukraine over the fact that an unelected group of individuals, who were pushed into power by the US State Dept., are signing deals with the EU, the IMF and NATO in the name of the Ukrainian people?

The whole things sounds a lot like a coup. But maybe that's just me.

Joe Quinn

As an essayist and print author, Joe has been writing incisive editorials for Sott.net for over 10 years. His articles have appeared on many news sites and he has been interviewed numerous times by Sputnik News and Press TV. His articles can also be found on his personal blog JoeQuinn.net.

Reader Comments

nedlud · 2014-03-21T09:43:38Z

nobody here but us chickens

It's another chicken coup.

Chicken coup is good for the sole.

Everything I learned, I learned in school, where I was taught spelling, arithmetic and obedience.

Some would say, I flunked.

Flunk you.

Niall · 2014-03-21T09:44:58Z

It's the European way

In the mid-2000s, the revamping of the EU from a union of nation-states to a supra-national state was put to the people. When referenda in The Netherlands and France 'went the wrong way' because people in both countries rejected this explicit European Constitution, the Eurocrats simply stopped asking the people. The 'Lisbon Treaty', an implicit European constitution - the last treaty, as it turns out, because all intra-EU developments since its ratification have come under the 'constitutional legitimacy' of the EU as a de facto 'superstate' - was essentially the same constitutional document, and was put to a public vote just once (well, twice actually), and then only because the highest court in the Republic of Ireland recognized that, as a constitutional document, the 'Lisbon Treaty' would alter - and supersede - its own constitution.

Ireland too 'voted the wrong way' in that referendum. Then the rug was pulled out from under its economy, and by the time Irish people were asked a second time to ratify the 'treaty', they were sufficiently terrorized about the economic hell that would await them - and all Europe - if they didn't 'vote the right way'. Which they did. And then economic hell hit them anyway because they had long since, in stages, forfeited sovereign control of their own economy. So they just had to suck up 'austerity measures' as a 'thank you' from the Eurocrats, who were spared the humiliation of absolutely zero public endorsement for their technocratic plans to rule 400 million people by decree.

Joe ·

Yaaaay Dimocrisy!

· 2014-03-21T10:15:22Z

rbateman · 2014-03-21T10:30:00Z

Heinrich Himmler stuffed shirt

They picked the most ruthless slimeball of the crop to run the Neo-Ukrainian govt. of their regime-change choice.
Nobody is going to speak up, because they know what this modern Heinrich Himmler will do to them, and their family and friends.
Does this man make your skin crawl at the mere sight of him?
He does for me.

thorbiorn · 2014-03-21T12:35:07Z

No pay - no protest.

The US/EU helped to organize and pay for the undermining of the previous Goverment, and as they have now got what they wanted including a more repressive regime, they do not need to support more protests, only to prevent them.

pavlink · 2014-03-21T12:53:30Z

Dmitry Orlov: Ukraine-Crimea Update, U.S. Will Self-Destruct
[Link]

redrock12 · 2014-03-21T13:40:29Z

Thanks pavlink

Very enlightening link.

Aeneas · 2014-03-21T15:51:04Z

Ditto. Dmitry Orlov is a pretty level headed guy.

Aeneas · 2014-03-21T15:54:06Z

I forgot to mention that I read somewhere that it is about 60% of the US supply to Afghanistan that goes through Russia. As Dmitry mentions, if the US is stupid enough to continue pushing Russia, then they will end up with a headache about how to get out of Afghanistan.

Niall · 2014-03-21T17:09:26Z

Brzezinski's words have come back to haunt them:

"The day that the Soviets officially crossed the [Afghan] border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire."

MonAmieZylo · 2014-03-21T16:55:08Z

Re: Thanks pavlink

After listening to your link " [Link] " )

then the following
link : automatically started 'playing'

[Link]
-Monique

RedMan · 2014-03-21T23:56:31Z

I Don't

See this government(?) in The Ukraine, lasting to that election, without some form of backlash protest, perhaps with a little help from Mother Russia, Tavarich.

rbateman · 2014-03-22T00:12:08Z

Just as soon as the obscene austerity measures Yatsenyuk signed off to the EU on hit the proverbial fan in the everyday lives of Ukrainians.
They will realize, too late, just how much better off they would have been with Yanukovich and his deal with Putin. They may try to make a U-turn, but then they will face a ruthless Yatsenyuk jackboot. Once again, innocent people are caught up in the wake of Leadership with no conscience.
Poor Ukrainians.

rbateman · 2014-03-22T00:02:37Z

Re: Aeneas

"I forgot to mention that I read somewhere that it is about 60% of the US supply to Afghanistan that goes through Russia. As Dmitry mentions, if the US is stupid enough to continue pushing Russia, then they will end up with a headache about how to get out of Afghanistan."

They will have to leave a lot of very expensive heavy equipment behind, to the tune of probably 1/2 a million vehicles, etc.
There was over 700,000 pieces as of about 2 months ago.
It was very stupid of Obama for having gotten involved, but then Big O isn't too swift on the art of weighing merit vs consequences. To him, he's got nothing to lose, because his credibility consists mainly of broken promises, and on that score he's very consistent. The US Military, on the other hand, is in danger of getting Dunkirk'ed, and will be licking it's wounds for about a decade to come. NATO will find itself out-manned and out-gunned, and without significant military aid from the US. So the West will crumble.

Peter does a good job of portraying the cost of this war as well as the questionable narrative. In my view, the Taliban in Afghan are puppets. As...

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