Translated and subtitled by Scott Humor
A new pain is brought to the Ukrainian “patriots” by the wind of change in shape of Italian euro-sceptics who support the restoration of normal relations with Russia. Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini called Maidan the “fake revolution.”
This zrada or treason was voiced during an interview to the Washington Post, when the PM was asked about legality of the Crimean referendum.
“Journalist: You said that Russia had a right to annex Crimea?
Salvini: There was a referendum.
Journalist: It was a fake referendum.
Salvini: That is your point of view. . .. There was a referendum, and 90 percent of the people voted for the return of Crimea to the Russian Federation.
Journalist: What referendum could be if there were Russian soldiers?
Salvini: “Compare it to the fake revolution in Ukraine, which was a pseudo-revolution funded by foreign powers – similar to the Arab Spring revolutions.”
That must hurt. As soon as the Italian people expelled from their Parliament and government American shills, the Western “unity” manifests itself in all its glory. Of course, Salvini’s statement went right over the heads of the American audience, but we do not care about them. Some in Europe, finally started recognizing that Russian neighbors were right. Some of those the least exposed to the EU propaganda, like the French documentary maker Paul Moreira, producing his investigation of the Ukrainian “warriors of the light.”
By the way, pay attention to Salvini’s age. He was born in 1973. It means that the Italian Deputy Prime Minister is only 45 years old. For a politician, he is very young. People like him have no traumatic childhood memories associated with the USSR, like Angela Merkel, and are not pathological Russophobes.
Against the background of stubborn characters populating both European and American political landscape, Salvini and his colleagues in the party “League of the North” look like a model of sanity. The younger a European politician is the less he is biased towards Russia and more likely that he wants to cooperate. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who was born in 1986, is an another example.
Ancient Russophobes are gradually dying out as dinosaurs, and the young generation of Western politicians – especially heterosexual and not pushing degenerate “values” – does not perceive the world through the prism of ideological clichés.
As a result, they recognize Crimea as Russian, and although we do not care, because it’s ours de facto, we welcome this course of action.
As for “sufferings” of some Ukrainian “patriots” witnessing a collapse of their illusions about “the entire world is with Ukraine” and other bullshit of their crooked ideology… After what they have done and what they have turned once flourishing Ukrainian SSR, they are supposed to suffer till the end of time.
Scott Humor,
the Director of Research and Development
My research of the war on Donbass is available at the saker.community book store
The War on Donbass, which is called by the Western politicians and media the “Russian aggression in Ukraine” was a staged psyop.
My illustrated investigation titled Pokémon in Ukraine reveals how this psyop was staged, by whom and why.
Real question is, will he be made to apologize.
A high profile European saying this exact same thing the next few weeks will be more effective at taking down the coup regime than 4 years of Moscow’s ineffectual pussyfooting.
Moscow’s ”ineffectual pussyfooting” as per Crimea, I suppose. It was Russia’s resolve in securing Crimea which forever sealed the fate of Banderastan; hence the appreciable impact of what would otherwise had been a negligible inconvenience to a Western puppet state.
> at taking down the coup regime
….to replace it with what? and by whom?
Ukraine is economically unsustainable. Someone has to sponsor it for years.
Putin offered it in 2013, with his famous “bribe to Yanukovich”: $12bln orders to the dying Ukrainian industries.
Five years later, there is much less industries left, and most crucial of them was replicated inside Russia, mostly sealing Russian market for them.
Without industrial production – high added value EXPORT – Ukraine would have little money to purchase fuel and fertilizers (or gas and fuel to create those fertilizers domestically).
Without fuel and fertilizers they would hardly be capable of intensive agriculture, that could feed 52 millions of population in 1993. They would fall back to 19th century agriculture. Which would sustain about 10-20 millions.
Until new EuroUkraine stabilizes at those figures (which would be long and very cruel way), until it “finds the new bottom” to sustain-ably stand upon, it is a huge liability for anyone, especially in the wake of the next global crisis tide.
Thus hardly anyone outside of Ukraine would really bother to “replace the regime”, it would be their ball and chain if they do.
Ukraine 2017 was $112B up from $93B in 2016. A 20% increase is not the sign of a failing economy.
Of course there were Russian Servicemen – soliders and sailors – in the Crimea, and they had every right to be there; that was part of the agreement between Russia and Ukraine on Russia’s use of the big naval base at Sevastopol. Russia held the lease on this base until 2042 and paid the Ukrainian government $500 million a year in rental fees.
I know it might be rather embarrassing to some but Kosovo declared independence from Serbia whilst NATO troops were present without any referendum. As violations of International Law goes this latter secession was more blatant than the Crimea or the Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus in 1974 for that matter.
But that’s western style double standards for you.
@Francis Lee. See Scott’s book of Russian Humour. Of course there were Russian troops in the Crimea; they were sent there by Catherine the Great — and they never left.
Matteo Salvini should have asked the journalist how it’s possible for Russia to “annex” it’s own land. I always make this point. I also see that the journalist was promulgating that old NATO propaganda nonsense that Russian troops in Crimea “forced” Russians to vote for reunification with Russia, as if Russians wanted to stay in Ukraine, which is absurd, bearing in mind that Yats, the former PM, called them “sub-human”.
The Far Right is the way to bring reconciliation between Russia and The West, the Neocons and the marxist-leftist piece of S*** are liars, traitors and enemies of the Christian European nations… Tsipras is the last example
They also grew up with the revelations about the crimes committed by the political class of the generation ahead of them, many of whom were installed with American $$$. Case in point: Giulio Andreotti, longtime head of the Christian Democratic Party. Andreotti was implicated in the murders of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, magistrates leading the prosecution of the Mafia in Sicily.