by Ruslan Ostashko
Translated by Scott Humor and subtitled by Leo.
Irritated by stormy activities of the Euro-Ukrainians, Germany showed it publicly twice in one month. At the beginning of April ‘Ukraine-is-Europe’ supporters complained that the German delegation crashed them in PACE, now it’s the UN’s turn.
Remember how recently ‘Ukro-deputy’ Bereza, or Blyakher according to his real name, squealed that Germans were very arrogant towards the “fighters against Putin”?
Link to Ostashko video titled “How Ukrainians clashed with Germans in PACE over Russia”
It looks like, after the meeting of the UN Security Council over simplifying the issuance of Russian passports to Donbass residents, German mockery of the ‘European Ukrainians’ has become a norm.
Do you remember a joke about the patient who came to see a psychiatrist?
“What are you complaining about?”
“Doctor, everyone ignores me.…”
“Next!”
The Germans brought this anecdote to life, and the role of the patient played you know who.
“Following the meeting, Germany as a presiding country ignored Ukraine’s request to adopt a document condemning Putin’s decree on passports. According to the correspondent of ‘Country [dot] UA‘ it was not even put to a vote. ‘There are no more speakers,’ said the representative of Germany and offered to disperse.”
This is just beautiful. “We demand to condemn Russia!” “There are no more speakers, we disperse.” Just imagine, how the ‘Euro-Ukrainians’ zadolbali [Russian slang for getting on someone’s nerve] real Europeans with their demands that the representative of Germany simply ignored them.
By the way, according to Wikipedia, German Ambassador to the UN is Christoph Heusgen. He was not born in the GDR, as you might think. He is a 100% “Vesi”, that is, a West German, in addition educated in the United States.
“Born on March 17, 1955 in Düsseldorf-Heerdt. He studied Economics in St. Gallen, Statesboro, USA and Paris, and received his doctorate in Economics from the University of St. Gallen in 1980.”
Where do you think he was recruited by Putin, in Statesboro, Paris or Brussels? It is necessary to help the ‘European Ukrainians’ to develop a version of why this German diplomat ignores demands coming from the ‘agrarian superpower,’ which, also, has the strongest army in Europe.
All jokes aside, the reason for German cooling towards the ‘Euro-Ukrainians’ is obvious – only a few months left till the opening of the “Nord Stream 2”. After that, Berlin will allow itself a gesture that Angela Merkel made at the last meeting with Poroshenko as President.
Petro Poroshenko and Angela Merkel – Berlin, April 12, 2019
Yes, she pointed out to him that a diplomatic protocol dictates to shake hands with flags in the background, but ‘Putin’s trolls’ immediately saw this as a symbol.
Without gas transit, Ukraine’s significance will quickly go down to zilch, or to an exact spot where now the Baltics sit, and other subservient countries, like Bulgaria and Romania. They exist virtually, and many are even in the EU, but Berlin and Brussels deeply don’t care about their squawking.
Ukraine’s significance, which svidomiye [Ukro-nationalists] boasted since 1991, was based on the Soviet legacy. Their seat in the United Nations they inherited from the ‘damned Soviet occupiers’, their industries – also, the gas transit – same, an enormous arsenal of weapons, which took years to sell to Georgians and Africans – also were left by the Soviet Union.
Over the years of independence, Ukrainians created nothing at all. Exceptions are very few, like a new airport built by Yanukovych in Donetsk, and destroyed by those svidomiye.
Why should Germany listen to the oinks of some worthless villagers, who are not capable of either constructive dialog, or creative activity? Yes, Germans have suffered, suffered for a long time, because ‘Ukro-patriots’ threatened to block the gas pipeline.
With the moment of truth approaching when that same pipe will not be needed, Germans will have less and less patience. I think, time is coming when ‘Euro-Ukrainians’ won’t be just not tolerated, but even beaten.
And they will be beaten not by ‘damned Muscovites,’ but by civilized European Misters, Herrs and Monsieurs. Well, and even by the Polish gentlemen.
A lackey must know his place. Especially, the lackey who didn’t want to live peacefully and fraternally with their close neighbors.
To Scott and Leo, for translation and sub-titles, as always, thanks.
The bitter irony facing the Ukies is exquisite.
Though, the Germans under Merkel have allowed the barbaric shelling, sniping and terrorist bombings in Donbass by the Ukies, Porky’s ATO, NATO and other assorted criminals.
It’s all nice and good and funny how the Germans now treat these scum. But, far better would have been to enforce the Minsk 2 contact line rules and to demand and enforce the ceasefire. In the ensuing five years, thousands have been killed and wounded in Donbass.
Germany is responsible for not controlling the Kiev junta.
Larchmonter445
By now it’s pretty clear that Ukraine has no future. According to one source, the population of the country has shrunk from 52 million to 30 million. This might be an exaggeration, but it has shrunk. According to a former Ukrainian PM, by December of 2017 4 million Ukrainians have fled to the West and 4.4 million to Russia. According to another source, some 100.000 Ukrainians are leaving the country every month. This figure, too, might be an exaggeration, but it is a fact that people are emigrating on a monthly basis.
What has been left in Ukraine ? An impoverished country run and plundered by oligarchs. The new President is a comedian by occupation. A fitting choice perhaps. The comedian is very upset that Putin has offered passports both to Donbass Russians and to Ukrainians, most of whom are of Russian origin. Many will indeed take the offer, which would weaken Ukraine even further. A brilliant move by Putin, just at the right time.
Germans are traditionally serious. They have no intention of placing Ukraine above Russia when it comes to business. Both Ukraine and the US have tried to block the building of the Nord Stream – 2 gas pipeline, and both have failed. Quite simply Europe cannot function without Russian energy, nor does Europe intend to pay double for exported US gas which can be supplied in limited quantities.
The Germans have obviously come to the conclusion that Ukraine has no future and that it will break up into three parts, as analysts have been stating since 2017. I would be very surprised if it did not.
What we have here is a gradual shift of political and economic power towards the East, and Germany will eventually join the East, something Bismarck advocated in the 19th century. One analyst has even stated that he expects to see a German-Russian military alliance. Maybe, maybe not. However, I would not be surprised if it indeed did happen.
“What we have here is a gradual shift of political and economic power towards the East, and Germany will eventually join the East,”
This is very true and most significant. There is huge and growing trade between Germany and Russia and the BRI.
As recently as last month the prestigious car maker Mercedes Benz opened a plant in Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6osCRp4-PQ
German economy minister Peter Altmaier on his third visit to Russia in a year said “The factory is proof that Russia and Germany can develop their co-operation”.
“Of course, we should resolve our political problems, we must make sure that conflicts end. But at the same time, we should develop economic relations,” Altmaier said. He added that a “prosperous Russia is in the interest of a prosperous Germany.”
https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/companies/industrials/2019-04-03-vladimir-putin-opens-mercedes-benz-plant-in-russia/
German-Russian trade amounted to €61.9bn in 2018, according to Berlin’s economy ministry.
And now here comes Nordstream 2
The figure of 100,000 Ukrainians leaving every month came from Rumpleklimkin, Ukraine’s diminutive Foreign Minister.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/brain-drain-devastating-ukraine-n976936
The actual figures would be a nightmare to obtain, because there has been no official census conducted in Ukraine since 2001; nearly twenty years without firm facts as to the actual state of the population. A source I like to use for statistical indicators is Trading Economics, and it says the current population of Ukraine is 42.22 million. That figure is ‘based on the latest census data’, and comes from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
https://tradingeconomics.com/ukraine/population
If you max out the graph included at that site to its highest value (MAX), you will immediately notice a striking similarity to population decline in the Baltics. Like them, Ukraine’s population grew steadily during its years with the Soviet Union, peaked just as it achieved its independence, and then immediately began a steady decline, which dropped precipitously in 2015.
Mark
The figure you gave makes sense. The population of Ukraine declined by approximately 10 million. As I wrote before, by December of 2017, 4 million fled to the West and 4.4 million to Russia. After that more left.
Quite simply Europe cannot function without Russian energy, nor does Europe intend to pay double for exported US gas which can be supplied in limited quantities. Germany has no LNG terminal yet.
Dependencies are usually mutual. Question to Radio Yerevan.” Can Russia function without European payments for energy?” Russia does not only sell gas to Europe.
‘Germany is responsible for not controlling the Kiev junta.’ No, it could not because it was overuled by the USG, and it was the USG which started it all and made use of the crazy ukrainians with bad jews.
I agree with you, Ralph. In fact, there were a couple occasions when Merkel was meeting with Poro while the Bundeswehr happened to be engaged in exercises nearby (Poland? I can’t remember where right now. Easy access to west Ukraine anyway.) To me, it suggested that Merkel made some offer to Poro which involved the Bundeswehr. Poro didn’t take her up on the offer – so he must have been taking direction from someone else, like the USG. I can’t prove it, but it’s worth considering, before laying all the blame at Germay’s door.
The coveted “supreme prize”, which in fact motivated west to organise “Maidan” and violently “turn” Ukraine, was Crimea. That “unsinkable aircraft carrier” of today’s geostrategy; the naval outpost whose ownership has always meant an uncontested dominance of Black Sea. Over it wars were fought throughout history, involving many nations (just recall the big Crimean War of mid XIX century)…
It was on 18 March 2014, the date of Crimea rejoining Russia, when the value of Ukraine sunk for the west, including for Germany.
Since then, the Ukraine retained some importance for western Europeans as a transit country for Russian gas. With Nord Stream I and II, even that is gone.
The ‘supreme prize’ is actually the arrogant and deluded USA ‘controlling’ Russia (& China) and keeping it in its place, in line with PNAC and the original neocon wolfowitz doctrine.
Crimea mattered only really in trying to deny Russia use of it, better still would have been for the USA to have got it (from its pov), but Putin was too clever for the yanks. Places like Crimea were important from a naval point of view, but that was back then, before aircraft and nuclear missiles/rockets.
But, but they still have the mail order brides, right?
Now that is FUNNY, thanks for providing a bit of humor in this quite serious scenario. Having said that it appears that since the plans for Ukraine have not been realized by the usurpers, Ukraine has greatly reduced value.
A large percentage of Ukrainians are trapped in a construction animated by the West with the complicity of the elites…ATO suicides and in force murders say a lot. They are hostages and shields. Good people can be tespped in bad situations. The US is against Nord Stream 2 because without it the US will have to make up the loss of transit fee revenue. On top of that the US would likely have to provide LNG and put in new distribution pipelines.
It should be borne in mind also that a powerful reason Ukraine cannot get along with its neighbour, despite the pleas of some Ukrainians for a rapprochement on any terms which will end the fighting, is the toxic encouragement of the United States. Washington was meant to be excluded by the Normandy Four format because it was not difficult to see that its interests are best served by the fighting going on and on. But the CIA is embedded in the SBU, and Washington does not like to be told ‘No’. So it appointed a special envoy to cover the fact that its attendance was not solicited, and now Volcker is there around the clock, ensuring that no fence-mending with Russia can ever occur.
I’m certainly not excusing Ukraine, and it seems fated for eternal lackeyism so long as the nationalists and the Ukraine-for-pure-Ukrainians crowd has the unchecked voice it does. But any shoot of hope that the two countries might one day again enjoy a brotherly relationship is quickly stamped upon by Washington. Zelenskiy looks so far to be every bit the surrealist Poroshenko was, demanding conditions which will never be considered as any opener to talks. On the bright side, it saves Russia from having to do anything toward peacemaking, and it can simply remain silent.
Anyone with any vision at all can see what is going to happen. Once Nord Stream II is active – and Washington has proved incapable of stopping it – Ukraine will have completely lost its strategic leverage. Its economy will decline further, and it has no hope of ever paying back the ‘loans’ it has been given by the IMF. It is doomed to servitude, a holding pen for the waiters and janitors and pole-dancers of Europe. The tax base is bleeding away by the day, as more and more working-age people leave for better prospects. Since Russian and Ukrainian are mutually-intelligible languages, many of them go to Russia for jobs. Meanwhile, Gazprom doubled its profits over 2018, and increased its market share of the European gas market to 36.7%.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gazprom-results/record-russian-gas-sales-to-europe-help-gazprom-profits-double-idUSKCN1S51DU
Those western sanctions are clearly forcing Russia to mend its ways to the west’s liking.
Mark actually Russian and Ukrainian are not mutually-intelligible languages. There are a few common words, but as a Russian speaker, I can’t understand Ukrainian. It sounds like a retarded Russian speaking, incomprehensible.
point of clarification and accuracy,
Russia inherited the old soviet personality and assumed soviet debt in december 1991.
ukraine and Austria oppposed the idea and remarkably the ukraine side offered that both countries should be afforded new country identity status.
ukraine did not inherit soviet identity legacy. it was the work of austria and Ukraine and other un vassals to enable the emergence of the ukraine nation in post soviet space.