Posted on 11/25/2004 11:13:33 AM PST by TapTheSource
RIGGED ELECTION IN UKRAINE, CITY-KILLING MISSILES: WELCOME TO THE PAST
November 26, 2004 By Toby Westerman
www.inatoday.com
Rigged elections and super-sophisticated, city-killing weapons: welcome to the past.
The victory of Moscow's handpicked candidate through a rigged election combined with the recent announcement of Moscow's determination to deploy the most advanced multiple warhead missiles bring the world back to the days of international subversion and nuclear terror.
In Ukraine, once the breadbasket of the USSR and important aerospace center for the Soviet Union, the pro-Moscow government is attempting thwart the will of its population with Soviet-era tactics. The goal is to insure that the new government will keep Ukraine a faithful partner of Russia and avoid excessively close ties with the U.S. and the European Union.
Ballot box stuffing, falsification of votes, and the manipulation of absentee ballots were among the abuses leading observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to conclude that Ukraine's Sunday presidential election was below Euro standards "for democratic elections."
Now, even civil war is mentioned as a possibility.
Viktor Yushchenko, the pro-Western opposition's candidate for president, rejects government claims that he has lost and is leading mass demonstrations which demand a change in government, and a turn from Russia to the United States and Western Europe.
In response, the pro-government, pro-Moscow candidate, and purported election winner, Viktor Yanukovych, who is also Ukraine's Prime Minister, condemns the opposition's call to void the election, and branded the demands a "call to revolution."
As Prime Minister, Yanukovych is identified in the minds of many with the current Ukrainian government of Leonid Kuchma and the series of scandals which have attached to him, from fraud to murder.
To counter opposition rallies, an old Soviet trick is being employed: pro-government demonstrators are coming to the capital, Kiev, to face the opposition, and they are receiving police escort during their trip. Many are from the mining area of eastern Ukraine, and can be counted on to either confront the demonstrators directly, or infiltrate into the opposition and foment political violence.
Should mass civil unrest occur, the Ukraine's government could justifiably call in troops to break up the demonstrations and suppress the opposition.
Ukraine's pro-Moscow government has apparently learned valuable lessons from the recent successful resistance by the people of the post-Soviet republic of Georgia to a similar attempt at election theft.
In November 2003, Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze, former head of the Communist Party in Georgia and former Foreign Minister under Soviet ruler Mikhail Gorbachev, lost his position because of a popular revolt against the results of a rigged parliamentary election.
Should the opposition fail to be victorious, Ukraine will fall firmly under Moscow's influence, and will join Belarus and the states of Central Asia as devoted protég$#233;s of Moscow.
As Moscow's territorial domination grows, so does its military spending.
Moscow is increasing its defense budget for 2005 over the current year, with some of those funds paying for the development and deployment of the SS-27 and its submarine launched version, the SS-NX-30 (Bulava), according to the Russian news daily, Izvestia.
These weapons have multiple reentry nuclear warheads, and Moscow claims that these missiles are capable of eluding or withstanding counterattacks from any anti-missile shield.
The missiles are part of a military budget which is increasing by one-third over the current year. Hypersonic nuclear and tactical missiles, improvements in small arms, and increased personnel training are all part of Moscow's dedication to possessing state-of-the-art armed forces.
Political manipulation and military might: the world may well learn again to fear the Russian bear.
Your hero Putin is arming Iran with nukes.
"Your hero Putin is arming Iran with nukes."
Now THAT is something we should be concerned about and discussing with him, NOT the Ukraine election.
"Now THAT is something we should be concerned about and discussing with him, NOT the Ukraine election."
We should be addressing both. Like I said, see post #1 and post #25. Both the US and Europe are the main targets of Soviet strategic deception.
You sound like the liberals who say we can't fight the war on terror on more than one front.
Putin rigged an election with all the audacity of the Chicago demoncrats.
Funny how some people who decry demoncrat vote fraud, cheer vote fraud when it's orchestrated by Vladimir Putin.
What's scary is that many people believed here in America communism was wiped out when the wall fell in Berlin. I remember kids cheering throughout my high school that day, as if the world had found Hitler dead again. I wasn't so easily convinced that it could be over so quickly.
None of my friends that had come from Poland and Russia believed it either. A ploy they said to make people think they were safe. It just put it all under-ground or gave it a new name.
The fact that Putin used to work for the KGB says enough. Add in the fact that one of Putin's opponents mysteriously disappeared and turned up in all places - Kiev. Then we have the opposition leader possibly poisoned there in the Ukraine a few months before this election?
God Bless the Ukranians and may the good people of that nation experience true freedom one day.
Scythian filthiness and mu-slimy conspirators - "plus ca change,."
Why would Yushchenko allow himself to be poisoned and disfigured if he were a part of a Russian conspiracy and his opposition candidacy is only an illusion?
That's a good point. One wonders why they felt the need to steal the election if their opponent is on their side.
On the other hand, Putin could be playing both sides. He buys out both sides and lets them fight it out. Seems pretty unlikely.
Thanks for the help they did both enlightent and further confuse, looks like a lot of different factions all vying for a piece of the pie at once. Truth is elusive at best. The only thing I am sure of is I still do not trust Putin.
Wow, great pictures at this Ukranian site:
http://kuchmizm.info/weblog/archives/2004_11.html
Here is what your anti-war paleocon publication has to say about George Soros' ties to George Bush:
The BTC pipeline and deepening U.S. influence in the Caucasus appear to be part of a larger strategy aimed at securing control over oil and gas deposits throughout the “arc of instability.” The “War on Terror” is being exploited as a pretext for U.S. intervention in these hot spots. Washington trumped up alleged Iraqi connections to Osama bin Laden and harped on nonexistent “weapons of mass destruction” as part of a plan that appears at least partly aimed at taking charge of Iraq’s vast oil reserves. In Afghanistan and in former Soviet Central Asian republics, Washington has deployed troops who may remain for some time: The troops will help secure yet another pipeline route, this time to transport Turkmen gas through Afghanistan to Pakistan. In Georgia, Muslim Chechen partisans, who have ties to Islamic terrorist groups, had used that country’s Pankisi Gorge as a base of operations against Russian troops in Chechnya. Thus, Washington portrayed its involvement in Georgia as part of the larger War on Terror. Russia had lobbied hard for the West to accept her operation in Chechnya as another front in the antiterrorism war and found it difficult to respond under those circumstances.Per your logic, we should be fighting this evil zio-globalist Bush-Soros cabal.Russia has used her influence with separatist movements in Georgia, especially in Abkazia and Southern Ossetia, to pressure Tbilisi. Some observers claim that Russia had given up on stopping the BTC pipeline project and was recently concentrating on using such pressure points to influence Shevardnadze, who was playing a delicate balancing act between Moscow and Washington, sometimes seeming to lean toward Russia to appease the Kremlin, which could be one reason Washington turned on him. Russia may have decided to wait and see what came of the “Rose Revolution,” before returning to her previous strategy: In March, with Saakashvili threatening military intervention in the autonomous region of Adjaria, rumors began circulating in Moscow of Russian attempts to preserve Adjarian autonomy, which would put more pressure on Washington and Tbilisi. At the same time, Russia has dragged her feet on withdrawing military forces from Soviet-era bases in Georgia, giving Moscow another bargaining chip.
Despite his professed desire to see President Bush turned out of the White House come November, Soros and Bush have some of the same friends—and some of the same goals, though they may differ on the means of achieving them. Consider Soros’ ties to James Baker, a member in good standing of the extended Bush political clan: Soros’ business partners at the Carlyle Group, in which Soros has reportedly invested more than $100 million, include the former secretary of state as well as George H.W. Bush. Baker himself is a lobbyist for Azeri oil interests. Soros may stand to gain financially from the establishment of an “open society” in Georgia.
Another indirect link to the Bush camp may be Soros’ connections to neoconservative hawks prominent in the present administration: Soros’ International Crisis Group includes Democrat Stephen Solarz, who has been described as “the Israeli lobby’s chief legislative tactician on Capital Hill” and who was a signatory, along with Richard Perle and Wolfowitz, of a notorious 1998 letter calling for President Clinton to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Thus, journalist Neil Clark has written that, “By making US ambitions so clear,” using “crude” threats, and embarking on unilateral military interventions, “the Bush gang has committed the cardinal sin of giving the game away.” Clinton’s multilateral approach, together with the largely unnoticed actions of such groups as Soros’ Open Society Institute, had gone far to accomplish globalization without the international opposition the present administration faces. Bush and his camp, wrote Clark, “have blown it.”
Like the Republican “right,” left-liberal ideologues such as Soros see globalization as a means of achieving their social and cultural ends. Soros can also pick up some cash on the road to his utopia. The philistine Wall Street Journal “right” wants a borderless world, where multinationals can move factories and conduct financial transactions at will around the globe. To see that through, the globalist right can make use of a George Soros, who is working constantly to break down the barriers that stand in the way of economic globalization. The seemingly strange Soros-Bush collaboration in Georgia is actually quite natural. American patriots should recognize the two Georges as but two heads of a globalist hydra that is the sworn enemy of all national sovereignty, including America’s.
Why are you using paleocon propaganda to push an anti-US, anti-NATO, pro-Russian agenda?
Ballot box stuffing, falsification of votes, and the manipulation of absentee ballots
Sounds to me like thay took a page out of the Democrat's playbook.
Why is it wrong when they do it and not wrong when the Democrats do it?
Like Gorby moving to the Presidio in San Franpsycho and establishing the "International Green Cross!" GovernMental EnvironMentalism is it's new name, except now it's Common-ism, instead of Communism!
Communism is now a name subject to ridicule and is a commical term!!! The totalitarian ideals have not changed and America's left is totally infected with it's puss!!!
what does that have to do with yuschenko being supported by communists. it doesnt say that at all.
yanukovich is being supported by russians not ukrainians. the vote was a fraud.
HEY BUDDY!! i gotta question for ya. betcha you wont answer it.
why do you support a russia's foriegn interference into a sovereign nations election, and dont support the opinion of the US, bush, and powell who say they wont accept the election, along with the eu, canada and nato?
you wont answer it beacuase you are a russian stooge bent on the opinion that russia needs to reclaim its oppressive empire.
HEY BUDDY!! i gotta question for ya. betcha you wont answer it.
why do you support a russia's foriegn interference into a sovereign nations election, and dont support the opinion of the US, bush, and powell who say they wont accept the election, along with the eu, canada and nato?
you wont answer it beacuase you are a russian stooge bent on the opinion that russia needs to reclaim its oppressive empire.
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