CRIMEA–According to Chandra Muzaffar, the President of the International Movement for a Just World, the situation in Ukraine is chaotic because fascist groups allied with Western nations toppled a democratically elected president.
Muzaffar believes that President Viktor Yanukovich, who gained power in 2010 through a fair election, should be been removed through the same democratic process.
However, Yanukovich’s opponents decided to break a Peace Deal they had signed that promised to establish a national unity government, restore the 2004 Constitution and allow Yanukovich to remain president until the December 2014 elections.
“His co-signatories had no intention of honoring the agreement,” Muzaffar said. “Without following procedures, Parliament, with the backing of the military, voted to remove Yanukovich and impeach him.”
Moreover, Muzaffar said that Yanukovich’s decision to have closer ties with Moscow rather than the EU as the reason behind the protests is only one side of the story.
“The protest movement also brought to the fore neo-Nazis and fascists sworn to violence,” Muzaffar explained. “Armed and organized groups, such as the Svoboda and the Right Sector, provide[d]muscle power to the protests.”
Muzaffar argues that the UK, France and the United States continued to fund the opposition despite their fascist and neo-Nazi elements.
“The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Victoria Nuland, had – in her infamous telephone conversation with the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine – admitted that her country had spent $5 billion promoting anti-Russian groups in Ukraine for the U.S. and the EU,” she said.
The next question to ask is why do Western powers aspire to have influence over Ukraine?
As Muzaffar explains, having Ukraine controlled by politicians serving Western interests would allow the West to expand its “military reach through NATO right up to the doorstep of Russia.”
Although the West feels threatened by Vladimir Putin’s decision to make Crimea a part of Russia, Muzaffar said that he only aims to protect the region known to have a predominantly Russian-speaking population.
She also said that Putin would be more than willing to work out a solution with the new Regime in Ukraine to avoid a military confrontation.
The purpose of Muzaffar’s article, which was published in Z Magazine, is to inform the reader that pretty much everything said in the mainstream media regarding the situation in Ukraine tends to be misleading.
“It is apparent that in most cases the ousters of democratically-elected leaders have been carried out directly or indirectly by the self-proclaimed champions of democracy themselves,” Muzaffar said.
While the Western media portrayed the protests as a mobilization against the nation’s oppressors, the photos taken by novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek paint a completely different picture.
The images were published on Counterpunch and they portray some of the many beatings of anti-Maidan supporters, marches by paramilitary groups that displayed Nazi symbols and the destruction of communist-inspired monuments.
Returning to Muzaffar’s piece, how is it that the West is known for its democratic principles but it willing to support anti-democratic groups in Ukraine?
“What really matters to the elites in the U.S., Britain, and other Western countries is no democracy, but the perpetuation of their hegemonic power,” she explained. “Hegemony, not democracy, has always been their object of worship.”
There is no way of telling which direction the Ukraine will go next. The only thing that is certain is that the events in Ukraine are not as democratic as the West is led to believe.
Sources: Z Magazine, Counterpunch
Photo: NBC News