"Hidden Cold War." We called it that place 21. February what had been going on for a while in Ukraine.
(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
Europe. The power struggle for both this country and more of Eastern Europe was evident for a long time. Whether it hasn't been since Putin's last "Olympic War" when he entered Georgia during the August 2008 Summer Olympics.
Now we write 7. March 2014, when the Paralympics Olympics opens, is an open cold war some of the better our part of the world can hope for. For President Vladimir Putin's power ambitions are neither surprising nor illogical. His strategy and tactics follow the logic of a classic imperialist superpower. What is more surprising is how little conscious the EU and the Western powers seem to play their own role.
For last week's "Putin invasion" of the Kremlin Peninsula does not come out of the blue. It comes as a result of a naive and blue-eyed foreign policy, for which Prime Minister Erna Solberg has been one of the foremost advocates. The naive tribute of any opposition to Viktor Yanukovych has revealed that the EU and Norway have long had regime change as their ultimate goal.
Then you can say that it is good for authoritarian presidents to disappear, so you could say that there was something nice about the disappearance of the elected Mohamed Morsi after the military coup in Egypt 3. June last year. But as you can learn from that coup, you didn't get any better than Morsi – rather the opposite: Today's military rule under Al-Sisi is far worse than Morsi's rule. And the question is what is tacit or actively cheering.
Extremists. For what, then, has Solberg, the EU and the United States been helping to push forward power holders in Kiev and Ukraine? Yes, a government made up of no less than five key politicians from the fascist, and sometimes neo-Nazi, party Svoboda. Oleksandr Sych is the new Deputy Prime Minister. He is a member of parliament from Svoboda. The new Attorney General is Oleg Makhhnitski, also from this party who has used svastika-like symbols.
And what these guys had to think about abortion, Jews, Muslims, gays, minorities and liberated women – probably not Solberg or her EU colleagues will speak highly of at first – at least not on International Women's Day tomorrow.
No wonder this new government in Ukraine immediately deprived the region of the opportunity to use Russian in a public context – which seems to contravene international conventions. The question is whether today's rulers have not performed worse against the minorities than their predecessors, at least within the same time period.
When Solberg and her colleagues are silent about this, but only applaud the entry of these extremists into the most fascist-like government in Europe – except in Putin's countries – then it is no wonder that Putin can get support both from his own people and from Russian speakers Ukrainians to invade parts of Ukraine.
When, on Wednesday, the EU suddenly doubled its billions of money back promises, compared to the agreement negotiated over the years with Ukraine, the father is complete and the power play revealed. In sum, the great powers – both Russia and the EU / Norway / USA – are dishonored in both east and west.
The good news is that there is no more face to lose.