COUNTDOWN TO THE ASIAN CENTURY: Future of Western Europe and Ukraine lies in Eurasia

It was really the wisest decision- Ukraine rejected joining the EU after all. Who, in his right mind, would want to join  a group which is so highly-indebted it is imploding in the first place? Ukraine immediately set its sights on restrengthening its relationship with Russia. Russia, after only 20 years of capitalism and without massive printing of money like what the Central Banks of the  floundering "developed" Western countries are busily doing, is already the richest country in Europe by GDP-PPP: $3.4 trillion vs. Germany's $3.3 trillion, and it will form the locus of the big landmass (Russia-China-Central Asia) which is the future economic center of the world (adjacent countries in East Asia really has no alternative but to recognize the generator of the greatest wealth- is the Philippines even aware of this geopolitical play?). I find the whole episode actually funny- after the debacle in Hungary, Romania, and some others who didn't exactly progress despite their high expectations on their  membership, some still had the stupidity to be hoodwinked by delusion artists. Well, this is just confirming the obvious course of events... the steady dawning of the Asian Century.

 NB (November 23, 2013)
For the record: Prime Minister Mykola Azarov of Ukraine said requirements of the International Monetary Fund were "the last straw" that pushed the Ukrainian government to reviving negotiations with Russia instead of the EU, writes Ukrainska Pravda. According to Azarov, the IMF demanded that Ukraine, a country in near debt default, increase utility prices and stop increasing social help payments to pay its debts. (The article is in Cyrillic, just use a Translator). The Western Europeans were under the impression the supposedly lesser ones will only be"too excited"  that they will gladly forget reason, conscience and self-respect just to belong to their "exalted" group. But how can one with tattered clothes be "exalted" enough to sweet talk even the most stupid sucker if it's obvious he himself doesn't have the money to buy a new dress? It really gets comical here. It just becomes obvious... the lessening leverage of the hackneyed tactics of a fading era.

As expected, the Western mainstream press was again used to spread the disinformation that it was Russia which pressured Ukraine. Typical role of Western mainstream press: shield the bankers and let everybody talk of anything else EXCEPT the REAL reason. If you are quick, you can also see here who the Western mainstream press is really working for.

 The article was from RT.

‘Future of Western Europe and Ukraine lies in Eurasia’

William Engdahl  

 

The EU ‘horror show’ would not have offered Ukraine any financial benefits, geopolitical analyst William Engdahl told RT. He argues that multinational corporations just want to use Kiev to extract the resources of yet another European country.
RT: Ukraine's decision came as a surprise for many. What triggered it?  

William Engdahl: I think it’s a combination of things but ultimately it was economic pressure from Moscow. I think that had a lot to do with their decision where Ukrainian economic interests truly lie. And perhaps some of the Ukrainian business elites looked more closely at what the EU trade agreements would require of them to sacrifice and realized that it wasn’t the dream boat that they perhaps hoped for.

RT: Will they be able to strike a balance between Moscow and Brussels?

WE: I think if they are clever, I suspect that the Ukrainian political leadership has a delusional view of what the EU would bring for the Ukrainian economy. Of course they long to be accepted as a Western European nation, and so forth, since the breakup of the Soviet Union but right now the EU is in a kind of a death spiral with the false construct of the Eurozone. And the austerity package that the IMF is bringing to the periphery – Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy and so forth – that is a horrendous thing.

The EU has little now to offer Ukraine and if Ukrainian business, political leaders were looking at the thing more realistically, they would concentrate on building stronger bridges to the East. Because the future of Europe, of Western Europe, not simply Ukraine, the future of Western Europe in my view lies in Eurasia in a sense of Russia, China, the Middle Eastern countries, especially Iran.

RT: But nonetheless a lot of Ukrainians have the aspirations to be part of the EU?

WE: Well delusions are in every society. What can I say? You have a delusion that life would be better in the EU. Talk to Polish people, talk to Hungarians, talk to many of the countries who joined the EU, maybe even joined the Euro and realized it was a horror show. It destroyed their domestic industry. The EU is a construct of global multinationals and those global multinationals want to cherry-pick what is useful out of the Ukranian economy which has precious resources.

RT: Let’s talk about the main political tension at the moment and Yuliya Tymoshenko. Some members of the parliament say she could be freed to get medical treatment. What is her future then?

WE: She is a very complex case, but I think she has been made into a symbol, into a straw woman for Western and especially the US State Department pressure on Ukraine to make concessions towards the West and towards NATO. And at this point Ukraine has rethought the entire NATO option the previous presidency was so keen on and realized that it would not be the most sensible thing for Ukraine and I agree with that.

But I think Yulia Tymoshenko became a symbol and it had little to do with her actual activities. Her corruption with the gas deal she made when she was in office is well documented. She was tied in with mafia elements that made billions at the expense of Ukrainians and also the Russians. I think she was made a symbol for another agenda and that is to put pressure on Ukraine to make concessions towards the West.


 William Engdahl is an award-winning geopolitical analyst and strategic risk consultant whose internationally best-selling books have been translated into thirteen foreign languages.