The Wolf of NATO in the EU Sheep Clothes is Stealing Towards
Ukraine (and Russian Borders!)
In a country where the average monthly minimum wage is said
to be about $150 USD, it is not hard to understand why Ukrainians are being
exploited by the West to usher in a new military agreement under the guise of
economic reform.
For the EU, let alone the U.S.A., there is no economic
interest involved in Ukraine’s possible joining the European Union, except certain
geopolitical advantages that the NATO member-states might possibly get in their
strategic policy toward Russia.
No clear economic benefits are being promised to Ukraine!
No clear economic benefits are expected in the EU!
However, NATO expects to gain direct access to Ukrainian
territory in order to turn it into another Tier Three contingency with severe,
widespread humanitarian consequences!
According to the Council on Foreign Relations' Center for
Preventive Action (CPA) annual Preventive Priorities Survey – ranking the most
plausible future conflicts on which the U.S. government should focus – Ukraine
could become another global hot spot on par with renewed military conflict
between Russia and Georgia, an intensification of political instability and
violence in Libya, violent election-related instability in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, political instability/resurgent ethnic violence in
Kyrgyzstan, an outbreak of military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan,
and possibly over Nagorno Karabak.
While NATO was not specifically mentioned in the draft of
the "Association Agreement," the proposal is said to have pledged
convergence of foreign and security policies of the European Union and Ukraine.
Which means NATO expansion.
In the draft of the Agreement, foreign and security policy
mandates:
"The Parties shall explore the potential of military
and technological cooperation. Ukraine and the European Defence Agency (EDA)
will establish close contacts to discuss military capability improvement,
including technological issues."
The draft of the Agreement's preamble links Ukraine to
"ever closer convergence of positions on bilateral, regional and
international issues of mutual interest" including the Common Foreign and
Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union and the Common Security and
Defence Policy (CSDP) – which underscores the military nature of the agreement.
Since 22 of 28 members of the EU have NATO membership, there
is little doubt that Ukraine is currently being drawn into the broad military
arrangement with EU nations.
NATO members are currently under pressure to contribute more
and more of their GDP to military expenditures. But for Ukraine, military
spending simply going up and domestic spending simply going down might seem
peanuts, compared to the cost of possible turning the country into a Tier Three
hot spot of regional humanitarian disaster zone. Moreover, the latter seems
more probable, given the U.S. agenda of Preventive Priorities in conflict
prevention. In which case, with or without the EU, Ukraine appears to be doomed
to be turned into a permanent zone of political instability and violence on the
border with Russia.
Pro-European proclivity is Ukraine’s greatest weakness and
Ukrainian people are going to pay dear for that weakness! Signing the Agreement
opens the door to NATO’s direct access to Ukraine policies to slowly drive the
country into economic depression and subsequent social upheaval. Not signing
the Agreement by the Ukraine government gives the NATO leading member-states an
opportunity to exploit the EU card as a permanent pretext for supporting social
unrest and political instability in the country while pretending to try to
prevent the conflict.
This way or the other, the winners are certainly unlikely to
be the people of Ukraine, but instead the "people" of
Lockheed-Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and other defense interests. That is,
unless the people of Ukraine grow up and out of their European weakness.
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