Ukraine Starting Over

the following exposition of current Ukraine political reality is actually quite  funny in it's parts .  As the USA frets, worries about a collapse of it's stock markets due to our President's malfeasance, Ukraine prepares to take the next deep breath before it submerges and attempts to swim across the next wide stream of reality.. Vitaly Portnikov does call the spade a spade here, as he dissects his own National reality. Obviously translations are imperfect, but it's really pretty good. Now as the game really starts to get interesting, perhaps one could reference the treaty of Chapultepec  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-American_Treaty_of_Reciprocal_Assistance this is the Rockefeller backed gold standard of regional interlinkage. Perhaps it is relevant, perhaps not. For instance, why should a region in Ukraine oppose an initiative that benefits it's bordering region in Poland, Belarus, or Russia ? If it helps their neighbor, should not the concept

I guess that the Washington politics thing suffers something like that https://youtu.be/EVcIer_4OnA ]\ OKS, so this post needs editing: So,  if the Russia,  hypothetically suffers this Huge Oedipus Complex about Ukraine (Russia wanting to control his mother/ Ukraine) maybe  the People need to be asking  this question, "why does Russia fear the European integration for Ukraine ? " (Russia ) His mother went to another, it  causes massive jealously, perhaps bewilderment and elevated anxiety, and  that leads to a form of calculated and senseless rage? Lead photo is from a music festival in Dnipro , Eastern Ukraine, summer of 2013. There was no thought of war or conflict. It was probably the most relaxed and pleasant outdoor concert I can ever remember. Perhaps this scenario fits. These were peace minded, grounded, seasoned and local politics savvy people that converged for the EUromaidan event in 2013/14 transition (as the European Integration agreement became temporarily c

From time to time, there will emerge a telling analysis of quite relevant recent  and current history of Ukraine. Something that strips it down to it's essence. A facile and evocative explanation of the twisted pathway towards the Euro Maidan event at the close of 2013, leading to the seizure of territory in Crimea's "peninsula" . I think of it as an Island with a swamp between the mainland and the Crimea, during the ice ages, it had to be elevated and an active area of resources for food and other things to trade Vitaly Portnikov has performed the facile service,  of elucidation via his article here ,  as to the activity of Mister Paul Manafort in Ukraine : I could hardly argue any detail of his presentation, it is quite realistic and well reasoned. Perhaps what is left unexplored, contextually,  is who saw the problems of his activity and wanted to stop this random political beast, (Mister Manafort) from his  operating within the territory of Ukraine? It is like th

Are we so helpless against the tide ? Apparently so. The digital downloads of ghost weaponry that began this week, maybe that's the first salvo of an internal war in America, wherein all the rules of civil society we enjoy,  begin to unravel. Honestly, I have no opinion about it, just more stuff. Think about the Jackie Chan way, use anything to defend yourself ,  if somebody whips out a #3D printer thingy. No sympathy for Mister Manafort, he made himself an easy mark for Foreign Intelligence with his inclination for the luxury lifestyle . Money, power and influence are the ultimate elixir of self grandeur. Sure, MISTER MANAFORT,  he had good instincts about how to pull a rabbit out of the election hat.' Yet he had the gall to make money off the imprisonment of a legitimate political force within Ukraine. I may not be a huge fan of Madame Tymoshenko, but she knows the score: Yet the Kuromaku, the Black curtain of the fixers he (Manafort) used was somewhat opaque , he