I know - some comrades have already went underground or moved somewhere. It's not good time for the lefts here.
We spoke about the expulsion rhetoric, and the banning of any language but Ukrainian.
I don't think that they can expel all of them. But the total situation is rather uncertain as far as many nazi-gangs roaming the streets and they are not under smb's control at all. Still nobody knows here what will be the next. Ukraine can be another Syria. But nobody knows exactly...
To the oil angle:
Yes Immanuel Wallerstein have written just about it recently - they need gas-pipeline net so that both EU and Russia will be more dependent. But they can use for this purpose only nazi-teenagers as those who are ready to die - as they think for the nation, though in reality just for big business profit. As for 'Europe as promise land' - it's difficult even to explain something to people - media can raise a real hysteria - too many people in result are convinced that they will be rich in Europe and somebody just prevent it. Although joining EU was even not the agenda (EU doesn't offer it - only free-trade agreement - like that the US has with Mexico).
I offered a local comparison, from that agreement...
Which ultimately closed all the car plants in Detroit (the general area I am from) and poisoned whole cities in Mexico to the point no one can live there. They did that to get around pollution law here. And paid them miserable wages to get cancer.
He expounded, brilliantly.
In Ukraine it is going to be the same as in Mexico - one of the first orders of the new government (junta) was to lift the ban for transporting to Ukraine nuclear waste. And encircling Russia (and seizing its military base in Crimea) - is also one of the reasons. There are some others too: to get new market for EU goods (and that would kill local industry), to get large steel-industry in Ukraine
About possible civil war and splitting...
It's rather possible. The country was actually split - there is a big difference (cultural, language, religious) between eastern and western parts. The whole problem - attempts to impose the will of one part to another and nepotism (or crony capitalism) - when people from one part of the country hold most official positions. It leads to a split inevitably. Either the country is multicultural or it splits and then both parts will split further. In result each small part will be dependent from external forces.
By the 16th I was asking about the veracity of the story about a US drone being brought down from Crimean airspace. He confirmed claims that our military presence on the ground as well. Both Betty and Dmitri have claimed Blackwater, UN and other Western forces have been at play all along....
Yes, it was reported about US drone brought down here too. And about Blackwater mercenaries and other western militaries in Ukrainian cities too. moreover, we have military training of NATO held on Ukrainian borders and Russian troops that are being concentrated on another border.
Today, I asked about the mood and lustration.
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