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Russia Reinterprets the Legality of the Break up of the Soviet Union
Crafting laws where you can check-in but never leave seems to be what’s good for Europe, and Russia has taken note. This is the problem with law. It can be reinterpreted constantly and twisted on the head-of-a-pin to mean whatever needs to accomplish at the moment.
The “investigation” effectively considers whether Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia (the Baltic States just north of Russia’s retained enclave, known as Kaliningrad), could legally be granted independence from Russia. Kaliningrad is a seaport city between Poland and Lithuania, which retains access to the Baltic Sea for Russia. Formerly part of Germany, the area was taken by Russia in 1946. In 1940, Soviet communist forces occupied Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The Baltic States have been possessed by Poland prior to 1623 and by Sweden into the early 1700s. There are medieval coins of the area issued by free city-states. Yet, Russia’s chief prosecutor declared that the transfer of Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954 was illegal. He declared that at the time Russia and Ukraine were republics of the USSR under communist leader Nikita Khrushchev. Therefore, Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014 was internationally condemned. However, it is argued that ethnic Russians there voted to rejoin Russia, in a highly controversial referendum. This new interpretation is to support the claim that Crimea was part of Russia, not Ukraine.
There are large populations of ethnic Russian minorities in Estonia and Latvia, while Lithuania has a smaller ethnic Russian minority. This is raising tensions, given that the chief prosecutor is now “investigating” whether the Baltic States could legally be granted independence. A source at the prosecutor’s office, quoted by Russia’s Interfax news agency, said the investigation into the Baltic States’ independence followed a request from two parliamentary deputies, MPs Yevgeny Fyodorov and Anton Romanov, who are of President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. They say that the 1991 decision to recognize Baltic independence was performed “by an unconstitutional body”.
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania joined the EU and NATO in 2004. In recent years, Russia has viewed that as a hostile challenge to its security interests. Russian-Baltic tensions have since been rising post-Crimea annexation and the outbreak of fighting in eastern Ukraine in April 2014.
NATO has stepped up its presence in the Baltic States, responding to massive Russian military exercises on its borders, including heightened Russian air force activity in the Baltic. The Russian chief prosecutor’s investigation introduces another tension, for if war is to break out, it will be most likely be in 2017.
A Reality Check – Time & Circumstance
We need to move one step forward in the social-political evolution process to a world that functions in another and wiser manner with even perhaps a more mystical concept of who we are. Our political leaders patronize us for our incompetence in staying focused on what they do, content to be ruled always to our detriment. This tragic fate of being subjugated to their power and greed as they look down upon ourselves to be corralled and controlled as we in turn treat animals transforming us into their food supply. We are to produce wealth for their sustenance and egotistical powers. Yet we delude ourselves and maintain that we are individuals with free-will, when in fact we are content to be measured as animals, not human beings oblivious to their machinations.
In a new world order perhaps someday which could be more complete than our present state of circumstance, we might reach that Promised Land where We the People truly govern our own fate. We have not lost those rights since we have never attained them in modern times. We live by slogans their voices proclaim yet we never really listen or comprehend what they say. Those who would be king and rule over our lives never see us as brethren, but at best their underlings if not just animals to be placated but never nurtured. They are the rulers of nations, who in their arrogance cannot see the world they rule under the heel of their boots.
We ourselves are caught the nets they cast into the eternal sea of politics dictating our life and times. We are the prisoners of our own lack of focus living in the splendor of our own dreams but subject to the travails of political mismanagement through time and circumstance.
Cyprus – Greece – Whose Next?
The Sovereign Debt Crisis began with Greece asking for help from the IMF to the day of Pi from the peak in the ECM 2007.15. The EU then crushed Cyrus to see how they could get away with not paying people or honoring their debts. The Cyprus experiment was the start of the Bail-In that is now a matter of law in just about every country.
It is amazing just our stupid society really is. We pay no attention to what government does and allow them to take little by little everything we have and from future generations. The EU covertly Staged Coup Against Berlusconi in Italyto remove him from politics because he wanted to exit the Euro. The EU rigged the Scottish to prevent any exit from the EU. They will do the same with Britain if Cameron dares to really honor his pledge. Then the EU organized a rigged court to rule that the Spanish have no Right to Vote for independence. Now the EU simply says they will not negotiate with any democratically elected government in Greece that expects to do anything other than what they dictate.
It does not take much to connect the dots here. Nothing is real any more? We actually have no democracies in the world – they are all Republics which pretend representatives claimed they are elected for life. They now have the audacity to deny any right to vote against their demands – this is the real Crisis in Democracy, albeit really a Crisis is Republicanism.
The Euroland countries recently tried to stop the IMF publishing its gloomy analysis of Greece’s debt burden which the leftist government says vindicates its call to voters to reject bailout terms. The document released in Washington on Thursday said Greece’s public finances will not be sustainable without substantial debt relief, possibly including write-offs by European partners of loans guaranteed by taxpayers. Greece will need at least 50 billion euros in additional aid over the next three years to keep itself afloat.
The Euro is a failed experiment and the purpose was to prevent European wars, when in fact, it is not fanning the fires of separatists. The EU Commission is trying to takeover Greece outright denying the people any right whatsoever to be heard. This is no different from Iraq invasion of Kuwait except the force of arms.
The EU will isolate the Greek system and the favorite threat of the IMF to force capitulation of all tax shelter nations is that they will be cut out of the SWIFT system. That will prevent them from moving money in or out. But the Greeks have the largest merchant shipping fleet in the world. If they try to do that, they may see their own ability to trade seriously reduced.
We are plagued by politicians who have all gone mad. With these kind of actions coming from Brussels, one must wonder just how long is this going to take before we see a major revolution hit Europe. When this contagion hits Italy and France, it looks like checkmate for Brussels.
The Troika’s Message to Greeks
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