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The Sergei Glaziev Interview
Understanding Ukraine in 15 Minutes
By Mike Whitney
If you want to understand what is going on in Ukraine, then you need to
watch this 15 minute video
with Putin
advisor and friend, Sergei Glaziev. Glaziev explains how structural changes
in the global economy and a shift to Asia have precipitated a desperate
attempt by US policymakers to maintain their grip on power by instigating a
war in Europe. Whether readers agree with this analysis or not, they will
find Glaziev is brilliant, erudite and passionate in his beliefs. For that
alone, the video is well worth the time.
I transcribed the video myself, and apologize for any unintentional
mistakes in the text. Also, the "bold headings" are mine.
1. Structural Changes in the Global Economy are often preceded by Great
Crises and War
August 23, 2014 "ICH " - "
Counterpunch
"
- The world today is going through an overlap of a whole series of
cyclical crises. The most serious of them is a technological crisis which
is associated with changes in the wavelengths of economic
development. We're living in a period when the economy is changing its
structure. The economic structure that has been driving economic growth for
the last 30 years has exhausted itself. We need to make a transition to a
new system of technologies. This kind of transition, unfortunately, has
always come about through war. That's how it was in the '30s when the Great
Depression gave way to an arms race and then the Second War World War.
That's how it was during the Cold War when an arms race in space gave rise
to complex information and communication technologies which became the
basis of a technological structure that has been driving the world's
economy for the last 30 years. Today we are faced with a similar crisis.
The world is shifting to a new technological system.
2. Putin pushes Free Trade Zone to ease transition to New Global Economy
The new system is humanitarian in nature and thus could avoid a war
because the main carriers of growth on this wavelength are humanitarian
technologies. These include health care and pharmaceutical industries which
are based in biotechnology. They also include communication
technologies based on nanotechnology which is making a breakthrough today.
And they involve cognitive technologies that define a new sum of human
knowledge. If, as President Putin has been consistently putting forward, we
were able to agree to a mutual program for development, a general
development zone with a preferential trade regime from Lisbon to
Vladivostok, if we were to agree with Brussels to create a common economic
space, a common area of development, we could find a sufficient number of
breakthrough projects, from health to repelling space threats, to fulfill
our scientific and technical potential and creating a steady demand from
the state. which would give a boost to the new technological system.
3 Washington sees War in Europe as best way to Preserve its Hegemony
However, America has taken its usual path. To maintain their
world dominance they are provoking another war in Europe. A war is always
good for America. They even call the Second World War which killed 50
million people in Europe and Russia, a good war. It was good for America
because the US emerged from this war as the world's leading power. The Cold
War which ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union was also good for
them. Now the US again wants to maintain its leadership at the expense of
Europe. US leadership is being threatened by a rapidly rising China. The
world today is shifting to yet another cycle, this time political. This
cycle lasts centuries and is associated with the global institutions of
regulatory economics
We are now moving from the American cycle of capital accumulation to an
Asian cycle. This is another crisis that is challenging US hegemony. To
maintain their leading position in the face of competition with a rising
China and other Asian countries Americans are starting a war in
Europe. They want to weaken Europe, break up Russia, and subjugate the
entire Eurasian continent. That is, instead of a development zone from
Lisbon to Vladivostok, which is proposed by President Putin, the US wants
to start a chaotic war on this territory, embroil all Europe in a war,
devalue to European capital, write off its public debt, under the burden
of which the US is already falling apart, write off what they owe to Europe
and Russia, subjugate our economic space and establish control over
resources of the giant Eurasian continent. They believe that this is the
only way they can maintain their hegemony and beat China.
Unfortunately the American geopolitics that we see playing out is exactly
like the 19th century. They think in terms of the geopolitical struggles of
the British Empire: divide and conquer. Pit nations against others, embroil
them in conflict, and start a world war. Americans, unfortunately,
continue this old British policy to solve their problems. Russia has been
chosen as a victim of this policy while the Ukrainian people are the weapon
of choice, and cannon fodder in a new world war.
First the Americans decided to target Ukraine to separate it from Russia.
This tactic came from Bismarck. This anti-Russian tradition aimed to
embroil Russia in conflict in order to take over the whole Eurasian space.
The strategy was first put forth by Bismark, then picked up by the
British,, and then finally by the leading american political scientist
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who said on many occasions that Russia cannot be a
superpower without Ukraine and that embroiling Russia with Ukraine will
benefit America and the West.
For the past 20 years Americans have been grooming Ukraine Nazism aimed at
Russia. As you know they hosted remnants of Bandera the Second World War.
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian Nazis were brought to America and have been
carefully cultivated and nurtured during the whole post war period. This
wave of immigrants descended on Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet
Union. The idea of an eastern partnership was used as bait. It was first
expressed by the Poles, and then picked up by the Americans. The essence of
the eastern partnership, of which Georgia became the first victim. Now
Ukraine has become one and soon Moldova will be one, to sever ties with
Russia. As you know we are building the Customs Union, and a common
economic space with Belarus and Kazakhstan which will soon be joined by
Kyrgyzstan and Armenia. Ukraine has been our long term partner. Ukraine is
still in the ratification stage of the agreement with Russia which no one
in Ukraine has cancelled yet. Ukraine is important to us as part of our
economic space and for our centuries long ties and cooperation. Our
scientific and industrial complex was created as a whole, therefore,
Ukraine's participation in European integration is quite natural and vital.
The eastern partnership was created to prevent Ukraine's participation in
the Eurasian integration project. The meaning of the eastern partnership is
to create an association with the European union. What is the association
that was signed by Poroshenko with the European leaders? It is the
transformation of Ukraine into a colony. By signing the agreement with the
association, Ukraine loses its sovereignty. It transfers control of its
trade, customs, technical and financial regulation, and public procurement
to Brussels.
4 The Ukrainian Nazi junta is an instrument of U.S. policy
Ukraine ceases to be a sovereign state in its economy and politics. It is
clearly stated in the agreement that Ukraine is a junior partner in the
European union. Ukraine must follow a common defense and foreign policy of
the EU. Ukraine is obliged to participate in the resolution of regional
conflicts under the leadership of the EU. Thus Poroshenko is making Ukraine
a colony of the EU and pulling Ukraine into war with Russia as cannon
fodder with the intention of igniting a war in Europe. The purpose of the
association agreement is to allow the European countries to govern Ukraine
in the settlement of regional conflicts. What is happening in Donbass is a
regional armed conflict. The goal of American politics is to create as many
victims as possible. The Ukrainian Nazi junta is an instrument of this
policy. They are carrying out mindless atrocities and crimes bombing
cities killing civilians, women and children, and forcing them to leave
their homes, only to provoke Russia and then draw the whole of Europe into
a war. This is Poroshenk's mission. This is why Poroshenko is rejecting
any peace negotiations and blocking all peace treaties. He interprets any
statement by Washington about de-escalation of the conflict as an order to
escalate it. All peace talks which have taken place on the international
level have brought a new round of violence.
We must understand that we are dealing with a Nazi state which is dead set
on a war with Russia and has declared general conscription. The entire male
population between 18 and 55 has been put under arms. Those who refuse will
get 15 years in jail. This Nazi criminal power makes criminals of the
entire Ukrainian population.
5 Washington is plunging Europe into War for its own Interests
We have calculated the the European economy will lose about 1 trillion
Euros for sanctions which are imposed on them by the Americans. This is a
huge sum. The Europeans are already bearing the losses. There's already a
drop in sales to Russia. Germany is losing about 200 billion euros. Our
most rabid friends from the Baltic states will suffer the worst losses. The
loss to Estonia will be more than its GDP. The loss to Latvia will be about
half its GDP. But that isn't stopping them. European politicians are going
along with the Americans without questioning what they are doing. They are
harming themselves by provoking Nazism and war. I have already said that
Russia and Ukraine are the victims of this war which is being fomented by
the Americans. But Europe is also a victim because the war aims to target
European welfare and to destabilize Europe. Americans expect the European
capital and brain drain to America will continue. That's why they
are setting all of Europe on fire. It's very strange that European leaders
are going along with them.
6 Germany is still Occupied Territory
We should not just hope that European leaders (will develop an independent
policy) we must work with European leaders from a new generation who are
free from the American diktat. The fact that anti Soviet political elite
had been formed during the post Cold War years in Europe. Then they very
quickly became anti Russian. Despite the dramatically expanded economic
ties and huge mutual economic interests between Europe and Russia, the
Russophobia is based on anti Sovietism and still remains in the minds of
many European politicians. It will take a new generation of pragmatic
European politicians to understand their own national interests. What we
see today is politicians who are acting against their national interests.
This is largely due to the fact that Germany, which is the engine of
European growth, is still an occupied country. American troops are still in
Germany, and every German chancellor still gives an oath of allegiance to
the Americans to follow in the footsteps of their policy. This generation
of European politicians has failed to throw off the yoke of American
occupation.
7 Nazism is on the Rise
Although the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, they maniacally continue
to follow Washington, in NATO expansion and capture new territories under
their control. Despite the fact that they are already "allergic" to the new
eastern European members of the EU. The European Union is already bursting
at the seams, but this does not stop them from continuing their aggressive
expansion into post Soviet territory. The new generation, I hope, will be
more pragmatic. The last elections in the European parliament show that not
everyone is fooled by this pro American anti Russia propaganda and by the
constant stream of lies that are coming down on the European people.
Traditional European parties lost in recent elections in the euro
parliament. The more we speak the truth, the greater the reaction will be,
because what's happening in Ukraine is the revival of Nazism. Europe
remembers the signs of the revival of fascism from the lessons of the
Second World War. We need to awaken this historical memory so that they see
in the Ukrainian Nazis, who are now in power in Kiev, the followers of
Bandera, Shukhevych, and other Nazi collaborators. The ideology of the
current Ukrainian authorities, has its roots in the ideology of Hitlers
accomplices who shot Jews at Babi Yar, burned Ukrainians and Belarusians
and annihilated everyone without ethnic distinction. This Nazism is rising
today. Europeans must recognize their own death in this terrible
confrontation.
I hope if we continue to spread the truth, we will be able to save Europe
from the threat of war.
Note: Special thanks to Vineyard of the Saker
for posting this incredible
interview.
Mike Whitney lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless:
Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
(AK
Press). Hopeless is also available in a Ki
ndle.
Understanding Ukraine in 15 Minutes
By Mike Whitney
If you want to understand what is going on in Ukraine, then you need to
watch this 15 minute video
with Putin
advisor and friend, Sergei Glaziev. Glaziev explains how structural changes
in the global economy and a shift to Asia have precipitated a desperate
attempt by US policymakers to maintain their grip on power by instigating a
war in Europe. Whether readers agree with this analysis or not, they will
find Glaziev is brilliant, erudite and passionate in his beliefs. For that
alone, the video is well worth the time.
I transcribed the video myself, and apologize for any unintentional
mistakes in the text. Also, the "bold headings" are mine.
1. Structural Changes in the Global Economy are often preceded by Great
Crises and War
August 23, 2014 "ICH " - "
Counterpunch
"
- The world today is going through an overlap of a whole series of
cyclical crises. The most serious of them is a technological crisis which
is associated with changes in the wavelengths of economic
development. We're living in a period when the economy is changing its
structure. The economic structure that has been driving economic growth for
the last 30 years has exhausted itself. We need to make a transition to a
new system of technologies. This kind of transition, unfortunately, has
always come about through war. That's how it was in the '30s when the Great
Depression gave way to an arms race and then the Second War World War.
That's how it was during the Cold War when an arms race in space gave rise
to complex information and communication technologies which became the
basis of a technological structure that has been driving the world's
economy for the last 30 years. Today we are faced with a similar crisis.
The world is shifting to a new technological system.
2. Putin pushes Free Trade Zone to ease transition to New Global Economy
The new system is humanitarian in nature and thus could avoid a war
because the main carriers of growth on this wavelength are humanitarian
technologies. These include health care and pharmaceutical industries which
are based in biotechnology. They also include communication
technologies based on nanotechnology which is making a breakthrough today.
And they involve cognitive technologies that define a new sum of human
knowledge. If, as President Putin has been consistently putting forward, we
were able to agree to a mutual program for development, a general
development zone with a preferential trade regime from Lisbon to
Vladivostok, if we were to agree with Brussels to create a common economic
space, a common area of development, we could find a sufficient number of
breakthrough projects, from health to repelling space threats, to fulfill
our scientific and technical potential and creating a steady demand from
the state. which would give a boost to the new technological system.
3 Washington sees War in Europe as best way to Preserve its Hegemony
However, America has taken its usual path. To maintain their
world dominance they are provoking another war in Europe. A war is always
good for America. They even call the Second World War which killed 50
million people in Europe and Russia, a good war. It was good for America
because the US emerged from this war as the world's leading power. The Cold
War which ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union was also good for
them. Now the US again wants to maintain its leadership at the expense of
Europe. US leadership is being threatened by a rapidly rising China. The
world today is shifting to yet another cycle, this time political. This
cycle lasts centuries and is associated with the global institutions of
regulatory economics
We are now moving from the American cycle of capital accumulation to an
Asian cycle. This is another crisis that is challenging US hegemony. To
maintain their leading position in the face of competition with a rising
China and other Asian countries Americans are starting a war in
Europe. They want to weaken Europe, break up Russia, and subjugate the
entire Eurasian continent. That is, instead of a development zone from
Lisbon to Vladivostok, which is proposed by President Putin, the US wants
to start a chaotic war on this territory, embroil all Europe in a war,
devalue to European capital, write off its public debt, under the burden
of which the US is already falling apart, write off what they owe to Europe
and Russia, subjugate our economic space and establish control over
resources of the giant Eurasian continent. They believe that this is the
only way they can maintain their hegemony and beat China.
Unfortunately the American geopolitics that we see playing out is exactly
like the 19th century. They think in terms of the geopolitical struggles of
the British Empire: divide and conquer. Pit nations against others, embroil
them in conflict, and start a world war. Americans, unfortunately,
continue this old British policy to solve their problems. Russia has been
chosen as a victim of this policy while the Ukrainian people are the weapon
of choice, and cannon fodder in a new world war.
First the Americans decided to target Ukraine to separate it from Russia.
This tactic came from Bismarck. This anti-Russian tradition aimed to
embroil Russia in conflict in order to take over the whole Eurasian space.
The strategy was first put forth by Bismark, then picked up by the
British,, and then finally by the leading american political scientist
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who said on many occasions that Russia cannot be a
superpower without Ukraine and that embroiling Russia with Ukraine will
benefit America and the West.
For the past 20 years Americans have been grooming Ukraine Nazism aimed at
Russia. As you know they hosted remnants of Bandera the Second World War.
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian Nazis were brought to America and have been
carefully cultivated and nurtured during the whole post war period. This
wave of immigrants descended on Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet
Union. The idea of an eastern partnership was used as bait. It was first
expressed by the Poles, and then picked up by the Americans. The essence of
the eastern partnership, of which Georgia became the first victim. Now
Ukraine has become one and soon Moldova will be one, to sever ties with
Russia. As you know we are building the Customs Union, and a common
economic space with Belarus and Kazakhstan which will soon be joined by
Kyrgyzstan and Armenia. Ukraine has been our long term partner. Ukraine is
still in the ratification stage of the agreement with Russia which no one
in Ukraine has cancelled yet. Ukraine is important to us as part of our
economic space and for our centuries long ties and cooperation. Our
scientific and industrial complex was created as a whole, therefore,
Ukraine's participation in European integration is quite natural and vital.
The eastern partnership was created to prevent Ukraine's participation in
the Eurasian integration project. The meaning of the eastern partnership is
to create an association with the European union. What is the association
that was signed by Poroshenko with the European leaders? It is the
transformation of Ukraine into a colony. By signing the agreement with the
association, Ukraine loses its sovereignty. It transfers control of its
trade, customs, technical and financial regulation, and public procurement
to Brussels.
4 The Ukrainian Nazi junta is an instrument of U.S. policy
Ukraine ceases to be a sovereign state in its economy and politics. It is
clearly stated in the agreement that Ukraine is a junior partner in the
European union. Ukraine must follow a common defense and foreign policy of
the EU. Ukraine is obliged to participate in the resolution of regional
conflicts under the leadership of the EU. Thus Poroshenko is making Ukraine
a colony of the EU and pulling Ukraine into war with Russia as cannon
fodder with the intention of igniting a war in Europe. The purpose of the
association agreement is to allow the European countries to govern Ukraine
in the settlement of regional conflicts. What is happening in Donbass is a
regional armed conflict. The goal of American politics is to create as many
victims as possible. The Ukrainian Nazi junta is an instrument of this
policy. They are carrying out mindless atrocities and crimes bombing
cities killing civilians, women and children, and forcing them to leave
their homes, only to provoke Russia and then draw the whole of Europe into
a war. This is Poroshenk's mission. This is why Poroshenko is rejecting
any peace negotiations and blocking all peace treaties. He interprets any
statement by Washington about de-escalation of the conflict as an order to
escalate it. All peace talks which have taken place on the international
level have brought a new round of violence.
We must understand that we are dealing with a Nazi state which is dead set
on a war with Russia and has declared general conscription. The entire male
population between 18 and 55 has been put under arms. Those who refuse will
get 15 years in jail. This Nazi criminal power makes criminals of the
entire Ukrainian population.
5 Washington is plunging Europe into War for its own Interests
We have calculated the the European economy will lose about 1 trillion
Euros for sanctions which are imposed on them by the Americans. This is a
huge sum. The Europeans are already bearing the losses. There's already a
drop in sales to Russia. Germany is losing about 200 billion euros. Our
most rabid friends from the Baltic states will suffer the worst losses. The
loss to Estonia will be more than its GDP. The loss to Latvia will be about
half its GDP. But that isn't stopping them. European politicians are going
along with the Americans without questioning what they are doing. They are
harming themselves by provoking Nazism and war. I have already said that
Russia and Ukraine are the victims of this war which is being fomented by
the Americans. But Europe is also a victim because the war aims to target
European welfare and to destabilize Europe. Americans expect the European
capital and brain drain to America will continue. That's why they
are setting all of Europe on fire. It's very strange that European leaders
are going along with them.
6 Germany is still Occupied Territory
We should not just hope that European leaders (will develop an independent
policy) we must work with European leaders from a new generation who are
free from the American diktat. The fact that anti Soviet political elite
had been formed during the post Cold War years in Europe. Then they very
quickly became anti Russian. Despite the dramatically expanded economic
ties and huge mutual economic interests between Europe and Russia, the
Russophobia is based on anti Sovietism and still remains in the minds of
many European politicians. It will take a new generation of pragmatic
European politicians to understand their own national interests. What we
see today is politicians who are acting against their national interests.
This is largely due to the fact that Germany, which is the engine of
European growth, is still an occupied country. American troops are still in
Germany, and every German chancellor still gives an oath of allegiance to
the Americans to follow in the footsteps of their policy. This generation
of European politicians has failed to throw off the yoke of American
occupation.
7 Nazism is on the Rise
Although the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, they maniacally continue
to follow Washington, in NATO expansion and capture new territories under
their control. Despite the fact that they are already "allergic" to the new
eastern European members of the EU. The European Union is already bursting
at the seams, but this does not stop them from continuing their aggressive
expansion into post Soviet territory. The new generation, I hope, will be
more pragmatic. The last elections in the European parliament show that not
everyone is fooled by this pro American anti Russia propaganda and by the
constant stream of lies that are coming down on the European people.
Traditional European parties lost in recent elections in the euro
parliament. The more we speak the truth, the greater the reaction will be,
because what's happening in Ukraine is the revival of Nazism. Europe
remembers the signs of the revival of fascism from the lessons of the
Second World War. We need to awaken this historical memory so that they see
in the Ukrainian Nazis, who are now in power in Kiev, the followers of
Bandera, Shukhevych, and other Nazi collaborators. The ideology of the
current Ukrainian authorities, has its roots in the ideology of Hitlers
accomplices who shot Jews at Babi Yar, burned Ukrainians and Belarusians
and annihilated everyone without ethnic distinction. This Nazism is rising
today. Europeans must recognize their own death in this terrible
confrontation.
I hope if we continue to spread the truth, we will be able to save Europe
from the threat of war.
Note: Special thanks to Vineyard of the Saker
for posting this incredible
interview.
Mike Whitney lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless:
Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
(AK
Press). Hopeless is also available in a Ki
ndle.