THE THREAT OF WESTERN CAPITALISM IN SOUTHEASTERN UKRAINE
July 31, 2014
I’m listening to “experts”
struggle to explain popular support for President Putin’s resistance to a
Ukrainian government that seeks military control with collateral damage to gain
hegemony from rebel forces. Nowhere so
far in news media in my country to I hear mention of the economic stakes in the
Ukrainian civil war. What about opening
up the largely Russian-speaking breadbasket of the country by German-centered
banking and transnational corporate ownership?
Farther west, the U.S. government had led the world in efforts to
isolate Russia since 1917, and after WWII, and to compete economically.
When I let myself imagine not
becoming owned by Western capital, and recognize that Ukrainians to the north
joined German troops to overrun the southeast in WWII, I find a lot to fear in
the triumph of Euro-Ukraine, I find a lot to fear in being overrun by Western
capital. It’s not hard to empathize with
Ukrainian resistance and Russian support for aid to Ukrainian
separatists—literally fighting for ownership of their own lands. Love and peace, hal
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