UMnyango Wezwe LaseMelika, ngomlomo womkhulumeli wesifazane uJennifer Psaki, uthe imibiko yoMqondisi weCIA uJohn Brennan etshela abashintshi bombuso eKiev ukuthi "benze imisebenzi yamaqhinga" - noma "ukulwa namaphekula" - empumalanga ye-Ukraine "ingamanga ngokuphelele". Lokhu kusho ukuthi uBrennan uye wakhipha imiyalo yakhe yokumasha. Futhi manje umkhankaso "wokulwa namaphekula" - ngokuthinta kwawo okuncane okuhle kwe-Dubya - usuphenduke waba yi-farce.
Manje sebeshadile nonobhala-jikelele we-NATO, u-Anders Fogh Rasmussen waseDenmark, bexoxa ngokuqiniswa kwezinyathelo zezempi emngceleni we-NATO osempumalanga: "Sizoba nezindiza eziningi emoyeni, imikhumbi eminingi emanzini kanye nokulungela okwengeziwe emhlabeni."
Siyakwamukela emfundisweni ye-Two Stooges yempi yangemva kwesimanje.
Khokha noma umise ukufa
Ukraine iwukuba zonke izinjongo ezingokoqobo waphuka. Isikhundla esingaguquki se-Kremlin ezinyangeni ezintathu ezedlule bekuwukukhuthaza i-European Union ukuthi ithole isisombululo sesiphithiphithi esibi sezomnotho sase-Ukraine. UBrussels akenzanga lutho. Bekubhejela ukushintsha kombuso ukuze kuzuze unodoli waseJalimane we-heavyweight u-Vladimir Klitschko, owaziwa nangokuthi u-Klitsch The Boxer.
Uguquko lombuso lwenzekile, kodwa lwahlelwa yi-Khaganate yaseNulands - iseli ye-neo-con yoMnyango Wezwe kanye nomsizi kanobhala wezwe we-European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nulands. Manje ukhetho lukamongameli luphakathi โ yini enye โ onodoli ababili base-US, u-choco-billionaire uPetro Poroshenko kanye โnoSaint Yuliaโ Timoshenko, owayengundunankulu wase-Ukraine, owayekade enecala futhi owayezoba ngumongameli. I-EU isele ukuthi ithathe umthethosivivinywa (ongakhokhelwa). Ngena ku-International Monetary Fund - "ngokulungiswa kwesakhiwo" okubi, okuzayo okuzothumela abantu base-Ukrainian endaweni embi kakhulu kunalena asebeyijwayele.
Nakulokhu futhi, kuwo wonke ama-hysteria asakazwa uMnyango Weqiniso wase-US kanye nezimali zawo emithonjeni yezindaba yaseNtshonalanga, i-Kremlin ayidingi "ukuhlasela" noma yini. Uma i-Gazprom ingakhokhelwa okudingeka ikwenze nje ukuvala indawo yase-Ukraine ye-Pipelineistan. I-Kiev ngeke ibe nayo enye indlela ngaphandle kokusebenzisa ingxenye yegesi eqondiswe kwamanye amazwe e-EU ukuze abantu base-Ukraine bangaphelelwa uphethiloli ukuze bazigcine bephila kanye nezimboni zezwe. Futhi i-EU - "inqubomgomo yayo yamandla" isiyonke isivele iyihlaya - izozithola inenye futhi inkinga yokuzibangela yona.
I-EU izongena esimweni sokulahlekelwa njalo uma iBrussels ingakhulumi ngokungathi sรญna neMoscow. Kunencazelo eyodwa kuphela yokwenqaba: ingcindezi yaseWashington eqinile, efakwe ngeNorth Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
Nakulokhu, ukuze kunqandwe isiphithiphithi esikhona manje - i-EU isalokhu iyiklayenti eliphezulu le-Gazprom, ngama-61% ayo yonke impahla ethunyelwa ngaphandle. Ubuhlobo obuyinkimbinkimbi obusekelwe ekuncikeni komunye nomunye. Ukwenziwa ngosonhlamvukazi kwe-Nord Stream, Blue Stream kanye ne-South Stream ezoqedwa kuhlanganisa izinkampani zaseJalimane, Dutch, French kanye ne-Italian.
Ngakho yebo, i-Gazprom iyayidinga imakethe ye-EU. Kepha kuze kube seqophelweni, kucutshungulwa isivumelwano esikhulu sokulethwa kwegesi yaseSiberia eChina okungenzeka ukuthi izosayinwa ngenyanga ezayo eBeijing lapho uMongameli waseRussia uVladimir Putin evakashela uMongameli uXi Jinping.
Isipana esibalulekile emisebenzini
Ngenyanga edlule, ngenkathi kuqhubeka umbukiso oseceleni wase-Ukraine, uMongameli u-Xi wayeseYurophu enza izivumelwano futhi ephakamisa elinye igatsha leNew Silk Road kuze kube sekugcineni eJalimane.
Endaweni enengqondo, engeyona eyamaHobbesi, i-Ukraine engathathi hlangothi kuzodingeka izuze ngokuzibeka njengendawo eyimfihlo ephambanweni phakathi kwe-EU kanye ne-Eurasian Union ehlongozwayo - kanye nokuba yindawo eyinhloko yokuhlasela kwe-Chinese New Silk Road. Esikhundleni salokho, abaguquli bombuso we-Kiev babheja ekwamukelweni kwe-EU (ngeke kwenzeke) futhi babe isisekelo esiphambili se-NATO (inhloso eyinhloko yePentagon).
Ngokuqondene nokwenzeka kwemakethe evamile ukusuka eLisbon kuya eVladivostok - lapho iMoscow neBeijing ihlose khona, futhi ingaba usizo ku-EU - inhlekelele yase-Ukraine iyisipana sangempela emisebenzini.
Futhi isipana emisebenzini, okubaluleke kakhulu, esifanela umdlali oyedwa kuphela: uhulumeni wase-US.
Ukuphatha kuka-Obama kungenzeka - futhi "kungenzeka" igama elisebenzayo lapha - baqaphele ukuthi uhulumeni wase-US ulahlekelwe impi yokulawula i-Pipelineistan esuka e-Asia ukuya eYurophu, naphezu kwayo yonke imizamo yombuso ka-Dick Cheney. Lokho ochwepheshe bamandla abakubiza nge-Asian Energy Security Grid kuyathuthuka kancane kancane - kanye nenqwaba yezixhumanisi zayo ne-Europe.
Ngakho-ke okusele kubaphathi baka-Obama yilesi sipana semisebenzi - esazama ukuthola ukuhlanganiswa okuphelele kwezomnotho kwe-Eurasia.
Ukuphatha kuka-Obama kucatshangelwe ukuthi i-EU incike kakhulu kwigesi yaseRussia. Ngakho-ke uhlelo lwayo olukhulu lokubeka igesi ye-shale yase-US esikhundleni se-EU njengenye ye-Gazprom. Ngisho nokucabanga ukuthi lokhu kungenzeka, kungathatha okungenani iminyaka eyishumi - ngaphandle kwesiqinisekiso sempumelelo. Eqinisweni, enye indlela yangempela kungaba igesi yase-Iranian - ngemuva kwesivumelwano esibanzi senuzi kanye nokuphela kwezijeziso zaseNtshonalanga (lonke iphakheji, akumangazi, licekelwa phansi ngobuningi ngamaqembu ahlukahlukene eBeltway.)
Okokuqala nje, i-US ayikwazi ukuthekelisa igesi ye-shale emazweni engakasayini nawo isivumelwano sohwebo lwamahhala. Leyo "inkinga" engaxazululwa kakhulu ngokuxoxisana ngokuyimfihlo kwe-Trans-Atlantic Partnership phakathi kwe-Washington ne-Brussels (bona i-Breaking bad in southern NATOstan, Asia Times Online, April 15, 2014.)
Ngokufanayo, abaphathi baka-Obama baqhubeka nokusebenzisa izimo zokuthi "hlukanisa futhi ulawule" ukwesabisa abadlali abancane, njengokuphenya kuze kube sezingeni eliphezulu umcabango wobubi, iShayina yezempi ukuqinisa "esakhasa e-Asia". Wonke umdlalo ubuyela kulokho uDkt Zbig Brzezinski ayekucabanga emuva ku-opus yakhe yango-1997 ethi The Grand Chessboard - futhi waculela umfundi wakhe u-Obama: i-US ibusa phezu kwe-Eurasia.
Noma kunjalo i-Kremlin ngeke ihudulelwe obishini lwezempi. Kufanelekile ukuphikisa u-Putin ukhombe Isithombe Esikhulu kuyo yonke i-chessboard, esiveza ukwanda kobudlelwane besu be-Russia-China njengento ebalulekile njengokubambisana kokukhiqiza amandla ne-Europe; futhi ngaphezu kwakho konke ukwesaba okukhulu kwezikhulu zezezimali zase-US zenqubo engenakugwemeka, eqhubekayo egxile kumkhankaso oqhutshwa yi-BRICS (kanye nokusabalala eQenjini elibalulekile lamalungu angama-20) wokudlula i-petrodollar.
Ekugcineni, konke lokhu kuchaza ukuwohloka okuqhubekayo kwe-petrodollar ngokuhambisana nokukhuphuka kukabhasikidi emalini njengemali ebekiwe ohlelweni lwamazwe ngamazwe. I-BRICS isivele imatasatasa ngokukhetha enye indlela engasetshenziswa ngayo esikhundleni se-IMF kanye neBhange Lomhlaba, itshala imali endaweni yokugcina imali kanye nebhange lokuthuthukisa i-BRICS. Ngenkathi uhlelo olusha lwezwe oluvivinyayo lubheke kuwo wonke amaphuzu azozalwa i-Global South, i-Robocop NATO iphupha ngempi.
U-Pepe Escobar ungumbhali we-Globalistan: Indlela I-Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (I-Nimble Books, 2007), i-Red Zone Blues: isifinyezo se-Baghdad ngesikhathi sokuhlinzwa (I-Nimble Books, 2007), futhi u-Obama wenza i-Globalistan (I-Nimble Books, 2009). Angase afinyelelwe ku pepeโฆ@yahoo.com.
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