Nazioarteko zuzenbidea ala boterea? (M. Hudson)

Ingelesez: “Russia had been selling Ukraine gas far below the market rate in order to sort of carry Ukraine. Ukraine has always been sort of an economic burden for Russia. The Western press said that Russia has been raising its gas prices. But it hasn’t really been raising them; it’s been just returning to the normal removing the subsidy. Well, the IMF has already said that the first condition of the bailout loan to prevent Ukrainian currency from falling more is going to be to reduce the subsidy that the government has already been giving the people on gas prices. So this is what the IMF usually does in Third World countries when it removes a subsidy for bread or for other things….”

Eta http://michael-hudson.com/2014/04/obama-channeling-dick-cheney/.

Ingelesez. “Now, the real question that the German data has is: why, if all of this is front-page news in Germany, front-page news in Russia–the Russian TV have been showing their footage, showing the sniping–why would President Obama directly lie to the American people? This is the equivalent of Bush’s weapons of mass destruction. Why would Obama say the Russians are doing the shooting in the Ukraine that’s justified all of this anti-Russian furor? And why wouldn’t he say the people that we have been backing with $5 billion for the last five or ten years, our own people, are doing the shooting, we are telling them to doing the shooting, we are behind them, and we’re the ones who are the separatists?

[11] Ikus http://michael-hudson.com/2014/05/the-new-cold-wars-ukraine-gambit/.

Ingelesez: “Finance in today’s world has become war by non-military means. Its object is the same as that of military conquest: appropriation of land and basic infrastructure, and the rents that can be extracted as tribute. In today’s world this is taken mainly in the form of debt service and privatization. That is how neoliberalism works, subduing economies by indebting their governments and using unpayably high debts as a lever to pry away the public domain at distress prices. It is what today’s New Cold War is all about. Backed by the IMF and European Central Bank (ECB) as knee-breakers in what has become in effect a financial extension of NATO, the aim is for U.S. and allied investors to appropriate the plums that kleptocrats have taken from the public domain of Russia, Ukraine and other post-Soviet economies in these countries, as well as whatever assets remain….

The past century has seen a counter-revolution against the Enlightenment, classical economics and its culmination in socialist hopes to steer industrial capitalism to evolve into democratic socialism. What is occurring today is a self-destructive financial dynamic of impoverishment (…) and the New Cold War is intended to lock in their victory. Ukraine is simply the latest battlefield, and battlefields end up devastated.”