The following letter was sent to Democracy Now! during the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.
Dear Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez:
The current social unrest in the
Ukraine is disadvantageous to both the Europeans and the Russians.
Even though Yanukovych won in 2010 on a pro-Russian ticket, since
2011 he had been making clear and orderly steps to implement the
Ukraine-European Union Association Agreement. Considering that
Germany gets most of its oil and natural gas from Russia through
Ukraine and Putin has had little fear in the past of stopping the
flow when Ukraine has become openly hostile to Russia, both Germany
and Russia had a vested interest in maintaining the former status
quo. If Germany faces an energy crisis, its economy will go into
recession and bring the EU down with it.
The only major power that has anything
to gain from the toppling of Yanukovych is the United States. The
Russian Federation has thwarted our political machinations at every
turn in the past year and a half. A crisis in the Ukraine will force
the Kremlin to protect its Baltic Fleet consuming its diplomatic
capital far away from American interests. Furthermore, the recently
staged protests in Cairo that ousted Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood
in favor of a pro-American government highly suggest that sparking
popular unrest is a modus operandi of the United States. Therefore,
isn't it logical that the United States is behind the 2014 Ukrainian
Revolution?
However, I have seen nothing on
Democracy Now! about America's involvement in Ukraine. This is the
most important political event currently in the news. Also it is self
evident that the United States has once again engaged in removing a
foreign government. How many Latin American nations witnessed their
legally elected governments overthrown by the clandestine hand of the
CIA in favor of an American puppets? Is it that much of a surprise
that the US would use these same underhanded tactics in Europe?
This is news that the American people
need to hear. Our Government has threated the peace of Europe, we as
citizens of the Republic are complicit in its brazen violation of the
sovereignty of another country. The people have a right to know and
through knowing to descent.
The Russian Government has issues that
need to be corrected and in many ways it falls very short of our
ideal of a liberal democratic government, but that is no reason to
willfully ignore the truth and let the atrocities of our own country
go unnoticed. The liberal class of the Western World has not lied to
cover-up the abuses of Russia. To commit a lie of omission when the
truth favors the Russians is disingenuous. It does not violate our
ethics to condemn Astroturf protests supporting Free-Trade.
All too frequently we let our eyes
wander to the supposed abuses of foreign governments so conveniently
provided for us by the corporate press. "Their abuses," we
are told, "are so much worse than our abuses. Aren't you so
happy you live in the US? You are free. Don't you love your freedom?"
When we listen to that Syrian's Song of us-and-them we fall into the
trap of Nationalism. It is good and proper to love one's culture and
one's heritage, but to associate those things with a system of
government does nothing more than fashion mind-forged manacles that
make free-thinking citizen a slave to the status quo.
The Freedoms and Liberties that I as an
American have a innate right to enjoy are not defined by the extent
conditions in North Korea or Russia but by The Rights of Man
and The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. The
truth is for the most part we do not enjoy those rights. Most of my
life and the lives of every other American are dedicated to us by
private tyrannies, unrestrained by law or custom, is an outrage.
I will not deny that journalists have
been murdered in Russia by security forces. If we lived in Russia we
should condemn that without fear or hesitation, but we must never
forget that our main enemies are the corporate elements in the
American Government. Anything that helps them is contrary to our
interests and hinders the establishment of a truly democratic society
in the United States.
Sincerely,
Gene Ogorodov
