How The Ukraine Was/Is to Be Ruined

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Quote:NEW YORK, December 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
A leading American think-tank has concluded President Yanukovych's $15 billion deal with Russia will boost the Ukrainian economy while the Association Agreement with the EU would have left it "mired in a new recession".
The Atlantic Council's verdict on the Ukraine's two short-term options - Europe or Russia - is definitive. Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky says the E.U. deal would have left Kiev paying $3-4 billion a year more for Russian gas with trade shrinking up to 1.7% per year as Russia, its biggest trading partner, imposed "legitimate" trade restrictions.
On top of this concludes Karatnycky, Ukraine would have been flooded with European goods while GDP falls more than three percent.
Instead he says, Yanukovych has managed to secure real assistance from Moscow without having to commit Ukraine's future to Russia.
"There are no secret, ironclad commitments such as entry by Ukraine into Russia's Customs Union," writes Karatnycky on the Atlantic Council website.

EDITORS COMMENT:

Quote:Because when you enslave your people to a private central bank issuing the public currency as a loan at interest, recession and hardship is the inevitable (and intended) result!

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Quote:by Stephen Lendman

On December 17, Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych met in Moscow. Russia offered generous aid.

Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said providing it helped prevent serious economic trouble. "What would have awaited Ukraine" without it, he asked?

"The answer is clear - bankruptcy and social collapse." He defended Kiev's decision to establish closer ties with Moscow.

Yanukovych called Tuesday's discussion with Putin "fruitful." It "resulted in the signing of documents thanks to (Putin's) political will."

"(T)alks were constructive and content-intensive." He and Putin focused on "practical work in all spheres."

"Today's meeting confirmed that the interaction between (both countries) stands on a powerful basis and enjoys good prospects for further development," Yanukovych added.

"Our negotiations culminated in us signing a very substantial and broad package of agreements." They're mutually beneficial.

More on agreed on terms below. They're polar opposite harsh US/EU demands. They're exploitive. They assure harder than ever hard times.

They guarantee longterm debt bondage. They assure wrecking Ukraine's economy for profit.

They mandate neoliberal harshness. They assure the worst of all possible worlds. They reflect neo-Malthusianism writ large.

Its holy trinity mandates unrestrained corporate empowerment, eliminating social justice, and using state resources for bottom line profits, national security and internal control.

Doing so requires selling off state assets to Western interests at fire sale prices. It demands granting them open Ukrainian market access on their terms.

It mandates mass layoffs and deep social spending cuts. It demands crushing or marginalizing trade unionism.

It means transforming ordinary Ukrainians into serfs. It assures harsh repression against nonbelievers.

Quote:US/EU terms are one-way. They're all take and no give. They're incompatible with democratic values. They spurn fundamental human and civil rights.

They assure nothing whatever beneficial. Pie-in-the-sky illusions substitute. Promises remain distant dreams. You have to be sleeping to believe them.

US/EU leaders want Ukraine strip-mined for profit. They want its material wealth and resources exploited. They want them stolen.

They want Ukraine hollowed out entirely. They want it transformed into another European backwater. They want what remains of its middle class society destroyed.

They want perpetual debt bondage imposed. They want Ukraine co-opted geopolitically. They want all former Soviet Republics turning West, not East.

They want them becoming NATO members or partners. They want Russia increasingly isolated. They want it weakened.

They want its influence entirely destroyed. They want it exploited like other US/Brussels-controlled nations. They want what no responsible leaders would accept.

Ukraine is heavily dependent on Russia for energy. Putin guaranteed natural gas at well below fair market price.

He offered a near one-third discount. He granted terms Yanukovych couldn't refuse. They're effective January 1. They'll continue through 2018. They're vital for Ukraine's troubled economy.

Ukraine will pay $268.5 per 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas. Currently it's priced at $400. Putin offered more. He did so free from harsh US/EU terms. Oil shipments will resume after suspending them in 2010.

Quote:He offered a near one-third discount. He granted terms Yanukovych couldn't refuse. They're effective January 1. They'll continue through 2018. They're vital for Ukraine's troubled economy.

Ukraine will pay $268.5 per 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas. Currently it's priced at $400. Putin offered more. He did so free from harsh US/EU terms. Oil shipments will resume after suspending them in 2010.

Russia will invest billions of dollars in Ukrainian bonds. Doing so will afford Kiev a lifeline. It'll provide vitally needed emergency funding.

"The Russian government has made the decision to invest part of the National Welfare fund, to the sum of $15 billion, in Ukrainian government securities," said Putin.

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov explained:

"This can be not only the resources from the National Welfare Fund. We will consider other resources, proceeding from the variability of our resources in the next year."

Putin's going all out to save Ukraine from economic collapse. Restrictions on bilateral trade were eased.

Russia's Gazprom and Ukraine's oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrainy finalized four-year contractual terms. They include price, delivery, quantity, and transit arrangements.

Russian and Ukrainian industry ministers agreed on government support for resuming Antonov An-124 planes production.

Trade protocol terms were consummated. Goods will be shipped under a 2014 industrial cooperation arrangement.

Construction of a Kerch Strait transport link will proceed. Yanukovych wants both countries cooperating in producing aircraft, ships, nuclear and other projects.

He called for finishing construction of Ukraine's Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant. Its Generating Units 3 and 4 are incomplete.

"(A) minor amount of work remains to be done" on developing Antonov An-70 aircraft design before An-70s can be built, said Yanukovych.

Russia and Ukraine finalized arrangements for mutual border crossings.