Putin and the emerging truth ... The Valdai Club meeting

"The Russian News and Information Agency RIA Novosti, in association with The Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, the journals Russia Profile and Russia in Global Politics, and the newspaper The Moscow News, has, for many years, hosted the Valdai International Discussion Club meeting.
The 10 year-old Valdai Club aims to create an international expert forum where key international Russia specialists can receive authoritative, reliable information about the growth and development of our country and its society from leading members of the Russian elite."

The Valdai Club can be viewed as Putin's attemp at setting up the Russian equivalent of the Council on Foreign Relations, or the Royal Institute of International Affairs, or the Bilderberg Club, or any of the renowned political discussion clubs/societies that can be found in the west.

At its most recent meeting (24 October 2014) in Sochi, Putin rather dropped a bombshell on the international community in response to a question asked by Piotr Dutkiewicz about Crimea . Putin responed in part as follows:

"Yanukovych called me and said he would like us to meet to talk it over. I agreed. Eventually we agreed to meet in Rostov because it was closer and he did not want to go too far. I was ready to fly to Rostov. However, it turned out he could not go even there. They were beginning to use force against him already, holding him at gunpoint. They were not quite sure where to go.

I will not conceal it; we helped him move to Crimea, where he stayed for a few days. That was when Crimea was still part of Ukraine. However, the situation in Kiev was developing very rapidly and violently, we know what happened, though the broad public may not know – people were killed, they were burned alive there. They came into the office of the Party of Regions, seized the technical workers and killed them, burned them alive in the basement. Under those circumstances, there was no way he could return to Kiev. Everybody forgot about the agreements with the opposition signed by foreign ministers and about our telephone conversations. Yes, I will tell you frankly that he asked us to help him get Russia, which we did. That was all." (my emphasis)

Why, only now, is Putin releasing the following facts:

• Yanukovich was allegedly being held at gunpoint in Kiev
• Yanukovich was helped by him to escape to Crimea
• a massacre allegedly occurred at the office of the Party of Regions in Kiev at which people were burned alive
• Putin knows for certain that this happened
• the broad public may not know about this massacre

More importantly, how could this alleged massacre at the offices of the Party of Regions have been kept secret for so long? Why did the Putin propaganda machine itself keep silent about this massacre? Surely this knowledge about a massacre would have been a huge political coup for Putin, so why the silence? Yet his propaganda machine invented a story about a baby being crucified that was proved to be false.

If this was not bad enough, let's look at what Putin had to say about the US and its allies.

"In a situation where you had domination by one country [ the US] and its allies [the EU], or its satellites rather, the search for global solutions often turned into an attempt to impose their own universal recipes. This group’s ambitions grew so big that they started presenting the policies they put together in their corridors of power as the view of the entire international community. But this is not the case.

The very notion of ‘national sovereignty’ became a relative value for most countries. In essence, what was being proposed was the formula: the greater the loyalty towards the world’s sole power centre, the greater this or that ruling regime’s legitimacy." (my emphasis)

What is rather chilling about Putin saying that, "The very notion of ‘national sovereignty’ became a relative value for most countries", is that he has executed this perverse belief  himself by simply taking over Crimea and actively helping in the creation of contrived 'Russian enclaves' in eastern Ukraine, over the dead bodies of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian people.

But we have been here before with Putin.

"Putin has shown by his actions against the Russian people in 1999, and now (2014) in Ukraine, that he can cock a snook at the West because the West does not want to precipitate a fighting war with the current Russian leader. So Putin surrounds Ukraine with a readied army and blatantly foments and stokes dangerous unrest, especially in Eastern Ukraine. After all, if he could cynically kill Russian men, women, and children to bolster his image, why not dismember Ukraine to do exactly the same, irrespective of the consequences?"

Why are so many western and EU politicians, academics and apologists  for Putin, especially so many neo-Nazi and right-wing European organizations, so willing to shut their mouth, eyes, and ears to the evil that Putin is unleashing upon Ukraine? (cf. also Anton Shekovtsov and Alina Polyakova)

But the really crucial question is,"Will the Russian public now hear about Putin 'saving' Yanukovich and, more importantly, how will all of this square with Putin not telling them about that alleged massacre in Kiev, when Yanukovich supportes were allegedly 'burnt' to death?

Let us for a moment cast our minds back to what Zhirinovsky said.

"America is everywhere, the West is everywhere, Nato is everywhere. Everything is organised against Russia," the veteran Russian nationalist MP Vladimir Zhirinovsky railed during a talk show on Channel One, Russia's most popular TV station."

Today (26 October 2014) we have elections in Ukraine. Let us see what happens before we continue ....

(to be continued)