From: End The Lie
Madison Ruppert
Vladimir Putin recently detailed his plan to build a Eurasian Union
somewhat reminiscent of the USSR in the Izvestia newspaper which he aims
to be able to compete with the European Union and the United States.
Putin said, “We are talking about a model of a powerful supranational
union capable of becoming one of the poles in the modern world.”
Putin cites the “great inheritance form the Soviet Union” as a foundation for the construction of a wholly new entity to challenge European and American dominance, although he claims that he is not aiming to create the USSR.
He says that the region “inherited an infrastructure,
specialized production facilities, and a common linguistic, scientific
and cultural space. It is in our joint interests to use this resource
for our development.”
Putin says that while the Eurasian nations “should have closer
integration based on values, politics and economics,” “We are not
talking about recreating the USSR. It would be naïve to try to restore
or copy what was in the past.”
However, his plan sounds astoundingly like the USSR and little of
what he has revealed of the plan shows otherwise, other than his
perpetual insistence that it is not the aim to recreate the former
Soviet Union.
One might also be skeptical of his claims given his statement that the collapse of the USSR was “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.”
He says that they will not stop at merely creating a powerful
supranational union which could compete with the current poles in the
balance of power, indeed they are “putting forward an ambitious task of
reaching a new, higher level of integration with the Eurasian Union.”
Putin continues, “Along with other key players and regional
structures, such as the European Union, the United States, China and the
Asia Pacific Economic Community, it should ensure stability of global
development.”
Putin seems to be aiming at a symbiotic relationship between his
planned Eurasian Union and the European Union, especially when it comes
to economics.
Putin says that, “An economically sound and balanced partnership
between the Eurasian Union and EU can change the geopolitical and geo-economic situation of the entire continent and have a positive impact
globally.”
The support for his statement is thoroughly lacking. While it sounds
like a great idea, one must only look at the slowly collapsing Eurozone
and the debt
woes wracking the EU to see the dangers of resorting to these types of
unified systems that remove sovereignty and independence.
Putin claims that, “Membership in the Eurasian Union, apart from
direct economic benefits, will enable its members to integrate into
Europe faster and from a much stronger position.”
Again his “direct economic benefits” might be viable in the short
term but it appears that these types of supranational unions aren’t
working out in the utopian fashion some might have hoped.
Putin’s plan would remove all barriers to capital flow, trade and the
movement of labor between Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia, although that
is just the beginning.
He said that the supranational union will be open to new members
joining and that the customs union will expand to include Kyrgyzstan and
Tajikistan.
Putin criticized the Ukraine, which opted to remain outside of the Eurasian Union due to their focus on European integration.
He wrote that it was the wrong choice made by some of Russia’s
neighbors to integrate with Europe over a Eurasian union and likely
included the claim that a Eurasian Union would help a faster integration into the EU to dissuade nations from opting out of his proposal.
Putin seems to believe that regional integration is the way to
mitigate the global economic crisis, even though the EU is showing that
is not the case.
Putin nonsensically mentions the EU as proof of this along with the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC).
Many people, including myself, would disagree and say that many of
these groups have actually compounded the problem, especially in the
case of NAFTA and the EU.
One must also realize that the concept of “spillover” is prominent in these types of unions, especially the European Union.
This allows economic issues to spillover into political ones, slowly
creating the dictatorial supranational state that is the European Union
which has removed the sovereignty of European nations in favor of a
non-democratic body of unaccountable bureaucrats who make all of the
important decisions.
While NAFTA and other agreements have yet to go that far, one would
assume that a “North American Union” would slowly become the same thing
that the EU has become.
It is likely the case that the Eurasian Union would begin as a trade
agreement and eventually become a body of power that consumes the
sovereignty of participatory states just like the USSR and EU.
This proposal comes remarkably close to the conclusion of 18-year negotiations at the Doha Round for Russia to join the World Trade Organization, or WTO.
Putin openly criticized the global trade
group saying, “The process of finding new post-crisis global
development models is moving forward with difficulty. For example, the
Doha round has practically stopped. There are objective difficulties
inside the WTO.”
As of now, Putin’s plan lacks the substance required to see any real
benefits and it seems he is advocating the same type of regional
integration that allows crises like the massive debt crisis in Europe to occur.
It amazes me that even the leaders who are seen as Western opposition
like Putin and Ahmadinejad all propose the same globalist policies that
are destroying the sovereignty and independence of nations the world
over.
When it comes down to it, they are all espousing the same thing which
is the destruction of sovereignty in favor of more centralized control
and planning in the hands of the elite.
I don’t know about you, but I won’t have any of it and it doesn’t
matter if supposedly anti-Western leaders are saying it or if Barack
Obama is saying it.
It is all the same and it has yet to be proven to be effective in any
way, shape or form, other than making the elite wealthier and the poor
poorer of course.
