Chaos Spreads

Yes, chaos is spreading and I blame the US.

Alexander Lobodenko, a 34-year-old district court judge, was shot several times in the back by two assailants on a street near his home in central Ukraine late Tuesday night, the country’s Interior Ministry said. 

This is the judge that jailed protestors in the Ukraine. 

Why do I blame the US? It is not in dispute that the US is financing and controlling the protestors:

In the tapes, Nuland and Pyatt discuss the upheavals in Ukraine, and President Viktor Yanukovych’s offer last month to make opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk the new prime minister and Vitali Klitschko deputy prime minister. Both men turned the offer down.

Nuland, who in December went to Independence Square in Kiev in a sign of support for the demonstrators, adds that she has also been told that the UN chief, Ban Ki-moon, is about to appoint a former Dutch ambassador to Kiev, Robert Serry, as his representative to Ukraine.

“That would be great I think to help glue this thing and have the UN glue it and you know, fuck the EU,“ she says, in an apparent reference to differences over their policies. 

Yes they discuss the "upheavals," but they did more than that. In the call they planned out what the protestors will do in the future. In other words, the diplomats cannot tell the protestors what to do unless they control them. I do not watch network news anymore as I want to not be influenced by Babylon the Great, as I call it, so I am not sure how much play this intercepted call was given. But based on a google search, not much as much as it deserves; an obscure site like Zero Hedge is way too high in the rankings. 

The response of the US government was to be shocked, shocked that phone tapping was occurring. Do I really have to say how dumb this is? 

Note that the US supporting these protestors is in direct conflict with signed treaties. 

Sergei Glazyev, an adviser to President Vladimir Putin with responsibility for relations with Ukraine, told a newspaper that U.S. "interference" breached the 1994 treaty under which Washington and Moscow jointly guaranteed Ukraine's security and sovereignty after Kiev gave up its Soviet-era nuclear arsenal. 

The Ukrainian government is trying to keep things calm:

Under intense pressure from Ukraine’s political opposition, Yanukovych signed a bill declaring amnesty for protesters and canceling unpopular anti-demonstration laws on January 31. 

Call me a right-wing nut if you wish, but this will just encourage more protests. 

Ukraine is tightly balanced between two opposing groups, one in the west and north of the country, the other in the east and south. A likely outcome is a partition of the country. 

So if chaos does ensue in Ukraine, the one to blame lives on Pennsylvania Avenue in a big White House, the current seat of Babylon the Great.