Source: Asia Times:

The Hague Declaration comes complete with the kiss of death, as in, “The International Monetary Fund has a central role leading the international effort to support Ukrainian reform, lessening Ukraine’s economic vulnerabilities, and better integrating the country as a market economy in the multilateral system.” That’s code for “wait till structural adjustment starts biting”.

And then there will be “measures to enhance trade and strengthen energy security” – code for “we will destroy your industry” but “are not very keen on paying your humongous Gazprom bill”.

All this in the sidelines of a supposed summit on nuclear security in the Netherlands, where US President Barack Obama, at the Rijksmuseum, in front of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, extolled Washington’s “support of the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian people”. Rembrandt’s watchers have never seen anything like it in their glorious lifespan. It pays to be a Nazi after all; you just need to be in the right government, against the right enemy, and fully approved by the hyper-power.

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