IT’S NOT OVER ‘TILL ITS OVER

Don’t you believe for a minute that the crew that tried to steal the past election is just standing passively on the sidelines for the upcoming “revote.” Don’t believe that you have heard about every falsification that was accomplished. Already there is an investigation into alleged hacking of the Central Election Commission server. What other schemes are being hatched?

Please consider what is at stake here. There are the monetary stakes involving billions and billions of dollars. From outright criminal activity, to questionable privatizations, there are some very rich people with a lot to lose if Yushchenko wins. Then there are the geopolitical stakes. This pits the interests of the Russian ruling elite against that of the European Union and the United States.

Please consider that millions of people have died around the world in the past century for much less than what is at stake here.

My conclusion is that with stakes so high, no one can passively let events unfold as they will. Therefore, count on behind the scenes maneuvering aimed at stealing the upcoming election, just in a not so heavy handed a manner.

As a long shot, don’t count out a heavy handed move by the Russian government. A future empire reuniting the components of the old Soviet Empire is about to lose an unrecoverable window of opportunity. Besides, the Russian ruling elite doesn’t want the people, among others, of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia itself to get the idea that they too can shake the yoke of authoritarian/criminal-capitalist rule.

I’ll go out on a limb here. Looking into my crystal ball I see two possible futures in twenty-five years. In one, there is a new Russian Empire made up of many of its former Soviet Republics, including Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. In the other, there is an expanded European Union stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Which future is more likely, and more importantly, which future is better may be obvious, but we shall have to wait and see.