Aimed at Total Destabilization
On February 12, Christine Lagarde,
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, announced that the
IMF had reached an agreement with the Ukrainian government on a new
economic reform program. Ms Lagarde’s statement, made in Brussels, came
only minutes after peace negotiations between the heads of the German,
French, Russian und Ukrainian governments in Minsk, Belarus, had ended.
The timing was no coincidence. Washington had been left out of the
negotiations and now reacted by sending its most powerful financial
organization to the forefront in order to deliver a clear message to the
world: that the US will not loosen its grip on the Ukraine, if not by
sending weapons, then at least economically and financially.
Mme Lagarde’s assertions that the
program „would support immediate economic stabilization“ and spell „a
turning point for the Ukraine“ are as far removed from reality as the
main stream media’s depiction of the IMF as an aid organization helping a
drowning country to survive in times of trouble. Not a single cent of
the loans will go to the Ukrainian working people. Instead, the money
will be used to prop up the Yatseniuk government which is totally
subservient to US interests, and enable it to service the debts incurred
by its predecessors in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008,
to pay off most of its military expenses of around $ 250 million per
month for the continuation of a war against its own population and to
fill at least some holes in the state budget which are due to the
country’s ongoing economic deterioration.