HOW IT BEGAN: NATURAL GAS IS WHAT ‘DETONATED’ THIS UKRAINE CRISIS

Monday, March 3, 2014
By Paul Martin

Andrew McKillop
21st Century Wire
MARCH 3, 2014

This week the whole of the western media and geopolitical discourse reads ‘Crisis in the Ukraine’, and the media juggernaut is quickly morphing into one of ‘The West vs Russia’.

Few in the western media, much less the leading political mouths in Britain, Europe and the US, are willing to address what triggered this latest geopolitical ‘crisis’. It’s better to move the public along with the threat of war narrative (much better for news ratings).

Always Smoldering – Ukraine’s Gas Debts to Russia

Defending Moscow’s December 18, 2013 agreement to provide Ukraine with an aid package estimated at about $15 billion, and cheaper natural gas through discounts and “gas debt forgiveness” estimated as able to save Ukraine $7 bn in one year, Vladimir Putin said the decision to invest $15 bn in ‘brotherly slavic’ Ukraine, and grant the gas discount was “pragmatic and based on economic facts”.

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