About ‘SLICED GIRKIN’

‘SLICED GIRKIN’

As the conflict in Ukraine escalated, those on the side of the Russian-backed separatists became more open and brazen about their involvement, admitting that they were backed by the Kremlin.

One such fellow was Igor Girkin, who became the voice of the ‘separatist’ movement, effectively a terrorist commander. He broadcasted on you tube on numerous occasions, even giving respect to the efforts of the Ukrainian forces who defended Ukraine valiantly, and continue to do so.

According to information available when the conflict started, Ukraine had 6000 combat ready troops, compared to 200 000 Russian troops.

When we lost Crimea, it felt like a kick in the guts, but we were outgunned by vastly superior forces.

The poem celebrates a rare victory. It’s important to recognise that the enemy can be beaten, and there were times when we achieved that.

About ‘THE REVOLUTION WON’T BE OVER BY THE WEEKEND’

‘THE REVOLUTION WON’T BE OVER BY THE WEEKEND’

The Ukraine conflict has slipped down the pages of world news media and no longer get any coverage, or very little.

But, Ukrainian soldiers are being killed on an almost daily basis, by Kremlin backed militant terrorists. It’s a stalemate, and it has a lot of advantages for Moscow:

• Ukraine is destabilised and cannot join the EU or NATO when it has a combat zone on its territory.
• The east of Ukraine is effectively being used as a training ground for Russian army cadets.
• Russia has its eyes on the south eastern corridor to be able to get access by land to Crimea, even though it is building a bridge across to Crimea from the Russian mainland.

This is likely to carry on for some years, and once a few decades have passed, no one will even remember that Crime was once part of Ukraine.

Ukraine will need to adapt and fight hard to keep its territory, with very little help from the west.

FLOWER BED FASCIST

FLOWER BED FASCIST                                                                MAY 15^TH 2014

It’s completely unexpected
When the man next door
Bursts through the fence
And lays claim to your garden store

He stacks grow bags to build a barricade
Siphons petrol from a lawn mower
Converts jam jars into burning grenades
To incinerate nearby shrubs and flowers

He changes the padlock for a bigger bolt
Declares the shed an independent republic
Squashes a neo-Nazi garden gnome revolt
Dismantles the barbecue and throws the bricks

Cultivates crops and claims they’re anti-fascist
Hoists up a flag of his own stripes
Doesn’t know his onions, agitates the cabbages
Pours water on his own fascist rhetoric, it never gets ripe

About ‘123 PER CENT’

‘123 PER CENT’

It was a violation of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. On December 5th 1994, the heads of USA, the Russian Federation and great Britain all met in Budapest, and agreed that, if Ukraine disarmed itself of its large nuclear arsenal, then its boundaries would be assured.

Russia violated this treaty, using the Euromaidan protest as an excuse, their argument was that, because there had been a ‘revolution’ in Kyiv, then Ukraine had changed and become a ‘new state’. This was stretching events to suit the Kremlin aim of grabbing territory whenever an opportunity comes along. Ukraine had not changed dramatically, but was rebelling against corruption. In Russia, the narrative was that is was a US led coup. It’s impossible to say how much of an influence the USA had in the protests. It wouldn’t surprise me, if, in years to come, it emerges that Russia and USA did a deal over Ukraine, before Euromaidan even happened.

The referendum was conducted in some haste – within 3 weeks of the annexation of Crimea, the votes had been cast. But, how can a referendum be held when a territory is under military occupation, with Russian soldiers patrolling, with heavy armour and artillery, and with the gun smoke of unrest in the air?

 

123 PER CENT

123 PER CENT                                                                   March 28^th 2014

Stale air lingers inside a small room
Making a bad smell, noxious, unrelenting
Pieces of paper are marked with a cross
Carefully folded, then dropped into a wooden box

Commanders claim victory before the count even commences
Statistics are quoted before they come into existence
Percentages rise high from multiple distortions
A rapid execution, no need to wait for official reports

Papers stacked on a desk, a mathematician’s mountain
Heads bent down, furious fingers, creative accounting
A number is thought of, a fairly random approximation
Big enough to justify adding new territory to a nation

Results are announced with almost indecent haste
The leader of the land lets a smile crawl on to his face
History’s hourglass tilts, boundaries shift, stolen sand
The people have voted to be part of the Motherland

According to the records, a majority of 93 percent
Got caught, gave their land away as a present
Then the calculations are exposed as a sham
123 percent said yes, in a rigged vote, a political scam