{"id":2447,"date":"2014-12-04T13:18:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T18:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:18:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T18:18:36","slug":"made-in-the-usa-how-the-ukrainian-government-is-giving-away-citizenships-so-foreigners-can-run-the-country-liberty-blitzkrieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"Made in the USA \u2013 How the Ukrainian Government is Giving Away Citizenships so Foreigners Can Run the Country | Liberty Blitzkrieg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2014\/12\/03\/made-in-the-usa-how-the-ukrainian-government-is-giving-away-citizenships-so-foreigners-can-run-the-country\/\">Made in the USA \u2013 How the Ukrainian Government is Giving Away Citizenships so Foreigners Can Run the Country | Liberty Blitzkrieg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">I hadn\u2019t written a single piece on the U.S.-Ukraine-Russia quagmire for the entirety of 2014, until Monday when I published:\u00a0<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #3473a6; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" title=\"Permanent Link to Tensions Between the U.S. and Russia Are Worse Than You Realize \u2013 Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov\" href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2014\/12\/01\/tensions-between-the-u-s-and-russia-are-worse-than-you-realize-remarks-by-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tensions Between the U.S. and Russia Are Worse Than You Realize \u2013 Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Now I can hardly think of anything else.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">The reason the geopolitical hot zone has so captured my attention is because I think we are much closer to a serious escalation than most\u00a0people want to admit. I hope I\u2019m wrong, but when I take a step back and look at what is being said and done under the surface, an incredibly dangerous tinderbox is now firmly in place and ready to be lit. We know from history that relatively minor catalysts can lead to unimaginable horrors. I fear the stage is set for some real nastiness, and hope cooler heads can prevail on both sides.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">Claims that the new government in Ukraine is nothing more than a Western puppet Parliament have been swirling around consistently\u00a0since February. Nevertheless, I think it\u2019s very significant that the takeover is now overt, undeniable and completely out in the open. Nothing proves this fact more clearly than the recent and sudden granting of citizenship to three foreigners so that they can take top posts in the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">At the top of the list is American,\u00a0Natalie Jaresko, who runs private equity fund Horizon Capital. She will now be Ukraine\u2019s Finance Minister, and I highly doubt she will be\u00a0forced to pay\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #3473a6; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/Individuals\/International-Taxpayers\/Expatriation-Tax\">the IRS Expatriation Tax<\/a>\u00a0(one set of laws for the rich and powerful, another set of laws for the peasants).\u00a0For\u00a0Economy Minister, a Lithuanian investment banker, Aivaras Abromavicius, will take the reigns. Health Minister will be\u00a0Alexander Kvitashvili of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">The<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #3473a6; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/ukraine-goes-abroad-for-government-ministers-1417552835\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;\">\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made in the USA \u2013 How the Ukrainian Government is Giving Away Citizenships so Foreigners Can Run the Country | Liberty Blitzkrieg. I hadn\u2019t written a single piece on the U.S.-Ukraine-Russia quagmire for the entirety of 2014, until Monday when I published:\u00a0Tensions Between the U.S. and Russia Are Worse Than You Realize \u2013 Remarks by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1628,694,821,834,862],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-puppet-government","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-us","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}