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Meanwhile, Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has vowed to track down and bring to justice all those promoting separatism in Crimea.

He says his country will find the ones who are trying to destroy Ukrainian independence.

"To the Ukrainian people - let there be no doubt, the Ukrainian state will find all those ringleaders of separatism and division who now, under the cover of Russian troops, are trying to destroy Ukrainian independence," he told a cabinet meeting.

"We will find all of them - if it takes one year, two years - and bring them to justice and try them in Ukrainian and international courts. The ground will burn beneath their feet."

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2014-03-17/crimea-crisis-secession-referendum-polls-close-russian-media-says-crimeans-support-joining-russia/1280208

[Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk giving Putin reason to invade? Lost in all of this --

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/27/wither-ukraine/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/10/us-imperialism-and-the-ukraine-coup/

Accepting the Association Agreement with the EU and the IMF aid package would actually remove any semblance of Ukrainian independence.

1. It stipulates that Ukraine cannot accept any financial support from Russia,

2. It would make impossible any Ukrainian economic planning that did not follow the guidelines established by the IMF and other imperialist lending agencies.

3. Because tof he nature of the IMF-imposed economic agenda, Ukraine would find it very difficult to ever escape the debt cycle.

The IMF mandates, for example that capitalist profits be only minimally taxed, the government provide generous financial support and tax breaks for capitalist ventures, public services be privatized, and restrictions on transfer of capitalist profits abroad be minimal.

As a result, it would be difficult, if not impossible for any Ukrainian government to raise funds for basic institutions people need to live a quality life.

(If you have doubts about these claim, look at the living conditions of the masses of the people in the 27 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that have been controlled by the IMF for many years now.)

IMF control of the economies of the “developing world” is the reason it never develops!]

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