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<P dir=ltr>All of the above machinations expose an incoherent and corrupt
American foreign policy with a litany of US hypocrisy that might be hilarious if
not for potentially grave global implications. The comment “you just don’t
behave by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext” might just
win Secretary of State John Kerry the Hypocrisy of the Year Award.
Kerry, of course, famously supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq
seeking weapons of mass destruction.</P>
<P>But then again, the President’s own <A
href="http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-obama-putin-ukraine-20140304,0,5279776.story#axzz2v5mfLGat">comments</A> that
“..countries have deep concerns and suspicions about this kind of meddling..”
and that “…as long as none of us are inside Ukraine trying to meddle and
intervene.. with decisions that properly belong to Ukrainian people…” while
announcing <A
href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/04/obama-russia-ukraine-1-billion-putin-crimea/6006759/"> $1
billion aid</A> package to Ukraine (but not Detroit) would be a close
runner-up for the Award.</P>
<P dir=ltr>Note: A full chronology of US involvement would go back to the
build-up to the 2004 Orange Revolution and the massive $5 billion funding the US
has admitted to providing the Ukraine opposition since then.</EM></P>
<P>Listening to the US media, even the most diligent news junkie would find it
difficult to know that the U.S. State Department played not only a vital role in
the <A
href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/23/democracy-murdered-protest-ukraine-falls-intrigue-violence/">violence
and chaos</A>underway in Ukraine but was also complicit in creating the coup
that ousted democratically elected President Viktor Yanuyovch.
Given the Russian Parliament’s approval of Putin’s request for
military troops to be moved into Crimea, Americans uninformed about the <A
href="http://michael-hudson.com/2014/03/ukraine-go-west-young-man/">history</A>of
that region might also be persuaded that Russia is the <A
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/28/obamas-dumbest-plan-yet/">aggressor</A> and
the sole perpetrator of the violence.</P>
<P>Let’s be clear about what is at stake here: <A
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10668978/Ukraine-crisis-even-a-less-menacing-Russian-leader-than-Vladimir-Putin-would-not-let-Ukraine-go-easily.html">NATO
missiles</A> on the adjacent Ukraine border aimed directly at Russia would
make that country extremely vulnerable to Western goals and destabilization
efforts while threatening Russia’s only water access to its naval fleet in
Crimean peninsula, the Balkans, the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East – and
not the least of which would allow world economic <A
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/28/obamas-dumbest-plan-yet/">dominance</A> by
the US, the European Union, the IMF, World Bank and international financiers all
of whom had already brought staggering suffering to millions around the
globe.</P>
<P>The fact is that democracy was not a demand on the streets of Kiev. The
current record of events indicates that protests of civil dissatisfaction were
organized by reactionary <A
href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/23/democracy-murdered-protest-ukraine-falls-intrigue-violence/">neo-Nazi
forces</A> intent on fomenting a major domestic crisis ousting Ukraine’s
legitimate government. As events continue to spiral out of control,
here is the chronology of how the coup was engineered to install a
government more favorable to EU and US goals.</P>
<P> </P>
<P><STRONG>April 11, 2011</STRONG> - A <A
href="http://www.kyivpost.com/content/business/ukraine-hopes-to-get-15-billion-tranche-from-imf-i.html">Kiev
Post</A> article entitled “Ukraine Hopes to Get $1.5 Billion from IMF in
June” states that the loan is dependent on pension cuts while
“maintaining cooperation with the IMF, since it influences the
country’s interaction with other international financial institutions and
private investors” and further that the “attraction of $850 million from the
World Bank in 2011, depended on cooperation with the IMF.” Well,
that about says it all – if Ukraine played ball. then the loan money would pour
in.</P>
<P> </P>
<P dir=ltr><STRONG><A
href="http://sofiaglobe.com/2013/11/22/ukraine-eu-suspension-order-was-economic-move/">November
21, 2013</A></STRONG> - fast forward to the EU summit in Lithuania
when President Yanuyovch embarrassed the European Union by <A
href="http://www.russianwomendiscussion.com/index.php?topic=16674.0">rejecting</A> its
Agreement in favor of joining Russia’s Common Union with other Commonwealth
Independent States.</P>
<P> </P>
<P dir=ltr><STRONG>November 27, 2013</STRONG> – it was not until February
23, 2014 when Anonymous Ukraine hackers<A
href="http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_02_23/Anonymous-Ukraine-releases-Klitschko-e-mails-showing-treason-3581/">released</A> a
series of emails from a Lithuanian government advisor to opposition leader and
former boxer Vitaly Klitschko regarding plans to destabilize Ukraine; for
example:</P>
<P> </P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P dir=ltr>“Our American friends promise to pay a visit in the coming days, we
may even see Nuland or someone from the Congress.” 12/7/2013</P>
<P dir=ltr>“Your colleague has arrived ….his services may be required even
after the country is destabilized.” 12/14/2013</P>
<P dir=ltr>“I think we’ve paved the way for more radical escalation of the
situation. Isn’t it time to proceed with more decisive action?”
1/9/2014</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> </P>
<P dir=ltr><STRONG>November 29, 2013</STRONG> - well-orchestrated
protestors were <A
href="http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/euromaidan-rallies-in-ukraine-nov-21-23-coverage-332423.html">already
in the streets</A> of Kiev as European Commission President Jose Manual
Barroso announced that the EU would “<A
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-25154618">not accept Russia’s
veto</A>” of the Agreement.</P>
<P> </P>
<P dir=ltr><STRONG>December 13, 2013</STRONG> - As if intent on providing
incontrovertible evidence of US involvement in Ukraine, Assistant US Secretary
of State for Europe and Eurasia Victoria Nuland proudly told a <A
href="http://www.sott.net/article/273602-US-Assistant-Secretary-of-State-Victoria-Nuland-says-Washington-has-spent-5-billion-trying-to-subvert-Ukraine"> meeting</A> of
the International Business Conference sponsored by the US-Ukrainian Foundation
that the US had ‘invested’ more than $5 billion and ‘five <A
href="http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/02/27/geop-f27.html">years
worth</A> of work and preparation” in achieving what she called Ukraine’s
‘European aspirations.” Having just returned from her third trip to Ukraine in
five weeks, Nuland boasted of her ‘coordinated high level diplomacy’ and a more
than two hour ‘tough conversation’ with Yanukovych. Already familiar with
Nuland as former Secretary Clinton’s spokesperson at State, one can imagine her
discourteous tone and manner when she says she made it “absolutely clear” to
Yanukovych that the US required “immediate steps” …to “get back into
conversation with Europe and the IMF.” While Western media have
portrayed Yanukovych as a ‘weak’ leader, Nuland’s description of a ‘tough’
meeting can only mean that he resisted her threats and intimidations. In
what must have been a touching moment, Nuland spoke about a show of force by
government police on demonstrators who “sang hymns and prayed for peace.”</P>
<P> </P>
<P dir=ltr>What Nuland did not reveal on December 13 was that her meetings with
‘key Ukrainian stakeholders’ included neo-Nazi <A
href="http://propagandamatrix.com/articles/february2014/280214_nazi_party.htm">Svoboda
party leader</A> Oleh Tyahnybok and prime minister wannabe Arsenly
Yatsenyuk of the Fatherland Party. At about the same time Nuland
was<A
href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/23/democracy-murdered-protest-ukraine-falls-intrigue-violence/">wooing
fascist extremists</A>, Sen. John McCain (R-Az) and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-
Conn)<A
href="http://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-meets-oleh-tyahnybok-in-ukraine-2013-12">shared
the stage</A> in Kiev with Tyahnybok offering their support and opposition
to the sitting government. The <A
href="http://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-meets-oleh-tyahnybok-in-ukraine-2013-12">Svoboda
party</A> which has roots with extreme vigilante and anti-semitic groups
has since received at least three high level cabinet posts in the interim
government including deputy prime minister. There is no doubt that
the progenies of west Ukraine’s historic neo-fascist thugs that fought with
Hitler are now aligned with the US as represented by Victoria Nuland.</P>
<P> </P>
<P dir=ltr><STRONG>January 24, 2014</STRONG> – President Yanukoyvch
identified <A
href="http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_01_24/Yanukovych-says-foreigners-involved-in-radical-actions-in-Kiev-4844/">foreign
elements</A> participating in Kiev protests warning that armed radicals
were a danger to peaceful citizens<A
href="http://www.debka.com/article/23700/Yanukovych-leaves-Kiev-Opposition-leaders-lose-control-of-hard-core-protesters">.
Independent news</A>agencies also reported that “not all of Kiev’s
population backs opposition rule, which depends mainly on a group from the
former Polish town of Lvov, which holds sway over Kiev downtown – but not the
rest of the city.”</P>
<P> </P>
<P dir=ltr><STRONG>January 30, 2014</STRONG> - The <A
href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/01/221059.htm">State Department’s
website</A> Media Note announced Nuland’s upcoming travel plans that ”In
Kyiv, Assistant Secretary Nuland will meet with government officials, opposition
leaders, civil society and business leaders to encourage agreement on a new
government and plan of action.” In other words, almost a month before
President Yanukovych was ousted, the US was planning to rid the world of another
independently elected President.</P>
<P> </P>
<P dir=ltr><STRONG>February 4, 2014</STRONG> - More evidence of Ms.
Nuland’s meddling with extremist factions and the high level stakes of war and
peace occurred in her <A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxaa-67yGM">taped
conversation</A> with U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt discussing
their calculations of who’s in and who’s out to replace Yanukovych.
Note mention of Nazi leader Oleh Tyahnybok. Here are
some selected excerpts:</P>
<P> </P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P dir=ltr>Nuland: “What do you think?”</P>
<P dir=ltr>Pyatt: “I think we’re in play… the [Vitali] Klitsch
piece is obviously the complicated electron here especially the announcement
of him as deputy prime minister. Your argument to him which you’ll need to
make, I think the next phone call we want to set up is exactly the
one you made to Yats [Yatsenyuk]. And I’m glad you sort of put him on
the spot on where he fits in this scenario and I’m very glad he said what he
said in response.”</P>
<P dir=ltr>Nuland: “I don’t think Klitsch should go into
government. I don’t think its necessary. I don’t think it’s a good idea.”</P>
<P dir=ltr>Pyatt: “yeah…I mean I guess. You
think…what…in terms of him not going into the government, just let him
sort of stay out and do his political homework and stuff. I’m just
thinking in terms of the process moving ahead, we want to keep the
moderate democrats together. The problem is going to be Tyahnybok and
his guys. I’m sure that’s what Yanukoyvch is calculating on all
this.”</P>
<P dir=ltr>Nuland: “I think Yats is the guy who’s got the economic
experience, the governing experience. What he needs is Klitsch and
Tyahnybok on the outside and he needs to be talking to them four times a week
you know…I think with Klitsch going in at that level working for Yats, it’s
not going to work.”</P>
<P dir=ltr>Nuland: “My understanding is that the big three
[Yatsenyuk, Klitsch and Tyahnybok] were going in to their own meeting and that
Yats was going to offer in that context a three plus one conversation with
you.”</P>
<P dir=ltr>Pyatt: “ That’s what he proposed but knowing the dynamic
that’s been with them where Klitsch has been top dog; he’s going
to take a while to show up at a meeting, he’s probably talking to his guys at
this point so I think you reaching out to him will help with the personality
management among the three and gives us a chance to move fast on all this
stuff and put us behind it before they all sit down and he explains why he
doesn’t like it.”</P>
<P dir=ltr>Nuland: … “when I talked to Jeff Feltman this morning, he had
a new name for the UN guy …Robert Serry – he’s now gotten both
Serry and <A
href="http://www.sify.com/news/ukraine-ban-highlights-need-for-resolution-of-political-crisis-news-default-ocmx9iccdhf.html">Ban
ki Moon</A>to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday… so that would
be great I think to help glue this thing and have the UN help glue it
and you know fuck the EU.”</P>
<P dir=ltr>Pyatt: “Exactly. I think we’ve got to do
something to make it stick together because you can be pretty sure the
Russians will be working behind the scenes. ….Let me work on
Klitchko and I think we want to get somebody with an international personality
to come out here and help midwife this thing.”</P>
<P dir=ltr>Nuland: ”…Sullivan’s come back to me saying you need Biden
and I said probably tomorrow for an ‘atta boy’ and get the deeds to
stick so Biden’s willing.”</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> </P>
<P dir=ltr><STRONG>February 20, 2014</STRONG> – Foreign
ministers from Poland, Germany and France visiting Kiev secured President
Yanukovych’s <A
href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/20/ukraine-eu-foreign-ministers-agree-sanctions-officials"> agreement</A> that
would commit the government to an interim administration, constitutional reform
and new parliamentary and presidential elections. With “no clear sign that
EU or US pressure has achieved” the desired effect,<A
href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7be2df76-8617-11e3-b30d-00144feab7de.html#axzz2uqSgRPgy">opposition</A> leaders
rejected Yanukovych’s compromise which would have ended the three month
stand-off. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called on the German,
French and Polish <A
href="http://www.debka.com/article/23700/Yanukovych-leaves-Kiev-Opposition-leaders-lose-control-of-hard-core-protesters">foreign
ministers to step in</A> and take responsibility for upholding the deal
they helped forge and not let “<A
href="http://www.infowars.com/this-is-how-the-new-government-in-ukraine-deals-with-opponents/">armed
extremists</A>” directly threaten Ukrainian sovereignty.</P>
<P> </P>
<P dir=ltr><STRONG>February 21, 2014</STRONG> - At a special
summit in Brussels, European foreign ministers <A
href="http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/02/21/ukra-f21.html">agreed to
adopt</A> sanctions on Ukraine including visa bans and asset freezes. The
EU decision followed “immense pressure from the US for the European powers to
take punitive action against the Ukrainian regime.” Washington had already
imposed travel bans on 20 leading Ukrainians.</P>
<P> </P>
<P dir=ltr><STRONG>February 22, 2014</STRONG> – An hour after <A
href="http://www.businessinsider.com/yanukovych-leaves-kiev-2014-2">refusing to
resign</A>, the Ukrainian Parliament voted, according to Russian president
Vladimir Putin, in an <A
href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/putin-ukraine-unconstitutional-coup-yanukovych-legitimate-leader-article-1.1709894">unconstitutional
action</A> to oust President Yanukovych and that pro-EU forces <A
href="http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2014/02/25/police-state-ukraine">staged
a ‘coup’</A>. Yanukovych departed Kiev in fear for his life.</P>
<P> </P>
<P dir=ltr><STRONG>March 1, 2014</STRONG> - During a <A
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/28/readout-vice-president-s-call-ukrainian-prime-minister-arseniy-yatsenyuk">conversation</A> initiated
by the vice president, Biden delivered his ‘atta boy’ with a phone call to newly
installed prime minister Arseniy <A
href="http://www.infowars.com/central-banker-appointed-as-prime-minister-of-ukraine/">Yatsenyuk </A> reaffirming
US support for Ukraine’s ‘territorial integrity.”</P>
<P> </P>
<P dir=ltr>All of the above machinations expose an incoherent and corrupt
American foreign policy with a litany of US hypocrisy that might be hilarious if
not for potentially grave global implications. The comment “you just don’t
behave by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext” might just
win Secretary of State John Kerry the Hypocrisy of the Year Award.
Kerry, of course, famously supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq
seeking weapons of mass destruction.</P>
<P> </P>
<P dir=ltr>But then again, the President’s own <A
href="http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-obama-putin-ukraine-20140304,0,5279776.story#axzz2v5mfLGat">comments</A> that
“..countries have deep concerns and suspicions about this kind of meddling..”
and that “…as long as none of us are inside Ukraine trying to meddle and
intervene.. with decisions that properly belong to Ukrainian people…” while
announcing <A
href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/04/obama-russia-ukraine-1-billion-putin-crimea/6006759/"> $1
billion aid</A> package to Ukraine (but not Detroit) would be a close
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