The
Russia-obsessed corporate media continues to peddle the narrative
that Donald Trump has turned the United States into a client-state of
Russia, even while he directly provokes the former Soviet Union by
providing Russia’s foe — Urkaine — with the largest lethal
assistance to a country on its border.
by
Darius Shahtahmasebi
Part
2 - U.S. installed a puppet government in Ukraine
On
February 7, 2014, the BBC published a transcript of a bugged phone
conversation between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and
the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt. In this phone call,
the U.S. officials were openly discussing who should form Ukraine’s
government even before the president, Viktor Yanukovych, had been
successfully ousted from power. In other words, the U.S. was actively
doing to Russia’s neighbour what the corporate media and various
elements of the intelligence communities have accused Russia of doing
to the U.S. during the 2016 elections. As The Nation explained:
In
the intercepted phone call between U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
for European Affairs Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Geoffrey Pyatt, the two were, as Russian expert Stephen Cohen put it
to Democracy Now, ‘plotting a coup d’état against the elected
president of Ukraine.’ [emphasis added]
Good.
I don’t think Klitsch [opposition leader Vitaly Klitschko] should
go into the government. I don’t think it’s necessary, I don’t
think it’s a good idea,” Nuland said in the call, as transcribed
by the BBC.
Pyatt
responded:
Yeah.
I guess… in terms of him not going into the government, just let
him stay out and do his political homework and stuff. I’m just
thinking in terms of sort of the process moving ahead we want to keep
the moderate democrats together. The problem is going to be Tyahnybok
[Oleh Tyahnybok, an opposition leader] and his guys and I’m sure
that’s part of what [President Viktor] Yanukovych is calculating on
all this.
Nuland
added:
I
think Yats [opposition leader Arseniy Yatseniuk] is the guy who’s
got the economic experience, the governing experience. He’s the…
what he needs is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside. He needs to be
talking to them four times a week, you know. I just think Klitsch
going in… he’s going to be at that level working for Yatseniuk,
it’s just not going to work.
Oleh
Tyahnybok, who had met with Senator John McCain one year prior, is
the leader of the right-wing nationalist party Svoboda. When Svoboda
was founded in 1995, the party had a swastika-like logo. As Business
Insider explains, Tyahnybok is also a known anti-Semite:
Tyahnybok
himself was expelled from the Our Ukraine parliamentary faction in
2004 after giving a speech demanding that Ukrainians fight against a
‘Muscovite-Jewish mafia’ (he later clarified this by saying that
he actually had Jewish friends and was only against to ‘a group of
Jewish oligarchs who control Ukraine and against Jewish-Bolsheviks
[in the past]’). In 2005 he wrote open letters demanding Ukraine do
more to halt ‘criminal activities’ of ‘organized Jewry,’ and,
even now, Svoboda openly calls for Ukrainian citizens to have their
ethnicity printed onto their passports.
When
the protests broke out in Ukraine in 2014, the entire movement was
hijacked by these racist elements.
“You’d
never know from most of the reporting that far-right nationalists and
fascists have been at the heart of the protests and attacks on
government buildings,” reported Seumas Milne of The Guardian.
Just days ago, thousands marched in Kiev to celebrate the anniversary
of far-right nationalist Stepan Bandera’s birthday.
It
is revealing that, when the U.S. decided to make a choice between a
president they viewed as a Russian ally and the various ultra-right
nationalist elements of Ukraine, Washington decided to help oust the
former for the benefit of the latter.
Source,
links:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/trump-continues-obama-era-saber-rattling-russia-arming-ukraine/236101/
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