11 years ago TODAY, the US and the EU led a coup in Ukraine

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Don't even bother with your ignorant denials. McCain's rabble-rousing is a matter of record.


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11 years ago TODAY, the US and Europe led a coup in Ukraine – they have been fighting ever since. Eleven years ago today, the CIA and, likely, MI6, led a coup in Ukraine. They called it the "Maidan" revolution. They have been at war ever since.
It was 11 years ago today that all the REAL problems in Ukraine began. The US funded protests in Ukraine with nearly a million dollars a day in cash, coming from the US Embassy in Kyiv.
In the following weeks, the protests would become so violent that CIA-backed protesters burned members of the Ukrainian government alive in cities like Odessa and Mariupol.
Within a few months, the democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, was overthrown, and a puppet government was installed by the US and the EU in Kyiv.
This led the people of Crimea to vote in a public referendum to secede and return home to Russia. Crimea had only been part of Ukraine for about 55 years, after Nikita Khrushchev (a Ukrainian), General Secretary of the Soviet Union, GAVE Crimea to Ukraine.
Crimea voted overwhelmingly to return to Russia.
The collective West recoiled in horror and refused to recognize the vote, even though it was closely monitored by United Nations election observers.
To this day, the West denies reality and refers to Crimea as "occupied."
After Crimea left Ukraine, Luhansk and Donetsk wanted to leave as well. Ukraine, at the request of the EU and the US, concentrated troops on the borders of these two oblasts (states) and began firing artillery and mortars at civilian populations. They wanted to ethnically cleanse the Russian-speaking population!
The state militias of Luhansk and Donetsk fought Ukraine to a standstill, but at a terrible cost: 13,000 civilians were killed by Ukrainian shelling and mortars.
Hoping to stop the bloodshed, a meeting was organized in Minsk, Belarus, for a peace conference. Present were the Kyiv government, represented by President Poroshenko, representatives from Luhansk and Donetsk, the President of France, Francois Hollande, the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
After nearly 19 hours of negotiations, all parties signed the "Minsk Agreement" to restore peace.
Ukraine did not honor a SINGLE item of that agreement.'
 
Despite his leadership defects and character flaws, Yanukovych had been duly elected in balloting that international observers considered reasonably free and fair—about the best standard one can hope for outside the mature Western democracies. A decent respect for democratic institutions and procedures meant that he ought to be able to serve out his lawful term as president, which would end in 2016.

The extent of the Obama administration’s meddling in Ukraine’s politics was breathtaking.

Neither the domestic opposition nor Washington and its European Union allies behaved in that fashion. Instead, Western leaders made it clear that they supported the efforts of demonstrators to force Yanukovych to reverse course and approve the EU agreement or, if he would not do so, to remove the president before his term expired. Sen. John McCain (R‑AZ), the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, went to Kiev to show solidarity with the Euromaidan activists. McCain dined with opposition leaders, including members of the ultra right-wing Svoboda Party, and later appeared on stage in Maidan Square during a mass rally. He stood shoulder to shoulder with Svoboda leader Oleg Tyagnibok.

But McCain’s actions were a model of diplomatic restraint compared to the conduct of Victoria Nuland, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs. As Ukraine’s political crisis deepened, Nuland and her subordinates became more brazen in favoring the anti-Yanukovych demonstrators. Nuland noted in a speech to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation on December 13, 2013, that she had traveled to Ukraine three times in the weeks following the start of the demonstrations. Visiting the Maidan on December 5, she handed out cookies to demonstrators and expressed support for their cause.

The extent of the Obama administration’s meddling in Ukraine’s politics was breathtaking. Russian intelligence intercepted and leaked to the international media a Nuland telephone call in which she and U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Geoffey Pyatt discussed in detail their preferences for specific personnel in a post-Yanukovych government. The U.S‑favored candidates included Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the man who became prime minister once Yanukovych was ousted from power. During the telephone call, Nuland stated enthusiastically that “Yats is the guy” who would do the best job.

Nuland and Pyatt were engaged in such planning at a time when Yanukovych was still Ukraine’s lawful president. It was startling to have diplomatic representatives of a foreign country—and a country that routinely touts the need to respect democratic processes and the sovereignty of other nations—to be scheming about removing an elected government and replacing it with officials meriting U.S. approval


 
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