Nothing of this political reality is so much as hinted at in the coverage of the impeachment hearings by either the pro-Trump or anti-Trump corporate media. On the contrary, the presumption is that the foreign policy of the United States government is aimed at the promotion of freedom and democracy and opposed to Russia because Russian President Vladimir Putin is a tyrant.
The role of US imperialism in Ukraine, however, is only one example of the depredations of American imperialism throughout the world, in which countless tyrants and fascists -- like Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Brazilian President Jair Bolsanaro -- are aligned with the CIA, the Pentagon and the State Department.
Nor is the cavalier attitude of the US government to Ukrainian sovereignty an exception. There is no difference between Washington's role in Ukraine in 2014, its intervention against the Rajapakse government in Sri Lanka in 2015, its backing for the abortive military coup in Turkey in 2016, or its support for the overthrow of Evo Morales in Bolivia today.
Weaker nations whose rulers get in the way of American imperialism will pay the price, and in some cases, as in Iraq, Venezuela, Syria and Libya -- all countries where oil wealth is a major consideration -- the result can be invasion, occupation, military coup or a combination of all three.
Washington has its hands around the throats of the Ukrainian people. The issue is not whether this stranglehold is being used for improper "personal" ends by Trump, as the Democrats allege, rather than for the purposes laid down by the national security establishment. The issue is the intervention of the American and international working class to free the Ukrainian people, and the population of the world, from the deadly grip of Wall Street and the Pentagon.
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