The Deputy Director of the Center for Society Research in Kiev recently wrote:
"What are they doing? The highest-ranking State Department official, who presumably represents the Obama administration, and the American ambassador in Kiev are, to put it in blunt terms, plotting a coup d'état against the elected president of Ukraine."
"What is most worrying is that the new government cannot control the infamous Right Sector. Its members are now popular heroes, the vanguard of the victorious "revolution". They have guns captured from police departments in the western regions and now, after Yanukovych's toppling, are demanding that the revolution needs to continue against "corrupt democracy" and liberalism."Some foreign policy observers speculate that US support of a breakaway movement on Russia's doorstep may be an effort to punish Putin for his frustration of Western efforts to employ military force on Syria, as well as Iran. Obama has recently linked Syria with the Ukraine. Obama said last month at the North American leader's summit in Mexico:
"I think this is an expression of the hopes and aspirations of people inside of Syria and people inside of the Ukraine who recognise that basic freedoms -- freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, fair and free elections -- are fundamental rights that everybody wants to enjoy."In 2005 it was revealed by Wes Clark that "Nonconservative" architects of the Iraq War within the Bush White House had planned to invade or attack not just Iraq, but "seven countries in five years," Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Lebanon, and Iran. Russian President Putin has played a pivotal role in frustrating such plans, most recently brokering a deal over chemical weapons in Syria, which politically neutralized US calls for war.
Wes Clark, Neoconservatives intend to attack "seven countries in five years."
Addressing the predicament of Jews in Kiev, last month Ukrainian Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman advised Ukraine's Jews to leave the capital, and, if possible, the country. In his February 25th article, "Is the US Backing Neo-Nazis in Ukraine?" - Alternet's Max Blumenthal reports one protester's estimate that around 30% of the protesters, at that time, were fascists. The figure is plausible given election returns for the Neo-Nazi parties in some Ukrainian provinces, which have nudged as high as 50%.
In January, Rabbi Boruch Gorin of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia said of the protesters in Kiev:
"Unfortunately, among the opposition leaders and opposition forces, well-defined, anti-Semitic speeches have already been recorded...This is extremely dangerous."Ukraine has a grim history of Nazi collaboration during World War II, and anti-Semitism historically.
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