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Exclusive: Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine'southward "regime change" in early 2022 without weighing the likely chaos and consequences. Now, as neo-Nazis turn their guns on the government, information technology's hard to encounter how anyone tin can clean up the mess that Nuland made, writes Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry

As the Ukrainian regular army squares off confronting ultra-right and neo-Nazi militias in the due west and violence against ethnic Russians continues in the east, the obvious folly of the Obama administration'south Ukraine policy has come into focus even for many who tried to ignore the facts, or what you might call "the mess that Victoria Nuland made."

Assistant Secretary of Land for European Affairs "Toria" Nuland was the "mastermind" behind the Feb. 22, 2022 "authorities change" in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the e'er-gullible U.S. mainstream media that the insurrection wasn't really a coup only a victory for "democracy."

Banana Secretarial assistant of State for European Diplomacy Victoria Nuland, who pushed for the Ukraine insurrection and helped pick the mail service-insurrection leaders.

To sell this latest neocon-driven "regime change" to the American people, the ugliness of the insurrection-makers had to be systematically airbrushed, specially the cardinal function of neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists from the Right Sektor. For the U.Due south.-organized propaganda campaign to work, the insurrection-makers had to wear white hats, not brownish shirts.

And then, for nearly a year and a half, the Westward's mainstream media, specially The New York Times and The Washington Post, twisted their reporting into all kinds of contortions to avoid telling their readers that the new government in Kiev was permeated past and dependent on neo-Nazi fighters and Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who wanted a pure-claret Ukraine, without ethnic Russians.

Any mention of that sordid reality was deemed "Russian propaganda" and anyone who spoke this inconvenient truth was a "stooge of Moscow." It wasn't until July vii that the Times admitted the importance of the neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists in waging war against indigenous Russian rebels in the e. The Times also reported that these far-right forces had been joined by Islamic militants. Some of those jihadists have been called "brothers" of the hyper-brutal Islamic State.

Though the Times sought to spin this remarkable armed forces alliance neo-Nazi militias and Islamic jihadists every bit a positive, the reality had to exist jarring for readers who had bought into the Western propaganda near noble "pro-democracy" forces resisting evil "Russian aggression."

Possibly the Times sensed that it could no longer keep the chapeau on the troubling truth in Ukraine. For weeks, the Correct Sektor militias and the neo-Nazi Azov battalion have been alarm the noncombatant authorities in Kiev that they might turn on information technology and create a new order more than to their liking.

Clashes in the West

So, on Sat, violent clashes broke out in the western Ukrainian town of Mukachevo, allegedly over the control of cigarette-smuggling routes. Right Sektor paramilitaries sprayed police officers with bullets from a chugalug-fed machinegun, and police force backed by Ukrainian regime troops returned fire. Several deaths and multiple injuries were reported.

Tensions escalated on Monday with President Petro Poroshenko ordering national security forces to disarm "armed cells" of political movements. Meanwhile, the Right Sektor dispatched reinforcements to the area while other militiamen converged on the capital of Kiev.

While President Poroshenko and Right Sektor leader Dmitry Yarosh may succeed in tamping down this latest outburst of hostilities, they may exist simply postponing the inevitable: a conflict between the U.S.-backed government in Kiev and the neo-Nazis and other right-fly fighters who spearheaded terminal year's coup and have been at the forepart lines of the fighting against indigenous Russian rebels in the east.

The Ukrainian right-wing extremists feel they have carried the heaviest burden in the state of war against the indigenous Russians and resent the politicians living in the relative safety and comfort of Kiev. In March, Poroshenko also fired thuggish oligarch Igor Kolomoisky equally governor of the southeastern province of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Kolomoisky had been the main distributor of the Right Sektor militias.

And then, every bit has become apparent across Europe and fifty-fifty in Washington, the Ukraine crisis is spinning out of control, making the State Department'south preferred narrative of the disharmonize that it's all Russian President Vladimir Putin's mistake harder and harder to sell.

How Ukraine is supposed to pull itself out of what looks like a death spiral a possible two-forepart war in the east and the west along with a crashing economy is hard to comprehend. The European Union, confronting budgetary crises over Greece and other European union members, has little coin or patience for Ukraine, its neo-Nazis and its socio-political chaos.

America's neocons at The Washington Post and elsewhere withal rant about the need for the Obama administration to sink more than billions upon billions of dollars into post-insurrection Ukraine because it "shares our values." Just that argument, besides, is collapsing as Americans meet the heart of a racist nationalism chirapsia inside Ukraine's new society.

Another Neocon 'Regime Change'

Much of what has happened, of grade, was predictable and indeed was predicted, simply neocon Nuland couldn't resist the temptation to pull off a "regime change" that she could call her own.

Her hubby (and arch-neocon) Robert Kagan had co-founded the Project for the New American Century in 1998 effectually a demand for "government change" in Iraq, a project that was accomplished in 2003 with President George W. Bush'due south invasion.

As with Nuland in Ukraine, Kagan and his swain neocons thought they could engineer an like shooting fish in a barrel invasion of Iraq, oust Saddam Hussein and install some hand-picked customer in Iraq, Ahmed Chalabi was to be "the guy." But they failed to take into account the harsh realities of Iraq, such as the fissures betwixt Sunnis and Shiites, exposed by the U.S.-led invasion and occupation.

In Ukraine, Nuland and her neocon and liberal-interventionist friends saw the chance to poke Putin in the eye by encouraging violent protests to overthrow Russia-friendly President Yanukovych and put in place a new government hostile to Moscow.

Carl Gershman, the neocon president of the U.S.-taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy, explained the programme in a Post op-ed on Sept. 26, 2013. Gershman called Ukraine "the biggest prize" and an important interim stride toward toppling Putin, who "may find himself on the losing end not only in the most away only inside Russia itself."

For her part, Nuland passed out cookies to anti-Yanukovych demonstrators at the Maidan foursquare, reminded Ukrainian business concern leaders that the U.Due south. had invested $5 billion in their "European aspirations," declared "fuck the European union" for its less aggressive approach, and discussed with U.Due south. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt who the new leaders of Ukraine should exist. "Yats is the guy," she said, referring to Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Nuland saw her big chance on February. 20, 2014, when a mysterious sniper apparently firing from a edifice controlled past the Correct Sektor shot and killed both police and protesters, escalating the crisis. On Feb. 21, in a desperate bid to avoid more violence, Yanukovych agreed to a European-guaranteed plan in which he accepted reduced powers and called for early elections so he could exist voted out of office.

But that wasn't plenty for the anti-Yanukovych forces who led by Correct Sektor and neo-Nazi militias overran government buildings on Feb. 22, forcing Yanukovych and many of his officials to flee for their lives. With armed thugs patrolling the corridors of power, the concluding path to "authorities alter" was clear.

Instead of trying to salvage the Feb. 21 understanding, Nuland and European officials arranged for an unconstitutional procedure to strip Yanukovych of the presidency and declared the new regime "legitimate." Nuland'due south "guy" Yatsenyuk became prime number minister.

While Nuland and her neocon cohorts celebrated, their "regime change" prompted an obvious reaction from Putin, who recognized the strategic threat that this hostile new regime posed to the historic Russian naval base at Sevastopol in Crimea. On Feb. 23, he began to accept steps to protect those Russian interests.

Indigenous Hatreds

What the insurrection likewise did was revive long pent-upward antagonisms between the ethnic Ukrainians in the west, including elements that had supported Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Wedlock during World War Ii, and ethnic Russians in the south and east who feared the anti-Russian sentiments emanating from Kiev.

First, in Crimea so in the and so-called Donbas region, these indigenous Russians, who had been Yanukovych's political base, resisted what they viewed every bit the illegitimate overthrow of their elected president. Both areas held referenda seeking separation from Ukraine, a movement that Russia accepted in Crimea just resisted with the Donbas.

However, when the Kiev regime announced an "anti-terrorism operation" against the Donbas and dispatched neo-Nazi and other extremist militias to be the tip of the spear, Moscow began quietly assisting the embattled ethnic Russian rebels, a motion that Nuland, the Obama administration and the mainstream news media called "Russian aggression."

Amid the Western hysteria over Russia's supposedly "purple designs" and the thorough demonizing of Putin, President Barack Obama essentially authorized a new Cold War against Russia, reflected now in new U.S. strategic planning that could toll the U.S. taxpayers trillions of dollars and risk a possible nuclear confrontation.

Yet, despite the extraordinary costs and dangers, Nuland failed to appreciate the practical on-the-ground realities, much as her husband and other neocons did in Iraq. While Nuland got her hand-picked customer Yatsenyuk installed and he did oversee a U.South.-demanded "neo-liberal" economic plan slashing pensions, heating assistance and other social programs the chaos that her "regime change" unleashed transformed Ukraine into a financial black pigsty.

With few prospects for a clear-cut victory over the ethnic Russian resistance in the east and with the neo-Nazi/Islamist militias increasingly restless over the stalemate the chances to restore any meaningful sense of order in the country appear remote. Unemployment is soaring and the government is substantially bankrupt.

The final best hope for some stability may accept been the Minsk-2 agreement in Feb 2015, calling for a federalized system to give the Donbas more autonomy, just Nuland's Prime Minister Yatsenyuk sabotaged the deal in March by inserting a poison pill that essentially demanded that the ethnic Russian rebels start surrender.

At present, the Ukraine chaos threatens to spiral even farther out of control with the neo-Nazis and other right-wing militias supplied with a compensation of weapons to impale ethnic Russians in the e turning on the political leadership in Kiev.

In other words, the neocons accept struck once again, dreaming upward a "authorities change" scheme that ignored applied realities, such as ethnic and religious fissures. Then, as the blood flowed and the suffering worsened, the neocons just sought out someone else to blame.

Thus, information technology seems unlikely that Nuland, regarded by some in Washington as the new "star" in U.S. foreign policy, will be fired for her dangerous incompetence, just as nearly neocons who authored the Iraq disaster remain "respected" experts employed by major think tanks, given prized space on op-ed pages, and consulted at the highest levels of the U.S. government.

[For more on these topics, come across Consortiumnews.com's "Obama'south Truthful Foreign Policy Weakness" and "A Family Business organization of Perpetual State of war."]

Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You lot can buy his latest book, America'southward Stolen Narrative, either in print here  or as an eastward-book (from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com ). You also tin order Robert Parry'south trilogy on the Bush Family and its connections to various right-wing operatives for just $34. The trilogy includes America's Stolen Narrative. For details on this offering, click hither .

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Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/13/the-mess-that-nuland-made/

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