Thursday, February 20, 2014

Another View on the Ukraine Mess

According to this author, the Ukraine Problem is another GWB/Obozo Fail.

...Any doubts about the Obama administration’s real intentions in Ukraine should have been dispelled by the recently revealed taped conversation between a top State Department official, Victoria Nuland, and the US ambassador in Kiev. The media predictably focused on the source of the “leak” and on Nuland’s verbal “gaffe”—“F–k the EU.” But the essential revelation was that high-level US officials were plotting to “midwife” a new, anti-Russian Ukrainian government by ousting or neutralizing its democratically elected president—that is, a coup....--quoted at TAC

One may or may not prefer the dissolution of the old USSR; one may or may not like Putin's position (also somewhat mis-reported).

But the US' "implant democracy" policy, a brainchild of GWB and the NeoConservatives, has its drawbacks--mostly, a lot of dead bodies all over the globe.

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