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Exclusive: Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine's "government alter" in early 2014 without weighing the likely chaos and consequences. Now, as neo-Nazis plow their guns on the government, it's hard to see how anyone can make clean up the mess that Nuland made, writes Robert Parry.

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

Banana Secretary of State for European Affairs "Toria" Nuland was the "mastermind" behind the February. 22, 2014 "regime modify" in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the ever-gullible U.S. mainstream media that the coup wasn't really a insurrection but a victory for "democracy."

Assistant Secretarial assistant of Country for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who pushed for the Ukraine coup and helped pick the post-insurrection leaders.

To sell this latest neocon-driven "regime change" to the American people, the ugliness of the insurrection-makers had to exist systematically airbrushed, especially the key role of neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists from the Correct Sektor. For the U.South.-organized propaganda entrada to piece of work, the coup-makers had to habiliment white hats, not brown shirts.

So, for nigh a year and a half, the Westward'due south mainstream media, particularly The New York Times and The Washington Mail service, twisted their reporting into all kinds of contortions to avoid telling their readers that the new government in Kiev was permeated by and dependent on neo-Nazi fighters and Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who wanted a pure-blood Ukraine, without indigenous Russians.

Whatsoever mention of that sordid reality was accounted "Russian propaganda" and anyone who spoke this inconvenient truth was a "stooge of Moscow." It wasn't until July 7 that the Times admitted the importance of the neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists in waging war against ethnic Russian rebels in the east. The Times besides reported that these far-correct forces had been joined by Islamic militants. Some of those jihadists have been chosen "brothers" of the hyper-brutal Islamic State.

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

Perhaps the Times sensed that it could no longer continue the lid on the troubling truth in Ukraine. For weeks, the Right Sektor militias and the neo-Nazi Azov battalion take been warning the civilian regime in Kiev that they might plow on it and create a new order more to their liking.

Clashes in the W

Then, on Saturday, vehement 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 belt-fed machinegun, and police force backed by Ukrainian government 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 upper-case letter of Kiev.

While President Poroshenko and Correct Sektor leader Dmitry Yarosh may succeed in tamping down this latest flare-up of hostilities, they may be only postponing the inevitable: a disharmonize between the U.S.-backed government in Kiev and the neo-Nazis and other right-wing fighters who spearheaded last year'due south coup and have been at the front lines of the fighting against ethnic Russian rebels in the due east.

The Ukrainian right-fly extremists experience they accept carried the heaviest burden in the war against the ethnic Russians and resent the politicians living in the relative safe and comfort of Kiev. In March, Poroshenko also fired thuggish oligarch Igor Kolomoisky as governor of the southeastern province of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Kolomoisky had been the primary benefactor of the Right Sektor militias.

So, as has go apparent across Europe and fifty-fifty in Washington, the Ukraine crisis is spinning out of control, making the Country Section's preferred narrative of the conflict 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 similar a expiry screw a possible two-front end war in the due east and the west along with a crashing economy is hard to embrace. The European Union, confronting budgetary crises over Hellenic republic and other European union members, has little money or patience for Ukraine, its neo-Nazis and its socio-political chaos.

America's neocons at The Washington Post and elsewhere still bluster most the need for the Obama assistants to sink more billions upon billions of dollars into post-coup Ukraine considering information technology "shares our values." Simply that argument, too, is collapsing as Americans see the heart of a racist nationalism beating inside Ukraine'due south new order.

Some other Neocon 'Government Change'

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

Her married man (and arch-neocon) Robert Kagan had co-founded the Project for the New American Century in 1998 around a demand for "government modify" in Iraq, a projection that was accomplished in 2003 with President George West. Bush's invasion.

As with Nuland in Ukraine, Kagan and his fellow neocons idea they could engineer an easy invasion of Iraq, oust Saddam Hussein and install some hand-picked customer in Republic of iraq, Ahmed Chalabi was to be "the guy." Just they failed to have into business relationship the harsh realities of Iraq, such as the fissures between Sunnis and Shiites, exposed by the U.Due south.-led invasion and occupation.

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

Carl Gershman, the neocon president of the U.S.-taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Commonwealth, explained the plan in a Post op-ed on Sept. 26, 2013. Gershman called Ukraine "the biggest prize" and an important acting stride toward toppling Putin, who "may find himself on the losing terminate not just in the near abroad but within Russia itself."

For her role, Nuland passed out cookies to anti-Yanukovych demonstrators at the Maidan square, reminded Ukrainian business organization leaders that the U.S. had invested $5 billion in their "European aspirations," declared "fuck the Eu" for its less aggressive approach, and discussed with U.S. Administrator Geoffrey Pyatt who the new leaders of Ukraine should be. "Yats is the guy," she said, referring to Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Nuland saw her big adventure on February. 20, 2014, when a mysterious sniper evidently firing from a building controlled by the Right Sektor shot and killed both police and protesters, escalating the crisis. On Feb. 21, in a desperate bid to avert more violence, Yanukovych agreed to a European-guaranteed plan in which he accustomed reduced powers and called for early elections and so he could be voted out of function.

Only that wasn't enough for the anti-Yanukovych forces who led by Right 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 final path to "authorities change" was clear.

Instead of trying to salvage the Feb. 21 agreement, Nuland and European officials bundled for an unconstitutional procedure to strip Yanukovych of the presidency and alleged the new regime "legitimate." Nuland's "guy" Yatsenyuk became prime government minister.

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

Ethnic Hatreds

What the coup also did was revive long pent-up antagonisms between the ethnic Ukrainians in the west, including elements that had supported Adolf Hitler'due south invasion of the Soviet Union during Globe State of war Two, and indigenous Russians in the south and eastward who feared the anti-Russian sentiments emanating from Kiev.

Start, in Crimea and then in the then-called Donbas region, these indigenous Russians, who had been Yanukovych'south political base of operations, resisted what they viewed as the illegitimate overthrow of their elected president. Both areas held referenda seeking separation from Ukraine, a move that Russian federation accepted in Crimea just resisted with the Donbas.

Yet, when the Kiev regime appear 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 profitable the embattled ethnic Russian rebels, a move that Nuland, the Obama administration and the mainstream news media chosen "Russian aggression."

Among the Western hysteria over Russian federation'south supposedly "imperial designs" and the thorough demonizing of Putin, President Barack Obama essentially authorized a new Cold War against Russia, reflected at present in new U.South. strategic planning that could cost the U.South. taxpayers trillions of dollars and chance a possible nuclear confrontation.

Yet, despite the extraordinary costs and dangers, Nuland failed to capeesh the practical on-the-ground realities, much as her husband and other neocons did in Republic of iraq. While Nuland got her hand-picked client Yatsenyuk installed and he did oversee a U.Southward.-demanded "neo-liberal" economic plan slashing pensions, heating assistance and other social programs the anarchy that her "regime change" unleashed transformed Ukraine into a financial blackness hole.

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

The concluding best hope for some stability may have been the Minsk-ii understanding in Feb 2015, calling for a federalized system to give the Donbas more autonomy, simply Nuland'southward Prime Minister Yatsenyuk sabotaged the bargain in March by inserting a poison pill that substantially demanded that the ethnic Russian rebels first give up.

Now, the Ukraine chaos threatens to screw even further out of control with the neo-Nazis and other right-fly militias supplied with a bounty of weapons to impale ethnic Russians in the east turning on the political leadership in Kiev.

In other words, the neocons accept struck once again, dreaming upwardly a "regime change" scheme that ignored practical realities, such as ethnic and religious fissures. So, as the blood flowed and the suffering worsened, the neocons just sought out someone else to arraign.

Thus, it seems unlikely that Nuland, regarded by some in Washington every bit the new "star" in U.S. foreign policy, will exist fired for her dangerous incompetence, merely as most neocons who authored the Iraq disaster remain "respected" experts employed past major retrieve tanks, given prized space on op-ed pages, and consulted at the highest levels of the U.S. government.

[For more than on these topics, come across Consortiumnews.com's "Obama's True Foreign Policy Weakness" and "A Family Concern of Perpetual State of war."]

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

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

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