{"id":19810,"date":"2016-04-11T17:12:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T22:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19810"},"modified":"2016-04-11T17:13:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T22:13:27","slug":"19810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19810","title":{"rendered":"As Ukraine Collapses, Europeans Tire of US Interventions"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Ukraine Collapses, Europeans Tire of US Interventions<\/a><\/h3>\n
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On Sunday Ukrainian prime minister Yatsenyuk resigned, just four days after the Dutch voted against Ukraine joining the European Union. Taken together, these two events are clear signals that the US-backed coup in Ukraine has not given that country freedom and democracy. They also suggest a deeper dissatisfaction among Europeans over Washington\u2019s addiction to interventionism.<\/p>\n

According to US and EU governments \u2013 and repeated without question by the mainstream media \u2013 the Ukrainian people stood up on their own in 2014 to throw off the chains of a corrupt government in the back pocket of Moscow and finally plant themselves in the pro-west camp. According to these people, US government personnel who handed out cookies and even took the stage in Kiev to urge the people to overthrow their government had nothing at all to do with the coup.<\/p>\n

When Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was videotaped bragging about how the US government spent $5 billion to \u201cpromote democracy\u201d in Ukraine, it had nothing to do with the overthrow of the Yanukovich government. When Nuland was recorded telling the US Ambassador in Kiev that Yatsenyuk is the US choice for prime minister, it was not US interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine. In fact, the neocons still consider it a \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d to suggest the US had anything to do with the overthrow.<\/p>\n

I have no doubt that the previous government was corrupt. Corruption is the stock-in-trade of governments. But according to Transparency International, corruption in the Ukrainian government is about the same after the US-backed coup as it was before. So the intervention failed to improve anything, and now the US-installed government is falling apart. Is a Ukraine in chaos to be considered a Washington success story?<\/p>\n

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As Ukraine Collapses, Europeans Tire of US Interventions On Sunday Ukrainian prime minister Yatsenyuk resigned, just four days after the Dutch voted against Ukraine joining the European Union. Taken together, these two events are clear signals that the US-backed coup in Ukraine has not given that country freedom and democracy. They also suggest a deeper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2381,150,281,692,821,3228,1665,2283],"class_list":["post-19810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-arseny-yatsenyuk","tag-collapse","tag-europe","tag-ron-paul","tag-ukraine","tag-us-intervention","tag-victoria-nuland","tag-viktor-yanukovich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19813,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19810\/revisions\/19813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}