{"id":28260,"date":"2017-11-24T08:23:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28260"},"modified":"2017-11-24T08:23:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:23:41","slug":"how-the-west-is-adopting-the-worst-practices-of-the-post-maidan-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28260","title":{"rendered":"How the West Is Adopting the Worst Practices of the Post-Maidan Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"How the West Is Adopting the Worst Practices of the Post-Maidan Ukraine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2017\/11\/24\/or-39959.jpg\" alt=\"How the West Is Adopting the Worst Practices of the Post-Maidan Ukraine\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/11\/24\/how-west-adopting-worst-practices-post-maidan-ukraine.html\">How the West Is Adopting the Worst Practices of the Post-Maidan Ukraine<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>Before we tell you how Vice-President Dick Cheney, Senator John McCain, former First Lady Michelle Obama, Professor Stephen Cohen and, of course, President Donald Trump plus over 2000 prominent American and European politicians, celebrities and intellectuals joined the group of \u201cuseful idiots\u201d one needs a brief introduction.<\/p>\n<p>In case you did not know, the \u201cMirotvorets\u201d is the Ukrainian website which presents and constantly updates the list of people, often including their personal data, whom the local nationalists consider to be the undesirable elements. The list includes not only Russians but also Ukrainians and even prominent Americans and Europeans like actors Steven Seagal and Samy Naseri (French blockbuster Taxi), members of the famous German musical techno band \u201cScooter\u201d, and others.<\/p>\n<p>The website has been widely and strongly criticized by many journalists, human rights organizations, and even OSCE but this did not stop the \u201cEuropean Values Think-Tank\u201d (EVTT) \u2013 a Czech based non-profit funded by George Soros, EU, American Embassy in Prague and some other sources &#8211; to produce a report entitled \u201cThe Kremlin&#8217;s Platform for Useful Idiots in the West: An Overview of RT&#8217;s Editorial Strategy and Evidence of Impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This report contains a spreadsheet with the names of 2327 people who have appeared on Russian TV channel RT and, says the report, \u201ceither due to unawareness of RT&#8217;s political agenda, or indeed explicit support of it, lend their names and credibility to a pseudo-news network and proxy agent of the Kremlin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, one could say that all the people mentioned in EVTT report are pretty lucky since some of them like President Trump and Professor Cohen have been called other names in the mainstream media comparing with which the \u201cuseful idiot\u201d definition sounds like a compliment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the West Is Adopting the Worst Practices of the Post-Maidan Ukraine Before we tell you how Vice-President Dick Cheney, Senator John McCain, former First Lady Michelle Obama, Professor Stephen Cohen and, of course, President Donald Trump plus over 2000 prominent American and European politicians, celebrities and intellectuals joined the group of \u201cuseful idiots\u201d one [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[17154,17157,17156,1291,13746,8203,821,17155,965],"class_list":["post-28260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-edward-lozansky","tag-european-values-think-tank","tag-evtt","tag-rt","tag-russia-today","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-ukraine","tag-useful-idiots","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28260","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=28260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28261,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28260\/revisions\/28261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}