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On February 2, 2015 US President Barack Obama’s in an interview
with CNN’s Fareed Zakiria revealed the United States' involvement
in the Ukrainian crisis from its outset and that the U.S. worked
directly with Ukrainian right-wing fascist groups.
Obama admitted that
the United States “had brokered a deal to transition power
in Ukraine.”
“Obama’s statement
is reiterating something that the world public opinion already knew — the
US was involved in the coup of [ex-Ukrainian President] Viktor Yanukovych
from the start. History shows us that
the US has overthrown numerous governments in Latin America, Asia and
Africa and replaced them with leaders that ruled with a fascist
ideology that proved useful for Washington’s geopolitical interests,” independent
researcher and writer Timothy Alexander Guzman said.
Yanukovych's
decision to not sign an association agreement with the European Union
in late 2013 triggered a mass wave of protests across Ukraine,
culminating in the February 2014 coup. Following the transition
of power, Kiev forces launched military operation against those who
refused to recognize the legitimacy of the new government.
Guzman claimed that during the
Ukrainian conflict, Washington and its
NATO allies worked directly with right-wing Ukrainian Fascist groups,
including the neo-Nazi inspired Right Sector militia.
International law
professor at the University of Illinois College of Law Francis
Boyle shares a similar opinion, also arguing also that Obama’s approach
to Ukraine is no different to the neoconservative approach of former US national
security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, or political scientist Samuel
Huntington’s "clash of civilizations" philosophy.
“I think he [Obama]
has made it very clear that he is going to continue to take a
Brzezinski hard-lined approach toward Ukraine and Russia and that there
are not going to be any compromises at all, and effectively he expects
President Putin to throw in a towel, capitulate, whatever, it does
not appear to me there is any ground for negotiations in light
of what President Obama at least said publicly” he said.
Boyle also stated that the United
States may already be sending covert offensive military equipment
to Ukraine, despite Washington’s claims that it provides Kiev only
with non-lethal aid.
“How can Russia
tolerate this gang of Nazis in Kyiv [Kiev] setting up shop right
there on the borders of Russia, and being armed, equipped and
supplied by NATO? Of course, Russia cannot tolerate that,” Boyle
concluded, adding that the Unites States itself would not tolerate such threats
close to its borders.
The very fact that Obama feels he
needs to comment on [the] US direct role in the regime change [in
Ukraine] and on Putin's response over Crimea in this manner,
rather than calling Putin a Hitler with well thought out expansionist
designs, as has become the norm in the US, speaks for itself:
perhaps, the White House is finally coming to the view that it needs
to come to its senses and negotiate with Moscow," Vlad
Sobell, a professor at New York University's Prague campus stated.
The US President
said that Russian President Vladimir Putin made his decision to legally
annex Crimea "not because of some grand strategy,
but essentially because he was caught off-balance by the protests
in the Maidan."
In late 2013 a
decision by Ukraine then-President Viktor Yanukovych to avoid signing
an association agreement with the European Union triggered mass protests
across Ukraine, dubbed Maidan, culminating in the February coup.
Following the coup and a rise in aggressive nationalism in the
country, Crimea seceded by referendum from Ukraine and rejoined
Russia in March 2014.
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