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

By Robert Parry

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

Assistant Secretary of State for European Diplomacy "Toria" Nuland was the "mastermind" backside the February. 22, 2014 "authorities change" 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 insurrection wasn't really a coup but a victory for "republic."

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

To sell this latest neocon-driven "authorities alter" to the American people, the ugliness of the coup-makers had to be systematically airbrushed, especially the cardinal role of neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists from the Right Sektor. For the U.S.-organized propaganda campaign to work, the coup-makers had to wear white hats, not brownish shirts.

So, for nearly a year and a half, the West'southward mainstream media, especially The New York Times and The Washington Post, twisted their reporting into all kinds of contortions to avoid telling their readers that the new regime in Kiev was permeated by and dependent on neo-Nazi fighters and Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who wanted a pure-blood Ukraine, without ethnic Russians.

Any mention of that sordid reality was deemed "Russian propaganda" and anyone who spoke this inconvenient truth was a "stooge of Moscow." It wasn't until July vii that the Times admitted the importance of the neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists in waging war confronting indigenous Russian rebels in the due east. The Times also reported that these far-right forces had been joined by Islamic militants. Some of those jihadists take been called "brothers" of the hyper-brutal Islamic State.

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

Perhaps the Times sensed that information technology could no longer keep the lid on the troubling truth in Ukraine. For weeks, the Right Sektor militias and the neo-Nazi Azov battalion have been warning the civilian government in Kiev that they might plough on information technology and create a new order more than to their liking.

Clashes in the West

And so, on Saturday, violent clashes broke out in the western Ukrainian town of Mukachevo, allegedly over the command of cigarette-smuggling routes. Correct Sektor paramilitaries sprayed constabulary officers with bullets from a chugalug-fed machinegun, and police backed past 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 expanse 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-upward of hostilities, they may be only postponing the inevitable: a conflict between the U.South.-backed authorities in Kiev and the neo-Nazis and other right-wing fighters who spearheaded terminal yr's coup and have been at the forepart lines of the fighting against ethnic Russian rebels in the east.

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

So, as has go apparent across Europe and fifty-fifty in Washington, the Ukraine crunch is spinning out of control, making the State Department'due south preferred narrative of the conflict that it's all Russian President Vladimir Putin's error harder and harder to sell.

How Ukraine is supposed to pull itself out of what looks similar a death spiral a possible two-front state of war in the east and the west along with a crashing economy is difficult to embrace. The European Wedlock, against budgetary crises over Greece and other European union members, has niggling money or patience for Ukraine, its neo-Nazis and its socio-political chaos.

America's neocons at The Washington Mail and elsewhere withal rant about the need for the Obama administration to sink more billions upon billions of dollars into post-coup Ukraine considering it "shares our values." But that argument, as well, is collapsing as Americans see the centre of a racist nationalism beating inside Ukraine's new social club.

Another Neocon 'Regime Alter'

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

Her husband (and arch-neocon) Robert Kagan had co-founded the Project for the New American Century in 1998 around a demand for "regime change" in Iraq, a project that was accomplished in 2003 with President George Westward. Bush's invasion.

Every bit with Nuland in Ukraine, Kagan and his young man neocons thought they could engineer an easy invasion of Iraq, oust Saddam Hussein and install some hand-picked client in Iraq, Ahmed Chalabi was to be "the guy." But they failed to take into account the harsh realities of Republic of iraq, such as the fissures betwixt Sunnis and Shiites, exposed past the U.Due south.-led invasion and occupation.

In Ukraine, Nuland and her neocon and liberal-interventionist friends saw the chance to poke Putin in the centre past 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.Southward.-taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy, explained the plan in a Post op-ed on Sept. 26, 2013. Gershman called Ukraine "the biggest prize" and an important interim stride toward toppling Putin, who "may detect himself on the losing end non just in the nearly abroad but within Russia itself."

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

Nuland saw her big chance on Feb. 20, 2014, when a mysterious sniper apparently firing from a building controlled by the Right Sektor shot and killed both police and protesters, escalating the crunch. On Feb. 21, in a drastic bid to avoid more violence, Yanukovych agreed to a European-guaranteed program in which he accepted reduced powers and called for early on elections so he could be voted out of office.

Merely that wasn't plenty for the anti-Yanukovych forces who led by Correct Sektor and neo-Nazi militias overran regime buildings on Feb. 22, forcing Yanukovych and many of his officials to flee for their lives. With armed thugs patrolling the corridors of ability, the final path to "regime change" was articulate.

Instead of trying to salvage the February. 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 government posed to the historic Russian naval base at Sevastopol in Crimea. On Feb. 23, he began to accept steps to protect those Russian interests.

Ethnic Hatreds

What the insurrection also did was revive long pent-up antagonisms betwixt the indigenous Ukrainians in the west, including elements that had supported Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War Two, and ethnic Russians in the south and e who feared the anti-Russian sentiments emanating from Kiev.

Start, in Crimea and so in the so-chosen Donbas region, these ethnic Russians, who had been Yanukovych's political base, resisted what they viewed every bit the illegitimate overthrow of their elected president. Both areas held referenda seeking separation from Ukraine, a motion that Russia accepted in Crimea simply resisted with the Donbas.

Even so, when the Kiev regime announced an "anti-terrorism performance" against the Donbas and dispatched neo-Nazi and other extremist militias to be the tip of the spear, Moscow began quietly assisting the embattled ethnic Russian rebels, a move that Nuland, the Obama administration and the mainstream news media called "Russian aggression."

Amid the Western hysteria over Russia'due south supposedly "imperial designs" and the thorough demonizing of Putin, President Barack Obama essentially authorized a new Cold War confronting Russian federation, reflected now in new U.S. strategic planning that could cost the U.S. taxpayers trillions of dollars and hazard a possible nuclear confrontation.

Nevertheless, despite the extraordinary costs and dangers, Nuland failed to appreciate the practical on-the-ground realities, much equally her married man 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 assist and other social programs the chaos that her "regime change" unleashed transformed Ukraine into a financial blackness hole.

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

The last all-time promise for some stability may have been the Minsk-2 agreement in February 2015, calling for a federalized system to give the Donbas more autonomy, but Nuland'southward Prime Minister Yatsenyuk sabotaged the bargain in March by inserting a poison pill that essentially demanded that the ethnic Russian rebels starting time give up.

Now, the Ukraine chaos threatens to spiral even farther out of control with the neo-Nazis and other correct-wing militias supplied with a bounty of weapons to kill ethnic Russians in the east turning on the political leadership in Kiev.

In other words, the neocons take struck again, dreaming upward a "regime modify" scheme that ignored practical realities, such as ethnic and religious fissures. Then, as the blood flowed and the suffering worsened, the neocons simply sought out someone else to blame.

Thus, it seems unlikely that Nuland, regarded by some in Washington as the new "star" in U.S. foreign policy, volition be fired for her dangerous incompetence, only as about neocons who authored the Iraq disaster remain "respected" experts employed by major think tanks, given prized space on op-ed pages, and consulted at the highest levels of the U.South. government.

[For more on these topics, come across Consortiumnews.com's "Obama'southward True Strange Policy Weakness" and "A Family Business of Perpetual War."]

Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You tin purchase his latest book, America's Stolen Narrative, either in impress hither  or equally an e-book (from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com ). You also can order Robert Parry'southward trilogy on the Bush-league Family and its connections to various right-fly operatives for only $34. The trilogy includes America's 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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