Tag Archives: Ukraine

When elections don't go the way the US wants. On Monday, the United States called the election of leaders and parliamentarians in the self-proclaimed people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk a “farce,” according to a spokeswoman for the US State Department, Heather Nauert. On Sunday the two self-proclaimed people’s republics held elections for leaders and parliamentarians. Turnout in Donetsk reached 80.1% of voters, while in Lugansk the number was 77%, according to the central...

If you are following either oil or this part of the world. The Vineyard of the Saker Putin took away Lukashenko’s chance to sell Russian oil to Poroshenko Ruslan Ostashko Translated by Scott Humor

Book review and plug. In fact, all of the proceeds of his book, which you can purchase by clicking the obvious image at the foot of this review, or on this red line, it will take you to the Donbass Humanitarian Aid NGO.... Fort Russ‘THE DONBASS COWBOY’, review of Texas Bentley’s paradigm setting must read book Joaquin Flores

Only for those interested in a detailed backgrounder about where things stand now from someone that understands both English and Russian and it acquainted with the sources. Longish, and requires some background already. Dances with Bears The Helsinki Referendum For Donbass – Putin Opts For No-Win, No-Lose; Us Rejects Swap Of Donbass For Crimea John Helmer

The US has a similar play book for Iran. Who knew that DJT would turn out to be HRC? Well, it turns out that regime change has been US standard operating procedure at least from the G. W. Bush administration, and "color revolution" preceded that. Venezuelanalysis US Set on Regime Change in Venezuela Shannon Ebrahim See also Politico (5 May 2018)Giuliani: Trump is 'committed to' regime change in Iran Brent D. Griffiths This would have been under Bush/Cheney and carried...

If Dr. Cohen has any objections to the factuality of any of the allegations that I have made here, or to any of the documentation that I have linked to as the sources for these allegations, then I publicly welcome him to state what those objections are. Otherwise, I shall continue to take strong exception to Dr. Cohen’s account of these matters. Fair enough.Washington's BlogStephen Cohen’s Misrepresentations About the 2014 Coup in Ukraine Eric Zuesse

Neo-fascists play an important official or tolerated role in US-backed Ukraine. John McCain and Joe Biden were at the center of it. While John McCain was out front on it, it happened on President Obama's watch and Joe Biden was tasked with Ukraine. It gets murkier. While Joe Biden was US VP and John Kerry Secretary of State, Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, became a board member of Burisma, Ukraine’s largest gas company, along with Devon Archer. Devon Archer, Hunter Biden John Kerry’s stepson,...

War drums beating or only war clouds gathering? My opinion remains that Kiev will attack not when it decides that the time is ripe for an offensive, but when the West gives the command. Putting pressure on Putin?Fort RussUkraine Moves Heavy Forces up to Donbass Frontline: Is War Around the Corner?Eduard Popov, translated byJafe Arnold The Ukrainian president also said that “a military operation to protect territorial integrity will be completed only when the last piece of Ukrainian land,...

As Ukraine’s struggle against Russia and its proxies continues, Kiev must also contend with a growing problem behind the front lines: far-right vigilantes who are willing to use intimidation and even violence to advance their agendas, and who often do so with the tacit approval of law enforcement agencies.... Western diplomats and human rights organizations must urge Ukraine’s government to uphold the rule of law and to stop allowing the far right to act with impunity.... Far from the...

Historians will note the tremendous irony of the United States engaging in subversion and election meddling in Ukraine that surpasses anything attempted by Russia. The ideological fissures that are growing in the United States are beginning to resemble the warring camps that characterize the Ukrainian political world. The divide in Ukraine pits groups who are described as "right wing" and many are ideological descendants of real Nazis and Nazi sympathizers against groups with a strong...