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Trump Swamps Biden, McCain & NED in Ukraine regime change coup aimed to regime change Russia

Mar 4, 2016 FTR #893 – Interview with Robert Parry about Ukraine

Jul 10, 2018 FTR #1014 – Update on Fascism in Ukraine

Mar 4, 2016 FTR #893 – Interview with Robert Parry about Ukraine

(includes roles of Biden & McCain)

• NED is a U.S. government-funded organization created in 1983 to do what the Central Intelligence Agency previously had done in financing organizations inside target countries to advance U.S. policy interests and, if needed, help in “regime change.” 

• “Ukraine’s choice to join Europe will accelerate the demise of the ideology of Russian imperialism that Putin represents,” Gershman wrote. “Russians, too, face a choice, and Putin may find himself on the losing end not just in the near abroad but within Russia itself.” In other words, NED is a U.S. government-financed entity that has set its sights on ousting Russia’s current government. 

• Although it has not been widely reported in this country, there's evidence that the Maidan “uprising” was, in fact, a coup. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Victoria Nuland, a Bush State Department hold-over (Victoria Nuland served as assistant secretary of state for Europe during the Obama administration), boasted of having $5 billion invested in Ukraine and was overheard plotting to get her guy, “Yats” [Arseniy Yatsenyuk] in power. Stratfor characterized the Maidan uprising as an obvious coup.

• Any reference to a “coup” was dismissed as “Russian propaganda.” There was a parallel determination in the U.S. media to discredit or ignore evidence that neo-Nazi militias had played an important role in ousting Yanukovych and in the subsequent suppression of anti-coup resistance in eastern and southern Ukraine. That opposition among ethnic-Russian Ukrainians simply became “Russian aggression.”

• The technique first emerged on May 2 in the port city of Odessa when pro-regime militants chased dissidents into the Trade Unions Building and then set it on fire. As some 40 or more ethnic Russians were burned alive or died of smoke inhalation, the crowd outside mocked them as red-and-black Colorado potato beetles, with the chant of “Burn, Colorado, burn.” Afterwards, reporters spotted graffiti on the building’s walls containing Swastika-like symbols and honoring the “Galician SS,” the Ukrainian adjunct to the German SS in World War II.

[Webmaster's note: Oy, say, can you see any similarities between the straight-out-of-the-Fed-City-of-London-NWO-swamp-&-Soros-playbook insurrection against government buildings in Ukraine & in the U.S. (described above & below), like all last year to date,and the recent insurrection against Congress while in session ... the entire Congressional democrat traitor leadership & 10 traitor republicans is blaming Trump ...which makes them complicit in the insurrection? ...& all the corporate swamp & sheeple ...& fake news media? ...& internet censorship oligarchs?]

• Biden & McCain — In the weeks before the coup, according to an intercepted phone call, Nuland discussed with U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt who should lead the future regime. Nuland said her choice was Arseniy Yatsenyuk. “Yats is the guy,” she told Pyatt as he pondered how to “midwife this thing.” Sen. John McCain, Arizona, also showed up, standing on stage with right-wing extremists from the Svoboda Party and telling the crowd that the United States was with them in their challenge to the Ukrainian government. — As the winter progressed, the protests grew more violent. Neo-Nazi and other extremist elements from Lviv and western Ukrainian cities began arriving in well-organized brigades or “sotins” of 100 trained street fighters. Police were attacked with firebombs and other weapons as the violent protesters began seizing government buildings and unfurling Nazi banners and even a Confederate flag. Though Yanukovych continued to order his police to show restraint, he was still depicted in the major U.S. news media as a brutal thug who was callously murdering his own people. The chaos reached a climax on Feb. 20 when mysterious snipers opened fire on police and some protesters, killing scores. As police retreated, the militants advanced brandishing firearms and other weapons. The confrontation led to significant loss of life, pushing the death toll to around 80 including more than a dozen police. — U.S. diplomats and the mainstream U.S. press immediately blamed Yanukovych for the sniper attack, though the circumstances remain murky to this day and some investigations have suggested that the lethal sniper fire came from buildings controlled by Right Sektor extremists. To tamp down the worsening violence, a shaken Yanukovych signed a European-brokered deal on Feb. 21, in which he accepted reduced powers and an early election so he could be voted out of office. He also agreed to requests from Vice President Joe Biden to pull back the police. — The precipitous police withdrawal then opened the path for the neo-Nazis and other street fighters to seize presidential offices and force Yanukovych’s people to flee for their lives. Yanukovych traveled to eastern Ukraine and the new coup regime that took power – and was immediately declared “legitimate” by the U.S. State Department – sought Yanukovych’s arrest for murder. Nuland’s favorite, Yatsenyuk, became the new prime minister.

Abstract: This interview is a distillation of key articles from Robert Parry’s award winning, Consortium News on the subject of Ukraine. (One of the few media people to break from the “group think” to which the American public has been subjected, Parry has presented information at fundamental variance with the “official story.”)

Not surprisingly, Russia has obliged foreign NGO’s to register as “foreign agents,” recognizing their role as agents of covert operation, having been central to the Maidan coup of 2014. The National Endowment for Democracy was set up under the tutelage of William Casey as an adjunct to the CIA. The program highlights that coup d’etat and the shepherd’s role in the operations of Victoria Nuland.

After reviewing the careers of Stephan Bandera and Yaroslav Stetsko and the collaboration between the OUN/B and the Third Reich, the program details the role of Urkainain Nazi formations in the Maidan coup, the provisional and subsequent Ukrainian governments and the fighting units involved in that country’s civil war. Not surprisingly, the Nazi fighting formations have recapitulated their political heritage, burning ethnic Russians alive in buildings in Ukraine. They also appear to have been carrying-out political assassinations of critics and opponents of the government.

Key parts of the program focus on “The Big Lie”: [At that time,] there had been no “Russian invasion” of Ukraine according to key U.S. intelligence analysts. Reconnaissance satellites show that the BUK missile battery that appears to have fired the missile that brought down MH-17 was manned by apparently drunk Ukrainian soldiers. Crimea was not “annexed” or “invaded” by Russia.  Turning to the subject of the “governance” to which the people of Ukraine have been subjected, we note that foreigners have been placed in key positions of power within Ukraine. A particularly alarming development concerns the use of ISIS-linked Chechen Islamists (apparently decamped from Syria) to bolster the “volunteer battalions” in Ukraine. They are fighting under the administrative command of Pravy Sektor. (We have noted in the past how Crimean Tatars have also been working in Ukraine alongside Pravy Sektor.) The broadcast underscores the Orwellian coverage of the event by U.S. and Western mainstream media.

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Key U.S. State Department EuroMaidan Coup Player had Insider Information on DNC “Hack” before Senior Democratic Officials

Ukrainian Maidan Coup organizer Victoria Nuland knew about supposed Russian “hacks” of the DNC months before senior Democratic Party officials were so informed. In FTR #943 – The Gehlen Gang, the High-Profile Hacks and the New Cold War , we noted the Ukrainian fascist links to the supposed confirmation of the “Russian” authorship of the “hacks.” We further developed the Urkainian fascist link to the supposed confirmation of the “Russian” hacks in FTR #981 – The Ukrainian Fascist Foundation of the “Russia-Gate” Psy-Op . Given Nuland’s strong links to the OUN/B successor organizations in power in Ukraine, it is reasonable to ask if she may have involved them in the U.S. “response” to the Russian “hacks.”

FTR #981  Ukrainian Fascist Foundation of “Russia-Gate” Psy-Op

Introduction: In FTR #967, Dave Emory noted the Ukrainian fascist affiliation of Andrei Artemenko, a Ukrainian member of Parliament who worked with CIA and FBI-connected Trump business associate Felix Sater. Alleged by our media and government to have signified “Russian influence” on the Trump administration, this Sater/Artemenko gambit was actually an ANTI-Russian conspiracy.

In this program, we highlight the profound extent to which the “evidence” in the Russia-Gate “investigation” tracks back to the very same OUN/B successor organizations we have covered in so many of our previous programs.

Jun 5, 2017 – FTR #959 –  Update on the New Cold War & the Nazification of Ukraine

Introduction: In a long series of programs and posts over the last four years, we have chronicled the re-institution of the OUN/B World War II-era fascists as the foundational element of the Ukrainian government. Of particular significance in that regard is the Nazification of the Ukrainian intelligence service, the SBU.

Jul 10, 2018 – FTR #1014 – Update on Fascism in Ukraine

Victoria Nuland  (a Bush State Department holdover) served as assistant secretary of state for Europe during the Obama Administration

• Victoria Nuland, a key player in the EuroMaidan Coup that placed the OUN/B fascist successor organizations in power in Ukraine, was informed of the supposed “Russian” hacks months before senior DNC officials were informed.

• There was a period, from around May of 2015 to March of 2016, where Victoria Nuland ...again, a key EuroMaiden instigator ... knew about these hacks, but the DNC effectively didn’t. In addition, other State Department officials, as well as Victoria Nuland, were informed about the DNC hacks in December of 2015, and tasked with developing a U.S. response.

• ” . . . . That conclusion was reinforced Wednesday by another witness, Victoria Nuland, who served as assistant secretary of state for Europe during the Obama administration. She told the panel she had been briefed as early as December 2015 about the hacking of the Democratic National Committee — long before senior DNC officials were aware of it — and that the intrusion had all the hallmarks of a Russian operation. . . . As she and other State Department officials became ‘more alarmed’ about what the Russians were up to in the spring of 2016, they were authorized by then Secretary of State John Kerry to develop proposals for ways to deter the Russians. . . . ”

Abstract: As indicated by the title, this broadcast updates and fleshes out a long path of inquiry into the development of fascism in Ukraine, implemented by the OUN/B successor organizations that were empowered by the Maidan Coup of 2014. In past commentary, we have noted the profound Ukrainian and Gehlen-derived links to the supposed “Russian” hacks leading up to, and during, the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

Don’t Think Twice, It’s “Alt-right”: Nazi Fellow Traveler Chuck Johnson Helping Trump Transition Team

“ . . . . Despite his disregard for facts and reckless approach to publishing, Johnson, who was recently photographed at a dinner attended by white supremacists in Washington, D.C., built a significant following among many who self-identified as being a part of the ‘alt-right.’ Trump drew significant support from those same followers during the election. . . . .”

Johnson is now apparently secretly helping the Trump team staff the Executive Branch despite being an open white supremacist neo-Nazi troll. Or perhaps because of that. Either way, if this report is accurate he’s not just passing along a few suggestions to Peter Thiel. He helped create a database of potential appointees:

” . . . . Johnson also helped create a database where potential political appointees could send in their resumes to be considered for government positions. He has access to the website ThePlumlist.com, and though the recently created website remains dormant, candidates have been told to send their information to an email account associated with that domain. In November, The Daily Mail reported that Thiel maintains a database called the “Plum List” to track potential hires and qualified applicants. Sources familiar with the situation described the list as an intake system for the team, and said it was separate from the version that Thiel and his closest associates use to track final selections that are forwarded to Trump. . . .” 

While Charles C. Johnson may not technically be the Helene von Damm of the Trump administration (the Director of Presidential Personnel is John DeStefano), he may well be playing a similar role.

“Whites Only” in Estonia

COMMENT: Dave Emory notes that some of NATO’s most recently-joined members are not hospitable to African-American soldiers. The Baltic states, Estonia in particular, have proved to be inhospitable to black Americans stationed there by NATO. With the Baltic states celebrating their participants in the Waffen SS, this should not come as too much of a surprise. 

“Estonia Wants More NATO Troops–But Only If They Aren’t Black” by Mikhail Klikushin [observer.com]; Yahoo News; 2/22/2016.

In 2014, in his speech in Tallinn, U.S. President Obama bravely stated that “the defense of Tallinn and Riga and Vilnius is just as important as the defense of Berlin and Paris and London…You lost your independence once before,” added the first American black president. “With NATO, you will never lose it again.”

• In 2005 in Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, two black American NATO soldiers were attacked in front of a local casino, resulting in severe injuries to both of the soldiers—their faces smashed and their teeth knocked out. American authorities expressed the hope that it was not a “racist attack,” and Lithuania assigned police patrols to any sites frequented by NATO soldiers. . . . .

• In 2015, during the Independence Day parade, while African-American troops wearing NATO uniforms marched on the main street of Estonia’s capital, local racists shouted all kinds of racial slurs, including, “Go back to your grandparents in Nigeria!”

Since then, there has been evidence of racism against American NATO troops in restaurants, hotels and on the streets of Estonia, where “Go back to Nigeria!” has become a widely used attack toward dark-skinned American soldiers.