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

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Every bit the Ukrainian army squares off confronting ultra-right and neo-Nazi militias in the west and violence confronting ethnic Russians continues in the e, the obvious folly of the Obama administration's Ukraine policy has come into focus even for many who tried to ignore the facts, or what y'all might call "the mess that Victoria Nuland fabricated."

Assistant Secretary of Land for European Affairs "Toria" Nuland was the "mastermind" behind the February. 22, 2014 "regime change" in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the ever-gullible U.South. mainstream media that the coup wasn't really a coup but a victory for "democracy."

Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who pushed for the Ukraine coup and helped pick the post-coup leaders.

To sell this latest neocon-driven "regime change" to the American people, the ugliness of the coup-makers had to be systematically airbrushed, especially the key part of neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists from the Correct Sektor. For the U.S.-organized propaganda entrada to piece of work, the insurrection-makers had to wear white hats, not chocolate-brown shirts.

So, for nearly a year and a half, the West'due south mainstream media, especially The New York Times and The Washington Post, twisted their reporting into all kinds of contortions to avert telling their readers that the new regime in Kiev was permeated past and dependent on neo-Nazi fighters and Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who wanted a pure-blood Ukraine, without indigenous 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 state of war against indigenous Russian rebels in the e. The Times also reported that these far-right forces had been joined by Islamic militants. Some of those jihadists have been called "brothers" of the hyper-fell Islamic State.

Though the Times sought to spin this remarkable armed services alliance neo-Nazi militias and Islamic jihadists every bit a positive, the reality had to be jarring for readers who had bought into the Western propaganda about noble "pro-democracy" forces resisting evil "Russian assailment."

Perhaps the Times sensed that it could no longer go on the hat 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 turn on it and create a new order more than to their liking.

Clashes in the W

And so, on Saturday, violent clashes bankrupt out in the western Ukrainian boondocks of Mukachevo, allegedly over the command of cigarette-smuggling routes. Right Sektor paramilitaries sprayed police officers with bullets from a chugalug-fed machinegun, and police backed by Ukrainian authorities 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 area while other militiamen converged on the capital of Kiev.

While President Poroshenko and Correct Sektor leader Dmitry Yarosh may succeed in tamping down this latest burst of hostilities, they may be merely postponing the inevitable: a conflict between the U.S.-backed government in Kiev and the neo-Nazis and other right-wing fighters who spearheaded final yr'due south coup and have been at the forepart lines of the fighting against ethnic Russian rebels in the east.

The Ukrainian correct-wing extremists feel they accept carried the heaviest burden in the war against the ethnic Russians and resent the politicians living in the relative safety and comfort of Kiev. In March, Poroshenko besides fired thuggish oligarch Igor Kolomoisky every bit governor of the southeastern province of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Kolomoisky had been the primary distributor of the Right Sektor militias.

Then, equally has become apparent across Europe and fifty-fifty in Washington, the Ukraine crisis is spinning out of control, making the Country Section's preferred narrative of the disharmonize that information technology's all Russian President Vladimir Putin's fault harder and harder to sell.

How Ukraine is supposed to pull itself out of what looks similar a decease spiral a possible ii-front war in the east and the w along with a crashing economic system is hard to cover. The European Spousal relationship, confronting budgetary crises over Hellenic republic and other EU members, has piffling coin or patience for Ukraine, its neo-Nazis and its socio-political chaos.

America's neocons at The Washington Post and elsewhere all the same rant nearly the demand for the Obama administration to sink more billions upon billions of dollars into post-coup Ukraine because it "shares our values." But that statement, too, is collapsing as Americans see the heart of a racist nationalism beating inside Ukraine's new order.

Another Neocon 'Government Change'

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 "regime modify" that she could phone call her own.

Her husband (and curvation-neocon) Robert Kagan had co-founded the Project for the New American Century in 1998 around a need for "regime change" in Republic of iraq, a project that was accomplished in 2003 with President George W. Bush's invasion.

Equally with Nuland in Ukraine, Kagan and his boyfriend 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 business relationship the harsh realities of Republic of iraq, such as the fissures between Sunnis and Shiites, exposed past the U.S.-led invasion and occupation.

In Ukraine, Nuland and her neocon and liberal-interventionist friends saw the take chances to poke Putin in the middle by encouraging vehement protests to overthrow Russian federation-friendly President Yanukovych and put in place a new regime hostile to Moscow.

Carl Gershman, the neocon president of the U.S.-taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Republic, explained the plan in a Post op-ed on Sept. 26, 2013. Gershman called Ukraine "the biggest prize" and an important interim step toward toppling Putin, who "may notice himself on the losing stop not just in the near abroad but within Russia itself."

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

Nuland saw her big hazard on Feb. xx, 2014, when a mysterious sniper apparently firing from a building controlled past the Right Sektor shot and killed both constabulary and protesters, escalating the crisis. On February. 21, in a desperate bid to avert more violence, Yanukovych agreed to a European-guaranteed plan in which he accepted reduced powers and chosen for early elections then he could be voted out of function.

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

Instead of trying to salvage the Feb. 21 agreement, Nuland and European officials bundled for an unconstitutional procedure to strip Yanukovych of the presidency and declared the new regime "legitimate." Nuland'south "guy" Yatsenyuk became prime number minister.

While Nuland and her neocon cohorts celebrated, their "government change" prompted an obvious reaction from Putin, who recognized the strategic threat that this hostile new authorities posed to the historic Russian naval base of operations at Sevastopol in Crimea. On Feb. 23, he began to have steps to protect those Russian interests.

Ethnic Hatreds

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

First, in Crimea and then in the so-called Donbas region, these indigenous Russians, who had been Yanukovych'due south political base, resisted what they viewed as the illegitimate overthrow of their elected president. Both areas held referenda seeking separation from Ukraine, a motion that Russian federation accustomed in Crimea but resisted with the Donbas.

However, when the Kiev authorities announced an "anti-terrorism operation" 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's supposedly "imperial designs" and the thorough demonizing of Putin, President Barack Obama essentially authorized a new Cold State of war against Russian federation, reflected now in new U.South. strategic planning that could cost the U.South. taxpayers trillions of dollars and chance a possible nuclear confrontation.

Yet, despite the extraordinary costs and dangers, Nuland failed to appreciate the practical on-the-basis realities, much as her husband and other neocons did in Iraq. While Nuland got her hand-picked client Yatsenyuk installed and he did oversee a U.S.-demanded "neo-liberal" economical program slashing pensions, heating help and other social programs the chaos that her "regime change" unleashed transformed Ukraine into a financial black pigsty.

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 appear remote. Unemployment is soaring and the authorities is essentially bankrupt.

The concluding best promise for some stability may have been the Minsk-2 agreement in Feb 2015, calling for a federalized system to requite the Donbas more autonomy, but Nuland's Prime Minister Yatsenyuk sabotaged the deal in March past inserting a poison pill that essentially demanded that the ethnic Russian rebels first surrender.

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

In other words, the neocons have struck once more, dreaming up a "regime change" scheme that ignored applied realities, such equally ethnic and religious fissures. And so, as the blood flowed and the suffering worsened, the neocons merely sought out someone else to blame.

Thus, it seems unlikely that Nuland, regarded by some in Washington as the new "star" in U.Due south. foreign policy, will be fired for her dangerous incompetence, just every bit nigh 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.S. regime.

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Investigative reporter Robert Parry bankrupt many of the Islamic republic of iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You can purchase his latest book, America's Stolen Narrative, either in print here  or as an due east-volume (from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com ). Yous also tin order Robert Parry'due south trilogy on the Bush Family and its connections to various right-fly operatives for just $34. The trilogy includes America'southward Stolen Narrative. For details on this offer, click here .

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