It's Not Russia That's Pushed Ukraine To The Brink Of War

[Purveyor]

The attempt to lever Kiev into the western camp by ousting an elected leader made conflict certain. It could be a threat to us all

The Guardian, Wednesday 30 April 2014

The threat of war in Ukraine is growing. As the unelected government in Kiev declares itself unable to control the rebellion in the country's east, John Kerry brands Russia a rogue state. The US and the European Union step up sanctions against the Kremlin, accusing it of destabilising Ukraine. The White House is reported to be set on a new cold war policy with the aim of turning Russia into a "pariah state".

That might be more explicable if what is going on in eastern Ukraine now were not the mirror image of what took place in Kiev a couple of months ago. Then, it was armed protesters in Maidan Square seizing government buildings and demanding a change of government and constitution. US and European leaders championed the "masked militants" and denounced the elected government for its crackdown, just as they now back the unelected government's use of force against rebels occupying police stations and town halls in cities such as Slavyansk and Donetsk.

"America is with you," Senator John McCain told demonstrators then, standing shoulder to shoulder with the leader of the far-right Svoboda party as the US ambassador haggled with the state department over who would make up the new Ukrainian government.

When the Ukrainian president was replaced by a US-selected administration, in an entirely unconstitutional takeover, politicians such as William Hague brazenly misled parliament about the legality of what had taken place: the imposition of a pro-western government on Russia's most neuralgic and politically divided neighbour.

Putin bit back, taking a leaf out of the US street-protest playbook – even though, as in Kiev, the protests that spread from Crimea to eastern Ukraine evidently have mass support. But what had been a glorious cry for freedom in Kiev became infiltration and insatiable aggression in Sevastopol and Luhansk.

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/russia-ukraine-war-kiev-conflict

[newthinking]

1. The neo-cons (PNAC) and Republican institute were involved - That should cause a lightbulb to go on

for people here.

For those who were not aware back in 2003 the entire "Axis of Evil" activities after 9/11 were planned out in a document created in 2000 by a group called "Project for a New American Century".

The initial signatories included all the players in Bush's cabinet. Donald Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wlliam Bennett, Jeb Bush, William Kristol, Wolfowitz, Donal Kagen.

Robert Kagen was one of the founders. Coincidentally, his WIFE is Victoria Nuland. Yes, *the* V. Nuland who was heavily involved in the events this winter (and the famous phone call). She was a former policy advisor for Dick Cheney as well.

PNAC documents outlined the need for a "New Pearl Harbor" was needed as a catalyst to impliment "PAX AMERICANA", or American globol domination.

It seems the Neo-Cons still have considerable power.

Here is a succinct outline of PNAC.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Project_for_the_New_American_Century

According to a February 27, 2003, editorial by William Rivers Pitt, PNAC

has been agitating since its inception for a war with Iraq. PNAC was the driving force behind the drafting and passage of the Iraqi Liberation Act, a bill that painted a veneer of legality over the ultimate designs behind such a conflict. The names of every prominent PNAC member were on a letter delivered to President Clinton in 1998 which castigated him for not implementing the Act by driving troops into Baghdad.

PNAC has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to a Hussein opposition group called the Iraqi National Congress, and to Iraq's heir-apparent, Ahmed Chalabi, despite the fact that Chalabi was sentenced in absentia by a Jordanian court to 22 years in prison on 31 counts of bank fraud. Chalabi and the INC have, over the years, gathered support for their cause by promising oil contracts to anyone that would help to put them in power in Iraq.

Most recently, PNAC created a new group called the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. Staffed entirely by PNAC members, The Committee has set out to "educate" Americans via cable news connections about the need for war in Iraq. This group met recently with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice regarding the ways and means of this education. ...

The Project for the New American Century seeks to establish what they call 'Pax Americana' across the globe. Essentially, their goal is to transform America, the sole remaining superpower, into a planetary empire by force of arms. A report released by PNAC in September of 2000 entitled 'Rebuilding America's Defenses' codifies this plan, which requires a massive increase in defense spending and the fighting of several major theater wars in order to establish American dominance. The first has been achieved in Bush's new budget plan, which calls for the exact dollar amount to be spent on defense that was requested by PNAC in 2000. Arrangements are underway for the fighting of the wars.[4]