In Ukraine, Chaos and Violence Hide Nefarious Role of US
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/20-3
A lone Ukrainian stands in the streets of a smoke-filled Kiev street on Thursday holding the national flag.
In Ukraine, Chaos and Violence Hide Nefarious Role of US
- Jon Queally, staff writer
Published on Thursday, February 20, 2014 by Common Dreams
As renewed violence in the city of Kiev on Thursday broke a brief truce between protesters and government security forces, the U.S. government and the European Union are escalatingnot helpingthe situation, according to critics, by threatening sanctions against the embattled government of President Viktor Yanukovych while supporting (either directly or indirectly) the destabilizing actions of radical right elements lurking within the opposition movement.
Latest reports from the ground suggest that 70 or more people have been killed so far in two days of violence, with hundreds more injured as use of petrol bombs, gunfire, and more aggressive tactics on both sides have intensified.
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But as the violence itself has captured most of the headlinesand even as moderate opposition leaders in Ukraine have admitted they have "lost control" of the protests to more "quasi-fascist" and nationalist factionsexperts on the situation in Ukraine say that most western media outlets are performing a disservice to the overall situation by casting Russia and Yanukovych as the source of blame for the bloodshed while glossing over key facts about the manner in which Europe and the U.S. have added to the recent instability.
"We are talking about the possibility of sanctions or other steps in order to create the atmosphere for compromise," said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday from Paris. European leaders have issued a similar threat in the last twenty-four hours.