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Exclusive: Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraines regime change in early 2014 without weighing the likely chaos and consequences. Now, as neo-Nazis turn their guns on the government, its hard to see how anyone can clean up the mess that Nuland made, writes Robert Parry.
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Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Toria Nuland was the mastermind behind the Feb. 22, 2014 regime change in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the ever-gullible U.S. mainstream media that the coup wasnt really a coup but a victory for democracy.
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So, for nearly a year and a half, the Wests mainstream media, especially The New York Times and The Washington Post, twisted their reporting into all kinds of contortions to avoid telling their readers that the new regime in Kiev was permeated by and dependent on neo-Nazi fighters and Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who wanted a pure-blood Ukraine, without ethnic Russians.
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Any mention of that sordid reality was deemed Russian propaganda and anyone who spoke this inconvenient truth was a stooge of Moscow. It wasnt until July 7 that the Times admitted the importance of the neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists in waging war against ethnic Russian rebels in the east. 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-brutal Islamic State.
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/13/the-mess-that-nuland-made/