sombear said:Totally disagree. Particularly in the context of history, for a country that went virtually overnight from communist Soviet Union to sovereign nation then still in large part controlled by Russia years after, Ukraine's commitment to freedom and democracy and reduction in corruption have been exceedingly impressive.Redbrickbear said:FLBear5630 said:Well, in 1990 Ukraine was in the Soviet Union. By 2014 they have a Democratic system,.Redbrickbear said:FLBear5630 said:Redbrickbear said:Here is Nuland gushing on camera about the protests/coup in 2014....she really seem to be exited about the coup/protests in Kyiv.sombear said:Redbrickbear said:sombear said:I'm still waiting for someone - anyone - to explain how we planned the 2014 coup. Please answer the following:Sam Lowry said:We're supposed to let them do it, we're just not supposed to talk about it. That's the difference between a loyal American and a conspiracy theorist.Redbrickbear said:sombear said:Who said I trusted them? I don't. Far from it.Redbrickbear said:sombear said:I hold my fellow Americans in much higher regardRedbrickbear said:sombear said:With due respect to all of my American bros and sis, any American who does not know that our intel works closely with intel in friendly countries and that Russia does the same and more probably should not be discussing or debating any of this.Redbrickbear said:sombear said:
Another tweet from a guy who has no idea - or does and lies - how DC works.
Congress has known about our joint intel ops from day 1. So has the NYT by the way.
But did the American people?
Are most aware that the Goobers at the State Department (when not pushing abortion and LGBTQ ideology around the world) have been trying to overthrow regional governments around Russia since before 2014?
Are most Americans aware of the deep links DC has with Kyiv (we basically own it and direct it)?
We know Congress has no problems with having a corrupt Vassal state in Eastern Europe & fighting for it with Russia....are most Americas aware of that or interesting in that?
I think most Americans would in fact be shocked how deeply the CIA and our State Department is imbedded in other nations.
And I think they would be shocked that the CIA is sponsoring coups in their name.
Not if you think they want unaccountable spy agencies killing people and overthrowing governments in their name.
The American people are far more moral than the DC psychopaths you seem to love.
ps
25 years of failure in the middle east should have at least knocked some of the shine off your trust in our alphabet agencies and DC bureaucrats ...they have been constantly wrong and led us into disaster after disaster.
You just trust them on the war in Ukriane.
A pretty impressive record of failure over the past 25 years in the middle east...and now we are supposed to let them launch coups and fund proxy wars against a nuclear armed state on the doorstep of Europe?
What could go wrong....
"Explain in detail the in depth operations of the CIA and its secret classified programs in Eastern Europe"- Sombear
It will take decades for the operation specifics to come out....but one day it will.
Just like CIA operations in Latin America and Southeast Asia during the 1960s are now known.
Needless to say Nuland has already given us an broad outline....the State Department and CIA have admitting to pouring billions of taxpayer money in Ukraine to influence their political and economic system well before the 2014 coup/revolution.
One day it will be interesting to see what else they did in our name....
Can you at least provide a detailed theory that comports with the timeline and events?
She also then went to talk about how much money we had spent there...odd that she would mention that...almost like it had an effect.
Almost like our money was setting the stage for a change in regime there.
[Protests originally erupted in November 2013 after Yanukovych refused to sign the association agreement with the EU at a meeting of the Eastern Partnership.., choosing closer ties with Russia instead. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov had asked for 20 billion (US$27 billion) in loans and aid. The EU was willing to offer 610 million ($838 million) in loans, but Russia was willing to offer $15 billion, as well as cheaper gas prices. In addition, the EU demanded major changes to Ukraine's regulations and laws, but Russia did not stipulate regulatory or legal adjustment of such nature or scale.
Yanukovych was widely disliked in Ukraine's west but had support in the east and south, where his native Russian is much more widely spoken.]
So the State Department & CIA poured billions into the country...though various NGOs...and made deep inroads in the political and economic system. (no debate about that...they have admitted it)
Then protests break out right after the government in Kyiv signs a longer term partnership with Russia and agrees to let the Russians extend the Black sea naval base lease in Crimea out until the 2040s
Then DC spooks and apparatchiks celebrate the protests/coup like it was an operation they personally planned.
Its all very very interesting....
Like I said maybe one day in about 40 years we will get some declassified docs released to the public letting us know the behind the seen story.
I think it is really strange that you think trying to help a former Communist country establish and develop Democratic principles and institutions is a waste of money and some type of nephrarious activity.
How do you know what that money was spent on?
Do you trust the people that run the State Department and the CIA to be true guardians of "democratic principles"
Have you not been watching what they have been doing in the US over the last few years?
Spying on Presidential campaigns...demanding censorship of views they don't like...calling their domestic conservative enemies "Nazis"
Get real buddy....
People like John Brennan should never ever be trusted...these are malevolent evil people
Russia itself declared its independence and got out of the USSR...so lets no quite give the CIA credit for brining Ukraine out of the Soviet Union.
And Ukraine has never been much of a democracy since its independence.
It constantly has ranked as one of the most corrupt countries on earth (economically and politically)
Its was ruled by mostly pro-Russia types and since 2014 by pro-Western ones.
And during that time plenty of bans on political parties, media, and independent voices
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-sure-doesnt-look-like-democracy-anymore-opinion-1844799
If the CIA and State Department were really trying to install "democratic values" (which they almost certainly were not) then we can all admit they failed in a speculator fashion....the place as been an corrupt mud pit and economic basket case.
Well I think its obvious that our rulers don't care if Ukraine is free, democratic, and non-corrupt.
Those are secondary concerns...if concerns at all.
What they care about is that Ukraine is out the orbit of Russia...and they want it in NATO one day so there is no Black sea fleet in Crimea.
They also probably want it so Corporate goons like Blackrock can exploit it for its resources. Natural gas and farmland in particular.
[BlackRock and JPMorgan help set up Ukraine reconstruction bank
Fund aims to attract billions of dollars in private investment to assist "rebuilding projects" in war-torn country]
https://www.ft.com/content/3d6041fb-5747-4564-9874-691742aa52a2
Poor Ukraine they are going to end up answering to Moscow after this war or DC....no freedom for them.