What “American Interest” in Ukraine?
This is not a matter of genuine U.S. interest or U.S. security nor is
it a matter of honest U.S. aid. So why are U.S. elements (military, arms,
protesters, sundry sinister agents) situated and interfering in
An ancient Catholic/Eastern Orthodox culture (origins to 32,000 BC)
that has subsisted under various ruling and divisive powers — including
Lithuania, Poland, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Russia—a Cossack
republic in 17th and 18th centuries split between Poland and the Russian Empire;
in the late 1940s merging (as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) into the
Russian-dominated Soviet Union; and, finally, in 1991 taking its independence and
becoming a neutral state partnering militarily with Russia and
other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS countries)?
Ivy Leaguer Robert Hunter Biden
(Georgetown University, Yale Law)
Lawyer, lobbyist and partner in the international consulting firm Rosemont Seneca Partners, sat on the international board (reportedly paid up to $50,000 a month, 2014-2019) of Mykola Zlochevsky’s Burisma Holdings, the largest natural gas producer in Ukraine.
Oligarch Oil and Gas Man Zlochevsky
With another Ukrainian businessman, Mykola Lisin, Kiev-born Ukrainian businessman and politician Mykola Vladislavovich Zlochevsky was co-founder (2002) of Burisma Holdings. In 2010 and 2012, Zlochevsky also held a position in the Ukrainian government; and at the end of 2014, under charges of “unlawful self enrichment and legalization of funds” during his tenure in public office, “Zlochevsky fled Ukraine.” On his return to the country, he was “accused of having illegally issued oil and gas licenses… to the companies that belonged to him while he was serving, in 2010–2012, as the government’s Ecology Minister.”In addition to his Ukraine-based Burisma Holdings, Zlochevsky owns, through his “sole ownership of Cyprus-registered Burisma Holdings, … the Ukrainian gas and oil producers Aldea, Pari, Esko-Pivnich, and the First Ukrainian Petroleum Company and the investment group Brociti Investments.”
Prosecutor Shokin and Joe
Meanwhile, General Prosecutor of Ukraine Viktor Mikolajovićh Shokin, serving under President Petro Poroshenko (February 10, 2015 – March 29, 2016), had in 2015 inherited the investigation begun in 2012 of the oligarch/owner of the oil and natural gas company Burisma Holdings, Mykola Zlochevsky, over “allegations of money laundering, tax evasion, and corruption.” During Shokin’s tenure, the Obama administration and sorted sectors claimed that “Shokin was not adequately pursuing corruption in Ukraine” [as if it was any of their business; the Trump regime used the same charge more recently]
March 2016, U.S. Vice President “JOE BIDEN threatened Ukrainian
President Petro Poroshenko that if he did not fire Shokin, the United States
would hold back its $1 billion in loan guarantees.” [another echo in today's news]
After submitting his letter of resignation on February 16, 2016, General
Prosecutor Viktor Mikolajovićh Shokin (formally dismissed by parliament on March
29, 2016) retired.
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.S. Interference continued (2019)
U.S. President Donald Trump allegedly attempted to coerce Ukraine’s government into investigating the Bidens (Joe and Hunter) or losing U.S. “foreign aid.” In September 2019, a Congressional Committee convened hearings inquiring into possible impeachable offenses of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Hawks Past and Present
Cashing, claiming U.S. interest, Breaching nations’ sovereignty
Ivy Leaguer Victoria Jane Nuland (Brown
University BA)
George W. Bush Administration hire as U. S. Ambassador to NATO (June 20, 2005 – May 2, 2008)Barack Obama Administration hire as United States Department of State (May 31, 2011 – February 11, 2013); Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (assistant September 18, 2013 – January 25, 2017); currently on the National Endowment for Democracy board
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.S. – Ukraine Connection: Nuland and the 44th
On the Job vulgar interference in Ukraine - BBC reporting
“An apparently bugged phone conversation in which a senior US diplomat
disparages the EU over the Ukraine crisis … The alleged conversation (exact
date unclear) between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US
Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, appeared on YouTube. Noted references:
- “Klitsch,” “Klitschko” for “Vitaly Klitschko”
- “Yats” for Arseniy Yatseniuk
- “Tyahnybok” for Oleh Tyahnybok
Victoria Nuland: “I don’t
think Klitsch should go into the government. I don’t think it’s necessary, I
don’t think it’s a good idea.”
Nuland Continued
“I think Yats is the guy who’s got the economic experience, the governing experience. He’s the… what he needs is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside. He needs to be talking to them four times a week, you know. I just think Klitsch going in… he’s going to be at that level working for Yatseniuk, it's just not going to work.”
Nuland Continued
“…[T]he big guns [are] waiting in the wings - US Vice-President Joe Biden clearly being lined up to give private words of encouragement at the appropriate moment.… [T]o help glue this thing and to have the UN help glue it and, you know, F…k the EU.”
Nuland's “winners”
- Ukrainian politician Oleh Yaroslavovych Tyahnybok is “a former member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine parliament) and the leader of the nationalist far-right Svoboda political party”
- 2014, after the “revolution” that removed Viktor Yanukovych from power, Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk assumed Ukraine’s premiership; February16, 2016, Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s President, “asked Yatsenyuk to resign saying he had lost the support of the coalition”; April 10, 2016, Yatsenyuk announced that he would report to parliament on April 12, 2016, and resign as Prime Minister.; April 14, 2016, Volodymyr Groysman replaced Yatsenyuk as Prime Minister of Ukraine.
- Ukrainian politician and professional boxer, and a leading a “leading figure in the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests,” Vitaly Vladimirovich Klitschko has been Mayor of Kiev and head of the Kiev City State Administration since 2014. He is “a former leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and former Member of the Ukrainian Parliament.
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.S. – Ukraine Connection: Giuliani and the 45th
Under consideration by the U.S. House Intelligence Committee
BBC Analysis by Anthony Zurcher North America Reporter
“How the controversy unfolded”
- July 18, 2019: U.S. President Donald Trump orders White House aide to hold back almost $400 million in military aid to Ukraine (US media reports)
- July 25, 2019: President Trump speaks to Ukraine’s leader (Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky) in a 30-minute phone call
- September 9, 2019: Congress learns of a whistleblower's complaint about the call, but is blocked by the Trump administration from viewing it
- September 11, 2019: Military aid for Ukraine is cleared for release by the Pentagon and Department of State
- September 23, 2019: President Trump confirms he withheld Ukrainian aid, saying it was due to concerns about ‘corruption’ [where have we heard that one before?]
- September 24, 2019: President Trump says the aid was withheld so that other countries would pay more.
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hy the United States in Ukraine? Not because of U.S. interest but rather
because of the self-interest of a few extremely
arrogant and unfortunately high-placed, destructive people.
Sources
Wikipedia
Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine
Hunter Biden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden
Mykola Zlochevsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Zlochevsky
Viktor Shokin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Shokin
Victoria Nuland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland
Oleh Tyahnybok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleh_Tyahnybok
Arseniy Yatsenyuk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arseniy_Yatsenyuk
Vitali Klitschko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_Klitschko
Volodymyr Zelensky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelensky
BBC “Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call” February
7, 2014: “An apparently bugged phone conversation in which a senior US diplomat
disparages the EU over the Ukraine crisis has been posted online. The alleged
conversation between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US
Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, appeared on YouTube on Thursday. It is
not clearly when the alleged conversation took place (posted a transcript, with
analysis by BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus” with a warning that
transcript contains swearing https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
BBC “White House ‘tried to cover up details of Trump-Ukraine call’” Analysis
by Anthony Zurcher North America Reporter September 26, 2019 [Senior White
House officials tried to ‘lock down’ all details of a phone call between (U.S.
President) Donald Trump and the Ukrainian president (Volodymyr Oleksandrovych
Zelensky), according to a whistleblower complaint against the US president” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49842895
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