John Pilger In February, the US mounted one of its colour coups against the elected government in Ukraine, exploiting genuine protests against corruption in Kiev. Obamas assistant secretary of state, Victoria Nuland, personally selected the leader of an interim government. She nicknamed him Yats. Vice President Joe Biden came to Kiev, as did CIA Director John Brennan. The shock troops of their putsch were Ukrainian fascists. For the first time since 1945, a neo-Nazi, openly anti-Semitic party controls key areas of state power in a European capital. No Western European leader has condemned this revival of fascism in the borderland through which Hitlers invading Nazis took millions of Russian lives. They were supported by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), responsible for the massacre of Jews and Russians they called vermin. The UPA is the historical inspiration of the present-day Svoboda Party and its fellow-travelling Right Sector. Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok has called for a purge of the Moscow-Jewish mafia and other scum, including gays, feminists and those on the political left. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States has ringed Russia with military bases, nuclear warplanes and missiles as part of its Nato Enlargement Project. Reneging on a promise made to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 that Nato would not expand one inch to the east, Nato has, in effect, militarily occupied eastern Europe. In the former Soviet Caucasus, Natos expansion is the biggest military build-up since the Second World War. A Nato Membership Action Plan is Washingtons gift to the coup-regime in Kiev. In August, Operation Rapid Trident will put American and British troops on Ukraines Russian border and Sea Breeze will send US warships within sight of Russian ports. Imagine the response if these acts of provocation, or intimidation, were carried out on Americas borders. In reclaiming Crimea - which Nikita Kruschev illegally detached from Russia in 1954 - the Russians defended themselves as they have done for almost a century. More than 90 per cent of the population of Crimea voted to return the territory to Russia. Crimea is the home of the Black Sea Fleet and its loss would mean life or death for the Russian Navy and a prize for Nato. Confounding the war parties in Washington and Kiev, Vladimir Putin withdrew troops from the Ukrainian border and urged ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine to abandon separatism. In Orwellian fashion, this has been inverted in the west to the Russian threat. Hillary Clinton likened Putin to Hitler. Without irony, right-wing German commentators said as much. In the media, the Ukrainian neo-Nazis are sanitised as nationalists or ultra nationalists. What they fear is that Putin is skilfully seeking a diplomatic solution, and may succeed. On 27 June, responding to Putins latest accommodation - his request to the Russian Parliament to rescind legislation that gave him the power to intervene on behalf of Ukraines ethnic Russians - Secretary of State John Kerry issued another of his ultimatums. Russia must act within the next few hours, literally to end the revolt in eastern Ukraine. Notwithstanding that Kerry is widely recognised as a buffoon, the serious purpose of these warnings is to confer pariah status on Russia and suppress news of the Kiev regimes war on its own people. A third of the population of Ukraine are Russian-speaking and bilingual. They have long sought a democratic federation that reflects Ukraines ethnic diversity and is both autonomous and independent of Moscow. Most are neither separatists nor rebels but citizens who want to live securely in their homeland. Separatism is a reaction to the Kiev juntas attacks on them, causing as many as 110,000 (UN estimate) to flee across the border into Russia. Typically, they are traumatised women and children johnpilger/…/the-return-of-george-orwell-and-big…
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