More: In a bizarre turn-about, Ukraine's current President Petro Poroshenko has asked the country's constitutional court to recognize that Viktor Yanukovych was removed from office illegally in February 2014. Only in bizantine Eastern Europe would a national president undermine his own legitimacy in order to protect himself. Poroshenko actively supported the Maidan protest between November 2013 and February 2014 that resulted in his predecessor fleeing the country. Apprarently, Poroshenko is concerned about the threats of the neo-nazi Right Sector to oust him from office when they assemble in Kiev on July 3rd unless he restarts the war in the Donbass. Poroshenko does not represent Ukraine as it was formally constituted before the violent coup. He represents rump Ukraine, minus the two far-eastern provinces and Crimea. Neither region voted in the election held after the coup. Both regions are majority ethnic Russian.
{22.06.15}The video compilation posted here summarizes the connections between the US government and fascist leaders in western Ukraine that successfully led a coup against a democratically elected government friendly to Russia. Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland at one point boasted to right-wing Ukrainian leaders that "we have invested more than $5bn to help Ukraine". US support of Svoboda ("Freedom") party went beyond funding. Svoboda was previously the Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine built upon pro-nazi nationalists who fought the Red Army during WWII. The Maidan demonstration against Yanukovych's government was organized by party founder Andriy Parubiy, a co-leader of the 2004 Orange Revolution. Prior to Maidan in 2014, the CIA trained Ukrainian nazis in Poland. The snipers who shot protesters in Maidan Square were shooting at both sides as the transcript of a phone conversation between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and her representative Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet shows. The infamous incident captured on video has the hallmarks of a false flag operation conducted by agent provocateurs.
The US certainly did "F**ck the EU" to employ the crude explicative of the Clinton neocon Assistant Secretary of State during her discussion of who should compose the next Ukrainian government. Now the United States is on the brink of nuclear confrontation with Russia over a civil war it help create to satisfy the greed of hegemonic plutocrats. Stratfor, the private security firm, labeled Maidan "the most blatant coup in history". All of this occurs after former president George H.W. Bush assured Russia's leaders that NATO would not move "one inch eastward" (Secretary Baker to Mikhail Gorbachev; Feb, 1990) St. Petersburg is now only one hundred miles away from the latest NATO ally thanks to Democratic President Bill Clinton. It is no coincident that American armament producers make 56% of all global arms sales. Russian sales constitute only 8% of the market. Way to drag us back to the future, Nobel Peace Prize winner!