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Stephen F. Cohen: "As anyone who followed the unfolding of the crisis knows, prominent members of US officialdom—from the State Department, Congress, and the Obama administration—were persistently present throughout the Maidan events, publicly and privately urging a showdown with Yanukovych, the constitutionally elected president."
full: https://www.thenation.com/article/four-years-of-ukraine-and-the-myths-of-maidan/
I get a chuckle out of this. To start with, the rivalry between Poroshenko and Yanukovych was bogus to start with. Oligarchic rule in Ukraine relies heavily on the exploitation of pro or anti-Russian rhetoric used to con the voter. For example, Tymoshenko, the most rabidly nationalistic of these elites, went to prison for using her office for personal gain by cutting a deal with Gazprom at the expense of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Paul Manafort who orchestrated Yanukovych's election campaign, offered his services to Poroshenko when it looked like nationalism was on the ascendancy.
Today, there was news about the pending arrest of Gregory Craig, who was Obama's chief counsel, for not registering as a foreign agent when he was performing the same exact services for Yanukovych as Manafort:
Craig’s firm was hired in 2012 by Yanukovych’s Justice Ministry to conduct a review of the prosecution of one of Yanukovych’s leading political rivals, Yulia Tymoshenko. The agreement included providing advice on improving prosecutions by the ministry, according to court filings.
Skadden produced a 187-page white paper that offered a mixed review of the trial and imprisonment of Tymoshenko, claiming the analysis it conducted of the case was independent.
But human rights advocates alleged the report had been engineered by Yanukovych’s government and whitewashed the jailing of his political opponent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gregory-craig-ex-obama-white-house-counsel-expects-to-be-charged-in-relation-to-ukrainian-work-with-manafort-his-lawyers-say/2019/04/10/9c0e0b32-4c04-11e9-93d0-64dbcf38ba41_story.html _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
