Ukrainegate: Is It Waterloo for Trump, or for Americas "News"-Media? by Eric Zuesse
(2019-10-19 at 17:07:45 )

Ukrainegate: Is It Waterloo for Trump, or for Americas "News"-Media? by Eric Zuesse

This article contradicts United States-and-allied accounts of events and is therefore linked to documentation at each allegation which is particularly at variance with those "mainstream" accounts (or otherwise not sufficiently publicized in The West).

During February 2014, the Democratically elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych became overthrown. Like all of Ukraines post-Soviet Presidents, he was corrupt.

But that is not the reason why he was overthrown. And he was not overthrown by Ukrainian voters.

He was overthrown because he had turned down the offer from the United States of Americas democratically elected President Barack Obama to bring Ukraine into NATO. And he was overthrown by agents of President Obama. It was a United States coup, though not represented as such in The West.

Mr. Yanukovych had met with President Obama at the White House several times, starting in April 2010, to discuss mainly mutual national-security concerns and energy policies.

His biggest difference of opinion with President Obama seems to have been about the longstanding United States policy to bring Ukraine into the anti-Russian military alliance, NATO.

Secondarily, there was an additional issue of bringing Ukraine also into the United States-initiated (as part of its Cold War against the Soviet Union) EU (which is Western-allied, and, of course, west of Ukraine).

Mr. Yanukovych actually wanted to join the EU, so long as this would not require him to abandon Ukraines existing trade with Russia (to its east).

The United States of America, and its EU, as part of their secret continuation of the Cold War after Russia had ended it on its side in 1991, made membership by Ukraine conditional upon Ukraine quitting its trade with Russia.

However, the EUs offer to Ukraine included no compensation to Ukraine for the $160 billion net cost to Ukraine that would result from Ukraines losing its Russian trade and joining the EU.

The EU was not willing to pay that, because they did not actually crave Ukraine; and the United States had a cheaper way to do it, which would be that coup, to bring Ukraine first into the EU, and then ultimately into NATO - the EU membership being preparation for Ukraines becoming accepted into NATO.

Mr. Yanukovych, publicly, and repeatedly, stated that his position was "We will maintain a neutral status" on any United States-v.-Russia matters, and he stuck by it.

This is the reason why he became overthrown.

He refused the EUs offer, which President Obama had been trying to get Mr. Yanukovych to accept.

Starting in 2011, the Obama Administration prepared a coup (based upon corruption-charges against him) to replace Mr. Yanukovych and to install a rabidly anti-Russian Ukrainian Government that would be 100% committed to the United States Government and its allies.

This coup succeeded.

The current United States President, Donald Trump, is now in a position where he will have to either explain all of this to the United States of American people (which would require both courage and intelligence in order for him to do), or else he will become forced out of office and replaced by his Vice President, Mike Pence, on account of the myth continuing, about how and why Ukraines Government changed in February 2014.

The Democratic Partys threat to force President Trump out of office and to bring in Mike Pence as the United States of Americas President could become responded to by a threat from President Trump to explain and document to the United States of American people what Americas "news"-media - both Democratic and Republican - have been hiding (and lying about) regarding the overthrow of Mr. Yanukovych and the aftermath of that actual coup by President Obama, which the United States of Americas "news"-media continue to refer to as having been instead a "democratic revolution" in Ukraine.

For President Trump to be able to turn the Democratic Partys Ukrainegate charges, against himself, into a knife piercing the heart of the Democratic Partys leadership, he would have to go aggressively after the Democrats chief Ukrainian oligarch, Ihor Kolomoysky, who was the actual benefactor of Joe Bidens son, Hunter Biden, and whom Joe Biden, and the entire Democratic Party, have been hiding from the United States of American public.

They hide it not so much to protect Joe Biden, as to protect Barack Obama, whose reputation today is Democratic Party leadership protect at all costs, because President Obamas crimes in regard to Ukraine were also their own crimes in regard to Ukraine.

Ihor Kolomoysky was President Obamas man, and so Mr. Kolomoysky was also the Democratic National Committees man, the key Ukrainian oligarch for their neoconservative agenda, and - since he was a neoconservative - not a person that even Republicans would want to expose. Consequently: for President Trump to expose him would also go against the Republican National Committee.

All of the United States of Americas "news"-media - of both political Parties - are hiding the truth about Ukrainegate, by falsely alleging that the Yanukovych-supporter Mykola Zlochevsky is the controlling owner of Burisma Holdings (which paid Joe Bidens son Hunter Biden), and by hiding that the President Obama-supporter Ihor Kolomoysky actually was and is the controlling and deciding owner of Burisma Holdings and was by far the most important of Ukraines oligarchs who supported President Obamas coup and who helped to make it succeed.

Hunter Bidens boss was not the pro-Yanukovych Zlochevsky, as the United States of Americas "news"-media falsely allege; it was instead the pro-Obama Kolomoysky, who had assisted the bloody coup that those "news"-media continue to call a "democratic revolution."

But even President Trump himself has not yet revealed any of this. Why?

Will he do it only if and when the Democratic House actually impeaches President Trump and then sends his impeachment into the Republican Senate for the final decision - though, even in that Republican forum, there exists overwhelming support for expanding NATO to include Ukraine?

Ihor Kolomoysky was riding high, as the Obama Administrations favorite Ukrainian oligarch, the man who, like Obama himself, championed to become Ukraines President the rabidly anti-Russian and pro-privatization, neoliberal-libertarian, former gas-minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko.

On 16 January 2008, the Republican United States Senator Richard Lugar (a friend of Obama) said in Kiev, "Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Parliamentary Chairman Arseniy Yatsenyuk have signed the statement calling for consideration on Ukraines entry into the NATO membership action plan." Though Tymoshenko rose to become briefly Ukraines Prime Minister under Yushchenko, her lifetime ambition has been to be the President herself. She supported the idea of Ukraines joining NATO even when (as had been the case until 2014) all polls showed that only around 25% of Ukrainians supported joining NATO.

Ukraine joining NATO is a hot-button issue not only in Russia but in Ukraine itself.

For Ukraine to join that military alliance against Ukraines adjoining nation, Russia, would be - but in reverse - as if, in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Unions Nikita Khrushchev had gone ahead with his plan to place nuclear missiles near the United States of Americas border, but Ukraines joining NATO would actually be even more of a provocation against Russia than Khrushchevs Cuban missile threat had briefly been against America, because this could involve United States missiles being stationed all along the 1,625-mile Russian-Ukrainian border, not 94 miles away from the United States of America, on just an island.

But this is what President Obama was secretly determined to do, and what Ms Tymoshenko was even publicly in favor of carrying out. However, she avoided pushing for it, because NATO was too unpopular in Ukraine, and she knew that as an actual campaigning issue, it would destroy her Presidential chances. Only as Ukraines President could she actually carry out such an initiative. This is why President Obama wanted her to become Ukraines President.

Mr. Kolomoysky not only supported her early in her political career but he also did so in the latest Ukrainian Presidential contest, preferring her even above Mr. Kolomoyskys own employee who ended up winning the election, Volodmyr Zelensky, who calls Mr. Kolomoysky "my business partner." So: in Ukrainian politics, Kolomoysky is extremely powerful, and there is even a large "Kolomoysky bloc" in Ukraines Rada or parliament.

During 2003-2009, only around 20% of Ukranians wanted NATO membership, while around 55% opposed it. In 2010, Gallup found that whereas 17% of Ukrainians considered NATO to mean "protection of your country," 40% said it is "a threat to your country."

Ukrainians predominantly saw NATO as an enemy, not a friend. But after President Obamas February 2014 Ukrainian coup - "the most blatant coup in history" - a survey found that "Ukraines NATO membership would get 53.4% of the votes, one third of Ukrainians (33.6%) would oppose it."

President Obamas Ukrainian coup made the difference. It was entirely illegal, but it produced the sudden and stunning transformation, of Ukraine, into a United States satellite-state, afraid of Russia, and eager to join NATO.

The person who organized and ran President Obamas policy on Ukraine was Victoria Nuland, who nominally worked under Secretary of State John Kerry but actually took her instructions directly from Obama; and, on 27 January 2014, she instructed Americas Ambassador in Ukraine to have "Yats," Arseniy Yatsenyuk - a member of Tymoshenkos inner circle - appointed to lead Ukraine as soon as the democratically elected President of Ukraine would be overthrown, which then happened during 18-24 February 2014; and "Yats" formally received the appointment on February 26th and promptly replaced Ukraines top generals so as to prepare an ethnic cleansing campaign to kill and scare out of Ukraines far eastern districts (mainly into adjoining Russia) enough pro-Russians in Ukraine so as to eliminate those voters and thereby reduce significantly the likelihood of Ukraines ever again electing a government that, like the overthrown one, was not rabidly anti-Russian.

The target there is the residents, the civilian population, to terrorize them into leaving, because 90+% of the people who live there had voted for Yanukovych against Tymoshenko.

Only with an anti-Russian electorate could Ukraine even possibly become a member of NATO; and, under Yatsenyuk, Ukraine became committed to joining NATO. Not only was Yanukovychs overthrow the most blatant coup in history, but it was followed by one of the most blatant ethnic cleansings in history, and it was even overtly inspired by Hitlers example; and whether many of the 2.5-million-plus refugees from it will ever want to move back can reasonably be doubted. So, President Obamas plan has been extremely successful, thus far.

On Thursday, 7 February 2019, the Voice of America proudly bannered "Ukraine Amends Constitution to Cement EU, NATO Course" and reported that "Ukraine on Thursday adopted -historic- changes to its constitution, spelling out the ex-Soviet countrys aspirations to join the EU and NATO two months before a crucial presidential vote."

Furthermore, the man who had been the Ukrainian leader of President Obamas coup (and who is shown at 2:40 in this 12 February 2015 BBC video denying that there was any such coup), and who was one of two co-founders of the Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine (Ukraines main nazi Party), Andrei Parubiy - who was now the Speaker of Ukraines Rada - announced "the irreversibility of our European choice."

This vote made a crime for any future Ukrainian President to oppose Ukraines joining NATO.

No matter what Ukraines war-weary voters might think, their nation was now legally committed to a bigger war, against the giant nation across their longest border.

NATOs campaign to win Ukraine as a member had actually started in 1991 when the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact and communism all ended and Russia ended the Cold War on its side but the United States Government secretly remained still committed to conquering Russia.

On 14 April 2010 the man whom President Obama overthrew in 2014 had met with him in the White House to discuss what the United States would offer in order to persuade him to push actively for Ukraine to join NATO, but no deal managed to be struck; and, by the time of 2011, the Obama Administration in secret actively started planning its coup to overthrow him.

Kolomoysky was very actively involved in that coup, and this is one of the reasons why the Obama Administration had him appointed to become in early 2014 the Governor of the Dnieperpetrovsk region of Ukraine which immediately adjoined the far-eastern districts in Ukraine where gas was said to be plentiful but hostility against Russia was conspicuously lacking. Kolomoysky was Ukraines largest private owner of gas-exploration rights in Ukraine, and his land was in precisely those adjoining regions.

Kolomoysky joined with the newly installed Yatsenyuk governments minister of internal affairs Arsen Avakov to plan and organize the 2 May 2014 burning-alive of an uncounted number of people inside Odessas Trade Unions Building who had been distributing in Odessa anti-coup-regime leaflets; and, as I mentioned and documented in that report, which was dated 16 days later, Kolomoysky was, himself, the biggest of the "Kings of Ukrainian Gas" and owned the controlling interest in the largest private Ukrainian gas-exploration company, Burisma Holdings, which had just three days earlier, on May 13th, publicly announced its having appointed to that companys board Hunter Biden, Joe Bidens son. (At that time, Kolomoysky owned the controlling interest in Burisma, and Zlochevsky owned only a minority interest in the company.)

So: President Obama, who had placed this rabidly anti-Russian Government into power, now had in his own United States Administration the intensely nepotistic Joe Biden, who throughout his long career had been using public office in order to enrich his sons and thereby create and establish a dynasty of wealth, upon the basis of Bidens practice of crony capitalism, which the Obama Administration publicly condemned against Ukraines democratically elected President, whom Obama had overthrown alleging that he had been practicing nepotism in Ukraine. (Obama did not demand his V.P. not to do what Ukraines President was being accused of having done.

Instead, United States "news"-media hid, and continue to hide, the Bidens having been doing it. They hide it by continuing to refuse to report that Hunter Bidens actual boss was Kolomoysky, and that Joe Biden therefore was assisting Hunter by requiring Ukraine to prosecute the pro-Yanukovych Zlochevsky instead of the newly installed junta-backing Kolomoysky.)

As I have recently documented, the way that the United States of Americas "news"-media cover this up is by hiding that the controlling owner of Burisma Holdings is - and since 2011 has been - Kolomoysky, and by blaming instead Mykola Zlochevsky, who had sold that controlling interest to Kolomoyskys PrivatBank in 2011.

As I showed there, that clearly intentional, and continuing, misidentification of the actual man who was Hunter Bidens boss, is crucial to the ongoing misrepresentation of why Hunter Biden had been hired by Burisma.

Only if Zlochevsky had been his boss could Hunter Biden not have been working for the gangster Kolomoysky, who had massacred those opponents of the Obama-installed regime, and who is now holding his former employee and Ukraines newly elected President Volodmyr Zelensky hostage in order to reverse the Poroshenko-IMF (etc.) disposession and nationalization of Kolomoyskys PrivatBank that had been imposed because of Kolomoyskys massive thefts from Ukraines Government.

And this misidentification of Hunter Bidens boss is, in turn, crucial to the hiding of Barack Obamas guilt in the entire affair - including that the February 2014 overthrow of Yanukovych was a coup and no "democratic revolution" such as the United States-and-allied press reports it as having been - (which even Republican Party "news"-media continue to hide, since Americas campaign to conquer Russia is bipartisan).

Furthermore, several of the snipers who had participated in Obamas coup (though none of them knew that it came from Obama), have since confessed to it, quite voluntarily, first in that 12 February 2015 BBC video, I previously referred to, and subsequently in this two-part Italian TV documentary.

On 8 October 2014, I posted a statement-by-statement fully linked-to-sources disproof of Joe Bidens 3 October 2014 speech about Unkraine at Harvards Kennedy School of Government.

He lies at least as flagrantly as does our current President. In fact, United States President Obama was, himself, behind the 17 July 2014 shoot-down of the Malaysian airliner MH17 by Ukraine, as well as of its being blamed against the Russian Government.

Some people say that Donald Trump is nothing more than a stupid psychopath, but others say that he is super-intelligent and is a master of playing political multiple-dimensional chess.

The outcome of the present impeachment proceedings against him will clearly show whether he is stupid or smart, because if he is smart, then he will expose, at an appropriate time, that Hunter Bidens actual boss was (along with Arsen Avakov) the mastermind of the 2 May 2014 extermination, inside Odessas Trade Unions Building, of opponents, of the February 2014 Obama coup-installed and rabidly anti-Russian Ukrainian regime.

That would take courage for Donald Trump to do - and it would be his first serious challenge against United States of Americas lying press, and would be totally out of character for him to do - but his only alternative is to continue hiding Predident Obamas actual guilt in the entire Ukrainian matter.

President Trump did not cause Ukraine to go fascist and even nazi; Obama did; but, thus far, President Trump has continued Obamas Ukrainian policy, and he might go down to defeat in 2020 if he continues doing so.

That would show he is quite the opposite of brilliant, and of courageous, and not anywhere near to being even decent.

It might be his last chance to save himself; but, as of now, there is no indication that he will do any such thing.

This is what the United States Government has now come down to.

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