The Kiev Putsch: Rebel Workers Take Power in the East | Global Research
The Kiev Putsch: Rebel Workers Take Power in the East | Global Research
Not since the US and EU took over Eastern Europe, including the
Baltic countries, East Germany, Poland and the Balkans and converted
them into military outposts of NATO and economic vassals, have the
Western powers moved so aggressively to seize a strategic country, such
as the Ukraine, posing an existential threat to Russia.
Up until 2013 the Ukraine was a ‘buffer state’, basically a
non-aligned country, with economic ties to both the EU and Russia.
Ruled by a regime closely tied to local, European, Israeli and Russian
based oligarchs, the political elite was a product of a political
upheaval in 2004, (the so-called “Orange Revolution”) funded by the US.
Subsequently, for the better part of a decade the Ukraine underwent a
failed experiment in Western backed ‘neo-liberal’ economic policies.
After nearly two decades of political penetration, the US and EU were
deeply entrenched in the political system via long-standing funding of
so-called non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), political parties and
paramilitary groups.
The strategy of the US and EU was to install a pliant regime which
would bring Ukraine into the European Common Market and NATO as a
subordinate client state. Negotiations between the EU and the Ukraine
government proceeded slowly. They eventually faltered because of the onerous conditions demanded
by the EU and the more favorable economic concessions and subsidies
offered by Russia. Having failed to negotiate the annexation of the
Ukraine to the EU, and not willing to await scheduled constitutional
elections, the NATO powers activated their well-financed and organized
NGOs, client political leaders and armed paramilitary groups to violently overthrow the elected government. The violent putsch succeeded and a US-appointed civilian-military junta took power.
