PressTV - US backing new offensive by junta in Kiev: James Petras
The United
States is backing a new offensive by the junta in Kiev as it is
supporting its “puppet regime” in Ukraine and trying to push pro-Russian
forces out of the struggle, says a political analyst.
“I think Washington wants to strengthen the position of the Kiev
junta without calling into question the fact that its origins was in a
military civilian coup which overthrew the elected government and which
then subsequently organized a very fraudulent kind of one-sided
elections,” said James Petras, Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of sociology
at Binghamton University, New York, in a phone interview with Press TV
on Monday.
He made the comments one day after the White House called on Russian
President Vladimir Putin to withdraw troops from Ukraine and stop
sending weapons to pro-Russian forces in the country.
US National Security Council spokesperson Bernadette Meehan said in a
statement that in order to enable “the restoration of Ukrainian
sovereignty along the Ukrainian side of the international border,”
pro-Russian forces should be disarmed.
Petras said the US is only trying to support the Kiev junta that is “propped up by NATO, IMF, and EU funding.”
States is backing a new offensive by the junta in Kiev as it is
supporting its “puppet regime” in Ukraine and trying to push pro-Russian
forces out of the struggle, says a political analyst.
