Neocons and the Ukraine Coup

[Purveyor]

By Robert Parry

More than five years into his presidency, Barack Obama has failed to take full control over his foreign policy, allowing a bureaucracy shaped by long years of Republican control and spurred on by a neocon-dominated U.S. news media to frustrate many of his efforts to redirect America's approach to the world in a more peaceful direction.

But Obama deserves a big dose of the blame for this predicament because he did little to neutralize the government holdovers and indeed played into their hands with his initial appointments to head the State and Defense departments, Hillary Clinton, a neocon-leaning Democrat, and Robert Gates, a Republican cold warrior, respectively.
Even now, key U.S. diplomats are more attuned to hard-line positions than to promoting peace. The latest example is the Ukraine where U.S. diplomats, including Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, are celebrating the overthrow of an elected pro-Russian government.

Occurring during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the coup in Ukraine dealt an embarrassing black eye to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had offended neocon sensibilities by quietly cooperating with Obama to reduce tensions over Iran and Syria, where the neocons favored military options.

Over the past several weeks, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was undercut by a destabilization campaign encouraged by Nuland and Pyatt and then deposed in a coup spearheaded by neo-Nazi militias. Even after Yanukovych and the political opposition agreed to an orderly transition toward early elections, right-wing armed patrols shattered the agreement and took strategic positions around Kiev.

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Neocons-and-the-Ukraine-Co-by-Robert-Parry-Iaea_Neocons_Obama_Ukraine-140223-302.html

[okaawhatever]

1. What a bunch of friggin garbage. pathetic excuse for "journalism"??? nt

[arendt]

8. Robert Parry is an excellent, leftwing journalist

Robert Parry knows a lot more about what is going on than shills like you.

You are completely ignorant of the cast of characters in this latest neocon-driven outrage.

I would be willing to bet you don't even know what a neocon is.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Sound about right.

I'm no fan of Yanukovich, but I'm even less of a fan of imperialist interventionism.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

4. what imperialist intervention would that be vis a vis Ukraine?

[Pretzel_Warrior]

3. op-ed news. oh, you mean somebody's whining opinion they pulled out of their ass?

got it. thanks for the link.

Be warned. If you click on that link you will be immediately spammed by ads begging for money done in circa 1996 geocities website pallette of bright turquoise packground and red font.

for your safety, wear eye protection and run an anti virus application afterward.

[Purveyor]

5. I know, opinions can be a pesky distraction now can't they?

[frwrfpos]

6. only American and EU propaganda is accepted here.Didn't you know?

Also exposing the very right wing parties that have taken over Ukraine and the government there is also a big no no. Only filtered and approved US agitprop is accepted as fact.

Makes me know for a fact that this country moves closer to Fascism everyday. Nationalistic. Militarily violent. Police state. Active and unashamed surveillance. And of course propaganda

[arendt]

9. Always out there bashing the left...

Robert Parry has been doing real investigative journalism for twenty years.

If there is any whining going on here, it is coming from you.

[malaise]

7. I even saw McGramps on BBC TV

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