Thanks for the info Don!
Everyone has been saying it but I hadn't seen evidence that the US and in particular the State Department had been at the center of the protests that led to the overthrow of the Ukrainian govt.
After getting past the headline grabbing "Fuck the EU" I'm beginning to wonder. Check this out...
I don't know but one thing is certain. We have idiots in the State Dept that are playing games that are getting people killed, destabilizing governments and causing suffering.
That is unsat.
Everyone has been saying it but I hadn't seen evidence that the US and in particular the State Department had been at the center of the protests that led to the overthrow of the Ukrainian govt.
After getting past the headline grabbing "Fuck the EU" I'm beginning to wonder. Check this out...
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State Victoria Nuland's infamous February phone call with Geoffrey Pyatt, US Ambassador to UkraineWhy hasn't this been emphasized and investigated by the mainstream media?
Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call -- portion:
Nuland: OK. He's now gotten both Serry and [UN Secretary General] Ban Ki-moon to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday. So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and to have the UN help glue it and, you know, Fuck the EU.
Pyatt: Yeah. I guess... in terms of him not going into the government, just let him stay out and do his political homework and stuff. I'm just thinking in terms of sort of the process moving ahead we want to keep the moderate democrats together. The problem is going to be Tyahnybok [Oleh Tyahnybok, the other opposition leader] and his guys and I'm sure that's part of what [President Viktor] Yanukovych is calculating on all this.
Nuland: [Breaks in] I think Yats is the guy who's got the economic experience, the governing experience. He's the... what he needs is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside. He needs to be talking to them four times a week, you know. I just think Klitsch going in... he's going to be at that level working for Yatseniuk, it's just not going to work.
Pyatt: Yeah, no, I think that's right. OK. Good. Do you want us to set up a call with him as the next step?
Nuland: My understanding from that call - but you tell me - was that the big three were going into their own meeting and that Yats was going to offer in that context a... three-plus-one conversation or three-plus-two with you. Is that not how you understood it?
Feb 6
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki acknowledged that the recording was authentic and said Nuland had apologized to E.U. officials.
I don't know but one thing is certain. We have idiots in the State Dept that are playing games that are getting people killed, destabilizing governments and causing suffering.
That is unsat.