As regards what type of man Poroshenko himself actually is, consider carefully the phone-conversation between the top EU foreign-affairs official Catherine Ashton and her investigator in Kiev Urmas Paet, on 25 February 2014, right after the coup. See the call's transcript in the middle of this, in italics, at the point where I've marked in brackets, "[So, Poroshenko himself knows that his regime is based on a false-flag U.S.-controlled coup d'etat against his predecessor.]". In other words: by no later than 25 February 2014, Poroshenko already knew that this was a U.S.-backed coup and not an action on the part of the Yanukovych Government. From at least that moment forward, he was participating in, and keeping quiet about, treason to his country. He is a traitor to his nation. That's the type of man he is. (EU officials likewise knew about it, after this phone-conversation. But they're all quiet about it. Apparently, they, too, are on the take.)
UKRAINE'S MOST POWERFUL OLIGARCH -- KOLOMOYSKY:
Britain's Independent reported on 11 September 2013 (which was before the coup and so our 'news' media were reporting such things then), "Mr Kolomoisky had the reputation of being a 'corporate raider', someone who attacked companies by destabilising management, driving down the share price and grabbing control 'without paying what the other shareholders would regard as a proper premium for their shares'. Mr Kolomoisky had, the judge noted, a reputation of having sought to take control of a company 'at gunpoint' in Ukraine. Even his main witness in the trial admitted that was his boss's image."
Then, on 15 January 2014, barely a month before the coup, The Hill reported about Kolomoysky and his sidekick Bogolyubov and about Kolomoysky's huge bank, Privat, that, "In the takeover of the Kremenchuk steel factory in 2006, Privat's raid was literal, with Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov hiring an army of thugs to descend upon the plant with baseball bats, gas and rubber[-bullet] pistols, iron bars and chainsaws. Needless to say, Kremenchuk's steel production was soon under Privat's control."
Then, after the February coup, the great American independent journalist George Eliason, who happens to live in Ukraine's conflict-zone, reported on 23 June 2014, that, "When the Kolomoisky mercenaries go into the shops it's like a siege. They come twenty at a time circling the shop with their weapons pointing at anyone walking by. They do not receive government supplies so they clean out the stores, leaving little for residents."
Then, Eliason added: "In reaction to the peace plan, Kolimoisky (banker, Jewish leader, oligarch statesman of Ukraine) stated that he will not be governed by Poroshenko. He would continue military operations until all the Moskal [ethnic Russians] are killed. Take him seriously: this is a guy that rips down holocaust memorials (Crimea--before Maidan) and built luxury housing where the crematorium stood. He organized and paid for the Odessa Trade Union House massacre and the Mariupol massacre. He has challenged the legitimacy of Kiev and declared himself a separatist. Should we tell president Obama?" (Obama says that the people who are being killed by his new Ukrainian Government deserve to die because they're separatists.)
In other words: Kolomoysky respects no law but his own.
Right after the coup, Kolomoysky was appointed by Obama's team as the Governor of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, or region, on 2 March 2014.
AFP reported on October 31st, "Kolomoisky, one of Ukraine's most controversial billionaires, funds the paramilitary, which returns the favour in these troubled times by boosting the banking and industrial tycoon's personal security and political clout. All the signs are of a flourishing military enterprise." Kolomoysky's henchman Yuriy Bereza was asked how many men are in the battalion, and he answered, "Unofficially, it's 7,000." Bereza was threatening to overthrow the Poroshenko Government if they didn't kill or drive out enough ethnic Russians fast enough, and was asked how much time Kolomoysky was intending to give Poroshenko. "We're going to give them half a year." And then, if Kolomoysky still isn't satisfied? "'A coup,' he said."
I have previously written about Kolomoysky's links to the Obama White House. Kolomoyskyi has hired Joe Biden's son, and another young man who is connected to John Kerry. Both could become billionaires if the U.S. team kills and drives out enough people in the targeted regions, because Ihor Kolomoysky's company that hired them has claims to the fracking rights in much of the area the Government is bombing. To Obama's team, the residents there are trash, but the land is golden.
RESISTANCE TO OBAMA'S UKRAINIAN OPERATION:
Some members of the U.S. Congress are opposed to the U.S. supporting nazism in Ukraine. All are Democrats. One, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, introduced a bill against it, and the journalist Max Blumenthal posted its text at Alternet, on November 18th. Headlining there, "How the Israel Lobby Protected Ukrainian Neo-Nazis," Blumenthal presented the "Failed Amendment barring US assistance to Ukrainian neo-Nazis." What killed it was the rabid anti-Russian sentiment at the Anti-Defamation League, plus congressional Republicans, and the few conservative congressional Democrats.
As that incident shows, anti-nazi sentiments can pass toothless measures at the United Nations, but not meaningful measures in the U.S. Congress, where Obama's campaign to vilify Russia resonates strongly, especially amongst the U.S. Establishment.
Even after communism in Russia ended, America's oligarchs (including even Democratic ones, such as George Soros, and Pierre Omidyar) still loathe Russians, and aren't at all shy about using foreign nazis in order to do the dirty-work of mass-murdering them, where and when they can.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
(Article changed on November 24, 2014 at 10:13)
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