At a news conference he said, "The United States stands ready to support the Ukrainian government if they're willing to make that change and take the step towards Europe."
Notice Murphy's "if." It was actually a threat. What would it mean if the US chose not to support the Ukrainian government?
A couple of months later we found out, and it wasn't pretty. That's because Ukraine's democratic government did chose not to favor the US-pushed trade deal. That turned out to be a fatal decision.
This is when Nuland and Pyatt went into action. Nuland was a State Department official. Pyatt was Washington's ambassador to Ukraine. They conspired to pick replacements for Ukraine's democratic leaders. An intercepted phone call emerged between the two plotting away. Clearly they had no qualms about nullifying the results of a credible election.
They were talking about people, some of whom had strutted about wearing Nazi symbols. Also there were people with a background in anti-Semitism. And they were people willing to use force.
Lamentably, the rest became history.
Earlier I compared Obama's fabricated story with Bush's deception about Iraq. But when it came to casualties, Bush's Iraq adventure was far worse. Some estimate that well over 100,000 Iraqis died as a result.
Deaths in Ukraine were only around 13,000, although the dying is not over yet.
The Ukraine casualties result from the break-up of the former Ukraine. The people of eastern Ukraine and those on Crimea wanted no part of the US-incited coup and the hostile leaders it placed in Kyiv. The coup leaders never had control of these regions. And the people there wanted to keep it that way.
That led coup forces to brutally attack areas in eastern Ukraine. A war ensued. That's what to date has consumed reportedly 13,000 lives. Crimea avoided bloodshed by seeking refuge in Russia. Residents voted for reincorporation into Russia from whence it came during the 1950s.
You've probably heard an opposing explanation -- that Russia invaded and annexed Crimea. But no one has ever shown evidence that it happened. It's another "Saddam's WMD" type of story. My book Ukraine in the Crosshairs provides a greater perspective on what was done to Ukraine.
The Russians are not without fault in the Ukraine saga, however. Amid all the wild stories about their evil intent toward Ukraine, the Kremlin did absolutely nothing to successfully set the record straight for the world. Had it dealt with the fabricated stories with even a modicum of strategic sense it could have headed off a lot of trouble and saved many lives.
So where does this leave Biden now in 2021, having just put forth some excellent principles about the protection of democratic choices while advocating consequences for those who violate those principles?
What consequences should Obama face? What about Nuland, Pyatt, and Murphy? Certainly this quad has on their hands the destruction of the old Ukraine and the blood of 13,000 people. The quad needs to be dealt with accordingly
An open question in all this is why in the world Obama did what he did to Ukraine. What was his motive?
Biden has a principle that he's expressed about motives. He incorporated it into his farewell speech to the Senate. It was advice he received from then Senator Mike Mansfield. According to Biden he said, "Joe, never question another man's motive. Question his judgment but never his motive."
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