This massacre, which was the first massacre in world history to be voluminously recorded by independent videos taken of it by cellphones, exposed to all the residents in the southeastern half of Ukraine, which are the regions where Yanukovych had won overwhelmingly the election that had made him President, that the regime that was now installed in Kiev wanted them dead if they wouldn't accept being ruled by this new, Obama-IMF-installed, government. Consequently, Ukraine's civil war started with this massacre, which was like an announcement to the southeast: either support us, or else die -- your choice.
It did not start with Putin. U.S. media are being dishonest about that. The people in Ukraine's southeast simply do not want to be ruled by the coalition of the two neo-Nazi parties, Pravy Sektor and Svoboda, and by the two conservative nationalist "Fatherland" and "UDAR" Parties, which four-party coalition, all-far-right-wing, now rules in Kiev. They seek protection against that U.S.-installed far-right coalition government, because the people who live in the southeast are the targets in their gun-sights and bombsights.
The U.S. Government controls the IMF; and, together, they caused the civil war that now ravages Ukraine.
While President Obama has never spoken about his having caused this civil war, much less about why he did it, he unquestionably did.
His operating assumption, that a nuclear war can be won, might be true for the West's aristocracy in the short term, but it is definitely false for the world-at-large over the long term. In a separate article, Steven Starr headlined in 2014 "Deadly Climate Change from Nuclear War: a threat to human existence." He closed by saying that, "The scientific studies summarized in this paper make it clear that the environmental consequences of a 'regional' nuclear conflict could kill hundreds of millions of people far from the war zone. Deadly climate change caused by a war fought with the strategic nuclear arsenals of the U.S. and Russia would threaten the continued survival of the human species. Yet neither the U.S., nor Russia, nor any other nuclear weapons state has ever officially evaluated what effects a war fought with their nuclear arsenals would have upon the Earth's climate and ecosystems." An article, "Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War" was published in the December 2008 Physics Today, and it concluded that, "the indirect effects ['nuclear winter'] would likely eliminate the majority of the human population." (It would be even worse, and far faster, than the expected harms from global warming.) President Obama might think that, as the Foreign Affairs article asserted, "the wisdom of pursuing nuclear primacy must be evaluated in the context of the United States' foreign policy goals," but others, both in the U.S. and especially elsewhere, might think that that's a false, parochially nationalistic, view of what democracy is about or is supposed to support, or even of what should be tolerated from an American President. Yet it's his policy, regarding Ukraine, if one is to judge by his actions, instead of by his words.
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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.
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