Some EU countries, however, have decided to take Russia's generous offer seriously. Italy has just made agreed with the Russian vaccine developer to produce Sputnik V in Italy. Other European countries (Spain, Finland, France, among them) are also going outside the EU axis to negotiate their own deals. Sputnik V: Why hasn't the EU approved Russia's COVID vaccine yet? | Euronews
Russia Sanctioned for Opposing a Fascistic Coup in Ukraine
Three generations ago, Russian and United States troops met in Torgau, Germany by the Elbe River to celebrate brotherhood in their common fight to defeat fascism. That day, April 26, 1945, these freedom-fighting soldiers promised eternal friendship.
Not long after WWII, the U.S./U.K. decided to reject friendship and start the Cold War. They rejected diplomacy, preferring violence, threats of war, and crippling sanctions against the Soviet Union, and later against the Russian Federation when President Vladimir Putin decided to recapture Russian sovereignty following the disastrous decade of Boris Yeltsin. (World Bank Document)
The U.S. demands that its allies adhere to their fatal ideology: divide and conquer for eternal profiteering. Since the late 1980s, all Danish governments have complied. Denmark established sanctions against Russia for refusing to support the U.S.-prepared coup against Ukraine's democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, in February 2014. The U.S. prepared for his replacement with a neo-fascist coalition, supportive of Stepan Bandera, a Waffen SS Nazi collaborator, who was co-responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Ukrainians, many of them Jews. CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953, by Wayne Madsen (voltairenet.org)
While these sanctions prohibit much trade with Crimea, and armaments and fossil fuels, they do not include medicines. Nevertheless, U.S./UK/EU attitude is not to trade with Russia generally. Now that Joe Biden is president that is not likely to change. When vice-president, Barak Obama put Biden in charge of conducting the Ukrainian "regime change". Biden's point envoy to arrange the coup was Victoria Nuland, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.
On December 13, 2013, Nuland told the US-Ukrainian Foundation that since 1991 the United States had spent $5 billion to teach Ukrainians "democratic skills". Click Here
A leaked taped telephone conversation between Nuland and U.S. Ambassador Goeffrey Pyatt proves how the U.S. got what it paid for. On February 4, 2014, just three weeks before the coup, Nuland told Pyatt who should sit in the new government, and they then arranged for that to happen.
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When Ambassador Pyatt suggests that the heavyweight champion boxer Wladimir Klitschko [Klitsch] is the most popular candidate for prime minister, Nuland corrects him and states that the more politically savvy "Fatherland" party leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk [Yats] should be prime minister. She also thinks that the fascist Svobada leader Oleh Tyahnybok should be in the government but more on the outside ring. Here are excerpts from the conversation.
Nuland: "I don't think Klitsch should go into government. I don't think it's necessary. I don't think it's a good idea."
Pyatt: "Yeah, I mean I guess. You think "what" in terms of him not going into the government, just let him sort of stay out and do his political homework and stuff. I'm just thinking in terms of the process moving ahead, we want to keep the moderate democrats together. The problem is going to be Tyahnybok and his guys [that is, the fascists]. I'm sure that's what Yanukoyvch is calculating on all this."
Nuland: "I think Yats is the guy who's got the economic experience, the governing experience. What he needs is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside and he needs to be talking to them four times a week. I think with Klitsch going in at that level working for Yats, it's not going to work."
Nuland: "My understanding is that the big three [Yatsenyuk, Klitsch and Tyahnybok] were going in to their own meeting and that Yats was going to offer in that context a three plus one conversation with you."
Pyatt: "That's what he proposed but knowing the dynamic that's been with them where Klitsch has been top dog; he's going to take a while to show up at a meeting, he's probably talking to his guys at this point so I think you reaching out to him will help with the personality management among the three and gives us a chance to move fast on all this stuff and put us behind it before they all sit down and he explains why he doesn't like it."
Nuland: "When I talked to Jeff Feltman [U.S. diplomat in UN] this morning, he had a new name for the UN guy - Robert Serry - he's now gotten both Serry [Dutch diplomat in UN] and Ban ki Moon [U.S.'s South Korean choice for UN General Secretary until 2016] to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday - so that would be great I think to help glue this thing and have the UN help glue it and you know f*ck the EU.
The Guardian reported, February 6, 2014, that State Department spokeswoman "Jen Psaki said that Nuland, 'has been in contact with her EU counterparts and of course has apologized for these reported comments'" about f*cking the EU. The fact that she picked a so-called sovereign state's next government leaders was not relevant enough to discuss or apologize for.
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On February 21, 2014, fascists shot at President Yanukovych as he was driven away from his office. He fled to Russia as the coup-makers were killing scores of pro-democratic protestors.
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