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April 22, 2014
Top US diplomat for Europe Victoria Nuland acknowledged in an interview with CNN Tuesday that Washington had allocated $5 billion to support democracy in Ukraine since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
“That money has been spent on supporting the aspirations of the Ukrainian people to have a strong, democratic government that represents their interests,” the US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs said in an interview.
She also praised the acting Ukrainian government for fulfilling the tasks of trying to negotiate a deal with the IMF and holding preparations for “free and fair elections,” scheduled for May 25.
originally posted by: pirhanna
a reply to: keenasbro
Our government and those of a few EU nations created this crisis, much as they always do, so they can then present the "solution". They backed and supported a pro-western coup in the country against the elected government, and no one is talking about that.
originally posted by: anHairInTheSoup
a reply to: Danbones
so they bought ukrain democracy in 91, but never managed to have one of their puppet elected to sign a "hand us over everything you have" deal with imf
so they remove the democracy to make the deal with imf
now they send the soldiers to protect the deal (and they'll stay as long as required, thanks for the courtesy of the american tax payer)
Relations between Ukraine and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) started in 1994.[1] Ukraine is as of January 2008 a candidate to join the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP).[2][3] On December 3, 2008 NATO decided it will work out an Annual National Programme of providing assistance to Ukraine to implement reforms required to accede the alliance without referring to MAP.[4] Plans for Ukrainian membership to NATO were shelved by Ukraine following the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election in which Viktor Yanukovych was elected President.
originally posted by: TritonTaranis
originally posted by: anHairInTheSoup
a reply to: Danbones
so they bought ukrain democracy in 91, but never managed to have one of their puppet elected to sign a "hand us over everything you have" deal with imf
so they remove the democracy to make the deal with imf
now they send the soldiers to protect the deal (and they'll stay as long as required, thanks for the courtesy of the american tax payer)
600 soldiers ?
There's 40,000 Russians on Ukraine's boarder
It's a planned NATO deployment which Russia is fully aware of please go check NATOs website
As a
For your coup claims, Yanukovych's own party, the party of regions and The Ukrainian parliament voted on 22 February to remove him
Coup or conspiracy ?
Relations between Ukraine and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) started in 1994.[1] Ukraine is as of January 2008 a candidate to join the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP).[2][3] On December 3, 2008 NATO decided it will work out an Annual National Programme of providing assistance to Ukraine to implement reforms required to accede the alliance without referring to MAP.[4] Plans for Ukrainian membership to NATO were shelved by Ukraine following the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election in which Viktor Yanukovych was elected President.
It's not hard to see that the majority of Ukraine want, and have wanted for some time now closer ties with the EU and seeked NATO membership previous to Yanukovych stepping into office, people need to look beyond maidan as it doesn't even tell you half the story...
originally posted by: Nikola014
a reply to: TritonTaranis
Stop telling people lies. Get your facts right.
First of all, that first picture of yours is a complete joke. You can find dozes pictures of just how many "pro-Russian"( or how I like to call them, anti-Nato protesters) protesters were there before all the shootings started.
Yea, what a brutal leader Yanuckovich really was. Same as Gaddaffi i guess?
You people have no shame. Why did NATO step in? Because a GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS were doing their job and stopping terrorists from killing people? I will ask you to remember who were the first one to start all of this. I will help you. It wasn't the government. NATO and USA had no business there. But they got involved, and as always where they come, they bring nothing more than death.
originally posted by: Nikola014
a reply to: TritonTaranis
Again, stop telling wrong information.
When they had elected Yanuckovich for their president, they knew what his politics was. But still they voted for it. Oh wait, let me guess. It was the evil russians pointing guns on people's head, making them vote for him? Sure.
For me it is hard to see how did you jumped to a conclusion that majority of Ukraine wants to join NATO? Was there a referendum hold? No, so how do you know this information and what are your sources?
And secondly, Russia has fully rights to send their troops at their borders. But on the other hand, who allowed NATO to do so? Or they can do anything they want, because they are more powerful than the international law?
originally posted by: Danbones
originally posted by: TritonTaranis
originally posted by: anHairInTheSoup
a reply to: Danbones
so they bought ukrain democracy in 91, but never managed to have one of their puppet elected to sign a "hand us over everything you have" deal with imf
so they remove the democracy to make the deal with imf
now they send the soldiers to protect the deal (and they'll stay as long as required, thanks for the courtesy of the american tax payer)
600 soldiers ?
There's 40,000 Russians on Ukraine's boarder
It's a planned NATO deployment which Russia is fully aware of please go check NATOs website
As a
For your coup claims, Yanukovych's own party, the party of regions and The Ukrainian parliament voted on 22 February to remove him
Coup or conspiracy ?
Relations between Ukraine and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) started in 1994.[1] Ukraine is as of January 2008 a candidate to join the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP).[2][3] On December 3, 2008 NATO decided it will work out an Annual National Programme of providing assistance to Ukraine to implement reforms required to accede the alliance without referring to MAP.[4] Plans for Ukrainian membership to NATO were shelved by Ukraine following the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election in which Viktor Yanukovych was elected President.
It's not hard to see that the majority of Ukraine want, and have wanted for some time now closer ties with the EU and seeked NATO membership previous to Yanukovych stepping into office, people need to look beyond maidan as it doesn't even tell you half the story...
40,000 russian troops on the boarder?
hahaha!
yeah riiiight
lol
pic or it didn't happen