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| | [[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|250px|thumb|[[Euromaidan]] 2014. Written on the wall: “Ukraine for Ukrainians.”<ref>https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/tag/upass-bandera-crimes/</ref>]] | | [[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|250px|thumb|[[Euromaidan]] 2014. Written on the wall: “Ukraine for Ukrainians.”<ref>https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/tag/upass-bandera-crimes/</ref>]] |
| | ===February 2014=== | | ===February 2014=== |
| − | *'''22 February.''' Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is ousted from power in a U.S. backed [[coup]].<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2014/02/23/neocons-and-the-ukraine-coup/</ref> | + | *'''4 February.''' Amid rioting on the Maidan in Kiev, YouTube carries Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s last minute instructions to U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt regarding the U.S. pick for new Ukrainian prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk (aka “Yats”) and other plans for the imminent [[coup d’etat]] in Kiev. When Pyatt expresses concern about EU misgivings about mounting a coup, Nuland says “F*** the EU.” She then apologizes to the EU a day or two later — for the profanity, not for the coup. She also says that Vice President Joe Biden will help “glue this thing together”, meaning the coup. |
| | + | *'''22 February.''' '''Coup d’etat in Kyiv'''; President Viktor Yanukovych is ousted from power;<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2014/02/23/neocons-and-the-ukraine-coup/</ref> appropriately labeled “the most blatant coup in history” by George Friedman, then President of the widely respected think-tank STRATFOR. |
| | + | *'''23 February.''' The date that NATO, Western diplomats, and the corporate media have chosen as the beginning of recent European history, with silence about the coup orchestrated in Kyiv the day before. President Vladimir Putin returns to Moscow from the winter olympics in Sochi; confers with advisers about Crimea, deciding to arrange a plebiscite to let the people of Crimea, most of whom strongly opposed the coup regime, decide their own future. |
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| | + | ===March 2014=== |
| | + | *'''16 March.''' The official result from the voters in Crimea voted overwhelmingly for independence from Ukraine and to join Russia. Following the referendum, Crimea declared independence from Ukraine and asked to join the [[Russian Federation]]. On March 18, the Russian Federal Assembly ratified the incorporation of Crimea into Russia. In the following days, Putin made it immediately (and publicly) clear that Yatsenyuk’s early statement about Ukraine joining NATO and – even more important – the U.S./NATO plans to deploy ABM systems around Russia’s western periphery and in the [[Black Sea]], were the prime motivating forces behind the post-referendum re-incorporation of Crimea into Russia. |
| | + | :*Moscow would take no chances of letting NATO grab Crimea and Russia’s only warm-water naval base. The Nuland [[neocon]]s seized on the opportunity to accuse Russia of aggression and told obedient European governments to follow suit. |
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| | ===April 2014=== | | ===April 2014=== |
| | *'''April.''' Investigators in the U.K. open a money laundering and fraud investigation of Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma Holdings. | | *'''April.''' Investigators in the U.K. open a money laundering and fraud investigation of Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma Holdings. |