[[Washington D.C.]]’s regime-change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), spent $22.4 million on operations inside Ukraine since the Maidan of 2014, when democratically-elected President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown and replaced by a successor regime handpicked by the U.S. Those operations included propping up and training pro-Western political parties, funding pliant media organizations, and subsidizing massive privatization drives that benefit foreign multinational corporations, all in an effort to secure U.S. control over the country that NED President Carl Gershman called “the biggest prize” in Europe. | [[Washington D.C.]]’s regime-change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), spent $22.4 million on operations inside Ukraine since the Maidan of 2014, when democratically-elected President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown and replaced by a successor regime handpicked by the U.S. Those operations included propping up and training pro-Western political parties, funding pliant media organizations, and subsidizing massive privatization drives that benefit foreign multinational corporations, all in an effort to secure U.S. control over the country that NED President Carl Gershman called “the biggest prize” in Europe. |