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The partially declassified report<ref>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2012-report-warned-about-rise-of-isis-3wljf5g06zq</ref> embarrassed the advocates for an escalation of the war in [[Syria]] and the ouster of secular President [[Bashar al-Assad]]. Flynn went further in a 2015 interview when he said the intelligence was “very clear” that the '''Obama administration made a [[Libyan Islamic Fighting Group|“willful decision” to back the jihad]]ists in league with Middle East allies, a choice that looked particularly stupid when Islamic State militants started beheading American hostages''' and capturing cities in [[Iraq]].<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/14/trump-caves-on-flynns-resignation/</ref>

The partially declassified report<ref>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2012-report-warned-about-rise-of-isis-3wljf5g06zq</ref> embarrassed the advocates for an escalation of the war in [[Syria]] and the ouster of secular President [[Bashar al-Assad]]. Flynn went further in a 2015 interview when he said the intelligence was “very clear” that the '''Obama administration made a [[Libyan Islamic Fighting Group|“willful decision” to back the jihad]]ists in league with Middle East allies, a choice that looked particularly stupid when Islamic State militants started beheading American hostages''' and capturing cities in [[Iraq]].<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/14/trump-caves-on-flynns-resignation/</ref>

===Ukrainian coup===

===Maidan coup===

[[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The "Revolution of Dignity" or [[Maidan coup]] of 2014 which the Obama administration supported.  Written on the wall: “Ukraine for Ukrainians.”<ref>https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/tag/upass-bandera-crimes/</ref>]]

[[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The "Revolution of Dignity" or [[Maidan coup]] of 2014 which the Obama administration supported.  Written on the wall: “Ukraine for Ukrainians.”<ref>https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/tag/upass-bandera-crimes/</ref>]]

{{See also|Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists}}

{{See also|Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists|Maidan coup}}

Key neoconservatives, such as Victoria Nuland and Sen. [[John McCain]], began pushing for the violent right-wing coup that in February 2014 ousted [[Ukraine]]’s elected President Viktor Yanukovych and touched off the new Cold War with Russia.

Svoboda party was the most significant and popular neo-fascist organization that took part in the 2014 Maidan coup.  Svoboda reported that between 2,000 and 5,000 out of some 15,000 party members during this time were permanently present on the Maidan.  Videos and livestreams of protests often showed that there were large numbers of Svoboda flags

representing a significant proportion of the flags in many protest actions. Per Anders wrote in 2014:

{{quotebox-float|While Yushchenko's successor [[Viktor Yanukovych]] has revoked the hero status of [[Bandera]] and Shukhevych and largely put an end to the state cult of the ultra-nationalists, in Western Ukraine, apologetics for the [[Organization_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists#Banderists|Waffen-SS Galizien]] is entering the mainstream. On April 28, 2011, the 68th anniversary of the establishment of Waffen-SS Galizien, neo-fascist 'autonomous nationalists,' together with the far-right Svoboda Party, which dominates the [[Lvov|L'viv]] city government organized a march through the city. Led by Svoboda ideologue Iurii Mykhal'chyshyn of the L'viv city council, the nearly 700 participants (2,000 according to the organizers), carrying banners with neo-Nazi symbols marched down the streets of L'viv, shouting slogans like 'Halychyna—division of heroes!,' and 'One race, one nation, one Fatherland!' Svoboda, which dominates the L'viv city council, decorated the city with billboards with the symbol of the unit, accompanied by the texts 'the treasure of the nation' and 'they defended Ukraine'.}}

Amid these heightened tensions, the [[mainstream media]] in the United States and Europe joined in the full-scale Russia/Putin-bashing, holding Russia at fault for everything. A new McCarthyism emerged, deeming anyone who dared disagree a “Moscow surrogate” or a “Russian propagandist.”

Amid these heightened tensions, the [[mainstream media]] in the United States and Europe joined in the full-scale Russia/Putin-bashing, holding Russia at fault for everything. A new McCarthyism emerged, deeming anyone who dared disagree a “Moscow surrogate” or a “Russian propagandist.” The ugliness penetrated into the [[2016 presidential election]] campaign as [[Hillary Clinton]] took a belligerent line toward Russia while Donald Trump broke with the Republican establishment and called for improved ties between [[Washington, D.C.]] and [[Moscow]].  After Trump's victory the anti-Russian hysteria gained added strength as Democrats were so angry that [[liberal]] and [[progressive]] operatives saw a chance to build a movement and raise lots of money by pushing the [[Trump-Russia]] accusations.  This opportunism turned much of the liberal/progressive community into a new pro-Cold War constituency, willing to engage in a new breed of [[McCarthyism]], by demanding investigations into any relations between Americans and Russians.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/14/trump-caves-on-flynns-resignation/</ref>

===Biden fires Ukrainian prosecutor===

===Biden fires Ukrainian prosecutor===

{{See also|Biden-Ukraine scandal}}

{{See also|Biden-Ukraine scandal}}