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*'''1950s to 1990.''' [[CIA]] brought Ukrainian fascists to the [[US]] and worked with them to undermine the [[Soviet Union]] in Ukraine, running [[sabotage]] and [[propaganda]] operations. Ukrainian fascist leader Mykola Lebed was taken to [[New York]] where he worked with the CIA through at least the 1960s and was still useful to the CIA until 1991, the year of Ukraine’s independence.<ref>The evidence is in a U.S. government report starting from page 82. https://www.archives.gov/files/iwg/reports/hitlers-shadow.pdf Ukraine has thus been a staging ground for the U.S. to weaken and threaten Moscow for nearly 80 years.</ref>

*'''1950s to 1990.''' [[CIA]] brought Ukrainian fascists to the [[US]] and worked with them to undermine the [[Soviet Union]] in Ukraine, running [[sabotage]] and [[propaganda]] operations. Ukrainian fascist leader Mykola Lebed was taken to [[New York]] where he worked with the CIA through at least the 1960s and was still useful to the CIA until 1991, the year of Ukraine’s independence.<ref>The evidence is in a U.S. government report starting from page 82. https://www.archives.gov/files/iwg/reports/hitlers-shadow.pdf Ukraine has thus been a staging ground for the U.S. to weaken and threaten Moscow for nearly 80 years.</ref>

*''''November 1990.'''  A year after the [=[fall of the Berlin Wall]], the Charter of Paris for a New Europe (also known as the Paris Charter) is adopted by the US, [[Europe]] and the Soviet Union. The charter is based on the [[Helsinki Accords]] and is updated in the 1999 Charter for European Security. These documents are the foundation of the [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]]. The OSCE charter says no country or bloc can preserve its own security at another country’s expense.

*''''November 1990.'''  A year after the [[fall of the Berlin Wall]], the Charter of Paris for a New Europe (also known as the Paris Charter) is adopted by the US, [[Europe]] and the Soviet Union. The charter is based on the [[Helsinki Accords]] and is updated in the 1999 Charter for European Security. These documents are the foundation of the [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]]. The OSCE charter says no country or bloc can preserve its own security at another country’s expense.

*'''December 25, 1991.''' Soviet Union collapses. [[Wall Street]] and [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] [[carpetbagger]]sm among them [[Bill Browder]], move in during ensuing decade to asset-strip the country of formerly state-owned properties,  enrich themselves, help give rise to [[oligarch]]s, and impoverish the Russian, Ukrainian and other former Soviet peoples.

*'''December 25, 1991.''' Soviet Union collapses. [[Wall Street]] and [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] [[carpetbagger]]sm among them [[Bill Browder]], move in during ensuing decade to asset-strip the country of formerly state-owned properties,  enrich themselves, help give rise to [[oligarch]]s, and impoverish the Russian, Ukrainian and other former Soviet peoples.

*'''1990s.''' U.S. reneges on promise to last Soviet leader [[Gorbachev]] not to expand [[NATO]] to [[Eastern Europe]] in exchange for a unified [[Germany]]. [[George Kennan]], the leading [[US government]] expert on the [[USSR]], opposes expansion. [[Sen. Joe Biden]], who supports [[NATO enlargement]], predicts Russia will react hostilely to it.

*'''1990s.''' U.S. reneges on promise to last Soviet leader [[Gorbachev]] not to expand [[NATO]] to [[Eastern Europe]] in exchange for a unified [[Germany]]. George Kennan, the leading [[US government]] expert on the [[USSR]], opposes expansion. [[Sen. Joe Biden]], who supports [[NATO enlargement]], predicts Russia will react hostilely to it.

*'''1994:''' [[Bill Clinton]] co-signs [[Budapest Memorandum]] enshrining Ukrainian neutrality;

*'''1994:''' [[Bill Clinton]] co-signs [[Budapest Memorandum]] enshrining Ukrainian neutrality;