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The '''Maidan regime''' is the [[NATO]] puppet state established after to 2014 [[Obama administration]] [[Euromaidan coup]].
The '''Maidan regime''' is the [[NATO]] puppet state established after to 2014 [[Obama administration]] [[Euromaidan coup]].
===US role: National Endowment for Democracy===
{{Anchor|NED}}
[[Washington D.C.]]’s regime-change arm, the [[National Endowment for Democracy]] (NED), spent $16.8 million from 2007 through 2012, to stimulate civic activity and fund election watchdogs and non-state run reporting outlets in Ukraine. These funds have gone to organizations that played a role in the 2004 Orange Revolution and have since continued to monitor elections, investigate government corruption and educate youth about Western "democratic" government.<ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-foreign-aid-ukraine_n_4914682</ref> Since the Maidan coup of 2014 NED spent $22.4 million on operations inside Ukraine, 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.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/26/robert-parry-the-mess-that-nuland-made/</ref>
{{Anchor|National Endowment for Democracy}}
[[File:Nuland-in-ukraine.jpg|left|3O0px|thumb|Maidan coup conspirators [[Oleh Tyahnybok]] (left), U.S. Asst. Sec. of State Victoria Nuland (center), Yarsenyi Yatsenyuk, and (right) Vitali Klitschko (rear).<ref>https://youtu.be/vtKgW2DSIb0</ref>]]
The National Endowment for Democracy was set up in 1983 after a series of scandals undermined both the credibility and the public image of the [[CIA]]. The organization was established as a cutout doing much of the agency's dirtiest work. “It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA,” Gershman himself said, explaining its creation. “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,” NED cofounder Allen Weinstein told ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in 1991.
NED is almost entirely funded by Congress and is staffed largely by ex-national security state leaders. Its president as of 2022 is Damon Wilson. The NED published a video of Wilson at a rally outside the [[White House]], declaring "Glory to Ukraine" – the salute used by Nazi collaborator [[Stephan Bandera]]'s [[OUN-B]], which carried out [[mass murder]] of [[Jews]] and [[Polish|Poles]] during [[World War II]].<ref>https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1500899917300129795</ref> Other top officials pepper NED's board of directors, including [[Biden regime]] CIA Director [[William Burns]], Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and 2014 Ukrainian Maidan revolution mastermind [[Victoria Nuland]], as well as veteran national security official Elliott Abrams. Its private non-profit status means that its affairs do not fall under the same legal scrutiny as those of government organizations like the CIA. It has no congressional oversight. It is harder to acquire documents under the [[Freedom of Information Act]] (FOIA), meaning that the group's actions remain shrouded in secrecy.
Studying the NED grants database reveals that the organization has approved 334 separate grants to Ukraine, a country the group's 2019 annual report identified as its “top priority,” owing to “its size and importance for the Europe region.” The report notes that NED is focused on “counter[ing] foreign [i.e., Russian] malign influence, particularly disinformation and corrosive capital.” Of the European nations, only Russia itself has been the target of more NED money ($37.7 million to Ukraine's $22.4 million). NED is rather hazy about where its money is going, yet scrutinizing the vague project outlines, it becomes clear that NED has two major objectives in Ukraine:
[[File:Oleh Tyanhbok.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Tyahnybok: "[[Moscow]]-[[Jewish]] mafia" is running Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/05/corporate-medias-about-face-on-ukraines-neo-nazis/</ref>]]
:Pushing through a mass privatization of the country’s state-owned businesses.
:Building up political parties that will represent elite U.S. interests.
Of the $22.4 million, over $2.9 million has been awarded to the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), an offshoot of the [[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]. One NED grant to the CIPE — worth $500,000 described the project's goal as “enhanc[ing] the role of leading business associations and the private sector in public policy decision-making, and improv[ing] the capacity of the private sector and officials to cooperate to develop and implement economic reforms.” In other words, to hand over government decision-making to big business, something many might argue is the antithesis of [[democracy]].<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-reveal-us-ned-spent-22m-promoting-anti-russia-narrative-ukraine/279734/</ref>
The post-2014 government, installed after the Maidan Revolution, has already implemented a course of economic shock therapy, selling off many of the country's state-owned assets, in the process turning Ukraine into, by quite some margin, the poorest nation in Europe (although it has also helped create many new billionaires). Nevertheless, the U.S. wants to see further privatizations, along the lines of what it helped implement in Russia in the 1990s.
NED has also been key in building up pro-U.S. political forces in Ukraine, notably awarding the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) nearly $2.2 million towards this endeavor. Congress established NDI in tandem with NED; and NDI, like its sister organization, claims to be a non-governmental organization, despite being affiliated with the [[Democratic Party]]. Its chairperson is [[Madeline Albright]], secretary of state under the [[Clinton administration]].
One $595,000 grant describes how NDI will “help political parties develop into inclusive, national movements,” and will “assist parties in the development of inclusive, internal communication and decision making procedures” and “conduct public opinion research and trainings to help parties better understand and respond to citizens, including those outside of their traditional geographical bases of support.” A less charitable interpretation of the grant would be that the U.S. government is taking over the political direction and organization of Ukrainian political parties, molding them as they see fit.
[[File:Biden and neo-nazis.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Biden shaking hands with [[Oleh Tyanhbok]].<ref>https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1112498132489814017</ref> Following the 2011 conviction of Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk as an accessory to murder of 27,900 people at the Sobibor death camp, Tyahnybok met with Demjanjuk's lawyer, presenting Demjanjuk as a Ukranian national hero, a victim of persecution ‘’who is fighting for truth."<ref>https://thesaker.is/ukraine-fascisms-toe-hold-in-europe/</ref>]]
In tandem with the support of political blocs also comes the grooming of young political and social activists who NED hopes will become the leaders of tomorrow. To this end, it has given at least $385,000 to the European Institute for Democracy in Warsaw, in order to, in its words, “support a new generation of political leaders in Ukraine,” by conducting training courses for their handpicked proteges, flying them out of the country to provide lessons in “election campaigning, women empowerment, effective governing, and crisis management,” among other skills.
The point, of course, is to develop a cadre of pro-Western [[neoliberal]] thought leaders who will ally themselves to the United States and its vision for Ukraine. Left unstated in all this is that the U.S. is deciding who exactly this new generation of leaders comprises. And for all the nods towards [[diversity]] and [[liberalism]], the U.S.’ record in Eastern Europe shows they are happy to support [[fascist]]s and other highly anti-democratic forces. Those who do not share Washington’s goals for Ukraine need not apply.
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|colspan="3"|<hr/>'''Left''' Ukrainian girls mixing [[Molotov cocktail]]s<br>'''Right''' Ukrainian girls carrying Molotov cocktails to the Odessa Trade Unions House in Ukrainian flag.<ref>https://archive.fo/29yFk</ref>
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Another key focus for NED is to establish and support pro-Western media outlets and [[NGO]]s that backed both the 2014 overthrow of Yanukovych and the new government's privatization agenda. This is all couched as “promoting independent media.” But in reality, it is creating a network largely dependent on and answerable to Washington. One example of this is the Ukraine Crisis Media Center, which consistently publishes studies about “Russia’s efforts to distort facts” and scare stories about an impending Russian invasion, while inviting the British ambassador to give talks at its headquarters. Ukraine Crisis describes its vision of Ukraine as an “outpost of freedom and democratic development in Eastern Europe,” and an “integral part of the West.” Ukraine Crisis is directly funded by a number of different U.S. governmental organizations, as well as by NATO and the governments of Germany, [[Canada]], the United Kingdom, [[Norway]], [[Sweden]], [[Poland]], [[Finland]] and the [[Netherlands]].
Most of the media organizations NED funds also maintain English-language versions of their websites. This is because many of these groups are used to influence Western audiences as well as individuals inside the target country, Ukraine. The Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), for example, has been supported financially since 2016 and has received at least $204,000 from NED. It plays an important role in injecting U.S. government narratives into American media reporting, having been presented simply as a “human rights group” in a wide range of outlets, including ''The Washington Post'', ''[[USA Today]]'' and ''[[The New York Post]]''. None of these articles inform readers that CCL is directly in the pay of a CIA front group, precisely because it would undermine their credibility.
Media networks directly owned and operated by the U.S. state, including [[Radio Free Europe]]/Radio Liberty and [[Voice of America]], also frequently use CCL as an expert source. This gives the impression that there is a sizable groundswell of individuals all focusing on the same issue when, in reality, it is simply operatives from the same source (the U.S. government) all interacting with each other.
====False flag: "Heavenly hundred"====
Key neoconservatives, such as Victoria Nuland and Sen. John McCain, began pushing for the [[violent]] coup that in February 2014 ousted Ukraine's elected President Viktor Yanukovych and touched off the [[new Cold War]] with Russia. Senior U.S. government officials reportedly told the leaders of the [[Svoboda party]] that the deaths of a few protestors would not be enough to change Western support, but the Yanukovych government would only change if the number of victims was greater than one hundred.<ref>https://rumble.com/vxdun0-the-maidan-sniper-massacre-revealing-ukraine.html</ref>
On February 20, 2014, a sniper firing from a building controlled by the Pravy Sektor shot and killed both police and protesters. The organized mass killing of both protesters and the police had the goal of delegitimizing the Yanukovych government and its forces and seizing power in Ukraine. Oligarchic and Ukrainian nationalist elements were involved in this massacre. The official investigation by the coup regime was fabricated and stonewalled.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8</ref>
[[File:Heavenly Hundred (2).PNG|left|350pc|thumb|Pravy Sektor snipers atop the Music Conservatory building as reported by the [[BBC]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/flztD56UcYk?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8 The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine (2021)]. YouTube.</ref>]]
The official forensic investigations which were made public at the Maidan massacre trial revealed that on February 20, 2014, the absolute majority of the protesters were shot from side and back directions and from top to bottom directions, while videos and photos of the massacre showed them facing the Berkut special police force on the same ground level. In January 2015, a forensic ballistic examination conducted upon the request of prosecution concluded that bullets extracted from killed protesters did not match the bullet samples from any Kalashnikov assault rifle which members of the Berkut special police force were then armed. The findings of this computer-based ballistic examination and results of the other 40 ballistic examinations were reversed in a couple of ballistic examinations conducted manually in the very end of the investigation. Such unexplained reversals which contradicted other evidence, such as testimonies of wounded protesters and results of forensic medical examinations, suggested that the findings of the new examinations of bullets were unreliable and likely falsified. The forensic ballistic examinations also found that many protesters were killed on February 18–20 by hunting pellets and expanding hunting bullets, in particular, with caliber that did not match calibers of weapons used by the special police company, whose members were charged with killings these protesters.<ref>Katchanovski</ref>
A female Maidan medic during the massacre was pointing to the top of a building and shouting about snipers. But her words were translated in a [[BBC]] report as referring to six protesters killed by the snipers in that area. A Maidan protester and another Maidan medic, who were wounded near the same spot where two protesters were killed, both testified at the Maidan massacre trial that they were shot from this building. Government ballistic experts confirmed this during on-site investigative experiments.
These revelations were not reported by any Western media. This includes ''The New York Time'', which on April 5, 2014, profiled this wounded protester against the backdrop of an unquestioned report by the acting Kiev regime that blaming “former President Viktor F. Yanukovych, his riot police and their suspected Russian assistants for the violence that killed more than 100 people in Kiev in February.” It also includes [[CNN]], which filmed the shooting of this medic and attributed it to the government forces.
The Maidan regime investigation simply denies that there were any snipers there and in other Maidan-controlled buildings, and refuses to investigate them. This is done despite videos of such snipers and testimonies of the absolute majority of wounded protesters at the trial and investigation and more than 150 other witnesses about snipers in these locations.
[[File:Euromaidan coup.jpg|right300px|thumb|Burnt victims of what the [[Western alliance|Western media]] and diplomats call the "[[Revolution of Dignity]]."<ref>https://archive.fo/xWS2Q</ref>]]
The official investigation in Ukraine simply denies that there were any such snipers in Maidan-controlled buildings, even though the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine previously stated that snipers massacred many protesters from the Hotel Ukraina and other buildings.
<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/22/the-buried-maidan-massacre-and-its-misrepresentation-by-the-west/</ref>
Testimonies by five Georgian ex-military members in Italian, Israeli, Macedonian and Russian media and their published depositions to defense lawyers of police from the former regime in the Maidan massacre trial have also been ignored. They stated that their groups received weapons, payments, and orders to massacre both police and protesters from specific Maidan and Georgian politicians. They also said that they received instructions from an ex-U.S. Army sniper and then saw Georgian, Baltic States, and Praqvy Sektor-linked snipers shooting from specific Maidan-controlled buildings.
Western media silence also ignored a statement by Anatolii Hrytsenko, who was a Maidan politician and minister of defense, that the investigation of the massacre was stonewalled because of the involvement of someone from the current leadership of Ukraine in the mass killing.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20171019101358/http://world.time.com/2014/02/21/ukraine-parliament-yanukovych-kiev-deal/</ref>
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