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To: Winfastorlose who wrote (1385909)	1/4/2023 2:27:44 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570636

WinFastOrRuZZia, make sure to take a good doze of Copium Z before reading this ... Warrant for an Invasion: The Myth of the “American Coups” in Ukraine. 3. Did the U.S. Organize Euromaidan? (bitterwinter.org) In the conversation, Nuland favored Yatsenyuk because he was a competent economist rather than because he was more pro-American than other leaders. One can derive from the conversation that Nuland had a low opinion of the European Union diplomacy, and that the United States followed the Ukrainian crisis with great interest. *What it does not prove is that the U.S. organized Euromaidan.* When they realized that the Nuland-Pyatt conversation was not the smoking gun they were looking for, Russian agitprops quoted a speech Nuland gave to the US-Ukraine Foundation in Washington DC on December 13, 2013, where she said: “Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, the United States has supported Ukrainians as they build democratic skills and institutions, as they promote civic participation and good governance, all of which are preconditions for Ukraine to achieve its European aspirations. We’ve invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.” In Russian propaganda, this became the theory that the U.S. had invested $5 billion to create Euromaidan. One wonders why Nuland, if she was the sinister mastermind behind Euromaidan, publicly confessed the $5-billion investment in a speech that was published in official websites of the U.S. government a few days after it was given. After Yanukovych escaped to Russia, a meme propagated by Russian propagandists went viral on Facebook, claiming that “President Barak Obama spent $5 billion paying Ukrainians to riot and dismantle their democratically elected government.” As evidence, Nuland’s speech at the US-Ukraine Foundation was quoted, and the claim has been repeated ever since. The few journalists who cared to investigate determined that the figure of $5 billion was indeed accurate, but represented the total U.S. expenditures to support Ukraine in the twenty years between 1991 and 2011. The U.S. spent similar sums to support other Eastern European states where there were no revolutions, colored or otherwise. This money did not go to support militias or protesting students. For instance, $1.1 billion went to promote start-ups and fostering economic growth. $40 million funded anti-AIDS programs and reproductive health (but also an anti-malaria campaign), which conservative Ukrainian Christians criticized as including support for abortion, but certainly had nothing to do with Euromaidan. A sum not disclosed for national security reasons supported the reorganization of the Ukrainian military and police—which at the beginning of Euromaidan largely sided with Yanukovych. And so on. *Obviously, Nuland’s famous $5 billion figure referred to a different period of time and different projects, and had nothing to do with Euromaidan.*