Gallup: Ukrainians Loathe the Kiev Government Imposed by Obama
By Eric Zuesse Region: Europe, Russia and FSU
Global Research,December 24, 2015 Theme: US NATO War Agenda
Global Research,December 24, 2015 Theme: US NATO War Agenda
On December 23rd, Gallup headlines “Ukrainians Disillusioned With Leadership,” and
reports that “nearly nine in 10 Ukrainians (88%) say corruption is
widespread in their government, and about eight in 10 (81%) see the same
widespread problem in their country’s businesses.” 8% of Ukrainians now
say they “have confidence … about the national government.” 17% approve
of the job-performance of their President, Petro Poroshenko. While the
pre-coup President,
Viktor Yanukovych, was in office, 2010-2014, that figure had been
averaging about 23%, and was never as low as Poroshenko’s is now.
Gallup
reports, “fewer Ukrainians now say their leadership is taking them in
the right direction than before the revolution,” but that statement
calling this coup a
‘revolution’ embodies the propaganda-lie of one of Gallup’s main
clients, the U.S. government itself, which calls the U.S. coup in
Ukraine in February 2014 a “revolution,” when every honest and
knowledgeable person now knows that this U.S. government claim — that it
had helped install democracy instead of having ended it in Ukraine on
20 February 2014 — to have been a lie. Even the founder of the “private
CIA” firm Stratfor has called the overthrow of Yanukovych “the most blatant coup in history.”
It had been that because it was the first coup to be videoed by
numerous people from many different angles with their cellphones and by
TV cameras, uploaded to the Web by even anti-Yanukovych countries such
as the UK’s BBC; and those videos, the best compilation of which is here, make clear that this was, indeed, a coup d’etat, no authentic revolution at all, such as the U.S. government claims.
Furthermore, the EU’s investigator who
had been assigned to report to their Foreign Affairs Minister Cathy
Ashton about the overthrow, reported
to her that it had been a coup, and that even Petro Poroshenko himself
said that “our” side — meaning the anti-Yanukovych people, had done it. Subsequently, evidence came to light showing how it had been organized: the organization for it had started in the U.S. Embassy in Kiev by no later than March 2013. Then, after all of that preparation, on
4 February 2014, the U.S. State Department’s Victoria Nuland gave the
final instruction to the U.S. Ambassador in Kiev, to have Arseniy
Yatsenyuk appointed to run the country after the coup, and he became
appointed 18 days later, on 22 February 2014, to run the country as
Prime Minister, until a new President would be elected ‘democratically’;
but, even the election of President Poroshenko on 25 May 2014 was no
democratic event, because the U.S. government didn’t want residents in the area of Ukraine that had voted over 90% for Yanukovych to
be voting in that election. That area of Ukraine (which historically
had been a part of Russia) was called Donbass, and it had no say
whatsoever in determining Ukraine’s President after the coup, because
the new coup-imposed Ukrainian government was already bombing it, starting on 9 May 2014. None of this could have happened without that ‘revolution’: U.S. President Barack Obama’s very bloody coup in Ukraine.
Here
is the man whom the U.S. Ambassador in Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt, worked
with to organize the coup (or ‘revolution’), the co-founder of one of
the two racist-fascist, or ideologically nazi, political parties in
Ukraine. But Pyatt’s appointee (Andriy Parubiy) left the coup’s gun-play and military planning to that man’s paramilitary friend (Dmitriy Yarosh) who had founded the other of the two Ukrainian nazi parties.
And then, right after the coup, America’s stooge who now was running Ukraine for the U.S. regime, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, installed leaders of Ukraine’s two rabidly anti-Russian racist fascist or nazi parties into all of the top internal security and military positions, in order to carry out what they called the ‘Anti Terrorist Operation’ (ATO), or program to exterminate and drive out the residents of Donbass. The prestigious fascist U.S. think tank, the Brookings Institution, urged Obama to increase the firebombings of Donbass, but he decided not to follow that advice, at that particular time.
Obama wants ultimately to base American
nuclear missiles in Ukraine on Russia’s border (much like the Soviet
dictator Nikita Khrushchev had unsuccessfully tried to do to America in
the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis), and this coup and ethnic-cleansing (to
make the coup-regime stick) is how he goes about achieving his goal.
Perhaps the next U.S. President will succeed in it. The
entire plan had started under U.S. President George Herbert Walker
Bush, in 1990; and every U.S. President since then has advanced it
further. The United States, ever since around 1980, hasn’t been a democracy; it’s a dictatorship. That’s why it does things like this.
Back in June 2014, shortly after Poroshenko became Ukraine’s President, a Gallup poll in Ukraine taken for the U.S. government showed (p. 27) a
geographical breakdown of the answers to the question “Tell me whether
you think Russia has played a mostly positive role or a mostly negative
role in the crisis in Ukraine. Percent ‘mostly positive’”. The entire
country was broken down into 6 regions there, which included not only
the regions that had voted against Yanukovych in 2010 (such as the May
25th election had excluded) but also the two regions that had voted the most heavily for Yanukovych, Donbass (which had voted over 90% for him,
and which here constituted the eastern half of the region called
“East,” which entire region was shown as having rated Russia’s “role in
the crisis in Ukraine” 35.7% as having been “mostly positive”), and also
Crimea (which constituted the entirety of one of those 6 regions, and
which had voted around 75% for Yanukovych, and which answered 71.3% that
Russia’s “role” had been “mostly positive”). The only other region
where Russia’s “role” had been rated as “mostly positive” by more than
3% was the area around Odessa, called here “South,” where 28.4% of the
people rated it “mostly positive.”
All three of the other regions of the pre-coup Ukraine were the regions where the Presidential election had been held on May 25th of 2014: these
were the regions Gallup categorized as Center (2.4% “mostly positive”),
North (1.8% “mostly positive”), and West (1% “mostly positive”). So,
Poroshenko had been elected as the President for all of Ukraine, but by only voters in the most anti-Russian half
of that extremely divided country; and now the residents of two of the
other areas (areas in the strongly pro-Yanukovych half of Ukraine) had
tried to separate from Ukraine and to join again with Russia (of which
those regions had long been parts): Crimea, and Donbass. Crimea was
accepted by Putin into Russia, but Donbass was not.
U.S. President Obama imposed the economic sanctions against Russia for Russia’s having accepted the
pleas of Crimeans to rejoin Russia, and for Russia’s having accepted the pleas
of Crimeans to rejoin Russia, and for Russia’s opposition to the
Obama-imposed government’s ethnic-cleansing program to exterminate
and/or expell from Ukraine the residents of the Donbass region of
Ukraine. The same European Union that accepted Obama’s bloody February 2014 Ukrainian coup have also been accepting his ethnic-cleansing campaign there; and Obama insists upon its being ultimately continued, notwithstanding his Secretary of State, John Kerry’s, internal opposition to it.
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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