{"id":142250,"date":"2014-11-27T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=142250"},"modified":"2014-11-27T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T04:40:00","slug":"u-s-international-banks-finance-ukraines-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/u-s-international-banks-finance-ukraines-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. &#038; \u2018International Banks\u2019 Finance Ukraine\u2019s Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On November 26th, Ukraine\u2019s Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.itar-tass.com\/economy\/763806\"><span class=\"s2\">said<\/span><\/a>, \u201cOur cabinet has resumed the program of activity and cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and other banks. Today international investors are not ready to go to the country, but international banks are ready to help us. \u2026 We would not have survived without the international assistance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a related news-report, the investigative journalist who goes by the pseudonym \u201cTyler Durden\u201d headlined at his zero hedge website on November 25th, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2014-11-25\/hacked-us-documents-said-reveal-extent-undisclosed-us-lethal-aid-ukraine-army\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cHacked US Documents Said To Reveal Extent Of Undisclosed US \u2018Lethal Aid\u2019 For Ukraine Army,\u201d<\/span><\/a> and he posted the documents, which seem authentic, and which include U.S. supplies of \u201c400 sniper-rifles, 2,000 assault-rifles, 720 hand-held grenade launchers, 200 mortars with more than 70,000 mines, 150 stingers, 420 antitank missiles and so on.\u201d Also shown there is an authorization signed by President Obama authorizing the U.S. Secretary of State, to \u201cdirect the drawdown of up to $5 million in defense articles and services of the Department of Defense and military education and training to provide immediate military assistance for the Government of Ukraine, to aid their efforts to respond to the current crisis,\u201d and \u201cto direct the drawdown of up to $20 million in nonlethal commodities and services from any agency of the United States Government,\u201d for the same purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The lethal aid had not previously been reported, except in rebel-produced videos of the war (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/obamas-ukrainian-stooges\/\"><span class=\"s2\">this<\/span><\/a>), claiming, and sometimes showing, U.S. weapons used against them on the battlefield. However, those rebels are using Russian-made weapons, though some of those come from the defeated forces on the opposite side. This is not only a civil war within Ukraine; it is also an international proxy war between NATO and Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Those reports of U.S. involvement on the side of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WPcilPbC0uA\"><span class=\"s2\">nazis<\/span><\/a> are generally not mentioned in Western news-media, because they don\u2019t come from Western news-media, and the West is backing this war against the rebel-areas. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5SBo0akeDMY\"><span class=\"s2\">some<\/span><\/a> Western news-media have documented the heavy involvement of <a href=\"http:\/\/peoplesworld.org\/ukrainian-ultra-rightists-given-major-cabinet-posts-in-government\/\"><span class=\"s2\">racist-fascist, or nazi, leadership and battalions<\/span><\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2014\/mar\/13\/opinion\/la-oe-english-ukraine-neofascists-20140313\"><span class=\"s2\">military<\/span><\/a> of the Ukrainian Government after the overthrow of the former Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, which occurred in February of this year. Some former U.S. intelligence professionals have even <a href=\"http:\/\/ronaldthomaswest.com\/2014\/03\/02\/obamas-ukraine-2\/\"><span class=\"s2\">written publicly about it<\/span><\/a>. The resistance fighters in Ukraine <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/enemies-ukraine-speak\/\"><span class=\"s2\">claim that the current Ukrainian Government is controlled by nazis whose hatred is directed against ethnic Russians<\/span><\/a>, but Ukraine\u2019s officials deny that they are nazis. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Theyre-Not-Even-Close-Democratic\/dp\/1880026090\/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1339027537&amp;sr=8-9\"><span class=\"s4\"><i>They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>,<\/i> and of <i>\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B007Q1H4EG\"><span class=\"s4\"><i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Zuesse On November 26th, Ukraine\u2019s Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, said, \u201cOur cabinet has resumed the program of activity and cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and other banks. Today international investors are not ready to go to the country, but international banks are ready to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":140642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[115,30,32,535,841,5624,523,49,531,525,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-142250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-cia","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-imf","13":"tag-money","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-usa-news","16":"tag-wall-street","17":"tag-war-2","18":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}