{"id":151923,"date":"2015-05-18T14:31:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T14:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=151923"},"modified":"2015-05-18T20:19:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T20:19:33","slug":"obama-gave-up-on-ukraine-press-simply-ignored-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/obama-gave-up-on-ukraine-press-simply-ignored-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Gave Up on Ukraine, Press Simply Ignored It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, May 12th, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was asked at a press conference in Sochi Russia, to respond to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko\u2019s recent statements promising renewed war against Donbass, which were made first on April 30th, “The war will end when Ukraine regains\u00a0Donbass and Crimea,\u201d and which were repeated on May 11th, by his saying, \u201cI have no doubt, we will free the [Donetsk] Airport, because it is our land.\u201d In other words, Poroshenko had repeatedly made clear that he plans a third invasion of Donbass, and, ultimately, also to invade and retake Crimea. (The Western press, however, had not reported any of these threats that were being made by Poroshenko.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Kerry responded:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u00a0I have not had a chance \u2014 I have not read the speech. I haven\u2019t seen any context. I have simply heard about it in the\u00a0course of today <\/i>[which would be shocking if true]. But if indeed President Poroshenko is advocating an engagement in a forceful effort at this time, we\u00a0would strongly urge him to think twice not to engage in that kind of activity, that that would put Minsk in serious\u00a0jeopardy. And we would be very, very concerned about what the consequences of that kind of action at this time may\u00a0be.”<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

None of this was reported by Western \u2018news\u2019 media. Even Russia\u2019s own Sputnik News, which was Russia’s main English-language medium reporting on Kerry’s comment, ignored this shocking assertion by the U.S. Secretary of State contradicting the nominal leader of the Ukrainian Government that the U.S. itself had installed in February 2014<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Obama Administration now had slammed Poroshenko down on the key issue of whether to resume the war against Ukraine\u2019s former Donbass region<\/span><\/a>, and also slammed him on whether Ukraine should invade Crimea, which is Russian territory and would therefore mean a war against the Russian armed forces. America\u2019s stooge-regime in Kiev<\/span><\/a> was here being publicly taken to the woodshed about the advisability of yet another Ukrainian invasion of Ukraine\u2019s former southeastern breakaway regions, Donbass and, even Crimea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sputnik didn\u2019t quote any of this from Kerry. Instead, they headlined,\u00a0“Kerry:\u00a0Poroshenko\u00a0Should\u00a0‘Think\u00a0Twice’\u00a0Before\u00a0Using\u00a0Force\u00a0in\u00a0Donbass,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and they opened their news-report by saying: “Following an extensive six hour discussion between US Secretary of State\u00a0John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and President Putin,\u00a0Kerry stressed that any Ukrainian efforts to seize the Donetsk Airport\u00a0through force would violate the Minsk Protocol and would face strict\u00a0opposition from Washington.\u201d That assertion was true, and important, but all that was quoted from Kerry was the nondescript: “What is important is to make sure that both sides are moving forward in implementing the\u00a0Minsk accord in its full measure.\u201d Even Kerry\u2019s stunning \u201cthink twice\u201d statement, which was actually Washington\u2019s first-ever verbal slam-down of\u00a0the stooge-regime the U.S. itself had installed in Ukraine in February 2014, in an extremely bloody coup,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0wasn\u2019t being quoted at all by Sputnik. (Only that two-word phrase was in the headline, but it \u2013 and its surrounding passage and context \u2013 were entirely absent from the report itself.) Nor was the significance of Kerry\u2019s remark there discussed, at all. Their news-report was a total botch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Western \u2018news\u2019 media were far worse than a botch; they were outright dishonest. Typical was BBC, which headlined on May 12th,\u00a0\u201cUkraine Crisis: Kerry Has \u2018Frank\u2019 Meeting with Putin,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and their article said nothing whatsoever about Kerry\u2019s shocking slam-down of his Ukrainian stooge. To that \u2018news\u2019 report was also appended an \u201cAnalysis: Bridget Kendall, BBC News, Sochi,\u201d which simply blathered, and concluded, \u201cThere was no breakthrough on anything.\u201d That statement was the exact opposite of the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

The one good, and, really, brilliant, news-analysis<\/i> on this important matter, was from the legendary specialist on \u201cthe Empire\u2019s [Washington\u2019s] War on Russia,\u201d the anonymous blogger who goes by the name, \u201cThe Saker.\u201d His was not really a news-report<\/i>, because he, too, failed to quote Kerry\u2019s pathbreaking and shocking statement. He didn\u2019t even quote the insignificant squib that Sputnik itself had quoted from Kerry\u2019s remarks. Instead, he merely paraphrased Kerry, which is far less reliable than a quotation, and also far less informative than the packed shocker that Kerry actually delivered. Saker\u2019s paraphrase was far briefer than was Kerry\u2019s statement which is quoted here; it was merely: \u201cKerry made a few rather\u00a0interesting remarks, saying that the Minsk-2 Agreement (M2A) was the only way forward and that he would strongly caution Poroshenko against the idea of renewing military operations.\u201d That\u2019s all there was to it. So, The Saker failed to provide a news-report on Kerry\u2019s shocker. But his news-analysis<\/i> of its significance was superb, and it\u2019s extremely worth reading (it\u2019s worth clicking onto the link which will now be provided on the article\u2019s title). That analysis was dated May 13th, and it was bannered,\u00a0\u201cYet Another Huge Diplomatic Victory for Russia.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But also there was just a slice of real news in The Saker\u2019s article, when he said, only in passing (as if it were insignificant, which it was not), “Then, there was the rather interesting behavior of [Victoria] Nuland, who was with\u00a0Kerry\u2019s delegation, she refused to speak to the press\u00a0and left looking\u00a0rather unhappy.\u201d Nothing more than that, but that\u2019s plenty. In other words: Nuland, the agent whom President Obama had placed in charge of arranging the February 2014 coup in Ukraine<\/span><\/a>, and of\u00a0selecting the leader of the junta that would be imposed upon Ukraine (\u201cYats\u201d Yatsenyuk), and who told the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine what to do and how to do it,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0was now exceedingly disturbed to find herself overridden at this late date in her Ukrainian escapade, publicly overridden by her own immediate boss, Secretary of State Kerry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words: she is now sidelined. That\u2019s important news, but The Saker there merely hinted at it, and only in passing. So, as a news-report, The Saker\u2019s article was poor but perhaps the best around; but as a news-analysis, it was excellent, and by far the best.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nuland now knows that she has lost, and that Obama has thrown in the towel on the original plan for Ukraine, which had been for\u00a0an all-out military conquest of the region,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Donbass,\u00a0where the people had voted over 90% for the man whom Nuland\u2019s team had overthrown on 22 February 2014, Viktor Yanukovych,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and so Obama had wanted those people to be either killed or else expelled from Ukraine<\/span><\/a> (so that they\u2019d never again be able to vote in a Ukrainian national election and thus possibly restore a neutralist leadership of Ukraine, such as had existed under the man Obama deposed, Yanukovych).<\/span><\/p>\n

Consequently, clearly, now, Obama is on-board with the \u201cPlan B\u201d for Ukraine, which Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel had put into place, the Minsk II Agreement, which brought about the present ceasefire, which now has become clearly the utter (even accepted by Kerry) capitulation of Obama\u2019s Plan A on Ukraine, which plan Nuland had been carrying out. Kerry\u2019s public statement there was a public slap in the face to his own #2 official on Ukraine; and it could not have been asserted by him if he were not under Obama\u2019s instruction that the previous plan, to exterminate or drive out all the residents of Donbass, was no longer worth trying, and that the Hollande-Merkel plan would be America\u2019s fall-back position.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s message in this, through Kerry, to Ukraine\u2019s President Poroshenko, and indirectly also to Ukraine\u2019s Prime Minister Yatsenyuk (the leader whom Nuland herself had selected<\/span><\/a>), is: we\u2019ll back you only as long as you accept that you have failed our military expectations and that we will be stricter with you in the future regarding how you spend our military money. We\u2019re getting in line now behind the Hollande-Merkel peace plan for Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dmitriy Yarosh, and the other outright nazis who had been threatening to overthrow Poroshenko if he doesn\u2019t renew the war against Donbass and seize Crimea; Dmitriy Yarosh, who was the man who had led the Ukrainian coup for the U.S., and whose thugs had dressed as Yanukovych\u2019s security forces when gunning down both police and demonstrators in the February 2014 coup, in order for Yanukovych to become blamed for the bloodshed on that occasion; is now, in effect, being told: if you will try another coup, this time to overthrow our own stooges in Ukraine, then you\u2019re finished, Mr. Yarosh.<\/span><\/a> Don\u2019t do it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Merkel and Hollande thus won. Putin had decidedly won. Obama and the nazis he had empowered in Ukraine have now, clearly, been defeated. But the mess that Obama\u2019s people have created in Ukraine by their coup and subsequent ethnic-cleansing to eliminate the residents of Donbass, will take decades, if ever, to repair.<\/span><\/p>\n

Western \u2018news\u2019 media can cover it all up, but they can\u2019t change this reality, which, increasingly as time goes by, will expose the press\u2019s failure to have even reported on this historically important U.S. coup in Ukraine and its ultimate failure. As a story about<\/i> the press, it is about yet another system-wide press-deceit upon the public, comparable to their \u2018news coverage\u2019 of \u2018Saddam\u2019s WMD,\u2019 and other lies, in 2002 and 2003.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

More and more people are coming to know what utter rot the Western press are. The news-report that you are now reading here, has been submitted to all of them, but they\u2019ll probably all reject it like they\u2019ve all refused to report the truth that it and its predecessors report and reported about Obama\u2019s nazi (i.e., racist-fascist) takeover of Ukraine. How the Western press will get out of their cover-ups and outright lies, yet again, is hard to imagine. But maybe they\u2019ll just not report it at all \u2013 yet again. Obama has thrown in the towel on Ukraine, and still the press hasn\u2019t yet reported it. But now I have, and you\u2019re reading it here, perhaps for the first time, even though Kerry\u2019s sensational remark was made a week ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, major historical events (like Kerry\u2019s statement here) occur, in broad daylight, which never were even reported by the Western press \u2013 they were instead covered-up, not covered at all, by \u2018our\u2019 \u2018free\u2019 press.<\/span><\/p>\n

———-<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0of \u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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