Biden In Europe To ‘Reassure Our Allies’ Over Russia’s Moves In Ukraine -- Washington Post
WARSAW—Vice President Biden arrived here Tuesday to reassure a set of allies anxious over Russia’s move into Crimea, denouncing the impending Russian annexation of the region as a “blatant, blatant disregard of international law.”
Appearing with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Biden offered the moral support of a “steadfast ally,” but promised only modest assistance to help Poland modernize its army and explore how to lessen its dependence on Russian natural gas.
Tusk, however, expressed the more intimate concern of a leader with a new, unpredictable conflict suddenly on his doorstep, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intervention in Ukraine “increases the risk in Eastern Europe but it also has global implications.”
“It is a challenge for the whole world,” Tusk said. “It is not just Poland, but all of Europe must speak in a strong voice.”
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My Comment: I am following the news in Europe .... and U.S. VP Biden's visit to Europe is at the bottom of the newscasts .... if he is on at all. Bottom line .... the U.S. is not in a position to do anything as the Ukraine crisis unfolds .... and the Europeans know that. If anything .... VP Biden's trip to eastern Europe is more to placate Americans back home who are critical of White House policy towards Russia and the Ukraine crisis.
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Biden obviously won't talk about the US moves in Ukraine which created this "crisis" -- namely engineering the overthrow of a democratically-elected government.
This was done primarily through the State-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) which is used internationally to overthrow governments in the furtherance of US interests.
Here is listed the hundreds of thousands of dollars the NED has granted to NGOs in Ukraine to further US interests.
http://ned.org/where-we-work/eurasia/Ukraine
Here is
Open Ukraine
Arseniy Yatsenyuk Foundation
http://openukraine.org/en/about/partners
showing NED sponsorship for this criminal who became the "prime minister of Ukraine" due to US support for the recent coup.
Don Bacon .... we are talking more than just a few hundred thousand dollars.
Senior U.S. Diplomat Admits That The U.S. Has Spent $5 Billion To Influence The Ukrainian Government (Video)
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.ca/2014/02/senior-us-diplomat-admits-that-us-has.html
It's not clear, but probably the NED list was one year and the higher estimate is a total for NED and other funnels for US taxpayer dollars to US puppet agencies in Ukraine over time.
The larger point is that this US influence is never mentioned, with the whole "crisis" being put on Russia.
Not only is the US activity not mentioned but also its nature -- overthrowing a democratically-elected PM, as even Obama remarked (the democratic part). Even Putin hasn't mentioned it! Of course Putin doesn't have to mention it since he's got all the winning cards anyhow.
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