Ukrainian Government Coup 2014

Eisenhower was my favorite US President. Not only was he President, but he was also head of NATO, Columbia University and of course the Allied Invasion at D-Day.

When someone likes Eisenhower warns of a military industrial complex the world should listen.

I suspect his famous remarks in his final speech were directed at the CIA, as early in his first term the CIA overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran. It is disputed that Eisenhower was even aware of what the CIA were up to and that he never forgave them for it.

Needless to say Eisenhower wasn’t having a bar of it in 1957 when Britain, France and Israel tried to take the Suez Canal back from Egypt via a military invasion. He told Britain, a close ally that he would dump sterling bonds if they didn’t withdraw.

The attached video shows that not much has changed 60 years later.
While I don’t support the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, I don’t support the failure by media and the west to acknowledge and call out the coup in 2014 of a democratically elected government that led to unnecessary violence, suffering and death before this year's invasion.

The world has enough problems without stoking further tensions. All war is a failure of diplomacy.

And I quote:
“The smoking gun proving US involvement in the 2014 coup in Kiev has been removed from YouTube after eight years. It was the most complete version of the intercepted and leaked conversation between then Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt, the then US ambassador to Ukraine, in which the two discuss who will make up the new government weeks before democratically-elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in a violent coup on Feb. 21, 2014.…

The removal of a video that had existed online for eight years raises major questions as it comes during the war in Ukraine. Corporate media has studiously avoided mentioning the causes of the current conflict, including NATO eastward expansion, the rejected Moscow treaty proposals in December, the civil war in Donbass and the 2014 coup in Kiev that led to the Donbass uprising and violent repression by the coup government. The coup in 2014 is the starting point that led to all these events culminating in Russia’s invasion in February.

Removing the video would be consistent with the suppression of any information that falls outside the enforced narrative of events in Ukraine, including whitewashing any mention of the U.S.-backed coup.”