only_me schrieb am 27.02.2024 10:27:
Ukraine wäre liebend gerne im Februar 2022 ein "Vasall" der Amis gewesen.
Die Ukraine wurde doch schon von 2004 - 2010 zum Vasallen der USA. In der Zeit strebte auch der ukrainische Präsident - im Widerspruch zum Neutralitätsgebot in der ukrainischen Verfassung - massiv einen Beitritt zur NATO an.
So schrieb die New York Times im Dezember 2004:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 - Russian leaders, many Ukrainians and even some members of Congress are asking whether the $58 million the United States spent to promote democracy in Ukraine over the past two years was actually intended to oust the government there.
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"Much of that money was targeted to assist one particular candidate," Mr. Paul said, "and through a series of cutout, nongovernment organizations -- both American and Ukrainian -- millions of dollars ended up in support of" Mr. Yushchenko.
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The federal government spent $97 million on aid to Ukraine in the fiscal year that ended Oct. 31 for a broad range of social and political projects. About $28 million of that was spent on what the agency calls democracy projects.Some of that money was devoted to political-party development and was offered by the International Republican Institute and its Democratic counterpart, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, to any political party that showed an interest. Both government-financed institutes promote democracy worldwide.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/21/politics/dollars-for-democracy-us-aid-to-ukraine-challenged.html
Und der Guardian berichtet im November 2004:
But while the gains of the orange-bedecked "chestnut revolution" are Ukraine's, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes.
Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box.
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But experience gained in Serbia, Georgia and Belarus has been invaluable in plotting to beat the regime of Leonid Kuchma in Kiev.The operation - engineering democracy through the ballot box and civil disobedience - is now so slick that the methods have matured into a template for winning other people's elections.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa