kodu schrieb am 01.06.2024 11:48:
Ohne den „Einfluss“ des US-Außenministeriums (Stichwort: „Fuck the EU“) hätte es den Anschluss der Krim an Russland und die folgenden Ereignisse, bis hin zum aktuell nahezu täglich steigenden Eskalationslevel vermutlich gar nicht gegeben.
Die Außenminister Polens, Frankreichs und Deutschlands hatten mit dem (gewählten) ukrainischen Präsidenten Janukowitsch eine sofortige Waffenruhe und Wahlen im Mai 2014 vereinbart.
Dann (nur Stunden später) grätschte Frau Victoria Nuland in diese Bemühungen um Stabilisierung …etc.. Sichwort: Jazenjuk
Die USA und die EU vertraten trotz des "F...ck the EU" nicht so unterschiedliche Positionen.
Paul D’Anieri: Ukraine and Russia. From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War. Cambridge University Press, 2023, ISBN 978-1-00-931554-8, S. 216.
"When Yanukovych, in January 2014, sought a compromise that would bring leaders of opposition parties into the government, the United States strove to get the opposition leaders to go along and was trying to bring in others, including the UN, to encourage this. The United States hoped that Arseniy Yatseniuk, rather than Vitaliy Klitschko, would become the new prime minister, apparently due to Yatseniuk’s greater economic expertise. It also wanted to keep the far-right Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok out of the government. Details of the US position were leaked (presumably by Russia) from a cell phone conversation between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt. This was much the same deal that the EU foreign ministers sought to negotiate with Yanukovych after the February 18 violence. Despite Nuland’s expletive-laden complaints about the EU, and the tiff that her outburst provoked, the European Union and United States were advancing compatible positions that would have kept Yanukovych in power."
Maria Popova, Oxana Shevel: Russia and Ukraine. Entangled Histories, Diverging States. Polity Press, 2024, ISBN 978-1-5095-5737-0, S. 154
"A phone call leaked in early February, where Nuland and US Ambassador Pyatt discuss preference for Yatseniuk over the other leaders of the opposition, Klitchko and Tyahnybok, to join a new Yanukovych cabinet on account of Yatseniuk’s perceived stronger economic and governing experience, shows American endorsement of Yanukovych’s continued rule, not a plan to end it."