Revolution in Ukraine: Western-engineered Coup d'État?

[angelburst29]

U.S. prepares $1 Billion Aid Package as Kerry arrives in troubled Ukraine
_http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/04/us-prepares-1-billion-aid-package-as-kerry-arrives-in-troubled-ukraine/

KIEV, Ukraine – U.S. officials say the White House is announcing an aid package to Ukraine of $1 billion in lost energy subsidies as it seeks to extract itself from Russia's influence.

The announcement came as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry landed in the Ukrainian capital Tuesday to show American support for Kiev's military and political struggle against Moscow.

Russian troops have overtaken the local government in Crimea, a strategic region in Ukraine's southeast. Western leaders are threatening to fierce economic sanctions as early as this week against if Moscow does not retreat.

The economic package also includes training assistance to Ukraine's national bank, Finance Ministry and election observers ahead of a May 25 national vote.

The U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not yet happened.

 

[Cosmos]

Here is Putin's live conference in English
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4494980,00.html

I haven't found a translation of this press conference yet.
Andybody know about an english version?

Here is the whole press conference in russian:
http://www.vesti.ru/only_video.html?vid=582020

Over one hour of questions and answers from Putin...

Here is some part of the conference. I can't find more yet
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/04/ukraine-crisis-shots-fired-crimea-airbase

Here is the full version in german:

http://<iframe width="560" height="...UQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

[Mike]

I wrinkle to events that I don't think has been brought up in this thread yet.

http://truthingold.blogspot.com/2014/03/did-russia-just-flash-global-trump-card.html

Did Russia Just Flash The Global "Trump" Card Some Countries Hold?

"We hold a decent amount of treasury bonds – more than $200 billion – and if the United States dares to freeze accounts of Russian businesses and citizens, we can no longer view America as a reliable partner,” he said. “We will encourage everybody to dump US Treasury bonds, get rid of dollars as an unreliable currency and leave the US market."

Many of us have been wondering when one the of the large holders of U.S. Treasuries was going to brandish a freshly sharpened sword and threaten to swing it at the Achilles' Heel of the United States.

The quote above is from an advisor to Putin in response the the threat of the U.S. implementing economic sanctions against Russia. You can read the article from a Russian newspaper here: (sourced from Zerohedge) LINK (http://en.ria.ru/business/20140304/188081405/Putin-Adviser-Urges-Dumping-US-Bonds-In-Reaction-to-Sanctions.html)

While I highly doubt that Russia will actually dump Treasuries as a form of financial war against the U.S. - at least this time - the Putin advisor just made it clear that several powerful countries, with interests that often conflict with U.S. imperialistic behavior, hold a weapon of defense that is the equivalent of a financial nuclear bomb.

What's most fascinating about watching the Ukraine events unfold is the shamelessness with which the U.S. attempts to impose its will on Russia for defending its own interests, and yet the U.S. wantonly goes into countries like Iraq and Libya, assassinates the leader, overthrows the Government and installs its own puppet. It's truly amazing, if not utterly Orwellian, the way in which the major U.S. media outlets have conveniently forgotten about the Victoria Nuland tape that Russia released discussing the U.S. role in destabilizing Ukraine in the first place.

The biggest problem for the U.S. is that, despite the progressively fraudulent Government reports to the contrary, the U.S is spending far more everyday to keep the lights on than it takes in to cover those expenses. Watch this year as the spending deficit increases dramatically. We'll soon understand why the Obama Government pushed so hard to remove entirely the debt ceiling limit.

Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone who examines the facts which belie U.S. Government pomp and circumstance that, short of unleashing nuclear weapons, the U.S. is only capable of bringing knives to a gunfight.

edit added: Just saw that SOTT already has article posted on the topic.

 

[Laura]

What's most fascinating about watching the Ukraine events unfold is the shamelessness with which the U.S. attempts to impose its will on Russia for defending its own interests, and yet the U.S. wantonly goes into countries like Iraq and Libya, assassinates the leader, overthrows the Government and installs its own puppet. It's truly amazing, if not utterly Orwellian, the way in which the major U.S. media outlets have conveniently forgotten about the Victoria Nuland tape that Russia released discussing the U.S. role in destabilizing Ukraine in the first place.

In light of the above, the latest, shameless, CNN "news flash" (have the sick-bag ready):

President Barack Obama said today there is a "strong belief" that Russia's actions in Ukraine violate international law. "President Putin seems to have a different set of lawyers making a different set of interpretations, but I don't think that's fooling anybody," Obama said.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking in Kiev, said Russia had made up reasons to intervene in Ukraine, saying "not a single piece of credible evidence supports any one of these (Russian) claims." He added that "Russia has been working hard to create a pretext to invade further" in Ukraine.

The staggering hypocrisy - or sheer pathology - of those statements is just jaw dropping!

 

[Oxajil]

The staggering hypocrisy - or sheer pathology - of those statements is just jaw dropping!

It truly is

And I just read the following: "Oscars 2014: Academy Awards ceremony gets biggest TV audience in 10 years" and ''...setting the record for the most retweets on Twitter...Twitter said that 14.7 million Oscar-related tweets were sent worldwide during the telecast.'' Pretty sad, isn't it? I think it's pretty clear by now what the majority of people finds more interesting and time-worthy. Never mind that their government is responsible for screwing up yet another country ''in the name of ''democracy''''.

 

[Meg]

Here is the full press conference translated into English:

http://<iframe width="560" height="...8s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

[Cosmos]

Here is the full press conference translated into English:

http://<iframe width="560" height="...8s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Quite interesting...

I'm almost through the german version and although he is very careful in the way he speaks about those matters, it becomes pretty clear (I think) that he knows the real game that is played here by the west. And for those who listen carefully, that comes out quite clear IMO...

 

[Oxajil]

I'm almost through the german version and although he is very careful in the way he speaks about those matters, it becomes pretty clear (I think) that he knows the real game that is played here by the west. And for those who listen carefully, that comes out quite clear IMO...

Yes, I have the same impression.

Here's a transcript of the conference (but not completed yet): _http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/6763

 

[Cosmos]

I'm almost through the german version and although he is very careful in the way he speaks about those matters, it becomes pretty clear (I think) that he knows the real game that is played here by the west. And for those who listen carefully, that comes out quite clear IMO...

Yes, I have the same impression.

Here's a transcript of the conference (but not completed yet): _http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/6763

And every now and then he manages to slip in such juice parts as this one:

38:15 - 39:33:

"He did not refuse to sign the agreement [He refers to the agreement that Janukowitsch supposedly "refused to sign" with the EU, according to what we have heard] he just said we need some more time to consider this document before they sign it. And right away all hell broke loose. And was this unlawful for him [Janukowitsch] to do so? No, it was perfectly lawful. He did not violate anything. They just used this as an excuse to support opposition forces, in their aspirations to power. Actually there is nothing wrong with that, but how can you take the situation to anarchy, chaos and armed seizure of power? This is unacceptable.

And our western partners, it is not the first time they do this [?in the ukraine?]. I think they sit there across the pond, in the USA, sometimes it seems to me those heads there are thinking they are in a kind of laboratory and they are running all kind of experiments on rats, without understanding the consequences of what they are doing. Why would they do that? Who can explain that? Nobody can explain it."

Note that I have created this transcript by comparing both the german and english translations...

 

[Nević Nenad]

I'm almost through the german version and although he is very careful in the way he speaks about those matters, it becomes pretty clear (I think) that he knows the real game that is played here by the west. And for those who listen carefully, that comes out quite clear IMO...

Yes, I have the same impression.

Here's a transcript of the conference (but not completed yet): _http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/6763

Thanks for the link, I cant watch youtube these days because of the internet bandwidth.

What's most fascinating about watching the Ukraine events unfold is the shamelessness with which the U.S. attempts to impose its will on Russia for defending its own interests, and yet the U.S. wantonly goes into countries like Iraq and Libya, assassinates the leader, overthrows the Government and installs its own puppet. It's truly amazing, if not utterly Orwellian, the way in which the major U.S. media outlets have conveniently forgotten about the Victoria Nuland tape that Russia released discussing the U.S. role in destabilizing Ukraine in the first place.

In light of the above, the latest, shameless, CNN "news flash" (have the sick-bag ready):

President Barack Obama said today there is a "strong belief" that Russia's actions in Ukraine violate international law. "President Putin seems to have a different set of lawyers making a different set of interpretations, but I don't think that's fooling anybody," Obama said.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking in Kiev, said Russia had made up reasons to intervene in Ukraine, saying "not a single piece of credible evidence supports any one of these (Russian) claims." He added that "Russia has been working hard to create a pretext to invade further" in Ukraine.

The staggering hypocrisy - or sheer pathology - of those statements is just jaw dropping!

This made my day :D They are actually on the level of a kids :) Putin for sure is smarter than average everyday politician, the Siberian fox ;)

 

[Aeneas]

Here is the full press conference translated into English:

snip

Thanks for the link. Well worth listening to. When did Obama ever give an open Press conference with open questioning? Never so far I can remember. It is all scripted and stage managed.

Kudos to Putin!

 

[Gawan]

It was an interesting interview, indeed and thanks for sharing.

 

[Meg]

I'm almost through the german version and although he is very careful in the way he speaks about those matters, it becomes pretty clear (I think) that he knows the real game that is played here by the west. And for those who listen carefully, that comes out quite clear IMO...

Yes, I have the same impression.
snip

I had the same impression too. He comes across as a true statesman. The anti-Russian propaganda from the psychopathic politicians and media here is just astounding. They completely transform facts into digestible lies. It's mind boggling! With all of the lying and manipulations here in the U.S., it's refreshing to hear him speak. What's sad and just as mind boggling is that the people here don't seem to care very much. The Oscars are on, a new movie to see, there's a sale at wherever, a new cell phone to buy. Never mind that our government orchestrated another coup against a sovereign state and people were hurt and killed.

 

[Alana]

I'm almost through the german version and although he is very careful in the way he speaks about those matters, it becomes pretty clear (I think) that he knows the real game that is played here by the west. And for those who listen carefully, that comes out quite clear IMO...

Yes, I have the same impression.
snip

I had the same impression too. He comes across as a true statesman. The anti-Russian propaganda from the psychopathic politicians and media here is just astounding. They completely transform facts into digestible lies. It's mind boggling! With all of the lying and manipulations here in the U.S., it's refreshing to hear him speak. What's sad and just as mind boggling is that the people here don't seem to care very much. The Oscars are on, a new movie to see, there's a sale at wherever, a new cell phone to buy. Never mind that our government orchestrated another coup against a sovereign state and people were hurt and killed.

Yes, the programming in the US works well.

And the point is, Putin talks about people's freedom to choose their life's and region's fate, and in his answers he states facts: this and this took place, this way, and that is the history of the region, and I understand why things took this turn, but I don't understand other events, etc. What does the US government ever say that contains any morsel of truth in it, or how many times have you heard a US politician talk about another nation's history and people, as if he really knows them?

And, of course, before the english version or transcript was up, the US media went to attack his interview to influence the minds of the American citizens. Here's an example:

A brief rundown of Vladimir Putin’s strange, rambling press conference
_http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/03/04/a-brief-rundown-of-vladimir-putins-strange-rambling-press-conference/

 

[stellar]

Don't know if it is related to this situation, natural events or other.

http://englishrussia.com/2014/03/03/largest-oil-refinery-in-europe-is-on-fire/