{"id":1007658,"date":"2023-02-27T14:08:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=138209"},"modified":"2023-02-27T14:08:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:08:22","slug":"calling-the-overthrow-of-yanukovych-a-u-s-coup-is-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/27\/calling-the-overthrow-of-yanukovych-a-u-s-coup-is-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling the Overthrow of Yanukovych a U.S. Coup is True"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 25, Elon Musk tweeted<\/a>, \u201cThat election was arguably dodgy, but no question that there was indeed a coup.\u201d By \u201cThat election,\u201d he was referring to Viktor Yanukovych\u2019s having won the Presidency of Ukraine in an election about which even the British Guardian<\/i> newspaper had headlined on 8 February 2010, \u201cYanukovych set to become president as observers say Ukraine election was fair<\/a>,\u201d and it made clear that even Western international observers in Ukraine were testifying to the authenticity of that electoral win by Yanukovych: \u201cObservers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said there were no indications of serious fraud and described the vote as an \u2018impressive display\u2019 of democracy.\u201d However, Elon Musk, without citing any<\/i> evidence, was now saying otherwise: that Yanukovych\u2019s win had been \u201carguably dodgy\u201d \u2014 and (despite that tweet) he provided no argument at all<\/i> to back up that \u2018arguably\u2019 allegation.<\/p>\n

It is foolish to cite tweets that have no links to any evidence, as being evidence for anything other than the tweeter had made that assertion. As a general rule, tweets are the least-reliable source of information. Certainly Musk\u2019s tweet was. However, he also said there that there was \u201cno question that there was indeed a coup.\u201d Anyone who has at all followed the evidence on that matter<\/a> knows that it unquestionably was<\/em> a coup that overthrew Yanukovych in February 2014; and even the head of the \u201cprivate-CIA\u201d firm Stratfor said on 19 December 2014<\/a> that the overthrow of Yanukovych that had occurred then was \u201cthe most blatant coup in history.\u201d It was<\/i> that, because the evidence<\/i> that it was is not only this smoking gun<\/a> that it was a U.S. coup, but because there was plenty more of high quality evidence and all of it showed the same thing<\/a>: it was a coup by (or \u201con behalf of\u201d) the Obama Administration. (Obama and his team, and all \u2018allied\u2019 countries, however, and all of the Western news-media, called it instead a \u2018democratic revolution<\/a>\u2019. This is George Orwell\u2019s 1984<\/i> made real. It\u2019s not real history, but real deceit.)<\/p>\n

The fools who follow Musk\u2019s opinions should know that he himself thinks that coups are just fine: when Elon Musk received on 24 July 2020 a tweet from an \u201cArmani\u201d saying, \u201cYou know what wasnt in the best interest of people? the U.S. government organizing a coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia so you could obtain the lithium there [for Tesla cars\u2019 batteries].\u201d Later that day, Musk replied:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He likes coups that profit himself personally<\/a>, but apparently there are some coups that he disfavors<\/i> \u2014 and he doesn\u2019t ever explain (or at least not honestly) why<\/i>. Maybe, for twitter-followers, \u201cwhy\u201d just isn\u2019t an interesting question? (Maybe that\u2019s why they use social<\/i> media \u2014 instead of articles like this, that link to their primary sources \u2014 to \u2018know\u2019 what\u2019s \u2018going on\u2019 in \u2018the news\u2019?)<\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s stupid tweet about Ukraine was likewise in response to something that one of his followers had tweeted: He was responding to one of his twitter followers, \u201cKanekoaTheGreat\u201d having tweeted<\/a> quoting Professor John Mearsheimer who said<\/a> in the September\/October 2014 issue of America\u2019s most prestigious \u2014 and strongly pro-U.S.-empire or \u201cneoconservative\u201d or pro-Military-Industrial-Complex \u2014 Foreign Affairs<\/i> magazine, \u201cFor Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected and pro-Russian president\u2014which he rightly labeled a ‘coup’\u2014was the final straw.\u201d Ultimately, that\u2019s what Musk was responding to \u2014 not<\/i> the evidence, but instead the opinion there, in that overwhelmingly pro-U.S.-coups and empire magazine, from (as it turns out) a professor who was arguing that the coup had been merely (and only<\/i>) a mistake<\/i>:<\/p>\n

On February 17, under the headline<\/a> \u201cJohn Mearsheimer\u2019s Misrepresentations In Order To Be Allowed Space On U.S. Propaganda-Media (i.e., U.S. \u2018News\u2019-Media),\u201d I had pointed out numerous distortions of the historical record regarding that coup \u2014 such as his alleging it to have been due to a \u201cflawed view\u201d (not a vicious, or even just a \u201cfalse\u201d view, but merely \u201cflawed\u201d<\/i>. He doesn\u2019t so much as hint in what way \u201cflawed\u201d) including \u201csuch liberal principles as the rule of law, economic interdependence, and democracy,\u201d which \u201cwent awry in Ukraine [and, again, he doesn\u2019t hint at in what way \u2018awry\u2019],\u201d and on and on \u2014 as-if it weren\u2019t what it actually was<\/em>: which was the U.S. Government\u2019s bipartisan neoconservative obsession to trap Russia\u2019s Government, to checkmate it into its being forced to yield, finally and inexorably, to the control by the U.S. Government. That\u2019s imperialism \u2014 and there wasn\u2019t a word about it \u2014 except one passing reference, which was 180 degrees in the false direction: against actually the victim<\/i>-country, not<\/em> against the aggressor:<\/p>\n

In September 2013, Gershman wrote in The Washington Post, \u201cUkraine\u2019s choice to join Europe will accelerate the demise of the ideology of Russian imperialism that Putin represents.\u201d He added: \u201cRussians, too, face a choice, and Putin may find himself on the losing end not just in the near abroad but within Russia itself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that distractive and deceptive reference is to Russia\u2019s<\/i> \u2018imperialism\u2019, NOT to America\u2019s own authentic hyper<\/i>-imperialism that Russia is now responding to<\/i> (and which imperialism entails a military budget that now (including what\u2019s hidden in non-\u2018Defense\u2019-Department agencies but is still for military purposes) is half of the entire world\u2019s military spending<\/a>, and it pays for 900 foreign military bases<\/a> and much more that is counterproductive if it has any real impact at all on protecting U.S. national security. (It\u2019s not \u201cthe Defense Department\u201d; it is \u201cthe Aggression<\/i> Department.\u201d)<\/p>\n

This is the hidden reality: and neither Musk nor Mearsheimer, nor any other mouthpiece of the U.S. Establishment or the \u201cDeep State\u201d lets its audience in on it \u2014 and on the evidence that this is<\/i> the reality.<\/p>\n

The U.S. coup against and that grabbed Ukraine<\/a> was a very intentional, and very evil \u2014 not at all unintentional or \u2018by mistake\u2019 \u2014 U.S. coup, and Putin is being villainized in U.S.-and-allied media for finally responding<\/i> to it in Russia\u2019s case. Not only was<\/i> it \u201ca coup\u201d but it was a U.S. coup<\/i>, and it was by careful and evil design<\/a>, no mere<\/i> (nor Mearsheimer) \u2018error\u2019.<\/p>\n

This is \u2014 on steroids \u2014 the 1962 Cuban-Missile-Crisis in reverse: Ukraine is only a 300-mile or five-minute missile-flying-time distance away from the Kremlin and decapitation of Russia\u2019s ability to fire-off its retaliatory weapons (within less than five minutes) against a U.S. blitz-attack. Russia needs<\/i> to prevent that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe West\u201d \u2014 including all of NATO \u2014 are 100% the aggressors in this matter. And that fact<\/i> is unmentionable in U.S.-and-allied media.<\/p>\n

To top it all off: on February 25, another budding U.S. politician, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, is apparently entering the U.S. Presidential primaries campaigning for the Republican (traditional fascist) nomination<\/a>, by tweeting<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The main thing should be the main thing: focus on China. China wants the Ukraine war to last as long as possible to deplete Western military capacity before invading Taiwan. It\u2019s working: we think we *look* stronger by helping Ukraine, but we actually *become* weaker vs. China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps in foreign affairs, while the Democrats (liberal fascists) will be campaigning for war against Russia to precede war against China, the Republicans (conservative fascists) will be campaigning for war against China to precede war against Russia. It\u2019ll be a contest about which \u2018enemy\u2019 to hate first. Either way, the owners of mega-corporations such as Lockheed Martin and ExxonMobil will be beaming. They\u2019re the real<\/i> constituency in this \u2018democracy\u2019.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like: Will the flavor be chocolate, or will it be vanilla? Either way, it\u2019ll be loaded with sugar, artificial flavoring, and artificial coloring, and will fatten you, and rot your teeth just the same, no matter how different the taste is. And those are the only two \u2018choices\u2019. That\u2019s all the billionaires are offering, in the political market. Truth isn\u2019t anywhere on the menu, from either<\/i> Party.<\/p>The post Calling the Overthrow of Yanukovych a U.S. Coup is True<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.\n

This post was originally published on Dissident Voice<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On February 25, Elon Musk tweeted, \u201cThat election was arguably dodgy, but no question that there was indeed a coup.\u201d By \u201cThat election,\u201d he was referring to Viktor Yanukovych\u2019s having won the Presidency of Ukraine in an election about which even the British Guardian newspaper had headlined on 8 February 2010, \u201cYanukovych set to become [\u2026]<\/p>\n

The post Calling the Overthrow of Yanukovych a U.S. Coup is True<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[827,4116,731,45016,44489,2830,583,376,57936],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007660,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007658\/revisions\/1007660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}