The best joke of all is that the Obama administration spent $5 billions in Ukraine (US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Nuland said: “We have invested more than 5 billion dollars to help Ukraine to achieve these and other goals.) for in the end ... offer to Vladimir Putin the Crimea peninsula on a silver platter. Russia has got it back without firing a shot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y0y-JUsPTU#t=462
Best joke of the century!
They might as well have sent the check directly to Putin.
US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Nuland
February 9, 2014, Finian Cunningham wrote:
“Take Victoria Nuland - the US Assistant Secretary of State - who was caught using obscene language in a phone call about the European Union and the political affairs of Ukraine. In her previous posting as a spokeswoman for the US State Department, Nuland had the demeanor of a robotic matron with a swivel eye.
Now in her new role of covertly rallying anti-government protesters in Ukraine, Nuland has emerged to sound like a bubblegum-chewing Mafia doll. In her leaked private conversation with the US ambassador to Kiev, the American female diplomat is heard laying down in imperious tones how a new government in Ukraine should be constituted. Nuland talks about “gluing together” a sovereign country as if it is a mere plaything, and she stipulates which members of the US-backed street rabble in Kiev should or should not be included in any Washington-approved new government in the former Soviet republic.
We don’t know who actually tapped and leaked Nuland’s private call to the US ambassador in Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt. It could have been the Ukrainian or Russian secret services, but, regardless, it was an inspired move to reveal it. For the disclosure, which has been posted on the internet, lays bare the subversive meddling agenda of Washington in Ukrainian internal affairs. Up to now, the Americans have been piously pretending that their involvement is one of a bystander supporting democracy from afar.
But, thanks to the Nuland’s foul-mouthed indiscretion, the truth is out. Washington, from her own admission, is acting like an agent provocateur in Ukraine’s political turmoil. That is an illegal breach of international rules of sovereignty. Nuland finishes her phone call like a gangster ordering a hit on a rival, referring to incompetent European interference in Ukraine with disdain - “F...k the EU.”
What we are witnessing here is the real, ugly face of American government and its uncouth contempt for international law and norms.”
That number was the amount that the State Dept. has spent trying to influence politics in Ukraine since the USSR broke up.