Ukraine — a Different View: A Close-Up Look at the U.S. Coup in 2014 & Events That Followed

Here’s some of what you may not know about Ukraine—about the US coup eight years ago, what’s happened since, and what is happening right now

Videos that offer us a view quite different from the one we’re getting from the media non-stop, across the board—a propaganda narrative devoid of truth or decency

by Mark Crispin Miller
March 7, 2022

First, I strongly recommend, to those who haven’t seen them, Oliver Stone’s two documentaries, Ukraine on Fire (2015) and Revealing Ukraine (2019).

“What You’re Not Being Told” about Ukraine: a video on the US coup in 2014, including parts of the hacked phone conversation between Victoria Nuland, of the State Department, and Geoffrey Pyatt, US ambassador to Ukraine:

The entire phone conversation between Nuland and Pyatt:

After the recording of that phone call went up online, the Obama administration sought (with much success) to obfuscate the issue—i.e., that the US State Department had been caught planning the make-up of another country’s government—by making a Big Deal over the hack of a private phone call. The New York Times et al. obligingly made that the issue, speculating, to nobody’s surprise, that Russia was behind the hack.

Here’s Jen Psaki, who at the time was lying for the State Department, in a diverting back-and-forth with several journalists who weren’t inclined to buy her line that the hack—“a new low for Russian tradecraft,” she called it—was the real issue, as opposed to US officials “midwifing the process” of selecting Ukraine’s government:

Moving on to the horrendous consequences of the US coup, here’s a video about the children killed by the “punisher battalions” in East Ukraine:

A Ukrainian’s view of the difference between cities now under Russian control and those held by the Ukrainian forces:

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