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An excellent summary of the US's key role in Ukraine. These Cold War era organizations need to disappear, as they develop independent agendas and invite blowback.

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The US government’s imperialist drive is enforced be neoliberal economic policy introduced by CIA control over global financial institutions with pentagon and MIC support.

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Global hegemony requires medium propagandistic ‘influence’ to form successful public support for what is essentially private control. The US government is ‘owned’ by corporate interests since the “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision. Considered private entities, the public has lost control of its (so called) democratic government to private oligarchs demanding global financial imperialism.

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Jul 9, 2022Liked by Kit Klarenberg

I may have missed this key event in this article's chronology: the visit by CIA Director Brennan to Kiev in April 2014. Here's a report in Forbes from that time....

https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2014/04/16/why-cia-director-brennan-visited-kiev-in-ukraine-the-covert-war-has-begun/?sh=4b72c60d10cb

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In 2015,a feature-length documentary film glamorized the Maidan coup. "Winter on Fire" was directed by Evgeny Afineevsky. It was expertly promoted in Hollywood, and it was rewarded with an Academy Award nomination. In 2017, Afineevsky directed "Cries from Syria," which glorified the so-called "White Helmets" in the Syrian civil war. That film actually won a Humanitas Prize (2018). Afineevsky is a skillful, and reliable, maker of pro-Western propaganda. His effectiveness, and the impact of his films, should not be overlooked. And his financial backing deserves some scrutiny.

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Nobody has forgotton what Nuland and the neocons have done. It's genesis was in the Project for a New American Century, PNAC, and it has nothing actually to do with America.

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