US HYPOCRISY AND FAILURE IN UKRAINE

USA HYPOCRISY IN THE UKRAINE LEADS TO DIPLOMATIC FAILURE

It’s the blatant hypocrisy of the US position on the Ukraine which bothers me. Only a week ago the CIA and the State  Department were secretly plotting to incite unrest and encourage the most radical elements of the Ukrainian polity to turn away from Russia and become a vassal state of the EU and the USA. The foolhardy, poorly thought out actions of the White House, the CIA and the state department were surely in part to blame for the unnecessary loss of life in and around Independence Square.

(This was a replay of what the US and CIA did in Egypt only eight months ago, when they undermined the legally elected government of Mr. Morsi, whom they did not like for--his pro Egypt policies--concluding he was not going to be as compliant as past Egyptian dictators. So he had to go. Their actions in Egypt led to the installation of another military dictator and a much more repressive regime--more repressive, more violent and prone to more bloodshed.)

In the Ukraine,  the CIA was back at it..with bundles of US taxpayer money the CIA and State Department helped stir up the hornet nest in Kiev. The US policy there on the doorstep of Mr. Putin--apparently led  by  neocons in the State Department --left no wiggle room or escape route for the Russians. Now after the "surprise" military action of Russia..and  in the apparent failure of what should have been a diplomatic effort, the President and his advisors stand hang-jawed, nonplussed and unsure of a response.

I also wonder how President Obama who has just barely extricated us from the longest, bloody, unnecessary, most ill advised and illegal war in US history doesn't blanch and choke on his perfidious words when he reads speeches written for him in which he accuses Russia of “aggression”, “illegal occupation”, and “anti-democratic” military actions and threats.  He should be the last one to point the finger of blame.n

The truth is the Ukraine situation is a direct result of a failed US foreign policy, incompetent, over zealous state department personnel and an out-of-control CIA which seems to have its own independent agenda. But Mr. Obama is  paying for this failure with falling popularity polls and by looking  so helpless and incompetent as Russian troops encircle military installations in the Crimea. This is another embarrassment that could have been avoided.

A wiser more savvy administration in better control,of their far-flung and gung-ho departments  would have realized the limits of their ability to control events on the very doorstep of the Russians and pursued a more sensible,  moderate course of action.

Perhaps even now cooler heads could prevail. Start with reining in the CIA and  demoting the hot heads and vulgar personnel in the state department.

Get the picture?