Ukraine: Sticking Our Nose & Our Money Where It Doesn’t Belong…Again

Ed Wood / Freedom Outpost

Didn’t we get enough Arab Spring type uprisings in our support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, in our “leading from the rear” in Libya that got our Ambassador and three other Americans killed, in spending billions of dollars and thousands of American lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, then pulling out with no accomplishments whatsoever, and in drawing a line in Syria we couldn’t defend? Really, haven’t we had enough?

This week our news is filled with the now familiar sights of the fires, the bombings, the riotings and the killings in the Ukraine as “freedom fighters” sought to overthrow the established Ukranian government. The duly elected president, Viktor Yanukovich, fled for his life into the welcoming arms of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was standing by, ready to exploit the unrest by sending Russian troops to occupy much of the country. So much for our “freedom” revolution.

But while our politicians were trying to figure out whose side we should be on, if any, Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Victoria Nuland, revealed that, “Since the declaration of Ukrainian independence [from the USSR] in 1991, the United States has supported the Ukrainians in the development of democratic institutions and skills in promoting a civil society and a good form of government - We have invested more than 5 billion dollars to help Ukraine to achieve these and other goals, ” and will continue to “promote Ukraine to the future it deserves.”

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