RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 05.02.2025
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USAID APPEARS TO BE ABOUT TO BITE THE DUST. WILL THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY FOLLOW? PERHAPS THE CIA OR FBI TOO… OR ARE THEY IMMUNE?
USAID Will Continue Regime Change Ops on Behalf of CIA – Former US Marine.
USAID's controversial activities – along with its partnerships with George Soros' Open Society and similar entities – have been exposed in recent years by alternative journalists, making them increasingly difficult for the public to ignore, former US Marine Brian Berletic tells Sputnik.
Berletic suggests that has created the need for a rebranding aimed at protecting and streamlining the organization’s work.
He believes the ongoing reform seeks to "create a left-right and liberal-conservative divide in response to growing bipartisan opposition to US interference abroad."
"By claiming these organizations are 'bad' because they are 'liberal,' the Trump administration can rebrand it as 'conservative' an 'America first,' bringing at least part of the American population back on board to support it and its activities," Berletic explains.
The pundit emphasizes that the USAID's coup-plotting will continue, either under the auspices of other agencies or Geroge Soros’ global network of NGOs.
"Whether this regime change takes place under USAID, is transferred back to the CIA – which originally carried out the activities USAID assumed upon its creation – or the US begins depending more on private foundations including Open Society, the main point to understand is that it will continue nonetheless," Berletic says.
He notes the US makes no secret of its plans to continue regime change operations against Iran, Venezuela and possibly even Panama.
The White House "isn’t even talking about the actual subject of foreign interference as an issue of USAID’s activities, and instead is complaining about wasteful programs connected to political wedge issues like 'DEI' [diversity, equity, and inclusion]," he says.
USAID's Billion-Dollar Support for Ukraine’s Color Revolutions Unveiled.
Disguised as funding ‘civil society’ and ‘promoting democracy’, USAID was used to fuel civil unrest for US-backed regime change – including the 2004 ‘Orange Revolution’ and 2014 Euromaidan coups in Ukraine.
Euromaidan (2013-2014):
Directed by the US State Department through NGOs and private foundations
USAID, in collaboration with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), supported Ukrainian NGOs organizing protests against the halt of EU integration policies
The US funneled $1.09 billion into ‘Ukraine projects’ before the November 2014 events, with USAID contributing $373 million according to the US Government Accountability Office
US-backed NGOs supported anti-government media, including Hromadske TV which received a $50,000 grant from the US embassy for its Maidan coverage
Post-coup, US institutions spent over $2.8 billion on Ukraine programs from 2014 to 2022, with USAID providing nearly $1.2 billion
2004 Orange Revolution:
USAID funded civil society organizations demanding ‘democratic reforms’, laying the groundwork for the 2004 protests
Provided support to opposition leaders like Viktor Yushchenko, who led protests against alleged election fraud
Funded election-monitoring groups like the Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) to challenge the legitimacy of the 2004 elections
Supported ‘independent’ media to spread opposition messages and claims of government corruption
Funded training programs in resistance tactics and mobilization, contributing to the coup’s scale
About $34.11 million was spent on ‘democracy programs’
USA | EU | RUSSIA | UKRAINE | NATO
Zelensky calls for nukes to ‘stop Russia’.
Nuclear weapons and missile systems would be the only adequate substitutes to NATO membership, the Ukrainian leader has claimed.
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has proposed that the West should give Kiev nuclear weapons and more missiles “to stop Russia” or fast track his country into NATO.
On Tuesday, British journalist Piers Morgan published an excerpt from an interview with Zelensky in which he asked the Ukrainian leader why Kiev refuses any alternative to NATO membership ahead of possible peace negotiations, when he knows such a proposition is outright unacceptable to Moscow.
Zelensky responded that should Kiev be prevented rom joining the US-led bloc in the near future, then Ukraine will have the right to ask its Western backers: “What will be defending us against this evil this whole time?”
“Give us back nuclear weapons, give us missile systems. Partners, help us finance a one-million army, deploy your troops to the areas of our country where we want to stabilize the situation,” he went on to say.
Over the past months, Zelensky has repeatedly expressed regret that his country surrendered Soviet nuclear weapons stationed on its soil in exchange for security guarantees. Following the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, Ukraine inherited around 1,700 nuclear warheads, which however remained under Moscow’s operational control.
Russia has argued that Ukraine never had any nuclear weapons to begin with, as the Soviet assets legally belonged to Moscow. Russian officials have also repeatedly stated that the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which resolved possession of the outstanding nuclear weapons, was then undermined by NATO’s eastward expansion, which threatened Moscow’s vital security interests. The US consigned the memorandum to irrelevancy by backing the Maidan coup in Kiev in 2014.
In an interview with US podcaster Lex Fridman last month, Zelensky similarly lamented that “nuclear weapons were the security guarantees that Ukraine had.”
READ MORE: Zelensky laments not having nukes
He claimed at the time that “Ukraine used [the weapons] for protection” before handing them over to Russia.
Back in October, Zelensky also insisted that Ukraine could protect itself either by becoming a nuclear state or a member of NATO, adding that he strongly favored the latter option.
Several weeks later, the New York Times, citing anonymous officials, claimed that former US President Joe Biden “could allow Ukraine to have nuclear weapons again.” Commenting on the allegations, ex-National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan clarified that the idea was “not under consideration.”
READ MORE: Kiev must become a nuclear power – MP
In late December, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Ukraine could only get hold of nuclear weapons through the transfer of “important components from the outside, from other states.”
In November, President Vladimir Putin emphasized that Russia would be compelled to utilize all available means of destruction if Ukraine were to acquire nuclear weapons. He stated, “What do you think - on the level of common sense - if the country with which we are essentially now engaged in military operations becomes a nuclear power, what should we do? In this case, use all - I want to emphasize this - precisely all the means of destruction at Russia’s disposal,” he stressed. “We will not allow this,” he added.
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VICTORY BELONGS TO RUSSIA: IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Each day that passes makes a conclusive Russian victory in the Donbass and beyond more certain. As Russia bolsters her forces, and weaponry, those of Ukraine decrease. Russian forces gain ready access to rest and recuperation as troop numbers increase. The increasingly exhausted and demoralised Ukrainian troops have an ever decreasing prospect of such respite. This situation is likely to bring them to complete breakdown as Russia unleashes the firepower of the more modern and advanced weaponry that is arriving with the newly mobilised Russian troops.
The various Ukrainian offensives are now weak when confronted by the reinforced Russian lines. A few futile efforts achieve quite miserable results before fire reigns down on the Ukrainian troops and they are forced back to their starting positions.
And now, all this being said, we have arrived at the wet, and later, freezing conditions where these pathetic Ukrainian forces will be subject to myriad forms of abject misery with death and injury all around them while they lie sodden or frozen, abandoned to their fate by Kiev.
The pitiable young and old of Ukraine have been frogmarched to their deaths as cannon-fodder while the bestial elites of the collective West urge their "president" to add more to their number there at the gates of Hell and their doom. We must feel for the majority of them as they are not the Nazis we revile, in most part they are decent men, fathers, sons, brothers, husband and uncles, who no doubt saw through the coup of 2014 for what it was. But sadly, their fate seems sealed.
Nothing will stop Russia now. Every factor favours them. Victory will be Russia's. In Donbass and beyond and in due course across the world.
Victory belongs to Russia: It is now only a matter of time.
USAID APPEARS TO BE ABOUT TO BITE THE DUST. WILL THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY FOLLOW? PERHAPS THE CIA OR FBI TOO… OR ARE THEY IMMUNE?
