The US spent $65 million+ just trying to throw the 2004 Ukraine election, paid to bring its favored regime change candidate Viktor Yushchenko to the US to meet US elites. On 11/24/2004, after the US puppet lost, Colin Powell said: “We cannot accept this result [of the presidential election in Ukraine] as legitimate,” and demanded a new election: “U.S. Refuses To Accept Ukrainian Election Result,” Radio Free Europe. It took 3 elections but US finally “won”: 12/27/2004, “Yushchenko wins Ukraine election,” BBC… Dec. 26, 2004 Ukraine presidential election, the third in two months, “was monitored by 12,000 international observers."…US officials say they’re not interfering in Ukraine elections, merely “building democracy” there. But US “officials acknowledge some of the money helped train…people who now call themselves part of the Orange revolution.”…After decades of “democracy" and “Orange Revolution training” in Ukraine by US terror sponsors (including child beheaders, and a US congress that refuses to pass the “Stop Arming Terrorists” Act) beginning in 1991 at cost of $5 billion US taxpayer dollars through Dec. 2013, with only cursory public disclosure and worse results for Ukrainian people….Ukraine oligarchs still control 80-85% of Ukraine GDP as of 2015…“Unfortunately, since 2014 [through 10/3/2017] there has not been much change. Businesspeople continue to hold leading political roles….After the Euromaidan protests [and US regime change], the political influence of some oligarchs increased even further."…A year after 2014 US regime change in Ukraine, protesters who stood in the cold for months “are gripped with a profound sense of shock” that their “revolution” calling for overhaul of elite corruption has yielded the reverse, a worse oligarchy and worse elite corruption in which oligarchs still control 80-85% of GDP.…4/30/2015…”Ukraine: Insider Oligarchs Derail Maidan Revolution”…
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12/10/2004, “U.S. Spent $65M To Aid Ukrainian Groups," AP, Washington
“The Bush administration has spent more than $65 million in the past two years to aid political organizations in Ukraine, paying to bring opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko to meet U.S. leaders and helping to underwrite exit polls indicating he won last month’s disputed runoff election.
U.S. officials say the activities don’t amount to interference in Ukraine’s elections [What US officials “say” is irrelevant. What does international law say?] as Russian President Vladimir Putin alleges, but are part of the $1 billion the State Department spends each year [allegedly] trying to build [alleged] democracy worldwide. [Fake and a waste of time and money. Terror-sponsor US itself doesn’t have “democracy” because it’s legal and considered customary to ignore the winning candidate’s platform and therefore the will of voters. US emphasis on “elections” in foreign countries is to "elect" the most reliable US puppet.].
No U.S. money was sent directly to Ukrainian political parties, the officials say. In most cases, it was funneled through organizations like the Carnegie Foundation or through groups aligned with Republicans and Democrats that organized election training, with human rights forums or with independent news outlets. [“Election training?” “Elections” are meaningless unless you make it a crime to fail to enact the winning candidate’s promises and the will of voters. Without that, “elections” are just about putting another US puppet in place]
But officials acknowledge some of the money helped train groups and individuals opposed to the Russian-backed government candidate — people who now call themselves part of the Orange revolution. For example, one group that got grants through U.S.-funded foundations is the Center for Political and Legal Reforms, whose Web site has a link to Yushchenko’s home page under the heading “partners.” Another project funded by the [USAID] U.S. Agency for International Development brought a Center for Political and Legal Reforms official to Washington last year for a three-week training session on political advocacy.
“There’s this myth that the Americans go into a country and, presto, you get a revolution,“ said Lorne Craner, a former State Department official who heads the International Republican Institute [NED], which received $25.9 million last year [2003] to encourage democracy in Ukraine and more than 50 other countries.
“It’s not the case that Americans can get 2 million people to turn out on the streets. The people themselves decide to do that,” Craner said.
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said, “There’s accountability in place. We make sure that money is being used for the purposes for which it’s assigned or designated.” [Right, Scott].
Since the Ukrainian Supreme Court invalidated the results of the Nov. 21 presidential runoff, Russia and the United States have traded charges of interference. A new election is scheduled for Dec. 26 [2004]. [The US finally won that one, 12/27/2004, “Yushchenko wins Ukraine election,” BBC]
Opposition leaders, international monitors and Bush’s election envoy to Ukraine have said [alleged] major fraud marred the runoff between Yushchenko and current Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who was declared the winner.
Yushchenko is friendlier toward Europe and the United States than his opponent, who has Putin’s support as well as backing from the current Ukrainian government of President Leonid Kuchma. Putin lauded Yanukovych during state visits to Ukraine within a week of both the Oct. 31 election and the Nov. 21 runoff.
Yushchenko’s backers say Russian support for Yanukovych goes beyond Putin’s praise and includes millions of dollars in campaign funding and other assistance. [You mean like $65 million+ US tax dollars that were spent on you including flying you thousands of miles away to the US to hob nob with fat cats whom you'll answer to instead of Ukrainian voters?] to the US Putin has said Russia has acted “absolutely correctly” with regard to Ukraine.
Documents and interviews provide a glimpse into how U.S. [taxpayer] money was spent inside Ukraine.
“Our money doesn’t go to candidates; it goes to the process, the institutions that it takes to run a [supposedly] free and fair election,” State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said.
The exit poll, funded by the embassies of the United States and seven other nations as well as four [so-called] international foundations [3 of the 4 funded by US], said Yushchenko won the Nov. 21 vote by 54 percent to 43 percent. Yanukovych and his supporters say the exit poll was skewed.”…
[Ed. note: Later AP reveals 3 of the 4 so-called “international” foundations were actually funded by the US. AP first says it was “4 international foundations,” but two paragraphs later says: “The four [international] foundations involved included three funded by the U.S. government.”]
(continuing): “The Ukrainian groups that did the poll of more than 28,000 voters have not said how much the project cost. Neither has the U.S.
The four foundations involved included three funded by the U.S. government: The National Endowment for Democracy, [whose longtime chief Carl Gershman “has called on Americans to “summon the will” to remove Russian President Putin from office"] which gets its money ($180 million yearly) directly from Congress; the Eurasia Foundation, which gets money from the State Department, and the Renaissance Foundation, part of a network of charities funded by billionaire George Soros that gets money from the State Department [ie, US taxpayers]. Other countries involved included Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Grants from groups funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID, again US taxpayers] also went to the International Center for Policy Studies, a think tank that includes [US favorite] Yushchenko on its supervisory board. The board also includes several current or former advisers to Kuchma, however.
IRI [NED], Craner’s Republican-backed [NED] group, used U.S. money to help Yushchenko [their favorite] arrange meetings with Vice President Dick Cheney, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage and GOP leaders in Congress in February 2003.
The State Department gave the National Democratic Institute [NED], a group of Democratic [so-called] foreign policy experts, nearly $48 million for worldwide [alleged] democracy-building programs in 2003. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright chairs NDI’s board of directors.
The NDI [NED] says representatives of parties in all the blocs that participated in Ukraine’s 2002 parliamentary elections have attended its seminars to learn skills such as writing party platforms, organizing bases of voter support and developing party structures. NDI [NED] also has been a main financial and administrative backer of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, an election watchdog group that said the presidential vote was not conducted fairly. [Deliberately deceptive. "Elections" in Ukraine are only for US elites to get another puppet. "Elections" can easily make things worse for ordinary citizens unless government makes it illegal not to enact the winning candidate’s platform].
NDI [NED] also organized a 35-member team of election observers headed by former federal appeals court Judge Abner Mikva for the Nov. 21 runoff vote. IRI [NED] sent its own team of observers.
The U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID] also funds the Center for Ukrainian Reform Education, which produces radio and television programs aiming to educate Ukrainian citizens about reforming their nation’s government and economy. [Cruel US elites give Ukrainians false hope. Eleven years after the 2004 “election” run by terrorist US, Ukraine oligarchs still control 80-85% of Ukraine GDP]. The [USAID funded] center also sponsors press clubs and education for journalists.”
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Comment: Crimea is very lucky it was able to get out of US-controlled Ukraine. US taxpayers must be freed from funding genocidal US elites whose only purpose is to exterminate countries. We can free ourselves if US is broken into parts. The southwest can join Mexico, for example.
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