Breaking US law, US recruited 1600 of Hitler’s top scientists including hard core Nazis such as Wernher von Braun who became director of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center-USA Today

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“The law stated that no Nazis were allowed into the U.S. after the War, but 1600 German scientists and engineers were given government contracts – many of them hard-core Nazi ideologues.” They were recruited “for U.S. technological advancement, especially in anticipation of the Cold War…They were not held responsible for their war crimes….Wernher von Braun, a rocket engineer, was instrumental in developing the first U.S. ballistic missile…and later the Saturn V rocket while serving as director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.”

Sept. 16, 2020, “Fact check: Nazi scientists were brought to work for U.S. through Operation Paperclip,” USA Today, Miriam Fauzia

“The claim: After World War II, Nazi scientists joined NASA through Operation Paperclip.

Operation Paperclip

In 1945, the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency, a subcommittee established by the Joint Intelligence Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

was tasked with retrieving

German scientists, doctors and engineers who were identified as

intellectually vital to the Third Reich. 

Journalist Annie Jacobsen states in a 2014 interview that this was prompted by the Allies’ concerns over Hitler’s potential weapons arsenal.

“Fall of 1944, right after the Normandy landings, scattered among the Allies’ troops are these little units of scientific intelligence officers and they’re working to find out Hitler’s biological weapons, his chemical weapons and his atomic weapons,” said Jacobsen, author of “Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America.” 

[“Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America.” The law stated that no Nazis were allowed into the U.S. after the War, but 1600 German scientists and engineers were given government contracts – many of them hard-core Nazi ideologues. “This was a very complicated, very dark, and at times very nefarious program involving men who were far from “good” German scientists.” –Annie Jacobsen”]

(continuing): “These intelligence officers eventually discovered while the atomic weapons program was not as advanced as initially feared, Hitler’s biochemical weapons were. The hunt “for this scientific treasure and ultimately for the scientists themselves” thus ignited Operation Overcast, renamed Paperclip for the paperclips attached to the files of the most “troublesome cases,” Jacobsen writes in her book.

The U.S. was not alone in this endeavor. Britain, France and especially the Soviet Union sought to enlist these German scientific experts, as well. A U.S.-Soviet technological rivalry marked by the Space Race and Cold War would also serve as a motivation, and justification, for Operation Paperclip’s existence. 

By the fall of 1945, German scientists starting arriving on U.S. soil. Not all the men recruited were Nazis or SS officers but the most prominent and valued among them were [Nazis or SS officers], having worked either directly with Hitler or leading members of the Nazi Party, such as Heinrich Himmler and Herman Göring. 

Wernher von Braun, a rocket engineer, was instrumental in developing the first U.S. ballistic missile, the Redstone, and later the Saturn V rocket while

serving as director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

As a Nazi ideologue and member of the SS, he traveled to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he “handpicked slaves to work for him as laborers,” said Jacobsen in a 2014 interview with NPR. 

Hubertus Strughold, a physiologist and medical researcher, headed the German Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine, known for its torturous medical experiments on inmates from the Dachau concentration camp. Strughold claimed ignorance of any such activity until after the war, yet he appeared among a list of 95 doctors at an October 1942 conference discussing their findings.

In the U.S., he [Strughold] was chief scientist of the aerospace medical division at Brooks Air Force

and has since been credited as the father of space medicine. 

Walter Schreiber, a former Nazi general, also oversaw inhumane medical experiments involving bioweapons that resulted in countless of deaths. Following the war, he was captured by the Soviets but defected to the U.S. He worked for various government entities before finally settling in Texas at the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine, Jacobsen writes.

While Schreiber would later serve as a witness during the Nuremberg trials,

he, von Braun, Strughold and the rest of their fellow Nazis brought to the U.S. would never be held accountable for their own atrocities.

Operation Paperclip remained secret throughout much of the Cold War.   

Our rating: True

We rate this claim TRUE because it is supported by our research. Operation Paperclip was a secret initiative launched by the U.S. government to recruit German engineers, doctors, physicists, chemists and other scientific experts for U.S. technological advancement, especially in anticipation of the Cold War. Many recruited German scientists did work for NASA and various other government entities. They were not held responsible for their war crimes.”

Our fact-check sources:

• Business Insider, May 7, 2018, “The most impactful event in every state that shaped US history“
• Vulture, June 24, 2019, “The Full-Circle Journey of ‘Homer Simpson Backs Into the Bushes’“
• PBS NewsHour on YouTube, March 31, 2014, “When the U.S. recruited Nazis for ‘Operation Paperclip’“
• The Mimi Geerges Show on YouTube, March 19, 2014, “Bringing Nazi Scientists to America – Annie Jacobsen“
• Smithsonian Magazine, Nov. 16, 2016, “Why the U.S. Government Brought Nazi Scientists to America After World War II.”
• NPR, Feb. 15, 2014, “The Secret Operation To Bring Nazi Scientists To America.”
• Central Intelligence Agency Library, Oct. 6, 2014, “Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America“
• National Archives, Oct. 11, 2016, “Records of the Secretary of Defense (RG 330)“
• Esquire, Feb. 23, “Hunters’ Nazi NASA Scientists Are Based on the True Story of Operation Paperclip“
• Time, July 18, 2019, “How Historians Are Reckoning With the Former Nazi Who Launched America’s Space Program“
• The Associated Press, Oct. 26, 1993, “Portrait of Nazi Prompts Protest“
• The Virginian-Pilot, Jul. 20, 2014, “How the U.S. secretly scooped Hitler’s top scientists“”

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Zelensky is said to be just like Winston Churchill. Here he is dancing in high heels, grabbing his crotch

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UK PM Boris Johnson compares Zelensky to Churchill:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above image, Nov. 28, 1943, Stalin, FDR, and Churchill, at Tehran conference, AP photo

“Zelensky Dancing in Heels (original) + Tik Tok Memes," You Tube, “A parody of the Cossacks, by Tik Tok Irish, 7 screen shots of Zelensky in high heels:

Above, Zelensky, second from left, grabs his crotch

Above, Zelensky’s tongue

Above, Zelensky in high heels, second from left

Above, Zelensky in high heels

Above, Zelensky in high heels

Above, Zelensky standing in middle

Above, Zelensky in high heels, second from left

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Added:

3/24/22, “Boris Johnson praises Ukraine president Zelensky, comparing him to Winston Churchill," Carlo Simone, uk.news.yahoo.com

“Boris Johnson compared Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to former prime minister Winston Churchill, praising him for giving the Ukrainian people their “roar”.

Speaking to LBC radio ahead of a NATO summit in Brussels, Mr. Johnson outlined some of their proposed next steps against Russia following their invasion of Ukraine.

READ MORE: Ukraine warzone update as Boris Johnson sends 6,000 missiles to Ukraine

As part of that he was quick to praise President Zelensky in leading his country in difficult circumstances.

He said: “I think that President Zelensky has proved to be a quite remarkable leader of his people – he’s rallied them and he’s been their voice.

“He knows, as Churchill said of himself, he may not have been the lion but he’s been privileged to give the roar.”…

 

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In March 2020 US was easily overthrown by Donald Trump, now enters year #3 of government by decree, something we once thought could only be achieved by foreign invasion-JB Shurk, American Thinker

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“Our “freedom” has been a thinly veiled illusion…It's just that in 2020...they got tired of taking baby steps.”…commenter

12/31/2020, “Without Our Constitution, We’re Under Occupation," American Thinker, J.B. Shurk

“Not since the days of slavery or internment have federal and local governments attacked the natural rights and freedoms of individual Americans so concertedly as they have this past year [2020]….

If we are to believe 2020’s rendering of the Constitution of the United States of America,

it is the weakest guarantor of individual freedom one could imagine.

It becomes inoperative during times of public illness,

is highly dependent on the viewpoints of individual Americans, and

goes completely silent when the American people elect a president whom the residents of D.C. cannot abide.

If the Constitution’s powers are truly so feeble and supine, then there is no question that we are governed solely by the whims of men and women unconstrained by the rule of law. If the Constitution’s protections for each American’s individual rights

can be suspended every time a government bureaucrat

declares an emergency,

then we have no protections at all.  We have simply entered the “Age of Emergencies.”…

Arbitrary house arrests; the denial of religious freedoms; the closing of private businesses without any equitable measures of compensation; the intentional disregard for the destruction of private property while anarchists are given general grants of immunity...have combined to produce a lawless year in the United States.

If you believe, as all Americans should, that failure to abide by the strictures of the Constitution renders the institutions of government illegitimate, then I would argue that 

2020 has crystallized

an uncomfortable reality:

we are now under occupation by a hostile governing force.

That may seem ludicrous to some, but I see no distinction between a group of Americans seizing power and governing with complete disregard for the Constitution

and an invading force of Chinese communists accomplishing the same objective.

Our governing document clearly proscribes what government actors may do, and when the government as a whole 

discards those constraints as mere suggestions, 

then it delegitimizes itself.

Show me where in the Constitution agents of local or state governments are empowered to arbitrarily and capriciously suspend

Americans’ attempts to make a living,

exercise their religious faiths, and

peaceably assemble in protest of their governments’ abridgments of their freedoms.

Show me where in the Constitution expansive exceptions to Americans’ free speech are carved out that authorize tech companies with monopoly power over the digital town square to censor free debate over the scientific efficacy of pandemic lockdowns or the overwhelming evidence of voting irregularities in the presidential election or even the mere promotion of conservative points of view.  Show me where in the Constitution Dr. Fauci 

is entitled to declare what freedoms

Americans may still possess,

where Andrew Weissmann is elevated to Lord High Inquisitor in charge of persecuting political allies of the elected president,

or where Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel is charged with

hunting down lawyers who challenge election fraud.  

Where does the Constitution give the state of California veto power over the enforcement of federal immigration laws,

while giving Arizona no means of protecting the sovereignty of its own borders? 

Where does the Constitution declare that Black Lives Matter and Antifa are exempt from criminal laws and pandemic lockdowns 

but that Americans with ideas at odds with Hollywood or academe should be targeted and harassed?

How is it possible for elected representatives to enter office by taking oaths to support and defend the Constitution of the United States while they simultaneously declare their intentions to deprive Americans of their Second Amendment right to possess firearms, their First Amendment rights to worship and speak as they choose, and their Fourteenth Amendment right to receive equal protection under the law? And where does the Constitution insist that the results of a patently fraudulent election must be respected

simply because no court in the land will consent to hearing the merits of disputes too numerous to ignore…

[or] the absolute refusal by governors, secretaries of state, attorneys general, and judges to provide for and ensure free and fair elections….

It was once common knowledge in this country that all forms of government, no matter how well intended, are inherently corrupt. This was considered an elementary-school history lesson. The Founding Fathers were unanimous in this sentiment. The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, and any of the private correspondence between the signers and ratifiers of those important documents

all proceed from a fundamental truism:

government cannot be trusted.  

It is, at best, a necessary nuisance in order to constrain the worst impulses of men and, at worst, the greatest threat to an individual’s natural liberties.

That this important historical lesson has been all but deleted from modern curricula that now extol the merits of bigger and bigger

government capable of manipulating each human detail,

from the biological sex listed on a birth certificate to the global management of hydrocarbon energy,

is a tragedy that will continue to produce harm until the lesson is painfully learned again.”…

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Comment: We are slaves. No one will free us. The only solution is for the US to be broken up into at least 3 parts.

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Nobel Prize winner Solzhenitsyn thought the Gulag was bad until he experienced NATO and “western democracy.” Saw NATO as obsessed with stifling Russia’s sovereignty-BBC, 4/28/2006

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[Image: Sept. 3, 2014, sott.net] 

4/28/2006, “Solzhenitsyn warns of NATO plot,” BBC 

“Russian writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn has castigated NATO, accusing it of trying to bring Russia under its control. 

In a rare interview, the 87-year-old author accused [US taxpayer funded] NATO of “preparing to completely encircle Russia and deprive if of its sovereignty”.

Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the USSR in 1974 after having exposed the Soviet labour camp system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Image: 1/11/2010, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili praised US Senator John McCain for his strong support of Georgia during August 2008 [5 day] Russian-Georgian war.]

He returned to Russia in 1994. He has been a stern critic of Western values.

[Re: Western “values:” “Whatever the sympathy we may have for the people of the United States, their country is still the main predator of humanity. We can in no circumstance claim to share their “values."” July 2019, Manlio Dinucci]

‘Thoughtless imitation’

In the interview published on Friday in the Moscow News, he lamented that “Western democracy is in a serious state of crisis”.

He pointed to the pro-Western opposition victories in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine as evidence that NATO’s influence was spreading closer to Russia.

“This involves open material

and ideological support

for the ‘colour revolutions’

and the paradoxical forcing of North Atlantic interests on Central Asia,” he said.

He praised President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy as “sensible” but stressed that “an awful lot in Russia has yet to be lifted out of decline”.

He added that Russia had “opted for the most thoughtless form of imitation” of the West.

On Thursday, Mr Putin warned that Western opposition to Russian expansion in European markets could force Moscow’s companies to look elsewhere.

Solzhenitsyn won international acclaim in the 1970s for his descriptions of Soviet hard labour in such works as A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.”

[“Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in Moscow in 2008 at age 89.”]

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Added:

Image: Sept. 3, 2014, sott.net

9/3/2014, “Comment: Assurances from psychopaths are empty words. What are the repercussions of the breaking of international laws and treaties? There doesn’t seem to be any. The psychopaths currently running U.S./NATO policy know this, so there’s nothing stopping them from breaking any and all laws and pacts which are essentially impotent in the face of such psychopathy.”

9/2014, “An expanded North Atlantic Treaty Organisation essentially functions as the

enforcer of America’s financial and corporate dominance….

Today NATO serves to protect and extend the interests of Western international banking concerns, oil companies and other corporations.”…

“The [US taxpayer funded] Pentagon’s primary job today is to serve as

a resource extraction service

on behalf of corporate globalization,”

per Bruce Gagnon of the ‘Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space’ think tank.”

 

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Too good to check, Dutch Foreign Minister resigned to King Willem in 2018 after admitting he lied to help his political career, falsely claimed he heard Putin in 2006 say he wanted to add countries to Russia

 .

““I see no other option today than to hand in my resignation to his majesty the King," said [Dutch Foreign Minister] Mr Zijlstra a day after admitting his lie.”

[King Willem-Alexander of the Kingdom of the Netherlands]

Feb. 13, 2018, “Dutch foreign minister quits over lie about meeting Putin [in 2006],” BBC

“The Dutch foreign minister has stepped down on Tuesday [Feb. 2018] after admitting he lied about being in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin [in 2006].…During his campaign for the March 2017 election, Mr Zijlstra claimed he had personally heard Mr Putin speak of creating a “Greater Russia” in [a meeting in] 2006.…

“I see no other option today than to hand in my resignation to his majesty the King," said Mr Zijlstra a day after admitting his lie.”

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Added:

Zijlstra’s lie “was later used by his party to bolster Zijlstra’s foreign relations experience, which came into question when he took the cabinet position.” Attempting to boost his thin resume, Zijlstra falsely claimed he was at Putin’s home in 2006 and heard Putin say he wanted to expand Russia, make a “Greater Russia” to include “Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic States. And oh yes, Kazakhstan was ‘nice to have.” Zijlstra ominously added, “And he did not leave it at words.”

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2/12/2018, “Dutch Minister admits lying about meeting Russian president Putin," nltimes.nl 

“Minister Halbe Zijlstra of Foreign Affairs admitted that he lied about meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in 2006. While speaking at a VVD conference in 2016, Zijlstra said that he heard Putin speaking about ‘Great Russia’ in 2006….Now he says that he wasn’t there himself…that a source told him about these statements.”…His alleged source who was at the 2006 meeting turned out to be former Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer. But Van Der Veer said Zijlstra “misinterpreted Putin’s statements given to him.…Van der Veer never literally said that Putin is aiming for a Great Russia again.…

The former Shell CEO [Van der Veer] adds, the “interpretation in an aggressive sense” was “not from me nor my use of words”.”…

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Added: Shell CEO “Van der Veer never literally said that Putin is aiming for a Great Russia again."…

Feb. 13, 2018, “Doubts around Dutch minister’s interpretation of Putin’s ‘Great Russia’ statements,” nltimes.nl 

.......

“Minister Halbe Zijlstra of Foreign Affairs will face a critical Tweede Kamer on Tuesday [Feb. 2018]. The lower house of Dutch parliament will discuss him lying about personally attending a meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in 2006. Not only was he not at the meeting, but he also misinterpreted Putin’s statements given to him by his source who was there, the source – former Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer told the Volkskrant…. 

 

Now it seems that Zijlstra’s statements about what Putin said at that meeting, were not quite correct. In an email to the Volkskrant Van der Veer confirmed that he spoke with Zijlstra about Putin, but that the Russian president’s statements about Great Russia were “meant historically”. “Historically seen, Great Russia is larger than current Russia”, Van der Veen said…

Van der Veer never literally said that Putin is aiming for a Great Russia again….

The former Shell CEO [Van der Veer] adds, the “interpretation in an aggressive sense”

was “not from me nor my use of words”.

Van der Veer is also confused about Zijlstra’s quote about Kazakhstan.

“I do not remember how I told Zijlstra about the specific countries at the time, but the term ‘nice to have’ is not something I’d say”, he said in the email….

Zijlstra admitted to lying about being at the [2006] meeting–to [allegedly] protect [Shell CEO] Van der Veer’s identity, he said–but insisted that [without evidence, strictly his personal opinion] his warning is real. [Meeting attendee Van Der Veer never heard] Putin [say he was] striving for a Great Russia, looking to gain power in Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltic States, and Kazakhstan was ‘nice to have’, he said.”

 

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All three of Kiev Mayor Klitschko’s children are American citizens born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, now ages 22, 20, and 17

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All three of Kiev Mayor Klitschko’s children are American citizens…born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. A son was born in 2000, a daughter in 2002, and another son in 2005, making them now ages 22, 20, and 17.

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US lobbyist wrote “plucky” Zelinsky’s speech to Congress on 3/16, another US lobbyist wrote Ukraine UN Rep’s 2/23 speech to UN General Assembly. McFaul helped Ukraine connect with NBC or MSNBC producers-Dan Cohen

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“[US lobbyist seeking to help Ukraine kill Russians] Vajdich also wrote Zelenskyy’s March 16 speech to U.S. Congress, in which he quoted Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech to call for a no-fly zone over Ukraine....Ukrainian Permanent Representative at the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya’s Feb. 23 speech to the United Nations General Assembly was written by D.C. lobbying firm SKDKnickerbocker Managing Director Stephen Krupin, a former senior speechwriter to President Barack Obama who worked extensively on Biden’s 2020 campaign.”

3/23/22, “Ukraine’s Propaganda War," Dan Cohen, MintPress News, Consortium News

“Dan Cohen reveals the network of foreign strategists, Washington lobbyists and intelligence-linked media outlets behind Kiev’s public relations blitz.”...

“Washington DC Lobbyists Wag the Dog

While public relations firms and intelligence-linked propaganda operations target the [US taxpayers] public,

Washington, D.C., lobbyists are

agitating in Congress to extend the war in Ukraine

Daniel Vajdich, a registered foreign agent and lobbyist for the Ukrainian Federation of Employers of the Oil and Gas Industry, the largest in Ukraine,

is working on behalf of Volodymyr Zelensky

to lobby members of Congress

to approve more weapons shipments to Ukraine [to kill Russians].

Now the head of Yorktown Solutions, he previously advised Ted Cruz and Scott Walker’s campaigns and is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

“Stingers, Javelins, and let’s figure out the fighter aircraft issue,” he told Politico,

claiming Russia is attempting to carry out a “genocide” and

“depopulate certain areas of Ukraine.”

[Lobbyist] Vajdich also wrote Zelenskyy’s March 16 speech to U.S. Congress,

in which he quoted Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech

to call for a no-fly zone over Ukraine.

Ukrainian Permanent Representative at the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya’s

Feb. 23 speech to the United Nations General Assembly

was written by D.C. lobbying firm SKDKnickerbocker Managing Director

Stephen Krupin,

a former senior speechwriter to President Barack Obama who

worked extensively on Biden’s 2020 campaign.

Most prominent among the registered lobbyists promoting Ukrainian government and business interests is Andrew Mac, who

also contributed to writing Zelensky’s speech to Congress.

Mac registered as a lobbyist for Zelensky in 2019 and

runs the Washington, D.C., office of

Ukrainian law firm Asters Law.

The lobbying firm Your Global Strategy, founded by Shai Franklin, who has been affiliated with numerous Zionist organizations including the World Jewish Congress and Anti-Defamation League, is also using its influence with local officials in the U.S. Franklin has set up meetings between Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov and U.S. mayors, including Eric Adams in New York City, Michelle Wu in Boston and Lori Lightfoot in Chicago. He is also attempting to set up

a meeting between U.S. officials and the mayors of

Odessa and Kiev.

A media outlet owned by the mayor of Kiev’s [Klitschko] wife recently featured a presenter

calling for genocide against Russians, beginning with children.

[All three of Kiev Mayor Klitschko’s children are American citizens…born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. A son was born in 2000, a daughter in 2002, and another son in 2005, making them now ages 22, 20, and 17].

Franklin said he’s working with Zelensky’s administration to help

set up virtual meetings between

mayors of Odessa and Kiev and U.S. counterparts.

Maryland-based lawyer Lukas Jan Kaczmarek is

also working on behalf of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense

to increase U.S. weapons shipments [to kill Russians],

specifically seeking to arrange shipments of guns from Kel-Tec CNC Industries based in Cocoa, Florida,

to the city of Odessa, Ukraine.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul described the network of public relations professionals and lobbyists surrounding Zelensky. “These are people around Mr. Zelenskyy who are like the intermediaries and interlocutors. They’ve been

interacting with the American elites and American media for a long time,” he said.

McFaul and John E. Herbst, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, act as informal advisers to Zelensky. McFaul told Politico that he speaks to Ukrainian government officials “probably everyday,” and

“has helped them make connections with

NBC or MSNBC producers.”

McFaul recently told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that “Hitler did not kill German-speaking people,” facing accusations of Holocaust denial.

Zelensky also held a “strategic video call” with McFaul

before he spoke to House democrats.

With a powerful Russian military fighting alongside DPR and LPR forces, the Ukrainian military’s defeat seems to be imminent

unless the United States and NATO directly confront Russian forces,

a scenario President Joe Biden has already ruled out.

Lobbyists nevertheless persist in their campaign to portray the Ukrainian military as underdogs scoring blow after blow against Russian hordes. In doing so,

they help extend the war and

continue the carnage….

Since the Russian offensive inside Ukraine commenced on Feb. 24, the Ukrainian military has cultivated the

image of a plucky little army

standing up to the Russian Goliath. To bolster the perception of Ukrainian military mettle, Kiev has churned out a steady stream of sophisticated propaganda

aimed at stirring [US taxpayer] public and official support

from [US taxpayers in] Western countries.

The campaign includes language guides, key messages and hundreds of propaganda posters, some of which contain fascist imagery and even praise Neo-Nazi leaders.

Behind Ukraine’s public relations effort is an army of foreign political strategists, Washington, D.C., lobbyists, and a network of intelligence-linked media outlets.”…

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Added: Soros spent two years planning 2014 US violent overthrow of Ukraine’s elected government: “Soros provided finances, logistics, and other support to the Ukrainian coup plotters in 2012, two years before the Euromaidan uprising….OSF and its affiliates provided entire buildings, office space, computers, software, broadband Internet, videoconferencing equipment, vehicles, travel to the United States, and other material for the Euromaidan uprising. This was all done with the cooperation of the US and Swedish embassies in Kiev, USAID, the Carnegie Endowment, the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), and the Central Intelligence Agency-linked National Endowment for Democracy (NED).”…8/30/2016, “Soros Ran US Foreign Policy on Post-Coup Ukraine,” Wayne Madsen

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Added: Ukraine is a “U.S.-controlled aboriginal regime:” “If actually a sovereign state, Ukraine would have refused to receive Biden. But it seems that for the Kiev regime friendly backslappings by the U.S. boss are more important than their country’s national interests." Biden’s last trip to “U.S.-controlled aboriginal regime,” Ukraine, 1/6/2017

[US Grim Reaper image: “State Dept’s Mission: Coup d’etat,” Technocratic Tyranny]

1/17/2017, “Farewell tour of “old Joe”: Biden’s last visit to Ukraine,” Eurasia Daily, Denis Gayevsky, Kiev

“If you remember, the anti-terrorist operation in Donbass was preceded by the visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and CIA Director John Brennan to Kiev. During that visit in Apr 2014,

Biden was sitting at the head of the negotiating table-

the place meant for the president of Ukraine –

and was distributing directives to the representatives of the “sovereign” Maidan regime.

Since then [April 2014] he [Biden] has been the United States’ key inspector for Ukraine. Since 2014, old Joe has paid five visits to Kiev. In Dec 2015, he confessed that he had more conversations with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko than with his own wife. In less than two years, the two spent more than 1,000 hours talking on the phone.

 

 

 

 

 

In Ukraine, Biden was responsible for a wide range of issues-from appointments of personnel (it was he who forced Poroshenko to dismiss Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in exchange for a $1bn loan) and settlement of conflicts inside the Kiev “terrarium of kindred spirits” to military-political and diplomatic activities. And, of course, he actively encouraged the Kiev regime into fighting corruption, implementing reforms and doing other tasks U.S.-controlled aboriginal regimes are usually supposed to do.

Formally, Biden was an advocate of diplomatic efforts in Donbass. While speaking at the Supreme Rada in Dec 2015, he even urged the Kiev authorities to do something they usually punished their opponents for – to federalize Ukraine.

“Autonomous independent states, their determination to have their own police forces, their determination to have their education system, to have their own government under the united constitution. Constitutional reform that includes judicial reform and decentralization does not compromise your sovereignty. It enhances it. It’s an important step to building a strong, new nation. And it’s important to the Ukrainian-European future,” Biden said.

But if the Americans were actually keen to settle the conflict in Donbass, Poroshenko would have forced the MPs to approve bills on Minsk 2. Onishchenko’s recordings have shown that the Ukrainian MPs can approve any decision if they get certain financial resources in exchange.

On Jan 6, 2017, Biden paid his last visit to Kiev as U.S. vice president. His agenda was as always – calls for implementing Minsk 2, promoting reforms and organizing anti-corruption investigations. But there was a couple of special moments.

Obama’s administration is doing its best to leave Trump with minimal room for foreign political maneuver – more specifically, to bind him with a net of agreements and restrictions (concerning New Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia). Ukraine will not be an exception here as the Americans are not going to let it spoil their game. Ukraine will certainly be one of the key topics during Trump’s talks with the Russians. So, Biden’s task may be to offer the Kiev authorities a plan of action that will make such talks impossible. In the weeks to come, we may witness resumed battles in Donbass and different anti-Russian military provocations, as was the case with the recent missile firings in the Black Sea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Image: 1/1/2017, in Ukraine with Ukraine military members, US. Sens. McCain, Graham, and Klobuchar, US Amb. to Ukraine Marie Yovonovitch, Ukraine Pres. Poroshenko. McCain promises more US-made weapons for Ukraine to kill Russians].

If actually a sovereign state, Ukraine would have refused to receive Biden. But it seems that for the Kiev regime friendly backslappings by the U.S. boss are more important than their country’s national interests.

[Image, 12//30/2016, US Sen. Lindsey Graham in Ukraine accepts award from Ukraine Pres. Poroshenko]

But politics are not Biden’s only interest in Ukraine. Here he also has business interests. His son, Hunter Biden, is on the board of Ukraine’s biggest private gas producer, Burisma Holdings….Hunter Biden’s appointment into Burisma’s board was a bright example of elite corruption: Biden was given access to a gainful sector while Zlochevsky got a political cover….

So, now that Biden has given final directives to his subordinates and has ensured sufficient defense for his family business, he can go back home with peace of mind and anticipation of a worthy retirement allowance, while disintegrated and imbalanced Ukraine will continue dabbling in the pit of its problems.“

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Added: Following the Baltic model, Ukraine has been deindustrialized since US took over in 2014:

4/25/2018, “Ukraine is being deindustrialized according to Baltic scenario: opinion,” Eurasia Daily, Denis Gayevsky

“This seems to be part of the Kiev regime’s consistent policy to deindustrialize Ukraine, a policy that is aimed not only at turning Ukraine into a supplier of raw materials to foreign markets but also against Russia-oriented companies that may grow into a strong opposition and an active advocate of recovery of economic contacts with Russia.

The paradox of this situation is that the Ukrainian comprador elites are ruining their own economy just to be able to retain their power….

As far as economic neoliberalism is concerned, Ukraine is actually being reformed: attractive sectors are being given to western capitals, while lots of Ukrainian workers are emigrating to Europe to the benefit of the Ukrainian government, who no longer needs to support them,

and the European governments, who

are receiving cheap labor force.”….image from Eurasia Daily

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Added: “Russia’s counterweight to US imperial expansion is welcomed, from China to Brazil.”

4/30/2014, “It’s not Russia that’s pushed Ukraine to the brink of war,” UK Guardian, Seumas Milne

“The US and its European allies impose sanctions and dictate terms to Russia and its proteges in Kiev, encouraging the military crackdown on protesters 

after visits from Joe Biden and the CIA director, 

John Brennan. 

But by what right is the US involved at all, 

 incorporating under its strategic umbrella a state that has never been a member of NATO, and whose last elected government came to power on a platform of explicit neutrality?

It [US] has none, of course – which is why the Ukraine crisis is seen in such a different light across most of the world. There may be few global takers for Putin’s oligarchic conservatism and nationalism, but

Russia’s counterweight to US imperial expansion is welcomed, from China to Brazil….

The reality is that, after two decades of eastward NATO expansion, this crisis was triggered by the west’s attempt to pull Ukraine

decisively into its orbit and defence structure, 

via an explicitly anti-Moscow EU association agreement. 

Its rejection led to the Maidan protests and the installation of an anti-Russian administration –

rejected by half the country – that went on to sign the EU and International Monetary Fund agreements regardless….

US and European leaders championed the “masked militants” and denounced the elected government for its crackdown,

 just as they now back the unelected government’s use of force against rebels occupying police stations and town halls in cities such as Slavyansk and Donetsk.

“America is with you,” Senator John McCain told demonstrators then, standing shoulder to shoulder with the leader of the far-right Svoboda party as the US ambassador haggled with the state department

over who would make up the new Ukrainian government.

When the Ukrainian president was replaced by a US-selected administration, in an entirely unconstitutional takeover, politicians such as William Hague brazenly misled parliament about the legality of what had taken place: the imposition of a pro-western government on Russia’s most neuralgic and politically divided neighbour.”…

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Added: Ukraine Maidan protesters a year later in 2015 “are gripped with a profound sense of shock” that their “revolution” calling for overhaul of elite corruption has yielded the reverse, a worse oligarch and worse elite corruption in which oligarchs still control 80-85% of Ukraine GDP....2/25/2015

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Added:

4/4/2019, “Kyiv Renames Street in Honor of Late US Senator McCain,” voanews.com

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Added: Ukraine is the new Mexico, provides cheap labor for Europe: “Apparently, certain Western countries consider Ukraine as a cheap labor force reserve that should eventually reduce costs on labor force on the all-European market. This explains the anti-social reforms of Ukraine’s government. They seek to create social and economic conditions in Ukraine worse than in neighboring EU countries. Besides, emigration is a method of “blowing off” social discontent. The ruling elite in Ukraine pins hopes with foreign transfers [“remittances”] from Ukrainian migrants working abroad.”...

10/25/2017, “Major problem and big secret: How many people are still in Ukraine?" Eurasia Daily, Denis Gayevsky, Kiev

“Depopulation in independent Ukraine has reached unprecedented scales during the recent years. One can no longer turn a blind eye on it. Recently, Taras Berezovets, a prominent Ukrainian political strategist closely connected with the president’s administration, has left a post on Facebook openly stating that “depopulation is the problem No.1 for Ukraine.” Berezovets believes that his country will have to settle the problem by “attracting labor force from CIS and South-Eastern Asia.”

According to the State Statistical Committee of Ukraine, the population shrank by 6.7 million to 45.5 million within 20 years, from 1993-2013. These are official data that include also the citizens who regularly live and work outside Ukraine. Whereas, a method of calculation based on bread and electricity consumption per capita showed that in 2013 the population in Ukraine made up 39 million people.

According to the State Committee of Statistics, as of September 1, 2017, the permanent population of Ukraine totaled 42.2 million people, exclusive of Crimea and Sevastopol but inclusive of the territories of Donbass (not controlled by Kiev) with a population of about 3 million people. Considering that at least 4 million Ukrainians permanently reside in Russia and Poland, less than 35 million people live in Kiev-controlled territory (besides Russia and Poland, Ukrainians make up the largest ‘labor diaspora’ in the Czech Republic and Lithuania).

In this light, the known forecasts by the World Health Organization saying that Ukraine’s population will shrink to 30 million people sound even too optimistic. Ukraine’s government have been avoiding making public the number of the population for about 15 years already – the last census was held in Ukraine in 2001 when 48,9 million people were recorded. In late 2015, the population census set for 2016 was postponed until 2020 i.e. far beyond the first term of Petro Poroshenko. This is not surprising, since “dead souls” is a colossal reserve to rig elections amid dramatically falling approval ratings of those in power. Besides, it is a good chance to earn on fake utility subsidies. In fact, the number of Ukraine’s population is nearly the biggest secret of the state.

Ukraine is turning into a country with large-scale emigration. A poll conducted by Rating Social Group (September 2017) found out that 44% of respondents wish to work abroad, of which 68% are young people. Another 35% of the polled wish to move abroad with permanent residency (a 5% growth year-over-year). Ukraine’s neighbors get advantage of the situation and steal both unskilled labor force (mostly Poland and Hungary that facilitated employment procedures for seasonal jobs after visa liberalization) and highly qualified specialists.

Particularly, by data of Poland’s Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers, Poland needs 5 million more people within coming 20 years to ensure economic growth. As a result, finding a skilled construction team has become quite problematic in West Ukraine: most of skillful workers have moved to the nearest EU countries or Russia for earning.

Apparently, certain Western countries consider Ukraine as a cheap labor force reserve that should eventually reduce costs on labor force on the all-European market. This explains the anti-social reforms of Ukraine’s government. They seek to create social and economic conditions in Ukraine worse than in neighboring EU countries. Besides, emigration is a method of “blowing off” social discontent. The ruling elite in Ukraine pins hopes with foreign transfers [“remittances”] from Ukrainian migrants working abroad. Meantime, many in Ukraine now move abroad with their families, which means that private money remittances to Ukraine will gradually decrease. Noteworthy that pro-governmental political strategist writes about this and brings the following example: earlier, one microbus imported 30,000-40,000 EUR in cash to relatives in Ukraine, now, this sum has decreased almost 10-fold.

The latest pension and medical reforms introduced by Supreme Rada will just boost emigration. Besides, the medical reform that implies a significant commercialization of healthcare system that will seriously affect life expectancy and contribute to natural decline in the population. Besides, as skeptics ironize, this will reduce the burden on the Pension Fund, since the number of pensioners in the country has exceeded the number of the officially employed population.

On top of it, in the period from 2014 up to August of the current year [2017], death rate exceeded birthrate by 679,000 people. Actually, the annual death rate is equal to the population of an average regional center in Ukraine. The situation is getting worse with every year. In 2015, three regions of Ukraine saw natural growth of the population, whereas last year, birthrate exceeded death rate only in Kiev (and just by a few hundred people). Consequently, by mortality rate Ukraine has been the leader in Europe (vaccination coverage is the lowest, since, in fact, sanctions have been imposed on vaccines imported from Russia) and among top three countries in the world during the recent years.

About the idea to “attract labor forces from CIS and Southeast Asia,” Ukraine will hardly get something to offer migrants from those regions. Ukraine can be used as a transit country to EU countries at best, 

since getting citizenship in Ukraine is not hard due to high level of corruption there.  

Noteworthy is the example of Baltic States where they tried to give shelter to several dozens of Middle East refugees, which, in fact, wished to leave Baltics for Northern and Western Europe. Normally, the Baltic States experienced demographic problems similar to those of Ukraine. Only Estonia has seen certain population growth during the last two years. Let’s wait and see if it will manage to ensure long-term population growth.

At what stage will demographic stabilization in Ukraine start? Perhaps, it will happen at the level of 15-20 million people, who will adapt to the reformed social situation in the country and recover the living standards of at least 2013. This is quite possible, considering the idea to turn Ukraine into “a great agrarian country,” because nowadays agricultural industry sector does not need too big labor force.“

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Added: McCain lied to the protesters: 12/15/2013, “John McCain backs opposition leaders telling Ukraine protesters: ‘America stands with you – Ukraine will make Europe better’,” AP report via Daily Mail…[“Help" from America will bring you worse hell than you ever imagined].

“U.S. Senator John McCain met Ukrainian opposition leaders in Kiev on Saturday and voiced support for protesters [advocating overthrow of government] camped out for weeks in the capital….

McCain is the latest of a string of European and American dignitaries to tour the sprawling protest camp….McCain was due to be joined by the chairman of the Senate’s Europe subcommittee, Chris Murphy, on Sunday.”…

Above, 12/13/2013, McCain in Kiev  promoting overthrow of Ukraine government, AP, UK Guardian, AP

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Added:

Image: “State Department’s Mission: Coup d’etat,” 2016, Technocratic Tyranny

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