While
working behind the scenes to shape the post-Maidan Ukrainian
government to their liking, powerbrokers in Washington — Biden
included — have done all they could to downplay the U.S. role.
by
Alexander Rubinstein
Part
4 - Biden’s sidekick Carpenter ran cover for neo-Nazi Andriy
Parubiy
While
working behind the scenes to shape the post-Maidan government to
their liking, powerbrokers in Washington — Biden included — have
done all they could to downplay the U.S. role.
In an
article published last year, Biden and Carpenter co-wrote that “Putin
and his associates have long peddled a conspiracy theory that accuses
the United States of engineering popular uprisings in… Ukraine in
2004 and 2014.”
Yet
Nuland’s own comments at the time (2014) reveal the farcity of the
claim: “Since Ukraine’s independence [read: the collapse of
the Soviet Union] in 1991, the United States has supported Ukrainians
as they build democratic skills and institutions, as they promote
civic participation and good governance, all of which are
preconditions for Ukraine to achieve its European aspirations. We
have invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other
goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic
Ukraine.”
State
Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson later reaffirmed that $5.1
billion at the expense of U.S. taxpayers was mostly expended via the
U.S. Agency for International Development — a CIA cutout — and
the Pentagon, among other institutions.
The
claim from Carpenter and Biden that Putin has peddled conspiracy
theories of the U.S. engineering popular uprisings is evidently the
kind of deflection the former has a reputation for.
Carpenter
is a senior non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank,
which is funded by Gulf petro-monarchies and U.S. defense
contractors. In addition to special advisor to the vice president,
Carpenter’s resume also includes the State Department, the National
Security Council, and the Pentagon.
Last
year, when the neo-Nazi speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, Andriy
Parubiy, was invited for a talk hosted at a U.S. Senate building,
journalist and author Max Bumenthal asked Carpenter, “Did you
think it was a good idea to bring Parubiy, who has founded two
neo-Nazi parties, to the Senate for Paul Ryan to meet with him?”
Carpenter
replied: “Look, I think Andriy Parubiy is a conservative
nationalist who is also a patriot [who] cares about his country. I
don’t think he has any neo-national, neo-Nazi inclinations nor
background. I mean, a lot has been made of this. Frankly, I think
it’s mostly Russian propaganda.”
Parubiy
founded the Social National Party and the Patriot of Ukraine party.
The Patriot of Ukraine later branched off into the Azov Battalion and
Right Sektor, another fascist paramilitary with its own troubling
record of violence against minorities. Both served as shock troops
during the Maidan.
Following
his confrontation with Carpenter, Blumenthal commented on the Social
National Party that “if it sounds like the National Socialist
party, that’s because it was directly inspired by the Nazi party.”
On
Tuesday, Parubiy tweeted “Glory to the heroes!” and a number of
other remarks honoring the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), a
paramilitary that slaughtered thousands of Jews and tens of thousands
of Poles. According to the online web journal Defendng History, which
is dedicated to exposing the glorification of Nazi collaborators in
Ukraine, UPA’s “core was composed of Holocaust perpetrating
former Auxiliary Police.” UPA’s political directors were also
affiliated with a faction of the Organization of Urainian
Nationalists led by Nazi collaborator and pogromist Stepan Bandera.
Bandera
was involved in the complete ethnic cleansing of Jews from the city
of Lviv, once a thriving nerve center of Yiddish culture, with Jews
forming 32 percent of the population prior to the pogroms.
More
than a decade before the Euromaidan coup, which saw Parubiy gain
prominence he could have never attained otherwise, the Ukrainian
House Speaker was the chairman of a committee that built a monument
to Bandera in Lviv.
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