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The Ukraine opposition has the full backing of the US which is not concerned with human rights, but is interested in global domination, Richard Becker, a political analyst from the anti-war ANSWER Coalition told RT.

RT: Mr. Becker, could you shed a little light on something recently taking place? That the US Secretary of State and senator John McCain have both slammed Ukraine, that the American diplomats have mingled with protesters. What is behind such intense interest?

Richard Becker: It’s clear that what the US government is after is regime change in Ukraine. And this is part of their ongoing campaign to further break up the former Soviet Union. We have to ask the question: how is it that the US government determines that some acts of government suppression somewhere in the world are “disgusting” and yet stand silent when people rise up in Bahrain, or people are so suppressed in Saudi Arabia? Washington’s geopolitical interest is interest in global domination? It has nothing to do with what they say they are concerned with - human rights and democracy. And again [the] US is willing to impose sanctions. We have to ask the question from here: why are there no sanctions against the US for what they did to Iraq or what it’s done in Afghanistan, in Vietnam or in so many other countries around the world. Why does the US have the authority in the world to declare sanctions against any government given its own track record?

In the battle for Ukraine’s future, oligarchs are turning away from the government.

A newspaper owned by Billionaire Viktor Pinchuk gave journalists a makeshift office to cover protesters trying to topple President Viktor Yanukovych. Petro Poroshenko, Yanukovych’s ex-economy minister and the head of Ukraine’s largest chocolate maker, sided with demonstrators in a speech at Kiev’s Independence Square. Tycoon Dmitry Firtash’s TV station Inter aired footage countering government claims that protesters incited violence that has left hundreds hurt.---

“Yanukovych is in office because the oligarchs wanted him there,” Jan Techau, the director of the Brussels office of the Carnegie Endowment, said in a phone interview today. “If they abandon him, he’s toast.”---

Nine years after the first revolution that set Ukraine on the path to deeper EU integration, foreign direct investment from the EU dropped by more than half to $7 billion in the three years of Yanukovych’s term, from the $15 billion invested in 2008 and 2009, according to the state statistical office.

About 1,000 German companies doing business in Ukraine now would feel “safer” with an association agreement, said Rainer Lindner, the managing director of the Berlin-based Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, in a Nov. 6 interview at the World Economic Forum in Kiev.

The country’s oligarchs are looking to improve their profits with better access to the world’s largest trade bloc, which bought 14.6 billion euros ($20 billion) of Ukrainian goods last year. With an EU trade pact, Poroshenko said he would raise the share of EU sales to 40 percent of the total from 10 percent now.