Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

Putin Made Fools Out of His Admirers
Russian President Vladimir Putin has a habit of making bitter fools of people. Whether he’s making his spy chief squirm on camera or launching an invasion his fans said would not happen, this is a man who ignores other people’s anguish when strategically important.

His heartlessness, personal and political, has always been part of his image—and it’s been seductive to many. Democracy can be simultaneously messy and boring. A strongman, by contrast, has the image of someone who gets things done—as the world is seeing in Russia’s devastating, inexcusable attack on Ukraine.

Trump reacts to Putin’s moves on Ukraine exactly as you’d expect: Calls Putin's moves on Ukraine 'smart' and 'savvy'

USA har stött så kallade “färgrevolutioner”, i praktiken kupper, i Ukraina två gånger, 2004 och 2014. USA:s dåvarande statssekreterare Victoria Nuland har sagt att USA “investerat” över 5 miljarder dollar på “demokrati och framgång” i Ukraina. Efter Maidanrevolutionen läckte telefonsamtal ut där Nuland hörs diskutera vem som bör ingå i regeringen.

An apparently bugged phone conversation in which a senior US diplomat disparages the EU over the Ukraine crisis has been posted online. The alleged conversation between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, appeared on YouTube on Thursday. It is not clearly when the alleged conversation took place