Soooo NATO’s PR boys and girls admit what we knew all along, that they really screwed up when Vickie was handing out her chocolate chip cookies. They pretend this is an unexpected development. They never once tell the truth about how willing Obama-Clinton, the neo-liberals and neocons were to set these far-right thugs up in power. They want to pretend it’s an unexpected whoopsie rather than the natural turn of events when you destabilize a nation’s givernment and hand it over to a bunch of violent, racist, bigoted, thugs.

Ukraine’s Got a Real Problem with Far-Right Violence (And No, RT Didn’t Write This Headline)

It sounds like the stuff of Kremlin propaganda, but it’s not. Last week Hromadske Radio revealed that Ukraine's Ministry of Youth and Sports is funding the neo-Nazi group C14 to promote "national patriotic education projects" in the country. On June 8, the Ministry announced that it will award C14 a little less than $17,000 for a children’s camp. It also awarded funds to Holosiyiv Hideout and Educational Assembly, both of which have links to the far-right. The revelation represents a dangerous example of law enforcement tacitly accepting or even encouraging the increasing lawlessness of far-right groups willing to use violence against those they don't like.

Since the beginning of 2018, C14 and other far-right groups such as the Azov-affiliated National Militia, Right Sector, Karpatska Sich, and others have attacked Roma groups several times, as well as anti-fascist demonstrations, city council meetings, an event hosted by Amnesty International, art exhibitions, LGBT events, and environmental activists. On March 8, violent groups launched attacks against International Women’s Day marchers in cities across Ukraine. In only a few of these cases did police do anything to prevent the attacks, and in some they even arrested peaceful demonstrators rather than the actual perpetrators.

International human rights groups have sounded the alarm. After the March 8 attacks, Amnesty International warned that "Ukraine is sinking into a chaos of uncontrolled violence posed by radical groups and their total impunity. Practically no one in the country can feel safe under these conditions." Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Freedom House, and Front Line Defenders warned in a letter that radical groups acting under "a veneer of patriotism" and “traditional values" were allowed to operate under an "atmosphere of near total impunity that cannot but embolden these groups to commit more attacks."

To be clear, far-right parties like Svoboda perform poorly in Ukraine’s polls and elections, and Ukrainians evince no desire to be ruled by them. But this argument is a bit of "red herring." It’s not extremists' electoral prospects that should concern Ukraine's friends, but rather the state's unwillingness or inability to confront violent groups and end their impunity. Whether this is due to a continuing sense of indebtedness to some of these groups for fighting the Russians or fear they might turn on the state itself, it’s a real problem and we do no service to Ukraine by sweeping it under the rug.

http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/tripoli-a-kaleidoscope

RT is pointing out the hypocrisy and basically saying “told ya”.

Atlantic Council finally admits Ukraine’s Nazi problem, and seems upset RT reported it earlier

KRASNODAR - For the uninitiated, the Atlantic Council is NATO’s propaganda wing. And whenever its lobbyists, or guest writers, publish opinions which digress from the standard Washington foreign policy establishment position, it usually suggests a change in attitude is on the cards.

Last week, the “think tank” sent Ukraine a clear message: get your extremists & neo-Nazis under control promptly and start taking the threat they pose seriously.

In doing so, the Atlantic Council also finally acknowledged the problem exists. Something readers and viewers of RT have been aware of since the first Euromaidan protests back in 2013. However, for years, this reportage was dismissed by pro-NATO activists as “Kremlin propaganda.”

So what has changed? Well, Ukraine’s far right has become so emboldened that even the countries’ biggest defenders are beginning to realize the threat they pose to the narrative established since the 2014 change of power in Kiev.

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Chance Gone?
But has the horse bolted? Many experts think so. Ivan Katchanovski, a Ukrainian emigre professor in Canada, has consistently warned of the dangers of appeasing ultra-nationalists. This weekend, he tweeted: “far right violence became normalized and mainstream in Ukraine following their crucial role in violent attacks during Maidan, (the) Maidan and Odesa (sic) massacres, war in Donbas & political assassinations. But Western governments and media chose to deny and ignore this. Now it is too late.”

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/430796-ukraine-nazi-atlantic-council/

Suit up Obama, Clinton, Kerry , Nuland & Kagan. Give them a gun and some ammo. Drop them off at or let them parachute into Kiev, and tell them to fix their mess.

How many screw-ups does one administration get? Obama & Co. were a disaster for this planet. This is more of Obama’s ‘legacy’.