What few people knew at the time was that such levels of control over the composition of foreign governments had become standard practice for US embassies all over the world.
More shocking than Nuland’s bad language, however, was what the conversation was about. The US government officials were discussing how to put their men into power in Ukraine – which of the three then opposition factions would dominate, who would take the lead (Arseniy Yatsenyuk) and who would be excluded (Vladimir Klitschko). Read the rest of this entry »

