<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The EU association agreement with Ukraine is widely resisted by many EU member states with deep economic problems of their own. The two EU figures most pushing it\u2014Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Polish Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski\u2014are both well known in the EU as close to Washington. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n The US is strongly pushing the Ukraine EU integration just as it had been behind the 2004 failed \u201cOrange Revolution\u201d to split Ukraine from Russia in a\u00a0 bid to isolate and weaken Russia. Now Ukrainians have found evidence of direct involvement of the Belgrade US-financed training group, CANVAS behind the carefully-orchestrated Kiev protests.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n A copy of the pamphlet that was given out to opposition protestors in Kiev has been obtained. It is a word-for-word and picture-for-picture translation of the pamphlet used by US-financed Canvas organizers in the 2011 Cairo Tahrir Square protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak and opened the door to the US-backed Muslim Brotherhood.[1] The photo below is a side-by-side comparison:<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n The photo left is from Tahrir Square; the right from Kiev and here below is the English original used by the Belgrade CANVAS NGO:<\/p><\/div>\n \n \n \n \n Direct sources in Kiev that I have contacted report that the anti-government protestors have been recruited with money from among university students and unemployed to come by bus into the heart of\u00a0 Kiev. The revealing aspect is the spectacular emergence of champion boxed Vitaly Klitschko as presumably the wise politician guiding Ukraine\u2019s future. No doubt spending your career beating other boxers unconscious is a superb preparation for becoming a statesman, though I for one doubt it. It reminds of the choice of a low-grade Hollywood movie actor, Ronald Reagan as President. But more interesting about \u201copposition\u201d spokesman Klitschko is who his friends are.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Klitschko is being backed by US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. Nuland, former US Ambassador to NATO, is a neo-conservative married to leading neo-conservative hawk, Robert Kagan, and was herself a former adviser to Dick Cheney. [3]<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n Klitschko is also very friendly with German Chancellor Merkel. According to a recent Der Spiegel report, Merkel wants to support Klitschko in his bid to become Ukraine\u2019s president in 2015. [4]<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n More evidence that a darker agenda lies behind the \u201cdemocracy\u201d opposition is the fact that the demands of the protestors went from demanding accession to the EU to demanding the immediate resignation of the Yanukovich government. Klitschko and the opposition used an unfortunate police crackdown on protesters to massively expand the protest from a few hundred to tens of thousands. On December 18, the government took the wind partly out of the Klitschko sails by signing a major economic agreement with Moscow in which Russia agreed to cut the price of Russian gas exported to Ukraine by a third, down to $268.5 per 1,000 cubic meters from the current level of more than $400, and to buy $15 billion of Ukraine\u2019s debt in eurobonds. That gives Ukraine breathing room to avoid a sovereign debt default and calmly negotiate over its future.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n William Engdahl<\/em><\/strong> is author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics in the New World Order<\/a>. He is a contributing author at BFP and may be contacted through his website at www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net<\/a> where this article was originally published.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n [1] SysAdmin, Pamphlets in Ukraine handed out during protests and pamphlets that were handed out in Egypt, December 12, 2013, accessed in http:\/\/12160.info\/photo\/photo\/show?id=2649739%3APhoto%3A1376645<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n [2] Nebojsa Malic, Invasion of the Mind Snatchers: Empire\u2019s Revolution Business, AntiWar.com, June 24, 2011, accessed in http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/malic\/2011\/06\/23\/invasion-of-the-mind-snatchers\/<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n [3] NTDTV,Ukrainian Opposition Vitaly Klitschko Meets US Official Victoria Nuland, December 6, 2013, accessed in http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0miz548u0WY<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n [4] Die Zeit, Merkel unterst\u00fctzt Klitschko, 8. Dezember 2013, accessed in http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/politik\/ausland\/2013-12\/merkel-klitschko-ukraine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Tahrir-Square-and-Kiev.png\" "\\"Tahrir")
<\/a><\/a><\/p>\nThe Strange Ukraine \u201cOpposition\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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