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No love lost between Obama and Putin |
It’s a year since the Maidan protests began in Ukraine, and
a civil war has ensued with the East since then. What began as a civilian
protest that overthrew the then president Yanukovic, eventually degenerated
into a fierce civil war that has claimed more than 5000 civilian lives and
continues unabated despite a truce signed in August.
Can there be a war in this world without a US hand? To many
the questions is not worth an answer, the US interests are everywhere. The
Maidan protests were fueled by the millions of dollars from White House. The
question to ask is whether the Americans are there for all the good reasons,
benign hegemony as they would like all of us to believe. What is the underlying
motive of the US administration in Ukraine. It would be naive to assume that
the Obama administration is in Ukraine to advance good governance, democracy or
Ukraine’s sovereignty. Ukraine gives the US an important leverage in its
geo-politics