The American Conservative: The United States again engaged in coups?

Although Bibi Netanyahu (Benjamin Netanyahu) won the election again last week, the permanent Senate Investigations Subcommittee would still find out if the State Department had financed a clandestine operation to defeat it. According to reports, the State Department sent 350 thousands of dollars to the American non-governmental organization OneVoice, which has an Israeli branch called Victory 15. This branch, in collaboration with American agents, tried to defeat Bibi.

If today we are secretly pumping money into the process of free elections in friendly countries to throw off objectionable leaders to President Obama, then the Americans have the right to know why we use cold war tactics against democracies.

After the Second World War, my late CNN colleague Tom Braden (Tom Braden) carried the CIA money to the democratic parties in Europe, who were in danger from the communist parties financed from Moscow. But this was done to fight Stalinism, when there was a cold war, and it was about the survival of the West.

It is hoped that by examining the activities of OneVoice and Victory 15, the Senate will expand the scope of its investigation and will try to find an answer to a broader question: do the US not use non-governmental organizations to overthrow regimes in different countries of the world? And if so, then who decides which regimes should be overthrown?

The current crisis gives urgency and urgency to this issue, during which Moscow pushes its missiles to Europe and sends submarines with bombers to check NATO defenses. America claims that the reason for the gathering storm in Russia-NATO relations is the annexation of Crimea by Vladimir Putin and the support of pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine.

However, Putin did not take any action in Ukraine until Kiev demolished the democratically elected pro-Russian government in a coup d'état, in which, according to Moscow, the American hand is clearly visible. It was not only John McCain who inflamed the crowd that overthrew the regime in Kiev’s Maidan. This was done by Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland.

In the intercepted telephone conversation with our ambassador in Kiev, Nuland called the person to whom we preferred after the overthrow of Yanukovych. She called him "Yats." And when, after the massacre on the Maidan, Yanukovych fled, Arseny Yatsenyuk, of course, ended up in power. Nuland also admitted that the United States, with 1991, had spent five billion dollars to turn Ukraine towards the West.

Perhaps the introduction of Ukraine into the EU and NATO Nuland and Co. seems like a big leap for freedom and progress. And it seems to Russia as a diversion against the Slavic nation, with which it has for centuries maintained the closest and closest ties, as well as a conspiracy aimed at the inclusion of Ukraine into the economic union and the military alliance directed against Moscow.

And if NATO stumbles and gets involved in a military clash with Russia, the roots of this conflict will have to be found in the Kiev coup, which the Russians consider the dirty work of the Americans. If the US was involved in this conspiracy, the American people should know this, and the senate must find out if Nuland and Co. have used it. non-governmental organizations to foment the cold war, which Ronald Reagan put an end to.

And if we use non-governmental organizations as a screen for carrying out clandestine operations to overthrow regimes, we put these organizations under suspicion and put them at risk.

The level of distrust of America and hostility to it in our whole life has not been so high. The reasons for this are many. Among other things, they look at us as a country that constantly finds fault with states that do not meet our democratic standards, and without end interferes in the internal affairs of those nations that do not threaten us.

In this new era, the American foreign policy elite boastfully declares “color” revolutions, which it helped organize in Belgrade, Kiev and Tbilisi. In 2003, with our assistance, the Georgian government of Eduard Shevardnadze was overthrown during the “rose revolution” that brought Mikhail Saakashvili to power. And Saakashvili almost got us into a confrontation with Russia in 2008, when he invaded South Ossetia and destroyed Russian peacekeepers.

What vital interests in this small Caucasian country where Stalin was born can justify such a huge risk? In addition, not only Moscow is indignant about American interference in its internal affairs and in the internal affairs of its neighboring states.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi expelled American non-governmental organizations from his country. Beijing believes that American non-governmental organizations are behind the street demonstrations in Hong Kong. If so, American action raises one very important question:

What is the primary goal of US foreign policy? Protect the vital interests and national security of the republic? Or do we and George Bush (George W. Bush) believe that “the survival of freedom” in America “depends on the success of freedom in other lands”?

If the latter is true, then our mission is a utopia, and there will be no end to it.

The fact is that if the danger to freedom remains until the whole world becomes democratic, then we should not rest until the existing regimes in Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia are overthrown. , Egypt, Belarus, in most Arab and African countries, as well as in Venezuela and Cuba.