2014), Joe Biden was in charge of the Ukraine portfolio and he was a "superhawk" in that role. Mearsheimer did not elaborate much on this point, but he did note that Ukraine’s president Zelensky turned much more aggressive toward Russia and Ukraine’s breakaway regions practically from the day Joe Biden entered the White House. Recall, Zelensky was elected in 2019 by a 70% majority of Ukrainian people in the west and in the east of the country because he promised to make making peace with Russia and to respect the rights of ethnic Russians.
Most observers will recall Biden’s performance at the Council of Foreign Relations where he boasted about forcing President Petro Poroshenko to fire Ukraine’s public prosecutor Viktor Shokin by
threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid to his government. But
Biden’s role was much more extensive than that. On the day of the
Euromaidan Coup in February 2014, the same day when President Barack
Obama was discussing with Vladimir Putin how to diffuse the crisis, Biden called President Viktor Yanukovich and
pressured him to withdraw his security forces from Kiev and from all
the government buildings. Yanukovich, who had just signed a deal with
opposition, conceding to all of their demands, walked straight into
Biden’s perfidious trap and within hours of ordering his security forces
to withdraw, armed neo-Nazi groups stormed the government buildigns,
presidential palace and Yanukovich’s private residence. Yanukovich had
to flee the country to save his life.
Along with Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt,
Biden also played the key role in coercing the Kiev Junta to launch its
brutal “anti-terorist operation” in April 2014 which resulted in
massacres of hundreds of civilians in Odessa, Mariupol, Slaviansk,
Kramatorsk and other towns across Ukraine’s southern and eastern
districts. The regime was urged by its western handlers to consolidate
control of these regions as they accounted for the bulk of Ukraine’s
economic output.
Barely ten days after the massacre of the regime’s opponents – all unarmed civilians – Joe Biden’s son Hunter was nominated as a director of Burisma, Ukraine’s energy giant that was owned by one of the planners of the Odessa massacre, oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskiy who
ordered his private Dniepr-1 Battalion to help carry it out. Indeed,
the corruption moneys earned in Ukraine by the Biden family was
literally drenched in the blood of innocents.
So, where’s Citigroup in all this?
The
pressure to consolidate control over south and east of Ukraine
originated from the banking circles. On Thursday, May 1, 2014, just one
day before the massacres in Kharkov, Slavyansk and Odessa, CNBC ran the
headline: “IMF warns Ukraine on bailout if it loses east.” The
article reported that, “‘This is something of a leap of faith for the
IMF and is politically driven by key IMF shareholders to support the
[Junta prime minister Arseniy] Yatsenyuk ‘kamikaze’ administration in its reform efforts...’”
IMF’s
shareholders consist of the American and European financial oligarchy,
the same club that controls Citigroup and other global systematically
important banks (GSIBs). However, Citigroup may have had the greatest
appetite for a piece of Ukrainian action which began with the 2014
Euromaidan coup, planned and organized by a cabal of western officials
including a group of Neocons within the Obama administration. There’s
some evidence suggesting that Obama himself wasn’t in the loop, but was
dragged along with the project by a group of conspirators consisting of
individuals like John Kerry, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Victoria Nuland.
Collateral is the essential ingredient powering the creation of credit
by western financial institutions, primarily the GSIB’s (Global
Systemically Important Banks). They stand the most to gain if western
powers prevail, and the most to lose if they’re defeated. Adverse developments in Ukraine could push the sector back into a bear
market and the banks that are overexposed to Ukraine could exacerbate
the financial crisis, force central banks to more bank bailouts with
open-ended QE, and reignite another cycle of high inflation." ZH
