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By Pepe Escobar (Asia Times Online)

Here's the US's exceptionalist promotion of "democracy" in action; Washington has recognized a coup d'etat in Ukraine that regime-changed a - for all its glaring faults - democratically elected government.
And here is Russian President Vladimir Putin, already last year, talking about how Russia and China decided to trade in roubles and yuan, and stressing how Russia needs to quit the "excessive monopoly" of the US dollar. He had to be aware the Empire would strike back.
Now there's more; Russian presidential adviser Sergey Glazyev told RIA Novosti, "Russia will abandon the US dollar as a reserve currency if the United States initiates sanctions against the Russian Federation."
So the Empire struck back by giving "a little help" to regime change in the Ukraine. And Moscow counter-punched by taking control of Crimea in less than a day without firing a shot - with or without crack Spetsnaz brigades (UK-based think tanks say they are; Putin says they are not).

Putin's assessment of what happened in Ukraine is factually correct (*); "an anti-constitutional takeover and armed seizure of power". It's open to endless, mostly nasty debate whether the Kremlin overreacted or not. Considering the record of outright demonization of both Russia and Putin going on for years - and now reaching fever pitch - the Kremlin's swift reaction was quite measured...

When the Empire tries to strike back, geht das aber zuweilen auch so in die Hose:
Hillary Clinton compares Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine to Adolf Hitler’s in Nazi Germany

Also: Escobar lesen!! Ein interessanter Blick auf andere Zusammenhänge als der uns in den deutsch-russophoben Mainstreammedien dargeboten-verordnete! (Mit Ausnahmen: vgl. Die ZEIT Kein Deal ohne Janukowitsch)

Vgl auch Escobar: Carnival in Crimea:
... If the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a bull, this is the red flag to end all red flags. Even if you're deep in alcohol nirvana dancin' your troubles away at carnival in Rio - or New Orleans, or Venice, or Trinidad and Tobago - your brain will have registered that NATO's ultimate wet dream is to command a Western puppet Ukrainian government to kick the Russian navy out of its base in Sevastopol ...

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* FULL VIDEO: Putin über Ukraine, Yanukovich, Maidan, Crimea (04.03.2014) - Wen es interssiert, hier Putins Ausführungen in voller Länge und ohne tendenziöses Rübergequatsche:




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