Democratic Party Politicians and the Ukrainian Crisis

The Ukrainian crisis began in the fall of 2013, when Democrat Barack Obama was the President of the United States.

There were - in my opinion - no more or less believable internal causes for this crisis. The pretext for the protests, that began in Ukraine at that time, was the postponement of the signing of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. And these protests were accompanied by violence from the first days; see below the quote from The Guardian:

(On 24 November 2013), several hundred protesters rushed to the government headquarters demanding the government's resignation and that of the presidential administration. People threw smoke bombs and stones at police and shouted "Revolution!" Opposition politicians tried to calm the crowd but without success. The police responded by deploying teargas.

And subsequently, at some point the protesters began to burn and kill.

But no one would burn and kill for the sake of such a trifle as a quicker signing of some kind of agreement.

It is completely unclear why the postponement of signing this Agreement could have any significance. Georgia and Moldova, which did sign such Agreements in 2013, so far - that is, in October 2024 - have not become members of the EU.

But at the end of 2013, the U.S. administration supported the Ukrainian protesters’ demand for a quicker signing of this Agreement.

 

High representatives of the U.S. openly visited lawbreakers, who occupied the central square in Ukrainian capital Kyiv and had placed their tents there. Although - as far back as on November 22, 2013 – a Kyiv court had forbidden to pitch tents on this square; see the BBC website. Moreover, the U.S. representatives gave food to these lawbreakers; see the left picture above.

And after Ukrainian police had chased protesters from the above-mentioned square – Independence Square alias Maidan Square - on the night of November 30, 2013, the U.S. administration condemned this fully legitimate action.

On December 10, 2013, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry declared:

The United States expresses its disgust with the decision of Ukrainian authorities to meet the peaceful protest in Kyiv's Maidan Square with riot police, bulldozers, and batons...

see the official website of U.S. State Department.

At the end of January 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address:

In Ukraine, we stand for the principle that all people have the right to express themselves freely and peacefully, and have a say in their country’s future.

First of all, throwing stones at police, burning and killing are in no circumstances a way “to express themselves peacefully”.

Secondly, suspension of signing an agreement is in no circumstances an act which can influence some country’s future.

After the "victory of Euromaidan" in Ukraine in February 2014, the situation with the rights of national minorities and with freedom of speech has significantly worsened, and Nazi ideas have also spread in this country; see my article What kind of country is modern Ukraine?

However, the Democratic Party still claims that Ukraine is allegedly a free and democratic country; see my article Kamala Harris and the Ukrainian Crisis.

That's why the Obama and Biden administrations allocated a very large amount of money and weapons to the Ukrainian authorities.

During Biden's presidency, the Ukrainian authorities began to threaten with military measures for "reintegration of the Crimea", which the Russian Federation considers its sovereign territory. In my opinion, these threats were among main reasons for the start of the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine in February 2022.

Therefore, I am sure that it is the representatives of the Democratic Party, and above all Obama and Biden, who bear responsibility for the Ukrainian crisis.