THREAD. Mueller has curiously turned his attention to investigation of legal work done by Skadden Arps, a London law firm for Ukrainian Ministry of Justice on trial of Yulia Tymoshenko. THREAD about Yulia Tymoshenko, a longtime favorite of Dem neocons.
on March 14, 2014, a few weeks after US-backed coup, Tymoshenko, a favorite of Victoria Nuland and Hillary Clinton, said that 8 million "Russians" in eastern Ukraine, now "outcasts", should be exterminated with "nuclear weapons",
3/ ten days earlier, March 4, 2014, Tymoshenko and Victoria Nuland (who is connected to Steele) warmly greeted one another. Tymoshenko had been freed from jail immediately after coup on Feb 22 backed by Nuland and US
4/ Nuland was accompanied by a huge US delegation, including SecState John Kerry, a show of force interpreted as a provocation by Russia. Two days later, Crimea, part of Russia until 1954, announced a referendum to separate from Ukraine and re-join Russia. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…
5/ just noticed this: Tymoshenko's call to exterminate ethnic Russians in southern and eastern Ukraine with "nuclear weapons" was leaked on March 14, two days before Crimean referendum on Mar 16. Crimea, predominantly ethnic Russian, approved 95%.
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6/ Hillary, Nuland and Tymoshenko had prior history. On Jul 2, 2010, Hillary met Tymoshenko in Kyiv. Next picture in article shows Hillary meeting Anne Applebaum's husband, Radoslaw Sikorski, later involved in securing Tymo's release from jail during coup still4hill.com/2010/12/25/2nd…
7/ in 2011, when Tymo charged with corruption. Victoria Nuland for State said
"when senior leadership of an opposition party is the focus of prosecutions, out of proportion with other political figures, this creates the appearance of a political motive". (Message to Mueller)
8/ on Feb 7, 2012, Hillary spoke against conviction and jailing of Tymoshenko to then President (now deposed) Yanukovych unian.info/politics/60535…
9/ on May 1, 2012, Hillary issued a statement of concern on how Tymoshenko was being treated in prison still4hill.com/2012/05/01/hil…
10/ in Sep 2012, London law firm, Skadden Arps, published the report on Tymoshenko's trial which has recently - and oddly - been under investigation by Mueller. One issue (as with Mueller's own investigation) was whether it was politically motivated minjust.gov.ua/files/general/…
11/ in Jan 2013, Tymoshenko was accused of a contract killing of a rival in 1996. Just as she was leaving office, in almost her last act, Hillary called once again for Tymoshenko's immediate release huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/22/hil…
12/ during 2013, there was extensive US "meddling" in Ukraine using social media. US government, together with Soros' OSF, sponsored hromadske.tv an online TV station opposing the government. Long story to describe rferl.org/a/ukraine-medi…
13/ ironically, the first call to the Maidan protests which gradually paralyzed the capital and led to the coup, was issued on Facebook by an employee of the US-Soros sponsored hromadske.tv on social media opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/uprisin…
14/ US politicians met privately with leaders of the developing coup and to the Maidan demonstrations. Left - McCain at Maidan in December, right - with two coup leaders, one of which was leader of neo-Nazi Svoboda (Formerly Socialist Nationalist Party of Ukraine)
15/ wasn't just McCain. Joe Biden was "point" on the developing coup. Picture below shows him with leader of neo-Nazi Svoboda. After the coup, Biden's wayward son, Hunter, who'd lost his job for drug use, was given remunerative job with Ukrainian gas company.
16/ Biden spent hours on telephone with leaders of the coup. He visited Ukraine on more or last last day in office. He drolly observed that he talked more to Ukrainian president than his own wife.
17/ but, running point on the enterprise was Tymoshenko's old friend, Victoria Nuland. In December, she told a Washington think tank that US had invested over $5 billion shall-we-say "meddling" in Ukraine
18/ during Maidan, Nuland traveled to Ukraine repeatedly, meeting with key leaders of the coup - pictured here with Yatsenko (later leader of post-coup govt), Tyahnybok (leader of neo-Nazi Svoboda) and Klitschko (who Nuland decided to exclude from post-coup govt)
19/ in early February, Nuland instructed US ambassador Pyatt on her proposed post-coup government, deciding that Yats[enko] was who she wanted in charge
20/ meanwhile, the vanguard of the Maidan demonstrations was increasingly dominated by elements with neo-Nazi insignia: 14/88 was for 14 words, 88 =HH(itler). The Wolfsangel revived the symbol of the Waffen SS.
21/ the Maidan demonstrations also became increasingly violent, with demonstrators now turning to Molotov cocktails and even RPGs
22/ particularly deadly were Molotov cocktails with acetone chemicals which could not be easily doused, resulting in policemen being set on fire. Meanwhile, the Obama administration condemned any attempt by Ukraine government to use force to restore order.
23/ US (not meddling) distributed pamphlets to demonstrators with tips on equipping oneself for demonstrations - ironically, using exactly the same diagram in Ukraine as had been handed out in Tahrir Square, Egypt in Arab Spring other than translation 12160.info/photo/photo/sh…
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here is a thread from 2023 in which Eric Ciaramella's "yikes" is placed in a more detailed context.
In this thread, I suggested that the linkage was connected to Jan 21, 2016 meeting of Ukrainian prosecutors with State Dept officials, noting that Jamie Gusack (reporting to Bridget Brink) had distributing the first demand for Shokin's head (Nov 22 TPs)
as pointed out in that thread, Gusack (State Dept) had been coordinating with Ciaramella (NSC) prior to arrival of Ukr prosecutors in Jan 2016, referring to Shokin replacement.
State Dept cited "diamond prosecutors case" as big deal. But what happened to it next? A long story.
Bridget Brink, Jamie Gusack's boss, reported to Victoria Nuland. Brink was appointed Ambassador to Ukraine in April 2022. Unanimous approval by Senate in early days of war at the exact time that US and UK were sabotaging the peace deal negotiated in Istanbul
as observed yesterday, , after 2014 US coup, the tsunami of billion dollar US/IMF loans was associated with unprecedented embezzlement by Ukr oligarchs thru corrupt Ukr banking system. Rescues of failed banks (mostly unnoticed in west) were markers
in today's thread, I'll provide a short bibliography of articles (mostly Ukrainian language via google translate) on the Ukr banking corruption crisis that began and exploded after the 2014 US coup, while Biden, Blinken, Nuland et al were running Ukraine
once one searches specifically for the topic, there are interesting references, but the topic has received essentially next to zero coverage in the west. I'll take myself as an example. Despite following Ukr affairs quite closely, my prior knowledge was three vignettes.
May 25, 2021: US DOJ announced indictment & arrest of Austrian banker Peter Weinzierl
Mar 13, 2024: we learn that Alexander Smirnov was an FBI informant against Weinzierl and had lured Weinzierl to UK on behalf of FBI for arrest justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/t… archive.is/zO1rt
the DOJ charges against Austrian banker Weinzierl, filed during first six months of Biden admin, pertained to allegations that payments made via Meinl Bank in Austria by Brazilian construction company Odebrecht were connected to evasion of taxes in Brazil.
if the concern of US DOJ and FBI with administration of Brazilian tax collection seems somewhat quirky, there may be an ulterior motive: Meinl Bank had a central role in the looting of Ukrainian banks during the 2014-2016 Biden administration of Ukraine.
Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, named by NYT as architect of 2014 post-Maidan takeover of Ukrainian intelligence by CIA, is former head of Ukrainian SBU. His comments on Biden corruption deserve attention, but have been ignored.archive.is/zXXQV
on October 10, 2019, early in the Trump impeachment saga, Nalyvaichenko published an op ed in Wall St Journal saying "alliance with US depends on answering questions about Bidens and election interference" [by Ukraine] archive.is/wsrjP
in that editorial, Naluvaichenko, the former SBU hear, stated that Ukraine had responsibility to investigate allegations that Ukraine interfered in 2016 election (a separate issue from Russian interference) and whether Burisma hired Hunter Biden for "cynical purposes".
as Svetlana @RealSLokhova explained to us, intelligence fabricators (like Halper) begin by juxtaposing two targets in the same room and using that juxtaposition for their smear.
Smirnov had multiple Burisma contacts in 2017-Jan 2018, that are provable by email and travel records. See diagram below.
But, according to Weiss, instead of attaching narrative to provable meetings, Smirnov attached his narrative to non-existent contacts in 2015-16 and 2019.
Obvious question: why would Smirnov attach his narrative to fabricated meetings/telecons, when he had multiple real meetings/telecons to which he could have attached the narrative just as easily?
NYT () has major article on how CIA constructed "a network of spy bases [in Ukraine that] includes 12 secret locations along the Russian border", which @aaronjmate has drawn attention to. A couple of interesting chronology points in today's thread.archive.is/zXXQV
first NYT "hero" is Valentyn Nalyvaichenko who, despite Ukraine's constitutional neutrality, on Feb 24, 2014, on first evening of Maidan coup that had overthrown the democratically elected president of Ukraine, as incoming "spy chief", colluded with CIA and MI6 station chiefs
later in the article, NYT laconically stated that, in summer 2015, Ukr president Poroshenko "shook up the domestic service" and "installed an ally to replace Nalyvaichenko, the CIA's trusted partner".