At minute 18 he begins to explain the IMF conditions to Ukraine that would impoverish the Ukrainian public. Minute 25 also continues. The Ukrainian president in 2014, Yanokovich, rejected the IMF and EU trade agreement that he saw as punitive and placing Ukraine in perpetual debt. When Yanokovich rejected the treaty the opposition started the 2014 bloody and lethal revolution, and kicked out Yanokovich. He fled to Russia. The eastern provinces of Ukraine held referendums to secede from Ukraine, and the civil war began. This is a simple explanation of the economic underpinnings of the present war, now March 2023, that has been raging for over a year. The "metropolitan", or western, financial powers wanted to control the Ukrainian economy. Putin was not willing to divorce the Russian speaking population of Ukraine, including Crimea. The referendum was strongly in favor of separation from Ukraine, and votes for Yanokovich in the prior election were strongly supported by eastern Ukrainians. The country was divided. The West, including the U.S. population, does not understand the background to this war. Russia seems destined to annex the Donbas, and permanently cripple the western part, it's a tragedy that could have been averted with a fair interpretation of the Russian position. Crimea had a multi-decade treaty with Ukraine allowing domination of the sector; it was rejected when the new Ukrainian government took over. 80% of the Crimea population speaks Russian.
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Link to transcript at: gpenewsdocs.com/the-imf-connection-with-the-ukraine-crisis/
At minute 18 he begins to explain the IMF conditions to Ukraine that would impoverish the Ukrainian public. Minute 25 also continues. The Ukrainian president in 2014, Yanokovich, rejected the IMF and EU trade agreement that he saw as punitive and placing Ukraine in perpetual debt. When Yanokovich rejected the treaty the opposition started the 2014 bloody and lethal revolution, and kicked out Yanokovich. He fled to Russia. The eastern provinces of Ukraine held referendums to secede from Ukraine, and the civil war began. This is a simple explanation of the economic underpinnings of the present war, now March 2023, that has been raging for over a year. The "metropolitan", or western, financial powers wanted to control the Ukrainian economy. Putin was not willing to divorce the Russian speaking population of Ukraine, including Crimea. The referendum was strongly in favor of separation from Ukraine, and votes for Yanokovich in the prior election were strongly supported by eastern Ukrainians. The country was divided. The West, including the U.S. population, does not understand the background to this war. Russia seems destined to annex the Donbas, and permanently cripple the western part, it's a tragedy that could have been averted with a fair interpretation of the Russian position. Crimea had a multi-decade treaty with Ukraine allowing domination of the sector; it was rejected when the new Ukrainian government took over. 80% of the Crimea population speaks Russian.