By Moon Of Alabama
February 06, 2022:
Information Clearing House
--On January 28 I wrote in
Why Washington Will Soon Dump Ukraine's President
Zelensky:
[T]he U.S. is still claiming that Russia intends
to attack the Ukraine any moment now. But the
Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky publicly
disagrees with that false evaluation. He sees no
war coming and wants to avoid one as much as
possible. That might mean that he has to be
removed before a war can be launched.
...
As Zelensky is not willing to do Washington's
bidding he must be pushed out.
Zelensky is in a weak position. His poll
numbers are way down. The U.S. has him by the
balls
over his offshore accounts and money laundering.
His attempt to arrest former president of
Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, who recently returned
to the Ukraine, was stopped by the U.S.
embassy. That the U.S. wanted
Poroshenko back in the Ukraine in the first
place may point to a replacement strategy.
The claim that Zelensky 'was stopped by the U.S.
embassy' from arresting Poroshenko was not supported
by any of the links I had provided in the piece. I
had simply concluded that myself from the previous
developments of the events in Kiev.
The conclusion was wrong.
It wasn't the United States which prevented
Zelensky from arresting Poroshenko.
It was Canada.
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From today's Globe & Mail:
Canada moved to stop arrest of former Ukrainian
president Petro Poroshenko, sources say
Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland made
personal appeals to persuade the Ukrainian
government to not arrest and imprison former
president Petro Poroshenko when he returned home
in mid-January, two sources in Ottawa and one in
Kyiv say.
After the Canadian intervention, the
Ukrainian leadership decided to de-escalate a
burgeoning internal crisis at a time of
heightened tension with Russia, the Ukrainian
source told The Globe and Mail.
...
Before Mr. Poroshenko planned to return to Kyiv
on Jan. 17, the Canadian sources said they
learned that President Volodymyr Zelensky was
going to order the arrest of the former leader
on charges of treason and financing terrorism.
Mr. Poroshenko returned to face the charges and
appeared in court but a judge ruled that the
former president would not be detained as he
awaits trial.
The Ukrainian source says Mr. Zelensky, who
appoints the prosecutor-general, changed his
mind after a direct appeal from the Prime
Minister and what turned out to be a far more
important call from Ms. Freeland, the Deputy
Prime Minister, to the President’s top adviser.
...
Ms. Freeland, who speaks fluent Ukrainian and
has been a strong external voice for Ukraine’s
independence from Moscow, spoke to Mr.
Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, in the
days before Mr. Poroshenko was to fly to Kyiv.
The sources in Ottawa and Kyiv say she warned
that the arrest of the former president would
send an antidemocratic message to the world and
undermine efforts to bolster the country in the
face of a threatened Russian invasion.
One of the Canadian sources said Ms. Freeland
spoke about the importance of not undermining
Ukrainian national unity as the country faces
the threat of Russian aggression.
The source in Kyiv credits Ms. Freeland as
the key intervention that changed the Ukrainian
government’s plan to arrest the former
president.
The other Canadian source said the Prime
Minister made a similar appeal to Mr. Zelensky,
..
...
The blunt message from Ms. Freeland, the source
said, and the more diplomatic appeal from the
Prime Minister got through to Mr. Zelensky. The
source stressed that other Western officials,
including U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
later delivered similar messages.
Ms. Freeland, whose mother helped draft
Ukraine’s constitution, is a highly respected
voice in Kyiv. President Vladimir Putin banned
her from travelling to Russia after she became
one of the leading Canadian voices calling for
economic sanctions after Russia annexed Crimea
in 2014.
Much of the drama about Mr. Poroshenko
unfolded while Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie
Joly was in Kyiv on an official visit. The
Ukrainian source says Ms. Joly also made the
case with her counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba.
Chrystia Freeland is one of those children of
European emigrants who still carry their families
relations with their former country with them.
Canadian governments, as well as U.S. governments,
include many people who try to use their new
country's powers to favor this or that faction in
their heritage country.
Chrystia Freeland's heritage in that regard is -
let's say 'interesting':
There have been a number of articles circulating
about Freeland’s Ukrainian grandfather Michael
Chomiak and his ties to the Nazis.
Some of those articles have appeared on
pro-Russian websites. Freeland, who strongly
supports Ukraine and is a major critic of
Russia’s seizure of the Crimea, suggested to
journalists that the articles about her
grandfather were part of a Russian
disinformation campaign. (The Russian government
sees Freeland as virulently anti-Russian and has
placed her on their travel ban).
...
Well it actually isn’t so outlandish. Michael
Chomiak was a Nazi collaborator.
What are the sources for the information that
Freeland’s grandfather worked for the Nazis?
For starters, The Ukraine Archival Records
held by the Province of Alberta. It has a whole
file on Chomiak, including his own details about
his days editing the newspaper Krakivski
Visti. Chomiak noted he edited the paper
first in Crakow (Cracow), Poland and then in
Vienna. The reason he edited the paper in Vienna
was because he had to flee with his Nazis
colleagues as the Russians advanced into Poland.
(The Russians tended to execute collaborators as
well as SS members).
...
So what was the Krakivski Visti? It,
like a number of publications, had been seized
by the Nazis from their Jewish owners and then
operated as propaganda outlets.
Here is what the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum
has to say about Krakivski Visti and a
similar newspaper, Lvivski Visti, both
publications associated with the Nazi regime.
“The editorial boards carried out a policy of
soliciting Ukrainian support for the German
cause,” the Holocaust Museum noted. “It was
typical, within these publications, to not to
give any accounts of the German genocidal
policy, and largely, the editions resorted to
silencing the mass killing of Jews in Galicia.
Ukrainian newspapers presented the Jewish
Question in light of the official Nazi
propaganda, corollary to the Jewish world
conspiracy.”
“In 1943 and 1944, both Lvivski Visti
and Krakivski Visti hailed the
German-approved formation of the 14th Waffen SS
Division Halychyna, composed of Ukrainian
volunteers,” the museum pointed out.
So much for Russian disinformation.
John Helmer has
a bit more to say about Ms. Freeland's
grandfather who most likely was actually a German
trained double agent.
Ms. Freeland has been very fond of the 2014 coup
in Kiev and especially of those Gallican
(west-Ukrainian) Nazis who were the storm troopers
during that event. (The 14th Waffen SS Division
Halychyna is also known as the 1st Galician
Division. Freeland's grandfather hails from Lemberg
aka Lvov aka Lviv as it is known today) The
Ukrainian Nazis who fought the police during the
coup are the children and grand children of those
who fought for the Nazis against the Soviet Union.
The same people protected, just like Freeland,
Petro Poroshenko when he recently returned to the
Ukraine:
Mr. Poroshenko’s supporters gathered at Kyiv’s
Boryspil airport ahead of his arrival. There was
talk that allies of Mr. Poroshenko – who was a
key player in Ukraine’s 2014 revolution – would
move against Mr. Zelensky if the former
president was jailed.
The crowd followed Mr. Poroshenko to the
Pechersky Court in central Kyiv, and staged a
vigil outside. Supporters told The Globe that
they were ready to launch “another revolution”
if the court ordered Mr. Poroshenko into
custody.
The U.S. and Canada are all for the Ukraine’s
right to self-determination and independence.
Unless its dully elected president and its
prosecutor general try to arrest a crook that the
U.S. and Canada favor for his Nazi connections.
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