Ukraine: Bullied and Blackmailed?

by | Nov 30, 2013

It has been called the most important news you may have missed. After a long consideration Ukraine has turned against a European Union offer of associated membership, refusing to sign an agreement that would have brought the former Soviet Republic into the EU political orbit.

As one might expect, the Western mainstream media has portrayed Ukraine’s rejection of an “Eastern partnership” as a turn away from civilized democracy and toward the “autocracy” of Russia’s Putin. In fact, one reads the Russian president’s name in such articles more often than that of his Ukrainian counterpart. It was only Russian bullying and blackmail, they write, that has frightened Ukraine away from the EU’s kind and generous offer.

There must be more to the story. And there is. Watch Ron Paul Institute Academic Advisor John Laughland and others debate the issue on RT’s must-watch Crosstalk program with Peter Lavelle:

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  • Daniel McAdams

    Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and co-Producer/co-Host, Ron Paul Liberty Report. Daniel served as the foreign affairs, civil liberties, and defense/intel policy advisor to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-Texas) from 2001 until Dr. Paul’s retirement at the end of 2012. From 1993-1999 he worked as a journalist based in Budapest, Hungary, and traveled through the former communist bloc as a human rights monitor and election observer.

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