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The conflict in Ukraine is a proxy war that Washington denies. But it has declared that it firmly supports all decisions made by the opposition, which is in control of the parliament for now. The opposition ousted Yanukovych, the democratically elected president and issued an order for his arrest. Both London and the opposition have warned Russian President Vladimir Putin to not even consider using force to regain sway over the embattled Ukraine.

White House spokesman Jay Carney insisted that "the Ukrainian people are not substitutes for anyone in this conflict. They are expressing their desires, not U.S. or European desires. Our desires are only that they be listened to by their government." That is typical Western government and media formulation, which is basically false. It is an attempt to bring about a regime change in the streets that could not be accomplished in the polls.

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At the head of the opposition in the streets is the Svoboda Party, a far right nationalist group formerly known as the "Social National Party," which idolizes Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, who fought on the side of Hitler's SS against the Red Army. Svoboda is joined by the even more extreme "Right Sector," a "sometimes overly neo-Nazi" group, a gang of football hooligans who have been in the protest from the very beginning and who took over public buildings and fought the police in the streets.

These anti-Semitic forces prompted the chief rabbi of Ukraine to urge Jews to emigrate because the country is no longer safe for them, and the Israeli Embassy is telling them to stay at home because they are not safe in the streets.

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