On the 12th, Bolton, former national security adviser to the US president, slipped his lips when showing off the so-called "merits" of the past by the US media, admitting that he had participated in instigating foreign coups. As soon as this matter was exposed, it immediately caused an uproar. Russia has called for an international investigation into Bolton's remarks and role in instigating coups in other countries.
According to TASS, Russia's first deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, Polyyansky, said on the 13th that it was time for the United States to recognize its role in the 2014 Ukraine crisis.
What did the United States do in the 2014 Ukraine crisis?
At the end of 2013, "pro-Russian" Ukrainian President Yanukovych announced the suspension of the signing of a political and free trade agreement with the European Union. This is triggered by civil unrest in Ukraine. In the ongoing chaos, the United States plays an important role. In February 2014, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Newland even personally traveled to Ukraine's Independence Square to support Ukrainian "pro-Western factions" and distribute food to protesters.
In another recording exposed at the time, Nuland directly pointed fingers at who would be the prime minister of Ukraine.
Newland, then Assistant Secretary of State (February 2014): I don't think Klitschko is fit for the Cabinet, I don't think it's necessary, I don't think it's a good idea. I think Yazenyuk is the one who has experience in economics and politics.
In April 2014, then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited Kiev to pressure Russia.
Then-Vice President Joe Biden (April 2014): We Americans stand with Ukrainians.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama has personally acknowledged that the United States participated in the coup in Ukraine.
THEN-US President Barack Obama (February 2015): We brokered a deal in the change of power in Ukraine.
After the 2014 Ukraine crisis, the Ukrainian government completely turned to the West. After the change in Ukraine's attitude, the United States assumed an arrogant and domineering posture. In 2018, Biden, who had retired from the vice presidency at the time, said at a meeting of the Institute of Foreign Affairs, a U.S. think tank, that during his visit to Ukraine in March 2016, he forced the Ukrainian government to fire the then attorney general "within 6 hours."
BIDEN (January 2018): I looked at them and said, I'm gone in 6 hours, and if the attorney general doesn't get fired, you don't get the money, they'll fire him.
The United States has tried to subvert multinational regimes
In fact, the United States has tried countless times to subvert the regimes of other countries through armed intervention, economic sanctions, incitement to riots, and election manipulation.
But every time, the United States will use high-sounding rhetoric such as "safeguarding national security" or "liberating the local people" to whitewash its power politics and hegemonism.
The United States sent "subversives" into Cuba in the name of the project
One of the typical examples of the United States trying to subvert the regimes of other countries is Cuba.
For many years, the International Development Agency, an independent agency of the Federal Government of the United States devoted to so-called "foreign aid", has been resorting to various means in an attempt to subvert the Cuban regime.
The Associated Press broke the news in 2014 that USAID and its contractors had secretly sent young people from Venezuela, Costa Rica and Peru to Cuba to engage in anti-government activities under the guise of their projects since October 2009. For example, seminars were set up in local schools to disguise the recruitment of anti-Government figures.
Barbosa, a Cuban student: One day they showed me a project, and I saw that one of the contacts was a person from usa at the United States Agency for International Development, and I told him that nothing I could do was to associate with this person, with this group of people.
Indeed, from the beginning of the 1960s to the present, U.S. attempts to subvert the Cuban regime have lasted for 60 years, from armed invasions to attempts to assassinate leaders to economic blockades.
In July last year, protests broke out in Havana, cuba's capital, and other places. Cuban President Díaz-Canel bluntly said that the protests were a "systematic provocation" carried out by "dissidents" at the behest of the United States.
President Díaz Canel, First Secretary of the Cpusc Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (July 2021): Those counter-revolutionaries, mercenaries, those who have been bribed by the US government and US imperialism, those who take money from US government agencies, we will not let them succeed in their plot to create social unrest in Cuba by subverting ideology.
Venezuela foiled a coup attempt in 2020
In Venezuela, since 2017, the United States has expanded economic and financial sanctions, even openly supporting Venezuelan opposition leader Guaido to replace Venezuelan President Maduro.
In May 2020, more than a dozen mercenaries set off from Colombia and landed in speedboats off the northern coast of Venezuela in an attempt to create chaos and stage a coup d'état. However, their plot was foiled by the Venezuelan military, with 8 people killed and many arrested.
According to the Associated Press, a former U.S. Army Special Forces member claimed responsibility for the operation and said their aim was to capture Maduro.
Venezuelan President Maduro (May 2020): One of the people arrested in the operation was a U.S. mercenary, a security officer for the U.S. president, and another a security officer for the U.S. president. They have all acknowledged that they are providing relevant evidence.
Lukashenko: The West has been trying to subvert the regime for years
In Belarus, the United States-dominated Western countries have tried to interfere in the Belarusian regime by manipulating elections.
As early as 2005, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko issued a statement saying that Western countries had offered him some "preferential conditions", including funding, in order to induce him to give up participating in the 2006 presidential election, but he refused these bribes. Since then, the infiltration and subversion activities of the West have not stopped.
President of Belarus Lukashenko (August 19, 2020): Western countries have begun to blatantly provide financial support to the Belarusian opposition, which we found, but failed to trace, because a lot of it is cash.
However, Lukashenko was re-elected in the 2020 general election, and Western countries plotted to assassinate President Lukashenko and overthrow the Belarusian government.
A documentary later broadcast on Belarusian state television, "Killing the President," said the arrested suspect admitted to "working for the U.S. government."
After the Ukraine crisis broke out, US President Joe Biden blurted out the remarks that "Putin cannot continue to be in power" in March this year.
US President Joe Biden (March 2022): This person (Putin) cannot remain in power.
Putin pointed out many years ago that the United States tried to use the color revolution to change multinational regimes for its own selfish purposes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (October 2014): Our guys (the United States and its Western allies) are trying to manipulate these processes in some way, using regional conflicts to design color revolutions for their own interests. Now the monster has broken free from the bottle.
"The United States is the greatest enemy of democracy"
The admission by a former senior U.S. official that he planned a foreign coup is not surprising, but only shows that interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and overthrowing the regimes of other countries has become the code of conduct of the US government and part of the "American rules". Such a rule will only be opposed by the people of the world.
Many netizens said that since the founding of the United States in 1776, overthrowing and planning to overthrow other countries has been part of American politics, and what Bolton said is not surprising at all.
"Is anyone surprised? I don't..."
"It's like the world doesn't know."
Raymond McGovern, a former CIA official: Nobody is surprised, and I think the vast majority of countries are not surprised by what Bolton said, and there is no doubt that there is no surprise at all.
Some people have bluntly said that Bolton's face once again confirms that the so-called "beacon of democracy" is only an illusion created by the wishful thinking of the United States, and the United States itself is the source of world turmoil.
Former Bolivian President Morales retweeted a video of Bolton's interview on social media and commented that "the United States is the greatest enemy of democracy."
Former CIA official Raymond McGovern: There have been countless successful coups instigated by the United States throughout history, but they have brought destruction and suffering to these countries. The sooner the Western countries realized that they could not impose [their own values] on the rest of the world, everyone in the world would have been liberated sooner.
Some netizens also said that Bolton's remarks about instigating a coup d'état in other countries are actually ironclad evidence of his crime. As operators of foreign war and export, American politicians like Bolton, who have blood on their hands, deserve to be investigated, tried, and severely punished.
Source: CCTV news client