William Engdahl is an award-winning geopolitical analyst and strategic risk consultant whose internationally best-selling books have been translated into thirteen foreign languages.
The US government is saying it will help Ukraine’s new government with money, but the US Treasury is not in any political shape to give billions of dollars to the Ukrainian economy which requires $35 billion, geopolitical analyst William Engdahl told RT.
RT: Those are some pretty painful reforms being planned there. Do you think the IMF will ease up on its requirements for Ukraine’s new leadership?
William Engdahl: I don’t think that at all. It’s clear that Washington is steering this. The EU compromise that we saw take shape on Feb. 21 in less than 12 hours was shadowed by a group of professional paramilitary snipers that created panic in Kiev and led Klitchko and other opposition leaders to break the deal with the EU and Yanukovich’s government. So the developments that the US is imposing on Ukraine are very clear. Their man is likely to become next prime minister – Victoria Nuland’s preferred choice in the leaked telephone conversation. And the conditions that the US wants to impose are simply looting and plundering of the prime economic areas that are integrally linked since the Soviet Union era to the Russian economy.
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