The CIA did not install any sort of regime, either in N. Macedonia or in Ukraine
The post attempts to portray the CIA and the US as having power to install and change governments, both in Macedonia and in Ukraine. The USA is also accused of having succeeded in creating the pre-election rhetoric of the winners. This is a conspiracy theory, unsupported by any facts. The CIA and the United States have nothing to do with the promises of the presidential and parliamentary candidates in Ukraine and how much of what was promised in their election programs they fulfilled or did not fulfill
The post attempts to portray the CIA and the US as having power to install and change governments, both in Macedonia and in Ukraine. The USA is also accused of having succeeded in creating the pre-election rhetoric of the winners. This is a conspiracy theory, unsupported by any facts. The CIA and the United States have nothing to do with the promises of the presidential and parliamentary candidates in Ukraine and how much of what was promised in their election programs they fulfilled or did not fulfill
We analyze a Facebook post stating the following:
In 2018, Zelensky, advised by his CIA mentors, wins the elections on the promise “As soon as I win, in two weeks I will make an agreement with Russia and stop the war” … Cile Tupurkovski promised “a billion,” Branko Crvenkovski used to say: “there is no coalition with terrorists and at least one employee in each family,” while Zajko said: “Both the name, and NATO…” It is “standard practice” when the CIA installs a regime, to allow the broilers to make “sweet promises that the US does not like” in an agreement with the USA… I am not sure what part you are not understanding here, the American embassy and the advisors there have “created Mice’s pre-election narrative” so that they could perform a “of new prince, new bondage” rotation … Same case as Zelensky…
It is true that one of Zelensky’s main commitments in his presidential campaign was to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. Following his victory in the Ukrainian elections, he and Putin met in France for the first time on the 9th of December, 2019, after which they said in a joint communique “all parties would commit to a full and comprehensive implementation of a ceasefire in Ukraine by the end of the year.” Putin said after that meeting he was satisfied with it. However, it is not true that “the CIA installed Zelensky”, who in the post is equated with a “regime.” It is an attempt to undermine and underestimate the democratic capacity of Ukraine, and just as the Russian propaganda imputes, to present it as a “puppet in the hands of the West,” in this particular case, the CIA. The meeting between Zelensky and Putin in December 2019 was preceded by a prisoner exchange, which, in fact, opened the possibility of their meeting in Paris.
Zelensky and Russian President Putin met face-to-face for the first time in December, in Paris. The two leaders discussed ways to potentially bring the war to an end, but their positions remain far apart, writes Radio Free Europe on the 25th of April, 2020.
Indeed, Zelensky called for an end to the war, but Russia brought 110,000 troops to the border with Ukraine and into Crimea, and this alerted the Ukrainian authorities that an attack is possible.
Otherwise, the post attempts to present the CIA and the US as having the power to set up and change governments, both in Macedonia and in Ukraine, but also accuses the USA of having succeeded in creating the pre-election rhetoric of the winners. This is a conspiracy theory unsupported by any facts. For example, the part “the American embassy and the advisors there have created Mice’s pre-election narrative so that they could perform a ‘of new prince, new bondage’ rotation,” that is, for a change of government to happen— the SDSM (Social Democratic Union of Macedonia)-DUI (Democratic Union for Integration) coalition with the VMRO-DPMNE (Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity) and the VLEN Coalition. However, the US Embassy and its advisers deal with the US affairs of American citizens, not with internal election issues of N. Macedonia. They do not create pre-election campaigns and narratives, nor do the unfulfilled pre-election promises of any political candidate “prove” that they were set up by the US. The post we are reviewing does exactly that — an attempt to attribute every unrealized promise or pre-election rhetoric to so-called advisors from the American embassy, which is unsubstantiated.
After annexing Crimea in 2014, the Kremlin orchestrated a war against the Ukrainian government through Russian separatists, with the support of Russian army troops. The Ukrainian army suffered heavy losses until a peace agreement was reached with Moscow in 2015. The so-called Minsk II agreement was never implemented, and the two sides could not agree on its meaning and their obligations.
The elections in N. Macedonia this year were assessed as democratic and a reflection of the will of the voters. International and domestic observers monitored the election process. In the Ukrainian election, President Volodymyr Zelensky won, with over 73 percent of the votes in the second round, i.e. over 13.5 million votes, compared to his opponent, the then president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, who received only 24.5 percent of the votes, that is, about 4.5 million votes. The difference in the number of votes is so great that no one can change or falsify such a result, especially if it is known that the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) declared the elections legitimate.
Thus, the government was formed as a result of a process, which is democratic, just like in Ukraine. One of the Kremlin’s narratives is to present Ukraine as a puppet in the hands of the West, thus diminishing and minimizing the free will of the voters in Ukraine who decided to support Zelensky as their president. Just like the voters in N. Macedonia who chose their political option in the elections.
The CIA did not install any sort of regime, either in N. Macedonia or in Ukraine. It has nothing to do with the promises of the presidential and parliamentary candidates and how much of what was promised in their election programs they fulfilled or did not fulfill.
Due to all the above facts, we assess the post we are reviewing as false.
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