Rajan Menon is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in Political Science Emeritus at the City College of New York. Rajan Menon: I’ve long believed that the U.S. has been unwilling to allow any external power to establish itself in our hemisphere—the Western Hemisphere—since almost the founding of the country.
Washington wants only one kind of development in Ukraine similar to the one that it would like to impose on Russia a neoliberal paradise that will allow Western capital complete freedom to do what it wants with Ukrainian land and resources. This will greatly intensify social inequality and have very negative consequences for most of the Ukrainian population.
NewsGuard gave Consortium News a red mark for "publishing false content" on Ukraine, including that there was a U.S.-backed coup in Kiev in 2014. Here is CN's detailed proof: NewsGuard, the media rating agency, alleges that Consortium News has.