US intelligence fears Kiev may lose its pro-Western orientation

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The situation in Ukraine is still fraught with unrest and early elections, these factors can change the pro-Western orientation of the country, reports RIA News Statement by United States National Intelligence Director Daniel Coates





Ukraine still maintains the risk of internal unrest, which Russia can use to undermine Kiev’s pro-Western orientation. These factors threaten the nascent recovery of Ukraine’s economy and potentially lead to changes in its foreign policy, which may further exacerbate tensions between Russia and the West,
Coats said at a congressional hearing.

He believes that “early elections may provoke a decline in the standard of living of the population” and discontent with the pace of reforms.

Opposition leaders will try to take advantage of popular discontent to weaken President Petro Poroshenko and the ruling coalition before the elections of the 2019 of the year,
noted Coates.

He also believes that “the conflict in the east of Ukraine will be in stagnation, with a changing level of violence,” and a major offensive by one side or the other in the Donbas is unlikely.

At the same time, the director again accused Moscow of interfering in the affairs of Ukraine.

Recall, the presidential elections in Ukraine are scheduled for March 31 2019, the elections to the Verkhovna Rada should be held in October of the same year.
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  1. +14
    7 March 2018 10: 04
    Western orientation? Is that unconventional blue? wassat
    1. +23
      7 March 2018 10: 08
      All Ukrainians, your expectations are over! Striped you hold tight by the ass now!
      1. +7
        7 March 2018 10: 14
        And I liked the "nascent economic recovery"!
        1. 0
          7 March 2018 11: 37
          It’s like a “candidate.”
        2. +1
          7 March 2018 12: 30
          Quote: volodya
          And I liked the "nascent economic recovery"!

          No wonder. After the economic collapse that happened after the coup, today even an extra cart of lard, sold in excess of zero, is offset by the growth of the Ukaina economy.
      2. +2
        7 March 2018 10: 18
        It remains only to "raise the degree" and launch an offensive in the Donbass. If LDNR can withstand the junta kayuk.
        Quote: volodya
        All Ukrainians, your expectations are over! Striped you hold tight by the ass now!
        1. 0
          7 March 2018 12: 08
          Quote: 210ox
          210ox

          hi , Dmitry.
          They can withstand it, but the blood will shed unmeasured. There were already helicopters involved, and the deaf-dumb-blind OSCE does not crawl out of the hotels. Everything is alarming.

          Yes, the Ruin is already despised all over the world, they see in it a chain dog barking at the neighbor’s yard, but after all the dog can break loose. "Europe" is bad weather, but the overseas "goatbeard" will be incredibly happy. Only harsh Russian intervention can prevent a big “drum” and we must do it now, before the warming. How? There is a president, there is a Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there is a Defense Ministry, there is a General Staff of the Defense Ministry, there are Duma sitters. Yes
      3. 0
        7 March 2018 19: 07
        They yelled, because the arrival from the cookies was still valid.
    2. +16
      7 March 2018 10: 09
      US intelligence fears Kiev may lose its pro-Western orientation
      Many in Russia are also afraid of this. UkRuina will come running to repent, "he will forgive the unreasonable, the demon beguiled". And what, Russia again to feed this "woman with low social responsibility" again?
      1. +3
        7 March 2018 10: 24
        Suddenly they realize that a hot patty in Kiev, and even better in warmth than lace panties in an icy apartment. So it’s necessary: ​​prepare the cutlets, heat the oven, and feed them from a spoon, just so that they don’t cry. Let’s better fight.
        1. +2
          7 March 2018 10: 44
          And as soon as it warms up, it feeds itself over the old. No, let it be completely overwhelmed.
          1. +3
            7 March 2018 12: 37
            Quote: zivXP
            Suddenly they realize that a hot patty in Kiev, and even better in warmth than lace panties in an icy apartment. So it’s necessary: ​​prepare the cutlets, heat the oven, and feed them from a spoon, just so that they don’t cry. Let’s better fight.

            Quote: Hariton Laptev
            And as soon as it warms up, it feeds itself over the old. No, let it be completely overwhelmed.
            Let slurp before diathesis ....
      2. +3
        7 March 2018 10: 33
        And what, Russia again to feed this "woman with low social responsibility" again?


        Mykola will have kind eyes and an ingratiating look laughing

        There Mykola is waiting for him when they finish building a bridge in Kiev. Just as treacherously as the Crimean Bridge will begin to lay asphalt throughout Ukraine, as in the Crimea.

        In general, Mykola will still try to join the European Union, and when he realizes that everything is not an option, then yes. It will put pressure on pity and family ties, and Russia will not go anywhere.

        Because when Ukraine does not have Russia, what is happening is happening.
        1. +3
          7 March 2018 10: 48
          Quote: c-Petrov
          Mykola will have kind eyes and an ingratiating look laughing

          Awesome selection of photos
          "Where did the Svidomo Ukrainians habit for any occasion to kneel?"
          http://www.yaplakal.com/forum2/topic1540593.html
          "Copy-paste.
          This tradition has spread mainly in Western Ukraine. So there it was customary to meet the bodies of local residents who died in the ATO, delivered for burial to their homeland. Such cases are numerous and well known. It is especially wild for a civilized person to see when children are forced to become knees in the mud.

          People are convinced that in this way they pay tribute. In fact, this attitude does not apply to respect in any way - at all times it was a signal of humiliation, slavery and humility.

          Mass kneeling in Ukraine was not even during the reign of Yushchenko, when the topic of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 was very popular. Viktor Andreyevich knelt only in front of the state flag.

          Petro Poroshenko and his wife developed this tradition into a full kneeling. "
          1. +4
            7 March 2018 11: 21
            This tradition has spread mainly in Western Ukraine. So there it was customary to meet the bodies of local residents who died in the ATO, delivered for burial to their homeland. Such cases are numerous and well known. It is especially wild for a civilized person to see when children are forced to become knees in the mud.


            Stylistics as an ethnographic article. :)
            1. +2
              7 March 2018 11: 25
              Quote: Avis-bis

              Stylistics as an ethnographic article. :)

              This is taken from here:
              https://pikabu.ru/story/ukraina_na_kolenyakh_5135
              577

              Another quote:
              "Conclusion:
              Western Ukrainians cannot distinguish respect from humiliation. Their cultural code is designed in such a way that they are not able to be equal with others. In relation to those around them, they perceive themselves as either a "pan" or a "serf". With all the outward manifestations arising from this. "

              From there:
              Kuprin "Olesya"
              "Fate threw me for six whole months into the remote village of Volyn province, on the outskirts of Polesie, ..
              But ... either the Perebrodsky peasants were distinguished by some special, persistent discommunication, or I did not know how to get down to business - my relationship with them was limited only to the fact that when they saw me they still took off their hats, and when they caught up with me, they sullenly they said: "Guy bug", which was supposed to mean "Help God." When I tried to talk to them, they looked at me in surprise, refused to understand the simplest questions and all tried to kiss my hands - an old custom left over from Polish serfdom ... "

              ... "Besides, this kissing of hands was disgusting to me (while others fell right at my feet and tried my best to kiss my boots). It was not the movement of a grateful heart that affected it, but simply a disgusting habit instilled in centuries of slavery and violence. And I was only surprised at the same non-commissioned office clerk and the police officer, watching with what imperturbable importance they put their huge red paws on the lips of men ... ”

              Hasek
              (About Galicians) At the same time, he popped to Captain Sagner the money he received for piglets; his wife, grabbing the captain's hand, kissed her with the servility that was eternal to this land ... "
              1. +1
                7 March 2018 11: 57
                Cube123
                "Where did the Svidomo Ukrainians habit for any occasion to kneel?"
                http://www.yaplakal.com/forum2/topic1540593.html

                From the specified selection of photos.
                1. +2
                  7 March 2018 12: 30
                  "Life on your knees: a savage tradition of post-Maidan Ukraine"
                  https://mnyug.com/290-zhizn-na-kolenyah-dikaya-tr
                  adiciya-postmaydanoy-ukrainy.html
                  Author: Fedor Sumchenko
                  "So over the centuries, the Poles transferred dominion over the Galicians. The governed must be humiliated so that he does not dare to think about liberation.
                  This tradition, which has lost its original meaning, has been preserved in later times. Writers and travelers of the XNUMXth - early XNUMXth centuries noted the servility and humiliation of the inhabitants of the Carpathian region. "

                  "Nothing else could have been expected from a rapprochement with the West, who is ready to accept Ukraine only as a colony, and its inhabitants as servants.
                  Ukraine has consistently returned to the state in which Western Ukraine was before joining the USSR in the late 30s of the last century. And the Galicians, who are used to kneeling, aggressively plant their way of life for all residents of Ukraine. "
                2. 0
                  7 March 2018 12: 35
                  Well, aren't you tired of yourself? What kind of “military”? This is a “mumbled” “Cossack."
                  1. +2
                    7 March 2018 13: 04
                    Quote: revnagan
                    You are already becoming ridiculous in your childhood desire to sting Ukraine somehow.

                    You do not understand the basic. No one is trying to sting Ukraine. Links are mainly to Ukrainian resources. And they are given here only so that we understand what phenomenon we are dealing with. This is the same pain as yours.
                    1. 0
                      7 March 2018 13: 08
                      Quote: revnagan
                      Well, aren't you tired of yourself? What kind of "military"? This is a "mumbled" "Cossack." Google it. You are already becoming ridiculous in your childhood desire to sting Ukraine somehow.
                      Googled - and this is what they found! About mummers Cossacks there is not a word!
                      And then, what is the difference between the Ukrainian Cossack kneeling there or an APU officer? And those and other colonial slaves and slaves of the Americans from Washington!
                      Ukraine was respected only in Soviet times and as part of the USSR. And now she is for us Russians a fascist marauder and a fierce enemy!
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                3. 0
                  7 March 2018 14: 45
                  Quote: Tatiana
                  From a selection of photos

                  this is not a general. In general, tie up with this fake ... a representative of this organization of Cossacks, handing a saber to the ambassador in honor of a Russian soldier of American origin, has nothing to do with the army.
        2. +2
          7 March 2018 11: 00
          Quote: s-t Petrov
          It will put pressure on pity and family ties, and Russia will not go anywhere.

          Russia will have to create a "Department for the Integration of Non-Brothers under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation." And put Z. Prilepin as the leader (straight in camouflage with a book and Kalashnikov)
          1. 0
            7 March 2018 12: 58
            Russia will have to create a "Department for the Integration of Non-Brothers under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation." And put Z. Prilepin as the leader (straight in camouflage with a book and Kalashnikov)


            and morning ragul will begin with the performance of the Anthem of the Russian Federation and end with shouts of "Glory to Putin!"
        3. +1
          7 March 2018 12: 47
          Quote: s-t Petrov
          It will put pressure on pity and family ties, and Russia will not go anywhere.

          hi
          In the meantime, every day on all channels of the media and TV - "Urkaina over a mustache" and "Hang on my mind."
        4. 0
          7 March 2018 12: 57
          Quote: s-t Petrov
          Because when Ukraine does not have Russia, what is happening is happening.

          hi
          They say: "What is pop, such is parish." What is true is true, pop is a "mummers clown" and the parish is corresponding. Such is the price for the loss of spirituality and historical roots.
    3. +2
      7 March 2018 10: 17
      Really Ukrainians and go reorient to rear-wheel drive? belay
      1. +7
        7 March 2018 10: 23
        Quote: siberalt
        Really Ukrainians and go reorient to rear-wheel drive? belay

        So haven't you reoriented yet laughing In my opinion they already have all and sundry laughing
      2. +1
        7 March 2018 13: 03
        Quote: siberalt
        Really Ukrainians and go reorient to rear-wheel drive?

        hi
        It depends on what is considered "rear-wheel drive." One of the “rear-wheel” lip-slams familiar to us on the other day broke out with tearful lamentations towards inhuman Russia:
    4. +6
      7 March 2018 10: 17
      Is that unconventional blue?

      She is the most ... Now, they say, it is very fashionable ... A joke inspired ....
      Two Ukrainians meet. They ask each other how are you?
      One and says:
      - And I’m here vdkriv salon ntim servant.
      Other:
      - oh how ... Cool! Ty te Valsnik Salon Intim service! What is it for? Well axis blowjob, for example, skilki koshtu?
      -sto Baksіv!
      - and anal?
      -Not ... - says the owner of the salon - I didn’t bother with anal sex ...
      (that is, did not dare)
      1. +7
        7 March 2018 10: 26
        Quote: KOT BYUN
        (that is, did not dare)

        knows decide laughing hi
      2. 0
        7 March 2018 14: 47
        Quote: KOT BYUN
        A joke inspired by ..

        old joke and not about Ukrainians
    5. +6
      7 March 2018 10: 18
      Quote: CooL_SnipeR
      Is that unconventional blue?

      Rainbow !!! wink
      1. 0
        7 March 2018 13: 47
        Well, girls have their own laughing tongue
    6. 0
      7 March 2018 10: 26
      Quote: CooL_SnipeR
      Western orientation? Is that unconventional blue? wassat

      So far, the pro-Western orientation will prevail in the Western banks of the accounts of the government and the oligarchic elite.
    7. 0
      7 March 2018 11: 16
      Yes, yes, this is the top of their flag.
      1. 0
        7 March 2018 12: 38
        It’s good for you to “make fun of” with your flag ... And what about Russia, they have the middle part of exactly the same color. As luck would have it, right in the middle ...
        1. +3
          7 March 2018 14: 53
          Quote: revnagan
          . And what about Russia, they have the middle part of exactly the same color.

          Blue !!! Are you color blind? blue is the color of the Mother of God !!! love
    8. +1
      7 March 2018 12: 01
      Their orientation is not pro-Western, but sub-Western.
  2. +8
    7 March 2018 10: 04
    Kiev has long ... orientation ... so to speak lost. laughing
    1. +6
      7 March 2018 10: 16
      Quote: newbie
      Kiev has long ... orientation ... so to speak lost. laughing

      Well, that’s understandable, but there’s a subtle hint - you need to give a penny, otherwise they’ll leave
      Ukraine still maintains the risk of internal unrest, which Russia can use to undermine Kiev’s pro-Western orientation. These factors threaten the nascent recovery of Ukraine’s economy and potentially lead to changes in its foreign policy, which may further exacerbate tensions between Russia and the West,
      1. +1
        7 March 2018 10: 26
        that’s how it is understood. at the comic form I depicted the formlessness of Kiev. seriously, so there is no pro-Western Kiev in nature. the Nazis, the heirs of the SS servants and servants did according to Hitler's precepts, i.e. resettled zapadentsev in Kiev. before them, Yushchenko started it with Julia and Co., the whole, entire state apparatus was changed to immigrants from the West. Yes, and then they have one orientation: he who gave the money has it ... in a clip of meat. the same applies to other city-centers with a population of one million / plus minus.
        1. +4
          7 March 2018 10: 34
          Quote: newbie
          Yushchenko started this with Julia

          I never doubted it
    2. +4
      7 March 2018 10: 45
      Quote: newbie
      orientation ... so to speak, lost.

      And the landmark was lost ...
      1. +1
        7 March 2018 10: 49
        absolutely right! Marina, with the coming you.
        1. +5
          7 March 2018 11: 00
          Quote: newbie
          with coming you.

          Garik, thanks! love
          love
          greeting! love
  3. +12
    7 March 2018 10: 06
    Personally, I nevermind which vector Ukraine will choose, western not western. We do not need them. The only thing you need to bring back the southeast. part of the country, Novorossia (7 reg.) and let them go through the forest.
    1. +2
      7 March 2018 10: 11
      Quote: igor1981
      Personally, I nevermind which vector Ukraine will choose

      I support, we are pushing them so hard from our neck, so I would not want them to pile up there again ...
      1. 0
        7 March 2018 10: 23
        Quote: taiga2018
        I support, we are pushing them so hard from our neck, so I would not want them to pile up there again ...

        Right. Died, so died. They showed their true face. The Common West did not betray us, for the enemy cannot betray, because he is an enemy. And these ... So they are real traitors, betrayed their ancestors, their history, their faith. They are worse than enemies - they are traitors. There is no forgiveness. Once again I say it is necessary, by hook or by crook, to return their territories, which they were given to them for some reason. Most of the population is Russian, and whoever doesn’t like it can return to their Ukraine, and let the Russians return from there. It is already necessary to finally draw the "watershed". So we will still go to the border of Transnistria and Romania.
        1. +1
          7 March 2018 10: 28
          Quote: igor1981
          betrayed their ancestors, their history, their faith.

          remembered the words of Taras Bulba, which he said to his son before killing him ...
    2. +6
      7 March 2018 10: 17
      Quote: igor1981
      need to bring back the southeast. part of the country-Novorossia (7 reg.)

      And what about Kharkov? No, I do not call for the capture, but Kharkov is really one of the most Russian cities in Ukraine.
      1. 0
        7 March 2018 10: 30
        Quote: Avis-bis
        And what about Kharkov? No, I do not call for the capture, but Kharkov is really one of the most Russian cities in Ukraine.

        I'm under 7 reg. meant Kharkov, Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Kherson, Nikolaev, Odessa. Odessa is generally a multicultural region, and there is no alloy of nationalities there. But Dnepropetrovsk is already something else. This is the most pro-Ukrainian region in the entire southeast.
        1. +4
          7 March 2018 10: 40
          Quote: igor1981

          I'm under 7 reg. meant Kharkov, Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Kherson, Nikolaev, Odessa.

          Ah, got it.
  4. +5
    7 March 2018 10: 08
    aaa ha ha ha ha !! They didn’t know who they contacted! They took the cookies, they took the money, and then - "guys ticking in the distance" !!
    The whole us intelligence director tried to understand the essence of the Ukrainian soul ....... laughing laughing laughing
    1. +1
      7 March 2018 10: 10
      Quote: DEZINTO
      understand the essence of the Ukrainian soul

      how to understand what is not ...
      1. +4
        7 March 2018 10: 12
        how to understand what is not ...

        Well yes. Well, I guess she’s got it, but uon tama wat, at the cellar, will fall behind the barrels of cabbage .... request
        Really, of course, I don’t want to be so one-sided, all people are all the same people. But here I watched the video from the "Magician". So you think this kid really repents? Or this one is not a little one who knew all the way where to shoot, and in whom, but now he is a sharp fluffy sheep ......... so - yes, their sweetheart is lying somewhere behind cans with brine as unnecessary .. ........



        And what kind of language is it in which he turns? .... half of the Russian-Ukrainian-hokuareku, also with kartavastu! generally atas! But he brought shells! ....... ah, everything is shorter .... I'm sorry to take anger! am
        1. +1
          7 March 2018 10: 23
          Quote: DEZINTO
          Do you think this kid really repents?

          just looking at his abalnik is enough to understand that there is no remorse ...
        2. +5
          7 March 2018 10: 24
          Quote: DEZINTO
          Well yes. Well, I guess she’s got it, but uon tama wat, at the cellar, will fall behind the barrels of cabbage ....

          so you still need to get it
        3. 0
          7 March 2018 11: 21
          When Khokhlov has a problem, he is always poor and miserable, but as in safety and among his same genuinely miserable, then immediately "Moskolyaku on a dime !!!!"
  5. +1
    7 March 2018 10: 20
    The people of Ukraine have already written off all these Western "strategists" and preachers. Intelligence of them, bastards, works. For the murder of defectors, apparently, to blame the authorities of Russia again for this. The British, for sure, must answer for their next crime. But in Ukraine the opposite is true.
    So before the courts and executions of rebels and dissenters in Ukraine, we will survive. The United States and its henchmen are turning the world into a concentration camp. That is, the revived fascism is advancing on all fronts.
  6. +5
    7 March 2018 10: 21
    In Ukraine, there is still a risk of internal unrest that Russia can use

    "the risk of internal unrest" is their usual state ... and Russia will stand aside and look from the side ...
  7. +1
    7 March 2018 10: 28
    Risk of unrest - who would doubt and contribute. Those in power - they will not lose their orientation anymore - once, already the very one, I liked it. Natural selection in action.
  8. 0
    7 March 2018 10: 29
    Quote: volodya
    And I liked the "nascent economic recovery"!

    And to me "dissatisfaction with the pace of reform." It’s kind of ... prices rise very slowly, or what? :)))
  9. 0
    7 March 2018 10: 39
    no, they have not yet sufficiently enjoyed their orientation. even if they change their minds, at the same time they will get used to normal prices for goods from Russia, they will be unaccustomed to "fraternal" ones.
  10. +1
    7 March 2018 10: 42
    That's right, they said something at the show (I don’t remember who):
    "When the Ukrainians" sober up "they will hate the FSA more Russians, as much as they hate like no other in the world."
  11. 0
    7 March 2018 10: 44
    "In Ukraine, there is still a risk of internal unrest, which Russia can use to undermine Kiev's pro-Western orientation. These factors threaten the nascent recovery of Ukraine’s economy ..."
    Reminded: "We will destroy the old world to the foundation, and then ..." we will receive a nascent restoration. Yeah.
  12. 0
    7 March 2018 10: 46
    Until Ukraine again unites with Russia it will be constantly maidan, until everyone runs away and all the same they will not join Russia.
    They last time, with Khmelnitsky, were also saved only by unification with Russia. And so they themselves would run-cut together with the Poles. And only unification with Moscow brought order to them.
  13. +2
    7 March 2018 10: 51
    Spring is coming, in the pots it will not be comme il faut, but if they take it off ???
    However, everything was shaken there, irregularly, for a long time and thoroughly, so by the standards there will still not be!
  14. +2
    7 March 2018 10: 53
    US intelligence fears Kiev may lose its pro-Western orientation
    Well, there’s a reliable remedy: Nuland with a cookie and in lace shorts (this is to preserve the finally pro-Western orientation).
  15. 0
    7 March 2018 10: 55
    Svidomo head given, in order to eat, and not in order to think.
  16. 0
    7 March 2018 11: 01
    The situation in Ukraine is still fraught with unrest and early elections, these factors can change the country's pro-Western orientation

    They will not lose their pro-Western orientation, but will restore common sense. Well, I think he will triumph anyway.
    Here they lived as part of Russia / the USSR, like skating in butter. They became neutral / sovereign, it got worse, all sorts of tears began. Oriented "to the West" Tryndec country came.
    So maybe they will think with whom it was better for them and what they themselves want.
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  18. +1
    7 March 2018 11: 21
    What such “changes in the pro-Western position” of the great nation of patriots! Patriots prefer to slam the bugs in a snowdrift, but not to submit to the "Mordor" who took the Crimea. The collapsed, insignificant Muscovy, standing on clay knees, is obliged to pay forever a tribute for gas transit according to the “take and suck” formula. The fraternal American people and NATO will provide strong support by providing “Javelin” to the Patriots will not stop anything at all, the Kremlin will have a torch parade at night under the mausoleum.
  19. 0
    7 March 2018 11: 22
    Che, Ukrainians again become straight people? It will not work, there is no turning back.
  20. +1
    7 March 2018 11: 24
    Ever since the Soviet times, it was clear to many that P * idoras in Ukraine are an order of magnitude more than homosexuals. When they completely miscalculate, climb to us, sorry "demon beguiled." Do we need it? They will devour, heat up, go around and again revolt for the old! Passed ... By the way, and the Slav brothers are not much better. Bulgaria, as an example, remember sickeningly.
  21. 0
    7 March 2018 11: 27
    even reading is no longer interesting
    At the same time, the director again accused Moscow of interfering in the affairs of Ukraine.
    nothing new
    1. +2
      7 March 2018 11: 39
      Ukrainian vodka is very credible. Russian and didn’t stand nearby. And of course, smoked bacon and cherries, apricot ....... Drink-in Ukrainians know how .....
      1. 0
        7 March 2018 20: 05
        and where does the vodka and fat? generally do not respect yourself to drink ...
  22. 0
    7 March 2018 11: 41
    This is a zone of our vital interests. And we will not ask anyone for permission.
  23. 0
    7 March 2018 11: 58
    And they are not afraid to lose kukuev?
    1. 0
      7 March 2018 20: 06
      on the contrary, they hope that Moscow will "occupy" and throw all the resources to restore the outskirts
  24. 0
    7 March 2018 19: 50
    "He also believes that" the conflict in eastern Ukraine will stagnate, .. "
    What if they stop killing each other? Oh God! Woe to the USA!
    The US goal is a territory without a population. This is an ideal condition for respecting human rights!
    No man - no human rights violations! - The main credo of "elites" of the USA.