Remember how euphoric the Bushies (and certain Cato Institute gadflies) were over the election of Viktor Yushchenko in the Ukraine (with the help of the “National Endowment for Democracy,” a.k.a. possible neocon/CIA front)? In today’s Washington Post Anders Aslund of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace details how Yushchenko is apparently doing everything possible to re-Sovietize the Ukraine: He has “opted for an economic policy that apperars to be socialist . . . and the results have been immediate: Last year Ukraine enjoyed economic growth of 12 percent; in the first four months of this year, the growth rate plunged … Continue reading The Bush Administration Creates Another Socialist Puppet