Are you saying you are in favor of the Ukranian rebels? Or are you simply saying that civil unrest sometimes yields results?
I tend to be against the protestors as I think if I were a Ukranian I would want my home heated by real Russian natural gas as opposed to the non-existent natural gas that the EU can provide. Of course memories of the 1920s might take a while to fade away...
Obviously we don’t know where this is going to lead, but step one was getting rid of the corrupt government. Appears to me the people took this on themselves. Don’t know if foreign powers are involved, but no doubt Russia, Europe and the US are not disinterested parties. I’m praying the people and independence win out.
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little [heat] deserve neither liberty nor [heat].”
That's the freedom loving spirit. The comfort of natural gas from a tyrant.
natural gas is so much more important than freedom and stuff?
did you cringe or tear up when they tore down the Lenin statues?
How do you like your obamaphone?
It is obvious you are not Ukrainian. It is obvious you have no clue as to what the protest was about.
I am very proud of the Ukrainians.
To rebel in summer is not to rebel.
I tend to be against the protestors as I think if I were a Ukranian I would want my home heated by real Russian natural gas as opposed to the non-existent natural gas that the EU can provide. Of course memories of the 1920s might take a while to fade away...
impimp, have you ever actually been to Ukraine? I was just there 3 months ago. Just 2 weeks before the protests started, I got harrassed by policemen in Maidan for not having my passport on me. My passport was safely locked up in my apartment per intructions on the US State Department website. They were trying to extract a bribe from me to let me go and threatened to arrest me, book me, and make be pay a 1200 Hrivna fine (about $125) that would have put me in the Interpol database and made it more difficult for me to ever enter the country again. They let me go after I followed them to a police station not far from the Maidan when I got out my cell phone and asked if I could make a call. The next day my guide/interpreter had me get a laminated xerox copy of my passport picture and signature page as well as the visa page for me to carry around in the police bothered me again.
In short the whole country was very corrupt including the police. If I were an ordinary citizen there and had to cope with that corruption and the lack of economic opportunity there every day, I think I would have gone over the breaking point long ago. The problem with Russian domination of Ukraine started under the czars and continued under the Soviet Union. BTW Stalin's Holomodor of Ukraine was in the 1930's not the 1920's.
Everyone has a price. It appears that yours is the price to heat your home.
Obviously you never read the history of our Colonial troops suffering though the winter of 1777 without heat... or shoes.
If I had to go without heat for 5 years just to get rid of Obama and his commie administration, I would do it in a heartbeat.
Maybe since I live in Southern California it might be more of a burden to give up air conditioning, but I'd give up both and more.
Pray that this revolution is like ours. Liberty or death!