“I really can’t get hot and bothered over Ukie nationalists”
Yanukovych was an intelligence asset working for Putin’s Russian regime and its Communist faction of the Russian FSB secret police. Putin has used his former KGB apparatus to maneuver Boris Yeltsin and his mob family of corrupt oligarchs and officials into putting Putin into control of Russia and Russia’s oil and gas industries.
Having coopted the Russian mob activities to his own purpose, Putin and his KGB/FSB secret police used Ukrainian mob members such as Yanukovich and the Prosecutor General to gain significant influence or actual partial control of the Ukrainian government. As Putin’s puppet Yanukovich benefited from the embezzlements of billions of dollars of Ukrainian government revenues just as Putin and Yeltsin had been doing so in Russia. Putin’s ultimate goal was to use Yanukovich as his Ukrainian puppet long enough to keep the EU and NATO out of the Ukraine and bring about the circumstances necessary to gain direct Russian rule over the Ukraine by political coup under the guise of cleaning up the Ukrainian corruption he helped to create or by invasion if all else failed. once that objective had been achieved, Putin was to dispense with the services of Yanukovych in much the same manner as Putin had done so with most of the Russian oligarchs and mobsters no longer of use to him.
Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian mobster rival to Putin’s Ukrainian mobsters. Lost in the conflict between the Russian and Ukrainian mobster and Communist conflicts are the long suffering people of Ukraine who want to become free of all this corruption and the Fascists once and for all. Unfortunately, they must for the present continue to be represented by the Deputies of their parliament until efforts can be made to change the old order, if feasible at all. Putin, however, is determined to not give the people of the Ukraine the opportunity to remove the kleptocrats, traitors, and Fascists from their government; because doing so could threaten his own corrupt regime in Russia by giving the Russian people the idea of freeing themselves in a similar manner as the Ukrainians.
Yup, lost in the suffering conflict are the ~50 million people of Ukraine. And if Putin takes control, the interests of the people will be buried further.
(.....”Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian mobster rival to Putin’s Ukrainian mobsters”....)
Isn’t she generally quite popular with the people?..or is she a female Don in her own right that handles her political PR on the softer side. She does embrace the finer things of life no doubt.
Either or it doesn’t look like Ukraine’s going to have much change in who oversees their governing affairs if she wins the vote....she helped bankrupt the country, though she is favored by the US I understand.
Meanwhile... Anti-Putin activists left for Russia this past week to organize further protests against Putin. Likely he has banned public protests for the tensions in Ukraine.