The Ukraine is no different than Russia. The only governance it has known is an oriental despotism. It has never known an enlightenment, and in its long and tragic history has but a single intellectual of note, and that a poet. Thus, it is more Asian than European, and so it shall remain.
Poroshenko is BAD, but the burn even formerly pro-Russia Ukrainians have felt from Putin’s aggressive moves of 2014 till now far outweighs their frustrations with their own inadequate mess of a government.
Russia’s aggression has traumatized and pit family/church members of both sides against each other. And young Ukrainians especially want nothing to do with the permanent Soviet time warp Putin and Russia’s psyche is in.
Ukrainians are on the independence track for the long haul, but it is a long and bumpy road...
And now you have a growing number of Russians wanting to cast off the shackles of Putinism - but the system is as repressive as ever and in light of how on the bandwagon everyone was in the attempt to take over Ukraine, Abe Lincoln’s adage is very fitting:
“Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
And Ukraine refuses to be Russia’s wet blanket, dragged into a rabbithole of neo-Stalinist oblivion.