Her powerful message, viewed 7.8 million times (VIDEO)

Kyiv Post ^ | March 14, 2014 | Brian Bonner

[mountn man]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvds2AIiWLA

[elhombrelibre]

If I were her, I’d run for my life. When putative US conservatives become lick spittle for Putin, people like her are in grave danger. We’ve so many Putinistas here that I fear she must accept that whatever horrors Putin wishes to inflict on her country will just be a great joke for them. Get out while you can. Obama won’t help you, and the former friends of freedom think it’s cute to laugh at Putin’s victims.

[Terry L Smith]

“Yah Ookraeenskovah”
“I am a Ukrainian!”

Written with the same compassion as JFK’s:
“Ich bien ein Berliner”,
Written with the same zealotry, as when demanded, ‘
Which one is Spartacus’,
“I am Spartacus!”

But, speak softly, dear, “the leader of The Free World”, hates everything you just said!

[Don Corleone]

It won’t be long before a video like this is made here in America by an American youth . Is our government very far behind what she described? Who is there to come and rescue us?

[elhombrelibre]

Agreed. Obama and Putin share the same outlook, values, and goals.

[McGruff]

She was a EuroMaidan supporter from the start, finding that Yanukovych’s refusal of an association agreement with the European Union on Nov. 21 was the collective last strong.

[tomkat]

He was lying, stealing, he was killing, he was breaking the laws and we were living in our small world and not paying attention,” Marushevska said. “Now we paid for not being involved, for everyone who didn’t care. It’s our price for not reacting to every crime. We have to control our politicians, our government, our activists, our journalists, our media – actively. We have to put pressure on those in power; it is our power, for these events not to be repeated in the future.

She's one of us.

[Freedom with Responsibility]

Here is an interesting alternative perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWkfpGCAAuw

[Phinneous]

Could it be that “her people” have just as barbaric tendencies as early 20th century Germans? I don’t see them as any higher on the ‘civilized’ totem pole.

Hitler’s Willing Executioners: http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Willing-Executioners-Ordinary-Holocaust/dp/0679772685

[Bogey78O]

Ultimately, can we say Americans were the good guys in WW2 because of slavery?

If that made no sense it’s because it’s a non-sequitor, same as yours

[Longbow1969]

When putative US conservatives become lick spittle for Putin, people like her are in grave danger. We’ve so many Putinistas here that I fear she must accept that whatever horrors Putin wishes to inflict on her country will just be a great joke for them.

It's sad indeed. Logging in and seeing all these fans of Putin posting RT propaganda as if it were a legitimate news source has been disheartening.

Part of it I think is the rotten Ron Paul influence over many that call themselves conservatives. These people tend to be conspiracy nuts who think this is all about fiat currency or who has the most gold stocks. I guess some others actually like Putin because they hate the EU more (I also hate the EU, but not enough to wear blinders), or find him an ally against the homosexual agenda, or just reflexively side with anyone who opposes Obama no matter what the cause, etc.

If we let Russia continue to get away with this sort of thing, it will embolden our enemies everywhere. And where we recede from the world, something certainly worse than us will fill the void. Isolationism didn't work in the 30's and it sure as heck isn't going to work in today's globalized world.

[beelzepug]

“She’s one of us.”

We are rapidly becoming them. Listen to the wisdom in what this young lady is saying.

[Hatteras]

I had highlighted and copied the exact same line and was going to add a similar thought before I scrolled down through the comments and saw yours. :-)

[elhombrelibre]

It’s a sad day to be an American, a sad day to be a conservative, and a very sad day for this website when a bunch of pro-Putin loons can become the dominant voice on the site. Meanwhile, honest, ordinary, nonpolitical Ukrainians are being threatened, once again, by a former KGB agent, narcissistic psycho for pseudo nationalist reasons. When they started out as “conservatives” did they imagine they’d end up as apologists for a former KGB agent?

[cizinec]

What effective measures would you have us take? The only reason Crimea is a part of Ukraine is because Kruschev gave it to them. I don’t want to go to war defending Kruschev’s decision. If you do, I’m sure there are plenty who will join you. Unfortunately, some wouldn’t have a choice if the war-hungry here on FR have their way.

I don’t like Putin, but I’m not stupid either. If the only effective response is the use of force, I don’t want it to be in defense of a bad decision by a Soviet bureaucrat.

[Phinneous]

Do you mean, are we any more civilized because of slavery at the inception of our country? Yes— because we burned it out of our psyche in the Civil War.

[tomkat]

I read that and had to double-check that the headline hadn't somehow been transposed with an article reporting on a TEA party rally !

Am still not sure what's going on over there, but its being a first rate fustercluck is in little doubt.