Posted on 02/25/2014 10:05:52 PM PST by Kartographer
Ukraines Euromaidan movement is in control of the capital. The autocratic and ostrich-raising Pres. Viktor Yanukovych has fled Kiev, and the Ukrainian parliament has voted him out of power.
For now, its a dramatic victory for the protesters, who have sought closer ties with the European Union and an end to the corruption represented by Yanukovych. Its especially stunning considering the protesters hadon several occasionsseemed close to defeat.
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The Crimea is what Putin would want.
The map seems to suggest a two-state solution, although the new Ukrainian state would be so poor it probably could not survive as an independent entity.
It would depend. If it were a bunch of leftists, then the media would call it "democracy in action" and applaud it, as they did when Left-wing union protesters occupied the Wisconsin state capital building in 2011 to protest against right-to-work.
If it was TEA Party protesters, the media would call for the military to go in and kill us all.
As far as Ukraine is concerned, the media is on the side of the EU socialists, and against Putin because of his anti-gay and pro-Orthodox positions.
See post #3 this thread. There are no 100% good guys in this fight. The thread is about how they did it not why.
How many people would have bet that things would have ended as they did? Me I expected lots more blood in the streets and a lot of people in gulugs.
The protests started out peaceful over two months ago. .
--------------------------------------- Ask another question:
I wonder how our public would reply to the U.S. Government closing off the Mall area of Washington DC to protests?
I wonder how Americans would react, if the Park police started shooting people who protested peacefully in front of the White House with rubber bullets?< /b>
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LOL. No one but historians call it that now. It hasn't been true since before the "revolution".
Yushenko banned the export of grain during his term of office because food prices were so high. Of course, this ruined the farmers, but socialists don't care about that sort of thing.
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