Posted on 08/17/2019 2:27:07 AM PDT by NorseViking
The potential for another Ukrainian revolution festers beneath this year’s deceptively calm presidential and parliamentary elections. It would be the third one in 15 years, following the 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2014 Euro-Maidan uprising.
In April, 75 percent of voters elected celebrity comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy to replace the president who had led Ukraine since the 2014 revolution, Petro Poroshenko. Then in July, Zelenskiy’s party won a supermajority in Parliament, introducing single-party rule to Ukraine for the first time since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991—and empowering Zelenskiy to govern without a coalition.
Western experts have praised these elections as free and fair. But some Ukrainians see them as a subversion of democracy, believing the results were orchestrated by opportunist oligarchs behind a pro-Russian political technology project to elect an empty vessel—Zelenskiy—that can be filled and manipulated. Many activists, volunteers from the last revolution, and veterans of the ongoing war against Russian-backed separatists in the country’s east lament Zelenskiy’s rise as a symptom of their sick state unappreciative of the sacrifices and progress made since the 2014 Maidan.
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“I would take a Sergey Lavrov over the likes of a Mike Pompeo any day.”
Well, don’t let us stop you. Head to Russia, Pusey needs you.
*** Well, don’t let us stop you. Head to Russia, Pusey needs you. ***
Because I find Pompeo telling a group we need a war in the Middle East to bring about the Rapture disturbing, or him bragging to the graduating class at Texas A&M that his job as head of the CIA was to lie, cheat, and steal cringe worthy, I should move to Russia?
Pompeo is no statesman. If you ever bothered to listen to Sergey Lavrov, you would note the difference. My pointing this out does not make me Anti American.
Oh, I’ve heard enough from Sergey Lavrov over the years and I don’t care what Pukey oligarchs he works for then or now.
From 2014. Really lays it all out. Why are we still funding Kyev Kriminals? Oh, because it profits US/UK elite folk.
I am really steamed at pics from today of Polish mercenaries who handcuffed, beat, and then peeled the faces off LPR fighters. The US is funding this-over the former and current US Administration. We are financially and militarily supporting this over shale oil, and other natural resources we want.
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