Trump's View of Ukraine Comes from this Man

In this interview, I speak with Dr. Mark Musser, who has lived and served in Ukraine since 1998, about the political history that shaped Ukraine before Russia's full-scale invasion. I trace the surprising connection between Viktor Yanukovych, Paul Manafort, and Donald Trump ...

They vote every 4 to 6 years...The violent color revolution, “Maidan”, was violent and unconstitutional.

Authoritarian dictators like Chavez and Ortega, have learned to be elected democratically before gradually dismantling democratic checks to establish an authoritarian regime/dictatorship with total governmental control of all institutions such as media, making a change in voting virtually impossible.

The same seizure of power was attempted in Ukraine. Pro-Russian president enacted 'dictatorship laws' where even criticizing a politicians wife could get you sentenced to 5 years in prison. It was his attempt to establish an authoritarian regime, and after he fled, Ukraine had free, open and fair elections.

'That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government'

The "dictatorship laws" (officially called the anti-protest laws) were a package of 10 to 11 restrictive laws passed by the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) on January 16, 2014, and signed into law the next day by President Viktor Yanukovych.

Passed during the height of the Euromaidan protests, the legislation aimed to crush the anti-government movement by severely curtailing civil liberties, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly

Ukraine had peaceful protests against Yanukovych’s pro-Russian stance that led to the violence coming from the Russian side - not from the Ukrainian side. Besides, the Ukrainian Rada voted 328-0 to remove Yanukovych from his presidency, and the idea that Russia represents anything resembling free and fair elections is a joke to say it mildly. Even Russia was mad at Yanukovych that he left his post. He was their puppet to control the country, which failed miserably. You are listening to pro-Russian propaganda which is actually far worse than the fake news of western liberalism these days. Dr. Gerdes is trying to correct this false narrative about Ukraine that has become all popular among so-called conservatives, who are no longer conservative.

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