I hope that someday Ukraine finds leaders worthy of its great people. Sorry that I'm such a pessimist in the present tense. I only look at it from a US perspective. It was the Kuchma/Yanukovich gangsters who sent 1800 Ukrainian peacekeepers to help us in Iraq. It is Yushchenko's party who fought their deployment and pushes for their removal.
Yanukovich is a gangster, but on Yushchenko's side there is Yuliya Timoshenko (who went to prison for stealing billions from the Ukraine which has never been returned), George Soros, Chiraq and Kofi Annan.
Great company.
Yushchenko is probably more honest, probably a better choice, and I'm willing to grant that a broken clock and George Soros can be right twice a day.
But Russia is the problem here. Russia, Belarus, and the Ukraine are the 'three stallions' of what was always been the nucleus of greater Russia. After their experience in Yugoslavia, the Russians are probably willing to blow people up to make their point this time.
There's really no humor in this situation, but I've been trying to remind some of my friends over there about how funny they thought OUR election in 2000 was, with no president known all the way into December.
If I'm wrong and Russia pulls some Lithuanian-style mass murder, as she did in 1989-90, I'll buy the drinks on this thread.