What? Now you're going to get all
ad hommina hommina hommina
on me?
Posted on 02/21/2014 1:00:00 PM PST by 1rudeboy
KIEV, Ukraine — A frenzy of shuttle diplomacy and hard compromises produced what may be a breakthrough in Ukraine’s 3-month-old political standoff, a crisis that this week prompted the deadliest violence in the country’s modern history.
Protesters remain angry over corruption, crackdowns on democratic freedoms and President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to tighten trade ties with Russia instead of Europe. Radical members are threatening new violence.
But Yanukovych has ceded powers, the re-energized parliament is assuming new authority and events moved faster than ever Friday toward a possible end to the crisis.
Here’s a guide to what’s been happening:
DIVIDED COUNTRY
The protests began in November when Yanukovych abruptly refused to sign a long-anticipated political association and free trade agreement with the European Union, opting instead for closer ties with Russia. Yanukovych is widely despised in western Ukraine, but has strong support in the Russian-speaking east, where he’s from, as well as in the south.
The pro-Western demonstrators saw Yanukovych’s move as a betrayal of national interests and submission to Moscow, and demanded that that he reverse his decision. Their number swelled to hundreds of thousands after a brutal crackdown by riot police. Their demands grew more radical to include Yanukovych’s resignation and early elections.
His supporters in the east, meanwhile, see the protesters and the opposition as manipulated and financed by the West, and feel greater economic and cultural connection to Russia.
VIOLENCE ERUPTS
Peaceful rallies turned abruptly violent in January after parliament, dominated by Yanukovych supporters, passed repressive laws intended to quash the protest. Radical protesters hurled firebombs and stones at police, who retaliated with stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets. At least four people died and hundreds were injured.
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SeminoleCounty is one of those who strokes himself whenever he thinks of Putin. He still can’t understand how Russia, and its communists, managed to find itself on the dust heap of history.
I'd settle for you not misspelling in Latin.
Thanks, professor. Anything to help your fellow commies. I get it.
SeminoleCounty is one of those folks my parents would call a useful idiot, because he believes Putin is a democrat.
“Useful?” Are you sure about that?
Maybe he could save a shoveled out parking space?
Harder to move out of the way than an old kitchen chair.
What? Now you're going to get all
ad hommina hommina hommina
on me?
Look, I misspelled a Latin term (on this thread, or another—I don’t remember which). Until you cared to remind me. So stuff it. And take your commie friends back to the Kremlin.
Brilliant stuff.
Buck up, rubeboy. One of these years you are bound to pass that bar exam.
You wanna bet on that? (Seeing that I have no intention of doing so).
Let them eat cake. Let the EU come in and destroy another country. They will be broke in 3 years like the rest of Western Europe. Amazing to see how things are so twisted by the liberal Media. I can’t wait when the new referendum for the State of California gets put into action. When they vote to divide California into 6 separate sub states. We will see how the true democracy of the US works then.
Are you a LEO, because you are sure sounding like one.
Randy was set up pure and simple. If you don't know that then it is because you choose to be ignorant of the story.
They came on Randy's property with the intention of a firefight, they shot the boys dog and that induced a response from the boy, then laid siege. Just like Waco, they could have arrested Randy in town but they went for "Show Time."
“Let the EU come in and destroy another country.”
Could be. Ukraine has been caught in the middle of a tug-of-war for hundreds and hundreds of years.
IMHO, maybe the best story to come out of the Sochi Winter Olympics....
Ukraine wins women’s biathlon relay for 1st gold
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-wins-women-39-biathlon-155417525—spt.html
Perhaps some of their Viking heritage coming through! I am watching a history of Ukraine on Youtube - the Vikings captured Kiev around 900 AD, and ruled for a couple hundred years, iirc, and then became integrated into Ukraine. (Being of Viking heritage - I never knew that!)
Our President, the MSM, and the Democrat Party will weep real tears if you turn out to be right. So far I'm not personally convinced.
If the US becomes Communist, it will be because of the ignorance of the American voter. We have more to fear from the Democrat Party than we do from Russia.
Give up on what, exactly?
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