[Ivan Mazepa]

Please, the powerful tyrant stuff should be reserved for the coup "government" in Kiev who unleashed the Army on protesters after throwing out a legally elected government that would not unleash the Army on protesters. A very interesting contrast, that, and a good indication of who is a tyrant in the Ukraine.

Who would take this comment seriously? Yanukovich killed a hundred people on Maidan, the new Kiev government advance gets bogged down when the village folk blocks the road and the military refuses to open fire on civilians. Can you even appreciate the contrast? The criticism against the Kiev government in Ukraine is they haven't done very little while separatists run around with guns (up till yesterday). Right now in Slaviansk, Yanukovich might have done what Putin has done to Grozny, carpet bomb, artillery the hell out of it.

[Rashputin]

Oh, so now that the Maidan people have slaughtered at least a hundred it's time to throw them out, right?

The Ukrainian Army is killing civilians.

The civilians are Ukrainian.

The Maidan crowd claim to be the government of the Ukraine.

The present government of the Ukraine has command the Ukrainian Army to kill Ukrainians. They aren't a bit better than the government they overthrew, they're just in charge of the stealing and killing now instead of being bit players in it.

Straight forward, PERIOD.

They knew they couldn't win the upcoming elections so they overthrew the government. Odds are they can't hang onto power much longer without NATO troops to keep them in power.