[jb6]

Simply put, the Oranges are ideologically closer to the Chiracs of this world. Yushchenko is a weak willed free trader who as prime minister under Kuchma in 2001 almost drove Ukraine into a civil war, bankrupting the Orthodox east Ukraine (the Industrialized zone) and shifting assets to the west Ukraine (catholic and agrarian) and by following IMF "advice". The Rada (Parliment) sacked his butt to avoid revolt.

Tymoshenko is a flat out socialist, an oligarch worth $11 billion and her closest politican ally is the UNA-UNSO party, the Ukrainian nazi party who wants to purify Ukraine of Moskovites (Russians) and Zids (crude slang word for Jews) and who encouraged Ukrainian soldiers in Iraq to shoot at Americans and back the Islamics.

These people are not our friends. Just because someone is a friend of Russia doesn't make them an enemy to us. That's old Cold War think and its loosing us allies and position in central asia and other places.

[Mazepa]

Yushchenko is a weak willed free trader who as prime minister under Kuchma in 2001 almost drove Ukraine into a civil war, bankrupting the Orthodox east Ukraine (the Industrialized zone) and shifting assets to the west Ukraine (catholic and agrarian) and by following IMF "advice".

Never heard more nonsense. (What civil war? jb6, increasingly I begin to suspect that you're following reports of Symonenko & Co. too closely. In the 90s every year they've been calling for a revolt, October Revolution 2)

In his years as PM Ukraine saw its first GDP growths, a stable currency and a reduction in wage arrears. Enough said.

The Rada (Parliment) sacked his butt to avoid revolt.

Again with the revolts? :). No, general consensus is that Yu.-PM was five times as popular as Kuchma, who in return sacked him.

Tymoshenko... her closest politican ally is the UNA-UNSO party,

One guy (Shkil') her contingent of 38 parliamentarians? :))