listen stooopid, that's no longer your call to make... buh bye 
Posted on 02/22/2014 4:18:15 PM PST by Dallas59
Parliament on Feb. 22 voted overwhelmingly to impeach embattled Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Lawmakers applauded as the votes came in - 328 in all - to oust the president. Following the vote, parliamentarian stood and sang the national anthem.
Parliament on Feb. 22 voted overwhelmingly to impeach embattled Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Lawmakers applauded as the votes came in - 328 in all - to oust the president. Following the vote, parliamentarian stood and sang the national anthem.
Rumors swirled earlier in the day that he had resigned, but in a pre-recorded video interview, the defiant president said: “I am not planning to leave the country. I am the legitimate president and I am not going to resign.”
(Excerpt) Read more at kyivpost.com ...
“I am not planning to leave the country. I am the legitimate president and I am not going to resign.”
Don’t you know that’s what Obama would say...
This was a coup.
They're making up their own rules.
Can we get the GOPe give a consultant contract to those guys in the Ukraine rather than Rove?
Fascinating.
Makes me wonder if a high profile political figure would make similar statements in the November 2016-January 2017 time frame.
Save yourself some time next, and simply type “waah.”
Yanukovych was a corrupt Kremlin toady; that he’s gone should be a cause for celebration to anyone that has even the tiniest modicum of a desire for freedom.
Is some of the Ukrainian opposition perfect? Untainted by corruption? No, they’re not. They’re not perfect, and no one could say they are by any stretch of the imagination.
But what’s forgotten is that the Ukrainian people have no desire to live under the heel of the Russian boot. The majority of them want to be free of any direct Russian control. Does that mean they wish to be in the EU? I’m sure quite a few of them do; but that matter will be settled by the Ukrainian people. They are a sovereign and free nation, and their future is their own to decide.
Living as I have for a decade in what was a former Soviet satellite state, the opinion of the people here regarding the Russians is exceedingly low. It is quite fair to say that the Russians are universally despised. While most Czechs are quite amenable to the idea of trade and good relations with the Russian government, at the same time they view them as what they are - imperialists with ravenous ambitions.
Goodbye to Yanukovych, and good riddance to bad rubbish. I pray that the Ukrainian people will have the wisdom to carefully contemplate their future and their place in Europe, and decide accordingly.
You work for Putin or Kenyan?
Of course there’s a significant probability that the new boss will be the same as the old boss. What should be mystifying is the preference for the old boss by people who nominally are expressing their opinions on their way to a Tea Party rally.
Concurring bump.
The neo-liberal presstitutes will go to great lengths to explain it away, but the facts are what was done wasn’t legal or constitutional.
I appreciate your first hand knowledge in this post. Thanks.
Had the same thoughts ,
Revolutions are rarely “legal,” on this planet.
At least Nixon loved this country enough to resign,
I wouldn’t bet on Obama, his loyalties are elsewhere.
I am amazed, too, that there are quite a few Putin’s fans lurking here. The Ukraine developments sure made some people show their true colors. that or a complete ignorance of the region and the fact that Putya is pure KGB and the KGB never really went away.
listen stooopid, that's no longer your call to make... buh bye
Factor into the mix that Putin (recently) learned how to play some people for suckers, and it's an interesting mix.
Of course there’s a significant probability that the new boss will be the same as the old boss.
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The cynic in me long ago to the conclusion that sadly, that’s the way of the world. I simply cannot fathom the ‘Putin-love’ I see. If someone were to go to a pub in Prague, or Brno or elsewhere and say, “I think Putin is the best leader ever! I wish I lived in Russia!” that person would most likely be mercilessly mocked as an imbecile, or find themselves being served a knuckle sandwich by an enraged Czech who lost a loved one to the Russians during the 1968 invasion.
With the direction Russia is moving in, versus the direction western Europe is moving ( gay right, Muslim appeasement, abortion, etc., it seems to be a tough call here for me. I know history is against the Russians in terms of the horrible atrocities they committed in Ukraine.
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