Posted on 10/26/2014 11:35:50 AM PDT by Agog
Two exit polls indicate that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's party will secure a narrow win in Sunday's parliamentary election, falling substantially short of an outright majority.
The Rating Group Ukraine exit poll said the Poroshenko Bloc won 22.2 percent of the votes and that Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's Popular Front party came second at 21.8 percent.
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Although they lead rival parties, Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk share pro-Western postures and have campaigned on reform agendas aimed at pulling Ukraine back from the brink of economic ruin.
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Turnout was pretty good, too. 30% was expected, but just over 50% actually voted.
Without Crimea and eastern Ukraine and with the hostile stance from Russia, did anyone expect another outcome?
Keep in mind that most of eastern Ukraine was able to vote. It was only in those portions of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in control of Putin terrorists that people were blocked from voting. Even in the east, the pro-Western parties won about two thirds of the votes.
No commies in Ukraine’s parliament, first time in 96 years. Comrade Putin must be really upset.
I am afraid he is going to use Russia’s considerable resources (relative to Ukraine’s) to hurt Ukraine. That is his way of showing “see what happens if you are pro-West”.
Let that stupid Russkie do his worst. Hardship makes a people stronger. Everything this loser does only unites Ukraine more and more, and a united and strong country won’t bow to anybody.
_Hardship makes people stronger._
This is true, but I am worried about Ukraine. They chose wrong 20+ years ago in not working hard towards becoming free like several other former slaves of Soviet Empire. While countries like Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Baltics etc.. have a reasonable prosperity after their hard work now, then Ukraine has known only hardship for the past 20 years. It is a hard sell for a politician to truthfully say you can change course now and expect 20 years of more hardship when he is opposed by populist liars with sweet promises that liars don’t even need to come true to get their payoff.
Especially considering that these now successful countries laid the foundation of that success at the time when Russia was not yet so full of oil money and thus could not so effectively take up punishment operations.
We can only pray, but my judgment is, this war has created a Ukrainian state. Things seem very different than they were before in that country. The patriotism and their embracing of a Ukrainian identity does not seem to me to be a temporary phenomena.
I can only agree with that. Ukraine has been brought together.
It still is going to be extremely hard for them. They will have understandable problems from their current state, but this is heavily tilted by Russia certainly spending considerable resources to fuck them up.
I hope Ukrainians come through and try to keep helping them as I can.
Adding:
If you want to help then Ukraine needs modern tourniquets and wound seal powder. They don’t have such things there. We have been sending them, but they could use more. So if you have some lying around then please contact local Ukrainian organization. These will save lives.
I think soon we will be sending winter boots.
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