Ukraine’s beleaguered President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev Saturday as protestors took full control of Ukraine’s capital...***
So you admit he ran away like a little wussie? Well done. He was the President! He would have had a security team to protect him and he would have called on the Armed Forces to put down the protests. But, guess what, the Armed Forces explicitly refused to get involved. I wonder why? Maybe giving the order to kill all those protestors made people dislike him a bit?
***This is an illegal we fomented against the wishes of those in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, who supported Yanukovych***
Actually, they didn't all support Yanukovych in the east:
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...One of Yanukovych’s big problems is that the mass movement is no longer limited to the central and western parts of Ukraine, where the antipathy toward him and his Party of Regions is strongest. ... But its position in Sumy and Poltava in the northeast seems equally shaky. Worse still for Yanukovych, demonstrations have erupted in various places in Ukraine’s Russophone Donbass region: Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhya. Though the government’s position remains relatively strong in the east, what’s becoming clear is that the opposition to Yanukovych has now become national in scope, even though a unified leadership does not guide it. The notion, which is commonplace, that what’s happening in Ukraine can be reduced to the country’s east-west divide is being revealed as simplistic...
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In fact, he was the least popular President in Ukraine's history since its independence.
***Those regions that were disenfranchised had and have every right to their independence or to join the Russian Federation***
They had the right to vote for another pro-Russian candidate in the upcoming election if they wished, not to declare independence and join Russia. Don't be so ridiculous.
***before we waste any penny of taxpayer dollars on this debacle***
The USA and Britain made an agreement to help Ukraine if it came under attack from Russia due to giving up its nuclear weapons in 1994. We have a moral duty to help them fight off Russian aggression by sending munitions etc.
***we can drag you and your ilk through the streets by your testicles since you like revolutions so much***
The USA is a country born of a revolution against the brutal imperialistic superpower of its time, Britain. Therefore, it seems rather hypocritical of you to deny the Ukrainians the opportunity to get rid of their corrupt pro-Russian puppet President after he committed an atrocity in order to have a fresh election, unless you are not actually an American. Are you a Russian, by any chance?
Let's get this right -- YOU have no problem with illegal coups that drive out democratically-elected leaders from office? That doesn't surprise me in the least.
And, I have ZERO problem with Russia intervening in Ukraine on behalf of the voters who were disenfranchised and ended up being persecuted and killed by the rogue Ukrainian nationalist government that took over.
In fact, I'm quite pleased those in the recently annexed part of the Russian Federation finally live in a free country and under a government that respects their rights as citizens.
That annexed territory will never, ever be part of Ukraine again that is if Ukraine even exists after the war is over.