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Yet another recent video; the angry crowd wouldn't let Pyotr Poroshenko ( member of Verkhovna Rada in Kiev) Petro Poroshenko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
to enter the parliament building in Simferopol, Crimea.
People were chanting "Get out of Crimea," "Fascist" and "Russia, Russia."
I think really, all Russia has to do it sit back and wait for Ukraine to collapse again due to these two fighting for power. There is not going to be any private investment in Ukraine. Another poster on another thread summed it up well.
The question there then would be perhaps why would Russia want the Ukraine to 'collapse? It is not in its interest. But maybe 'balkanization' of the country is? I think 'Russian' credibility has taken a hit in the Ukraine especially in Kiev. But now Putin puts the focus now on the Crimea on the eastern part of the country to get it back. At this point, I think he believes it is always better to be aggressive in these kinds of situations. So of course, Ukraine will not sleep at all for a while. Hope fully, there won't be nightmares to come. Now Putin 'won' in South Ossetia. He could 'win' in Ukraine but if he does that 'win' will certainly be a pyrhhic victory. And a country split is not in the Ukrainian interest but simply to assuage 'Russian' interest.
Unfortunately, no 'fraternal' feelings then in that relationship.
Now the people of the East and the Crimea hoping a help from Russia. They are not opposed to military aid. And people do not mind the split of Ukraine. This is the real picture. People in the former whole Ukraine does not want to live together. Don't believe that Russia is the occupant.
I wonder how the Belarus government and citizens are reacting to the current crisis occurring in Ukraine.
Lukashenko puts it simply: "There will not be any Maidan in Belarus!"
Of course he fears that something like that can happen. It's his worst nightmare! But he's lucky that we Belarusians by nature are more quite and moderate, and not so revolutionary as our Southern neighbours.
As for common people -- well, it depends. The more certain people hate Lukashenko, the more pro-Maidan they tend to be. There are many discussions going on about this in Belarus, and often the closest friends and relatives have different views. Some say "Well done, Ukranians, at last you will become real Europeans, we must follow your example", others say "Come on, Europe doesn't really care about Ukraine anyway, so it's all just a war of clans, nothing more", others say "now the fascists and extremists will come to power in Ukraine and it won't bring any good".. and so on.
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