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Now Biden is in Kiev (after Nuland , Kerry and a score of others). Proof of the will of the US government to control Ukraine and integrate it into NATO. It is anything but normal bilateral relationships.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden: The United States welcomes the changes taking place in Ukraine
(Russian language) http://russian.rt.com/article/28831
How Russian see this:
Over Dollar give 11 hryvnia (under Yanukovych was stable 8)
Petrol 16 hryvnia (was 12)
Treasury is empty
Gold reserves of 15 billion (was 25)
Scythian gold taken out
Gas for the population is going up by 70%
Wage freeze and delay
Crimea sailed
South-East civil war
On the streets of banditry
In Parliament sit fascists, Baptists, Scientologists
More than 100 people were killed
The police did not inspire confidence
Berkut dispersed
Army starving and deserting
Media use propaganda
Now the question is whether it was necessary to overthrow Yanukovych. He was not a tyrant.
In general I think that the main problem is that 20 years ago the Soviet Union collapsed at nominal boundaries of the Republics, without considering the interests of the population living there. These problems will long haunt the Europe.
yes, I remember being schocked (the only one apparently) in 1991 at the dissolution of the USSR of the transformation of former stalinian administrative borders into international borders, with the benediction of the West. The same thing happened in Yugoslavia in spite of the resistance of Serbia up to 1999 and the bombings of NATO.
I guess the Powers that be didn't want to risk transfers of population as in the aftermath of WW2 if former internal borders were modified. I believe that it was a blunder however and that they should at least have tried.
Of course and arguably it's cause stems almost completely from the Russian side. They look to me to be angling for great position against that perceived threat to their west. It's their turn now for 'lebesnraum'. Russia now is exerting relentless pressure on the Ukraine. I think it's impossible for the latter country to exist as it is now without any interference from outside....and I'll say from 'both' the East and Western sides. This is simply turning out to be a astronomical problem where the gravitational pull of Russia and the West appears to be slowly ripping up Ukraine.
This is simply turning out to be a astronomical problem where the gravitational pull of Russia and the West appears to be slowly ripping up Ukraine.
Once again this wouldn't have happened if the West hadn't jumped in to dismantle the former USSR instead of moving more cautiously and progressively. Their big mistake was to enforce at all costs the borders created by the archenemies of the West, Stalin and Tito, sounds paradoxical to me!
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Of course and arguably it's cause stems almost completely from the Russian side. They look to me to be angling for great position against that perceived threat to their west. It's their turn now for 'lebesnraum'. Russia now is exerting relentless pressure on the Ukraine. I think it's impossible for the latter country to exist as it is now without any interference from outside....and I'll say from 'both' the East and Western sides. This is simply turning out to be a astronomical problem where the gravitational pull of Russia and the West appears to be slowly ripping up Ukraine.
First you say that the cause stems almost completely from the Russian side, then you mention the gravitational pull from both sides. You contradict yourself.
Comparing post-WWII borders to post-1992 borders, US/EU/IMF is clearly on the offensive and Russia is clearly on the defensive.
But, yes, I agree, I think it's impossible for Ukraine to exist as it is now without any interference from outside from both the eastern and western sides. This is simply turning out to be an astronomical problem where the gravitational pull of Russia and the West appears to be slowly ripping up Ukraine.
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