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Yanukovych was democratically elected. And ousted by revolution.
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Wiki, his elections:
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Yanukovych first ran for president in 2004: he advanced to the runoff election and was initially declared the winner against former Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko. However, the election was fraught with allegations of electoral fraud and voter intimidation. This caused widespread citizen protests and Kyiv's Independence Square was occupied in what became known as the Orange Revolution. The Ukrainian Supreme Court nullified the runoff election and ordered a second runoff. Yanukovych lost this second election to Yushchenko.
His 2010 election was judged free and fair by international observers, but when he rejected an agreement aligning Ukraine with the EU, and chose closer ties with Russia, he was eventually ousted (again).
That actually makes this situation worse. Putin has already said he will use nukes of Europe or the US gets in his way in Ukraine. He has opened that door and could use it again to invade other countries. Let me invade or I nuke you.
He will rule Europe if this is true......no limit to the dictators power
The sad thing is that if NATO would just do the right thing and come to the Ukraine's defence we could push the Russians out of the Ukraine within 24 hours. This was such an incredibly poorly thought out military campaign. Maybe one of the worst in history. Putin has nowhere near the number of troops he needs to take over the Ukraine.
The Russian military is almost a joke. The only thing Russia can do is pick on small countries.
The sad thing is that if NATO would just do the right thing and come to the Ukraine's defence we could push the Russians out of the Ukraine within 24 hours. This was such an incredibly poorly thought out military campaign. Maybe one of the worst in history. Putin has nowhere near the number of troops he needs to take over the Ukraine.
The Russian military is almost a joke. The only thing Russia can do is pick on small countries.
Russia is not using all of their weapons and all of their troops. It's like fighting with one hand tied behind your back. They certainly could have taken everything much quicker but it would been much more deadly and possible hundreds of thousand of civilians would been killed and city would be in ruins. They just want to overthrow the government by doing as little as possible destruction.
Russia is not using all of their weapons and all of their troops. It's like fighting with one hand tied behind your back. They certainly could have taken everything much quicker but it would been much more deadly and possible hundreds of thousand of civilians would been killed and city would be in ruins. They just want to overthrow the government by doing as little as possible destruction.
So far Putin is failing at both points. The government is still intact. But he is doing a lot of damage and causing a humanitarian crisis.
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