Well, its kind of undeniable that the Ukranians don't want to be annexed
And that the Russians are the ones pouring petrol on the fire repeatedly. But you're right this isn't exactly a balanced "article"
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 12:49,
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The trouble is, to really get behind the current coverage of everything out there,
I'd have to forget that Ukraine a few months ago had a legitimately elected govt with fairly wide popularity until the trouble started, and their new leaders are a rather right-wing bunch who took over by force in a coup (and we still don't know who organised/funded it, it was all very fast and "neat"). So I'm staying on the fence on this one...
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Bollocks. The many Ukrainians of Russian ethnicity are well up for it, this idea that it's all external Russian influence stirring up strife is being massively exaggerated.
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And the EU and America haven't poured any petrol onto the fire themselves?
The problem with that 'popular' revolution they had in Kiev is that it was basically ethnic, which given it violently overthrew an elected government meant it instantly alienated a huge chunk of the Ukrainian population, who are naturally going to seek protection from Russia. This is what can happen when you flirt with fascist thugs at the ballot box, and then in an armed uprising, like the Ukrainians did in a country so starkly divided on the grounds of ethnicity.
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Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 13:19,
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