>>Stop whining, your guy lost, get over it<<
‘My guy’? LOL. Yanukovitz is a perfect product of a Ukrainian political establishment.
Every leader in your modern history is someone’s else stooge, be that someone Clinton, Putin or Merkel.
Maybe the problem is with a society, which needs a revolution every time your government fails to meet expectations? It is third or fourth revolt since 1990 if memory serves me well.
Ukrainians are circling the bowl the way known substance does, between East and West for all that time waiting for both sides to provide maximum free money. Every time their expectations fails they are rioting to get opposed fraction to office, with ties to another foreign country believed to deliver more goodies at the time. Yanukovitz is just another in a series of Ukrainian leaders stuffing his pockets while redistributing other people’s money. His affiliation to one or another foreign power is secondary.
2004 Orange Revolution is #1, this one is second. (Unless you're counting collapse of USSR as one? There have been mass demonstrations at the time, but you're being too generous to credit Ukrainians for collapse of USSR)
There will be another and another and another revolt, as long as they're selecting politicians that keep failing them. The alternative is to give up on life, shut up and suffer in silence. It might be suitable for Russians, but Ukrainians have Cossack blood in them :)
Agree with Yanek being a Ukrainian creation. Foreign affiliation is what I meant by "your guy". RF placed a bet on him, he lost; RF is to admit they supported a pathetic tyrant and move on. Getting involved in an internal Ukrainian problem, like issuing threats to invade Crimea, that's not good.
“Ukrainians are circling the bowl the way known substance does, between East and West for all that time waiting for both sides to provide maximum free money. Every time their expectations fails they are rioting to get opposed fraction to office, with ties to another foreign country believed to deliver more goodies at the time.”
EXACTLY.
This time they are expecting money from Americans and the EU. As soon as they stopped attacking the police, they are asking for 40 billions dollars aid!
White supremacist banners and Confederate flags were draped inside Kiev’s occupied City Hall, and demonstrators have hoisted Nazi SS and white power symbols ... Maidan protesters destroyed a memorial to Ukrainians who died battling German occupation during World War II. Sieg heil salutes and the Nazi Wolfsangel symbol have become an increasingly common site in Maidan Square...the ultra-nationalist Svoboda, whose leader, Oleh Tyahnybok, has called for the liberation of his country from the “Muscovite-Jewish mafia.”...
Svoboda’s openly pro-Nazi politics have not deterred Senator John McCain from addressing a Maidan rally alongside Tyahnybok, nor did it prevent Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland from enjoying a friendly meeting with the Svoboda leader in February. More than that: Nuland boasted that the US had invested $5 billion to “build democratic skills and institutions” in Ukraine. The Obama administration is supporting the nazi movements in Ukraine with your money.