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To: mac_truck

“That’s what happens when you violently overthrow a democratically elected President.”

Your statement is a blatant lie, and you are using the lie as false propaganda to justify Putin’s Russian war crimes; which makes you an accessory to the commission of those war crimes. Your statement is a lie, because your false accusation someone did “violently overthrow a democratically elected President” never occurred with respect to Yanukovych. On the contrary, Yanukovych abandoned and then resigned the office of the President of the Ukraine, defected to a foreign nation committing acts of war against the Ukraine, and then committed treason against the Ukraine and its citizens by waging war upon the Ukraine. Yanukovych committed these criminal acts to avoid indictment and prosecution for a myriad of crimes he committed while in office, not the least of which were the kidnapping, torture, and murder of political opponents along with the wholesale looting of the Ukrainian treasury.


63 posted on 11/08/2014 4:34:20 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX; All
Yanokovitch was democratically elected President in 2010 to a four year term. His last official act on Feb. 21 2014 was to sign a negotiated power-sharing agreement with the opposition leadership that included a time-table to reform the Ukrainian Constitution and hold new elections.

This negotiated agreement was also signed by all three opposition leaders and witnessed by the foreign ministers of France, Poland, and Germany as well as a special representative from the Russian Federation, all of whom recognized Yanokovich as the lawful President of Ukraine acting in his official capacity at the time.

Hours after signing that internationally notarized power-sharing agreement Yanokovitch was accosted by an armed mob of Maidan radicals as he tried to leave the capital to attend a planned gathering of his political Party of Regions members in Kharkov.

These same armed radicals took over the Parliament building and other government Ministry offices, threatened and assaulted elected members of Parliament, and attempted to force an impeachment vote which ultimately failed to attract the constitutionally required number to impeach the President.

The entire Yanokovitch government was subsequently removed from power through a series of extra-constitutional parliamentary maneuvers while armed radicals 'guarded' the building. Fearing for their well being as well as his own, the President took his family over the border to Rostov on Don, Russia.

Now you can try to spin that sequence of events any way your liberal interventionist heart desires, but it still amounts to a 'violent overthrow of a democratically elected president'.

69 posted on 11/08/2014 6:50:36 AM PST by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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