What the Mainstream Media isn't telling you about the situation in Kiev.

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59. Welcome to the new "Cold War"

As someone with relatives in the Ukraine (that I am concerned for), I can also verify that we are not getting a clear picture of what is happening.

Personally, I *really* want Ukraine in the EU! but I know the full story about what they were offered, the financial crisis, and why the government basically was forced to reject it. No doubt, Putin has muddied the water. But so has the west. What the west *could* have done instead, would have been to offer a more generous financial backing package, say like instead of spending 6 Billion $$ supporting a fairly radical minority, they offered some of that money as a positive incentive to offset the trade war that Russia was threatening? The world bank instead made a smaller offer with the "usual terms" as part of the deal that would have led Ukraine into financial servitude.

This whole campaign is actually hardening much of the population, especially Ukrainians who are ethnic Russians. They know that there is a good chance that if this particular group gets power, they will invite policies that disenfranchise and discriminate against half the country.

There were things that did not make our media during the "Orange Revolution", such as some of the major party players hate speech and the poll rigging that also occurred in the west. But this time it feels like there is much more at risk if the truth, which is much more complicated than what is presented on our TVs, continues to be pushed aside by political aspirations and the modern, heavily financed "tug of (cold) war" that is occurring.

Ukraine needs change, no doubt about it, but plunging Ukraine into civil war while misrepresenting groups that actually represent a small portion of the population is not the way to go about it.