Yanukovich says he's still president, asks Russia to ensure his safety.

[sabrina 1]

78. Well we all have our ethnic backgrounds, that doesn't make us experts on our countries of origin, if

anything, we are likely to be more biased than when the issue is not OUR country of origin. And of course other democracies have different systems, such as the British Parliament eg. I agree it is demeaning to view other countries through a strictly American lens, but that's what we do here, isn't it? ONLY WE can 'bring democracy' to the ME, but sadly OUR idea of what THEY needed has turned out to be one of the most tragic and devastating destructions of a nation for a long time.

Maybe we should just trust that other countries CAN and have worked out their own business long before we even existed. One has to wonder how the world survived before we came along to set it straight.

We've certainly had our own corrupt governments here, completely illegitimate actually, 2000, stolen election, leading to the collapse of our economy, the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, but we didn't topple that government. Perhaps had we done so it would have been better for us and the rest of the world. On a short term basis, but coups rarely result in civilized societies, looking around at the many that have occurred over the past decades.

Which is why, despite the terrible results of our own illegitimate government, imo, it was still better not to dispense with a civilized way of getting rid of bad, corrupt leaders. I feel the same way for all Democracies.