Robert Parry: Cheering a ‘Democratic’ Coup in Ukraine

[joshcryer]

129. Politically, potentially.

Executively or militarily, no. They already got them in there running the military, which would indicate orders to actually fight any Russian incursion into Ukraine proper (or a trumped up pretext of "we got shot at first&quot . No doubt the state department made sure that happened, get the most ruthless person they could get in charge. In no small part due to elements of Svoboda consisting of oligarchs, so they'd act according to their self-interests.

Svoboda can be marginalized pretty easily when you see a nation which only 0.1% feel discriminated against with regards to their nationality. I mean, do you suddenly start discriminating? Well, we see some ethnic Russians handing flowers and food to their occupiers as discriminating, sure. We see that Moscow marches 10,000 strong with pro-war sentiments are allowed but just a few dozen who march against war? They get beaten and detained. So by that same token, Svoboda, and its elements, could be empowered by Putin's actions.

An ethnic Ukrainian at the shooting end of a Russian invaders gun may not in fact be happy to have it pointed at them (especially black masked invaders whose individual identity is literally masked). The only significant differentiation other than language would be to fall back to some national identity. Same ethnic Ukrainian gets killed, their fellow comrades will look for similar identifiers.

Just like the Moscow police look for said identifiers with pro and anti war marchers.