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Tommy_Carcetti

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11. Specifically as it relates to Ukraine....

Reply to grahamhgreen (Reply #10)

Fri Mar 21, 2014, 02:58 PM

Mar 2014

...Ukraine's best interests were not being served by the Yanokoych administration, corruption was in your face and out of control, and I believe ordinary Ukrainians realized that and were fed up with that and protested en masse.

This was not an imaginary, made up crisis. This was real.

Now, whether or not certain corporate interests saw benefits to a change in leadership might be legitimate as well, but I believe incidental and secondary to the story being painted by the Ukrainian people themselves.

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Corporate Interests Behind Ukraine Putsch: [View all] grahamhgreen Mar 2014 OP

It's so odd... jeff47 Mar 2014 #1

You mean the government that rejected austerity and 1.5 billion from the EU in favor of grahamhgreen Mar 2014 #5

Ah yes, here comes more odd things. jeff47 Mar 2014 #8

Putin's Own Historical Injustice ProSense Mar 2014 #2

Definition of "putsch": Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2014 #3

Read the article. grahamhgreen Mar 2014 #6

I read it with as open a mind as I possibly could. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2014 #9

Well, the idea is to curtail the power of big corporations because they grahamhgreen Mar 2014 #10

Specifically as it relates to Ukraine.... Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2014 #11

I hate how these creeps cloak themselves in these groups with "freedom" and "democracy" in the name. reformist2 Mar 2014 #4

red flag should go up for all of us whenever "The New Freedom & Democracy Project" is involved 2banon Mar 2014 #7

+1,000 n/t malaise Mar 2014 #12

Of course. Consider, when democracy results in outcomes US interests don't like, closeupready Mar 2014 #13