Ukraine: Five facts and fallacies you need to know about the US-Nato drive to war

[Man from Pickens]

40. That's not quite how it went down

The decision was made by a rump parliament with the eastern regions not represented in an environment of mob violence, in a manner not consistent with existing law. The current PM was put into office on the heels of an election in which the eastern provinces were not represented; before that there were zero elections to affirm the democratic legitimacy of the post-coup government.

The elephant in the room is the IMF's promise of much-needed billions to the government in Ukraine - if and only if it went to war to secure the eastern provinces.

What the current government is doing - trying to impose itself by force on regions in which it is not wanted, regions which had no input in selecting that government - is more akin to conquest than to putting down a rebellion.

Ultimately the democratic solution is for the people in those regions to make their own decision as to what their future looks like. NATO, the State Dept., EU bigwigs, natgas speculators and various other foreign interests are in the way of that outcome.

Here are some additional details of which one would not be aware from Western "mainstream" news outlets, but are true nonetheless: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/05/chronology-of-the-ukrainian-coup/