Ukraine crisis: Crimea airports occupied

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53. Morsi supporter, are we?

Or perhaps an avid fan of Assad?

Qaddhafi?

It gets old. At some point when there's an uprising, however biased and partial, and the guy in charge breaks agreements and bugs out it must be admitted that there's been a revolution. If it's a small number, it's a coup, but if there's a persistent influx of people and widespreadalbeit not unanimous support for the ouster, it's a revolution.

Morsi. Qaddhafi. Pinochet. Tsar Nicholas II.

Otherwise we'd had been feted with celebrations of the Russian Coup of 1917 and the Venezuelan putsch that brought Chavez to power.

Although in Morsi's case, as well as others, I'm open to the idea that the revolution was orchestrated and the populace played by those who wanted a coup and, in the end (but only in the end) the revolution devolved into a coup.

If you like, we can call this one the UV Revolution, a "color" revolution that is beyond the visible spectrum. After all, UV is at the end opposite "red" in the spectrum (which is ambiguous between "communist" and "Republican&quot .