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In reply to the discussion: Putin ready to invade Ukraine, troops seize Crimea [View all]okaawhatever
(9,565 posts)The mechanism for impeachment was designed to be almost impossible and is also quite lengthy. Also the comparison to the tea party assumes a minority party taking over, in this case it was the exact opposite. Ethnic Russians only make up 17% of the population. Many more than that speak Russian but there is no where near an ethnic Russian majority in Ukraine. Even on the Crimea, which is the only area that even has a majority of ethnic Russians, they only have 58.5%.
As to the language issue, the 2014 language bill may have been overreaching but so was the one passed under Yanukovych. The 2012 bill was questionable on constitutional grounds as well.
About taking power and changing parliament, Yanukovych did the same thing. The Orange Revolution saw a change in the constitution to reduce the powers of the President. What happened shortly after taking office? He had "his" judges find that change unconstitutional and so he was given powers the voters didn't think he would have when they elected him. Not to mention his change in the rules of coalition and ignoring the constitution which says to form a coalition you need party alignment, you can't pick individual members out for alignment. He ignored that to form a coalition. If Ukraine had remedies to allow the citizens to challenge the corruption in the court system it's safe to say this wouldn't have happened. They had a corrupt President who was ignoring years of agreement and planning on the EU AA deal (not to mention majority support for it) and was going to sign another deal which didn't offer any details. The EU AA was a public offering, it's on the internet. All the sudden they're supposed to sign their future away because the President changed his mind?
Please...........