Russian PM Medvedev Warns Ukraine's New Leaders They Won't Last

[amandabeech]

57. There is a lot of propaganda out there.

The only thing that seems readily apparent is that Putin doesn't like the new folks or the new situation.

I've done a lot of reading and it is clear to me that there are two problematic parties who may not like each other much but aren't more than 15-20% max of the current government. They are Svboda (sp) and Right Sektor. Right Sektor looks like the more energetic of the two, but neither of them nor the two together have anything close to a majority.

The rest of the government doesn't look frightening to me, although there are probably too many really rich business types for some people in Ukraine.

Some of members of Yanukovich's Party of Regions went over to the opposition and some are MIA.

Yanukovich was thrown out by a vote of about 350 out of 400-something, so it was a sizable majority, although perhaps not as large as necessary under some version of the Ukrainian constitution.

What I think that we are seeing is what was a relatively bloodless revolution by a lot of folks who didn't like Yanu particularly after he turned down the EU offer and went with Putin, and others who are sick to death of the extreme corruption at every level of Ukrainian government and society.

Some Ukrainians, of any and all ethnic and linguistic groups, must look at the EU and see countries operating under the rule of law with little to moderate corruption and a better standard of living. The view to the East may look like more of the same.

Does Russia have a legitimate reason to be concerned. Yes.

Does Russia have a legitimate reason to get involved in another country's internal affairs with any kind of armed individuals, contract or otherwise. No.

I don't know about you, but when there's a very, very noticeable uptick of posts using the words "fascists" and "Nazis" appearing all over the internet at the same time, I tend to be rather skeptical.