It's so patronizing and narcissistic to see Ukraine's struggle for democracy through the lens of whether the US was involved or not. A million people were in the streets, fighting a system where political opponents were jailed on trumped up charged and corruption so endemic as to make Yankuvych's presumed democratic mandate totally invalid. In this case, imperialism is when people like Parry ignore the actual specifics of Ukraines political situation in order to confirm their preconceived theories.
@Farhang. There is no evidence that Nuland was behind this besides the idle speculation offered in this article. As Timothy Snyder said on Democracy Now, all the transcripts do is prove Nuland was not caught up on what was actually happening, and furthermore that her wishes will not be fulfilled as Klitshko is likely to become the next president. The telephone call you mentioned yesterday between Catherine Ashton and the Lithuanian rep also shows nothing besides that there are people like you who think they have "figured it all out," demeaning in the process the 88 deaths of real Ukranians who gave their lives in a series of protests in which over a million people took part. The conspiracy theories presented here can not hold up in face of the multitude of evidence disproving them, such as that the new prime minister is Jewish (Jewish Neo-Nazis?) and the fact that many prominent foreign policy advisors hostile to neoconservatism such as Brezinski have also wished that Ukraine would move into the Western orbit.
It's so patronizing and narcissistic to see Ukraine's struggle for democracy through the lens of whether the US was involved or not. A million people were in the streets, fighting a system where political opponents were jailed on trumped up charged and corruption so endemic as to make Yankuvych's presumed democratic mandate totally invalid. In this case, imperialism is when people like Parry ignore the actual specifics of Ukraines political situation in order to confirm their preconceived theories.
@Farhang. There is no evidence that Nuland was behind this besides the idle speculation offered in this article. As Timothy Snyder said on Democracy Now, all the transcripts do is prove Nuland was not caught up on what was actually happening, and furthermore that her wishes will not be fulfilled as Klitshko is likely to become the next president. The telephone call you mentioned yesterday between Catherine Ashton and the Lithuanian rep also shows nothing besides that there are people like you who think they have "figured it all out," demeaning in the process the 88 deaths of real Ukranians who gave their lives in a series of protests in which over a million people took part. The conspiracy theories presented here can not hold up in face of the multitude of evidence disproving them, such as that the new prime minister is Jewish (Jewish Neo-Nazis?) and the fact that many prominent foreign policy advisors hostile to neoconservatism such as Brezinski have also wished that Ukraine would move into the Western orbit.