Finally an Article from a Socialist Paper which spells it all out.

[busterbrown]

Things are not as black and white as everyone seems to think it is around here. The Ukrainian situation is complicated and the fears of the ultra right which overthrew the corrupt Yanukavich
Regime are clearly spelled out in this long but detailed article.



From The Socialist Worker.Org.
by Alan Mass and Lee Sustar

http://socialistworker.org/2014/03/03/threat-of-war-hangs-over-ukraine

[joshcryer]

1. It has its moments.

The canned talking points and revisionist "counterrevolution of Stalinism" aside.

In particular it does, correctly, note that Putin's invasion will have a polarizing effect on the western nationalists, but it falls short of placing that blame on Putin, and neglects that those western nationalists can be marginalized pretty easily since nationality doesn't play as much of a role as Putin lets on.

Which gets to another point, they really play Putin's tone when they scaremonger about the ultranationalist elements in Ukraine proper. They say that Svoboda won 10% of the votes, correct, or 8% of the seats in the Rada. Except they follow it with the propagandistic, "fourth-largest number of seats." Yeah, no shit, after the pro-Russian parties and the Communist Party! Svoboda, then, is a bit player at best.

The only thing lacking from their article is the fact that Svoboda, while politically easily marginalized, is at the head of the military, and thus therefore can escalate Putin's war, without really trying. Already they've called for Russia to disband.

And guess how this ends?