General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Ukraine's former President &Prime Minister to formalize and strengthen alliance with Neo-Nazi groups [View all]The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)Then you might have something.
For I have had occasion to explain that, despite a good deal of hyperventilation and regurgitation of Russian propaganda, the government in Kiev is not dominated by neo-nazi fascists, nor do these types represent a great slice of Ukraine's population. The item being flogged above actually illustrates this: Yatsenyuk thought he was going to be standard-bearer of a real political party, the Fatherland party, in which he had been a functionary, but they went with their real, long-term leader, Ms. TYmoschenko, as most anyone could have predicted. Yatsenyuk bolted, and has sold himself as a figurehead to a collection of extreme nationalists, because no one else would have him. Neither he nor they will get much benefit from it.
As to your numbered points, I am not willing to expend the energy to go over what actually happened yet again, at this moment; I have other things to do. Even if one were to accept your presentation as fact ( which in most instances it really is not ), it remains the case that Russia has no right to political and economic dominance over Ukraine, that Russia is engaged in an overt war of aggression by any standard definition of the term in Ukraine, and that Russia is an imperialist and fascist power. Further, it is a fact that a large majority of the population in Ukraine prefers closer ties to the EU than to Russia.