Ukraine crisis: West faces election nightmare

[JackRiddler]

9. How kind of the BBC to understand whose "nightmare" it is...

never mind the Ukrainians, whose elected government was overthrown by a right-wing coup d'etat based on exploiting ethnic conflict. It's "the West" that is now having nightmares, albeit at a convenient remove from the actual blood-spilling on the streets.

Yeah, I can imagine "the West" sees the elections as a nightmare -- since there is of course no guarantee the present government (an unelected government which includes fascists, and which is imposing austerity) would win a legitimate, peaceful election that includes all of the people (who after all voted in a majority for Yanukovich just 3 years ago).

So it's important to make it seem like it's the Russian government that is causing the problem, when there wouldn't have been a problem in the first place if "the West" had not helped engineer the coup d'etat, and had simply waited for the country's next regular elections.