Ukraine crisis: West faces election nightmare

[JackRiddler]

11. My, sounds like a mirror image of what happened in Kiev...

a few weeks earlier, when a combination of neoliberals and right-wingers, working with explicitly fascist forces on the street, overthrew the elected government.

They too occupied buildings and called themselves the only legitimate government, held "democratic" votes, etc. And on the first day after taking power in parliament, they banned Russian as a state language! And then they were shocked, shocked, that Russians thought of this as an ethnic antagonism rather than a totally legitimate move of "the people."

Incredible how "the West" helps to light the fire and then sees only the response on the other side, rather than the illegitimacy of the side "the West" has backed.