The celebrations of the ouster of President Yanukovych among Ukraine’s protesters may be short-lived, as they find the jailed and recently released Yulia Tymoshenko consolidating power with a depressingly familiar cast of characters.
“The problem is that the old forces are trying to come back to take their old chairs,” noted one protester, while another declared “Tymoshenko is just Putin in a skirt.”
Protesters who thought they were signing on for a “revolution” are rapidly realizing that all they’ve managed to do is replace an unpopular government that won the 2010 elections with the equally unpopular government they replaced.
Supports of Yanukovych in eastern Ukraine are a bit more relieved by this. While they’re irked by Tymoshenko’s apparent takeover, with so many open neo-Nazi supporters in the Kiev protests, it could’ve been much worse.
Still, with Russia, the US and the EU driving Ukraine’s politics, all votes are going to be split roughly down the middle between the two predictable factions, with everything hinging on a couple of percentage points either way.
fighting and protesting seem useless tactics when the end result will be the men and women continuing to go right back into "old habits" we fight for freedom all over the world but real freedom is when we choose to discard the ancient relic of more and cost. we can plant food, engineer green technologies and have internet everywhere. we just need to let go of money and it's grip over us. AND NEVER REPLACE IT WITH TRADE BARTER OR ANYTHING. JUST FREE.
fighting and protesting seem useless tactics when the end result will be the men and women continuing to go right back into "old habits" we fight for freedom all over the world but real freedom is when we choose to discard the ancient relic of more and cost. we can plant food, engineer green technologies and have internet everywhere. we just need to let go of money and it's grip over us. AND NEVER REPLACE IT WITH TRADE BARTER OR ANYTHING. JUST FREE.
BS. Tymoshenko is NOTHING like Putin.
The gas princess is purely in it for herself.
No wonder these "protesters" have had their western sponsored "revolution" co-opted by Banderist neo-Nazis. The reality is that if Ukraine had a leader remotely anything like Putin, they likely wouldn't be in the mess that they're in today. She would've thrown the vermin out on their asses just as Putin did in the early 2000's in Russia. Tymoshenko IS a tool of the oligarchs and will do nothing to compromise their grip on the country.
Just another protester suckered by the western anti-Putin propaganda campaign.
Revolutions never work! So it's not unusual that people should be disappointed when the miracle doesn't happen overnight. I would guess that people would prefer Vitali Klitchko. No one seems to have unearthed any dirt on him and as a sports figure, he is well known both in and out of Ukraine (he and his brother have been doing TV commercials in Western Europe for years!).
Paul Craig Roberts has an excellent column on this subject at: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/02/24/ukraine-c…
My fear is that the average person in Ukraine will be no better off then before. Love to be proven wrong, but I have my doubts.