Umm, we can blame W. for many things but not for jailing a guy three years after he left office.
Exactly, I blame the Obama administration. Yet another authoritarian regime that’s puppeted by the vastly corrupt military-industiral complex.
You’re the one that moved the goalposts and shifted to GW Bush. I’m talking about the United States government, not just GW Bush. Hence my initial statement, “…some of the things you’re saying can very well be said about the USA as well.”
GW Bush does not equal the entire USA, but I think we’re really getting off track here.
The Yushchenko government was not and has never been democratically elected. Yushchenko changed the election law between the first and second round of voting, a move that was obviously designed to enable vote fraud.
I think that’s probably where Cohen goes very awry. He claimed here that Yanukovich’s government was elected into office in an election that “by all accounts was free and fair”. That’s obviously untrue and Cohen should have at least mentioned Yulia Tymoshenko’s allegations, etc. and had a valid counterpoint for it.
It did go to the Higher Administrative Court which reminds me of Bush vs. Gore and the Supreme Court fiasco.
The 2000 election was stolen but that was only possible because it was close.
Wasn’t the Yanukovich election fairly close as well? Again… reminds of the bastion of freedom, the USA.
Anyway, I think Stephen Cohen is suspicious of the timing of some of this stuff considering all the outside influence and I can’t blame him there. And, as I said, I tend to think this is all a complex mess and as someone else in this thread mentioned, it seems similar to Syria as well.
I tend to agree with you that Cohen needs to offer a bigger picture for some of his assertions, but I also tend to agree with Cohen that there may be far more death and destruction with western meddling as well and perhaps even bigger problems with Russia and the U.S., etc. along with it.
