What was a mistake, exactly? The agreement amongst the government with itself that they should all go home and stop fighting and everyone who was in power should remain there?
Or the refusal by the people on the ground to except a raw deal that gives them almost nothing?
Because the people who fought and died didn’t do so just to re-establish the status quo.
They have already had a revolution once where they fell for the whole “government makes agreement with itself on the part of the revolutionaries”, and that didn’t exactly work out for them.
The only region it seems like they have ANY chance of losing here is Crimea, and Crimea will only secede IF Russia backs off, since they have no desire to be part of Russia either.
The only “mistake” here was by Yushchenko to turn this into a civil war, and the politicians who thought they could “negotiate” for people they don’t have any actual control over and who have no intent of listening to them.
