Comments on: Ukraine Remains Divided after Runoff Election (1)

By: jema54

jema54 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:58:37 +0000

I do agree with everything you said @ 8;37, Cunctator; when Mr. Yushchenko lost . all freedom loving Ukrainians lost – it is the choice of the better of two very bads, IMO.

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:42:28 +0000

The US networks are reporting the election was closely monitored and “clean” but time will tell…

By: Cunctator

Cunctator — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:37:43 +0000

I’m sorry Jack, but Tymoshenko is major part of the problem in Ukrainian politics today. She is not pro-Western by inclination, and will, if necessary, tilt toward Moscow if that would secure her victory. Her ambition and ego, and a rather questionable competence in office, is one of the reasons why the Orange Revolution failed to achieve any substantive effects in Ukraine.

That said, Yanukovych is a thug — very clever, but very brutish. He will tilt to Moscow only to the degree that it does not undermine his own authority.

In Ukraine, none of the political leaders where white hats.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:20:55 +0000

I've put up in the sidebar Mike Wallace's interview with Palin yesterday . It's interesting. And here's a point: Sarah is like one of those video games kids like to play. Every time she is attacked she grows stronger and right about now she looks like a 600 lb gorilla hovering over the US president. In the Ukraine Yulia is in exactly the same position. We'll see how it goes but my view is that we are looking at the Orange Revolution -- Phase Two.