SportsAndLady;1571011 wrote:^have you been keeping up with this story at all?
Yes.
SportsAndLady;1571011 wrote:The American media won't air this story, so it's easy to see how one could look at a citizen throwing a molotov cocktail at a police officer and think they are bad people, but try reading up on what the Ukrainian government is doing to their people, then let us know if you still don't say "fuck the police".
The story is out there. Just not a lot of interest in the US. Many Americans would be stunned to know that the Ukraine is an independent nation and not a machine that lifts things.
The guy that became president after the last revolution less than a decade ago (a man physically scarred by poison meant to kill him by political opposition) was run out of office a few years back when he could not even get double digit support. But who knows because Ukrainian politics is rife with corruption. Just saying a lot of chaos in that country.
The Ukraine has a large ethnic Russian minority. Then you have Sevastopol and the Black Sea Fleet. Russia has natural gas and knows how to use it. What you have here is a conflict between the people of Ukraine and Western and Russian national interests. Many want closer ties to NATO and Europe. Others want closer ties to Russia. The current president is ethnic Russian and is pushing closer ties with Russia.
My sympathies would lie with the opposition. This current crop of "protesters" lack leadership and organization. Throwing petrol bombs against the police or military that is not acting with lethal force is foolish. They look like rioters at this point.
