Trading Russia for the EU is trading one body of foreign governance for another. George Soros has become something of a joke in Central Europe and I doubt he holds much sway these days.
I feel that this situation reflects what happens when a sizeable percentage of the population feels that its values are not reflected. Many Ukrainians were fed up with the corruption. You have to wonder if other parts of Europe will experience more of this in the future.
yes i believe so....
you also have to wonder why the U.S. has recently invested 5 billion in the Ukraine and why U.S. top State Department official Nuland said '**** the EU' in a phone conversation with the U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine...?
And the real obscenity in that conversation hasn't been fully covered in the MSM.
This is from a Democracy Now interview of Stephen Cohen by Amy Goodman
"AMY GOODMAN: That’s the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Pyatt, speaking with Victoria Nuland. The significance of what she is saying? She also had gone to Ukraine and was feeding protesters on the front line.
STEPHEN COHEN: Cookies, cookies. Well, here again, the American political media establishment, including the right and the left and the center—because they’re all complicit in this nonsense—focused on the too sensational, they thought, aspect of that leaked conversation.
"She said, 'F— the European Union,' and everybody said, 'Oh, my god! She said the word.' The other thing was, who leaked it? 'Oh, it was the Russians. Those dirty Russians leaked this conversation.'
"But the significance is what you just played.
"What are they doing?
"The highest-ranking State Department official, who presumably represents the Obama administration, and the American ambassador in Kiev are, to put it in blunt terms, plotting a coup d’état against the elected president of Ukraine.
A New Cold War? Ukraine Violence Escalates, Leaked Tape Suggests U.S. Was Plotting Coup | Democracy Now!
It appears unlikely at this point but still possible that NATO and Russia could become militarily involved in Ukraine.
Who gets rich(er) from that possibility?