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In reply to the discussion: Wikileaks Ukraine cable proves US government knew of fascist threat [View all]Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)117. Yes, as the democratically elected
Rada who fulfilled their duties unlike the President who fled the country
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Wikileaks Ukraine cable proves US government knew of fascist threat [View all]
go west young man
May 2014
OP
Couldn't your question be asked completely in reverse to the Kiev coup?
go west young man
May 2014
#80
Do you support Coup D'etats in Democracies as a way to remove leaders? Should we have done that
sabrina 1
May 2014
#103
There was a coup in Ukraine and a president was installed without the consent of a majority of the
sabrina 1
May 2014
#148
Why is Blackwater in Ukraine? There was a coup, the president is not elected. My question was 'who
sabrina 1
May 2014
#120
There Is No Proof They Are, Ma'am: That Is A Sort Of 'Gish-Gallop', Really
The Magistrate
May 2014
#122
My question was simple, 'who elected the President of Ukraine' and you went off into the parliament
sabrina 1
May 2014
#127
My position in my opinion, is based on a gathering of facts from multiple sources across the globe.
sabrina 1
May 2014
#131
Your Position, Ma'am, Is Neither Consistent, Nor Grounded In Realities Of Governance and Revolution
The Magistrate
May 2014
#133
You can't have it both ways. On the one hand, you claim that the government is 'legitimate because
sabrina 1
May 2014
#134
You Are Attempting To Be Reasonable, Ma'am, But Still Distorting Facts Grotesquely
The Magistrate
May 2014
#147
I am speaking the truth. One doesn't have to struggle too hard to tell the truth. It simply is
sabrina 1
May 2014
#149
There is certainly huge resistance to what normally Democrats would be all over, as they were during
sabrina 1
May 2014
#128
No elected Parliament in a Democratic Nation would condone a Coup of the duly elected President.
sabrina 1
May 2014
#130
'A Rose By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet'! Of course they change their NAME but they still
sabrina 1
May 2014
#132
If they are, it's the same reason they're anywhere else: someone's paying them to be
Recursion
May 2014
#146
Too late for an election AFTER a coup, don't you think? It's clear that at least half the country
sabrina 1
May 2014
#144
"the US is backing and financing extremely violent right wing nationalist fascists"
Zorra
May 2014
#2
I did not see that quote in the post. Did I miss it or is it from somewhere else? n/t
pampango
May 2014
#13
"But supporting a government that also happens to include right-wing fascists is not putting..
Cha
May 2014
#100
People are dying on both sides...that is obvious to the most basic simpleton...
go west young man
May 2014
#60
I would suggest to Putin that annexing eastern Ukraine will bring NATO to his border.
pampango
May 2014
#12
Will that change the fact that the cable is from 2008 and the OP is pro-Russian spin? n/t
ProSense
May 2014
#70
They are still cooperating with NATO on Afghanistan supplies, but in 2010 they also posted their
jakeXT
May 2014
#71
There are different kind of stages of involvement, Sweden for example has participated in NATO
jakeXT
May 2014
#86
Some observers like Kucinich or Cohen didn't trust the military part, maybe Russia did too
jakeXT
May 2014
#88
Well this is what happened with the new 'legitimate' government in Parliment today.
Obnoxious_One
May 2014
#107
For some reason you think that being anti-nazi equates to thinking that America should
Obnoxious_One
May 2014
#109
Yes I call people that burn people alive and murder them animals, read the article from #65.
Obnoxious_One
May 2014
#111