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In reply to the discussion: Wikileaks Ukraine cable proves US government knew of fascist threat [View all]The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)Two government employ lethal force to crush dissent. You consider that, in one instance, this shows that government is illegitimate, while in the other, you consider it does not, and in fact, you continue to state that government is the legitimate government. It sounds rather like people maintaining the K.M.T. on Taiwan were the real government of China, and made no more sense in a rightist politician's mouth then than it does in your's today.
There is nothing illegitimate about a revolutionary government, as you seem to imagine. It is fairly hard to trace back the history of governments in the world today very far before find yourself in a revolution, with most of the exceptions being instances where a foreign power imposed a government.
In Ukraine, the previous president made a bid to crush dissent by force, lost, and fled. This does not in an y way discredit the elected Parliament, which appointed a care-taker to handle affairs of state until an election could be held. A foreign power then seized a portion of the country by force, and secured a secessionist movement in another portion of it, with the intent of further annexation. These are the facts of the matter, they are not statements of opinion.
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