Originally posted by Toad
Election results are challenged everywhere. It even happens here. The key is that the problems are resolved in the courts and the constitutional process, not in the streets with tanks and machine guns.
Well, first of all, Powell should STFU, because he already said that elections will be declared faked if US orange frankenstein puppet will lose. He already supported insurgency in the Ukraine, and didn't say a single word against overthrowing legal authorities in Lvov, while attempts to get autonomy in the East are declared "insurgency and separatism". Double standards, noone expected anything else.
About tanks and machine guns: I am happy that Ukrainians in Kiev are sane people, and didn't start armed riots a week ago, disappointig Yu and his gang who needed blood.
All my friends in Kiev are "tangerine". My family in Chernovtsy is "tangerine" too. I didn't talk to my relatives in Krivoy Rog (Eastern Ukraine, raw iron mines and steel factories) and Simferopol (Crimea), but I think they are pro-Ya.
Both Yu and Ya should be removed from political process. The problem is that Yu can't do this - too much Western money invested in him.
Another thought about the link Fd Ski posted above. I listened to that person, Sergey Markov, in the Russian media. His idea is that the Yu project is made by the US in favour of Poland, "new Europe", against France and Germany. Poland is considered a major US ally, a kind of "Trojan horse" to break EU apart. That's why Euronews suddenly changend opinion 180 degrees, now they call Yuschenko a "leader of liberal-nationalistic opposition, still hoping for Yugoslavian/Georgian-style coup d'etat".
The worst thing about it all is that we can expect anything like that in any country, including Russia