The Orange Revolution was neither a CIA plot, nor did it gain anything for Ukraine, the government of which collapses every couple of months. If it was anybody's plot, it was that of the highly organized Western Ukrainian nationalists and nationalist Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and the United States.
--- On Thu, 6/18/09, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/a-green-revolution-for-iran/?ref=world
>
> "But while the gains of the orange-bedecked "chestnut
> revolution" are
> Ukraine's, the campaign is an American creation, a
> sophisticated and
> brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass
> marketing
> that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try
> to salvage
> rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes.
>