[lbo-talk] paranoia
Fernando Cassia
fcassia at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 17:23:11 PDT 2009
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Chris Doss<lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Western support does not equate to having orchestrated something. You do not organize a revolution by supplying lawn chairs, tents, and pelmeni, in a country of 50 million people. Lawn chairs, tens, and pelmeni that Tymoshenko, the billionaire (and now traitor, according to Yushchenko, head of Ukraine's highly dysfunctional "it's a tuesday, let's collapse" government), could have supplied out of her back pocket).
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> The Orange Revo was a war between Eastern and Western Ukrainian business clans appealing to the pro- and anti-Russian opinions of their respective regional demographics, not about geopolitics. Geopolitics was made an issue because the respective business groupings hoped to get foreign muscle in on their side, and after the fact because the Bush Administration, which had had no foreign policy successes whatsoever other than Russian (and sub voce Iranian) help in Afghanistan, needed some example to say that its "democracy promotion" policy was working.
Since you have everything already figured out, there's little I can
say. I insist, quickly e-mail all those writers that spread lies about
the color revolutions.
FC
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