> You don't understand. Andrew Wilson is just a historian who teaches
> and writes a bunch of books. Chris Doss lives in Moscow for fuck's sake.
Well, just a point of information - here's what Andrew Wilson, historian and author (in fact, professor of Ukrainian Studies), actually says in his conclusion:
> The idea that the West could use its own proxies to
> remove popular regimes (Putin’s personal popularity remains high) that
> lacked
> real opponents (the starting line for the opposition in Belarus was
> much lower
> than in Ukraine; even the candidate of the ‘united opposition’, Uladzimir
> Hancharyk, won only 15.4% in 2001) was misplaced. International aid cannot
> change the basic ‘correlation of forces’, especially when it is mainly
> channelled
> through bureaucratic institutions. Unless there is a genuine domestic mass
> movement, it will have little effect.
The article as a whole doesn't seem very enlightening, though.
SA