Yanukovich could have done the same, and remained in power today. He would have benefited that way. He chose not to murder his own countrymen
OK... except he did murder them.
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I am biased. You are biased. So is everyone else. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar.
Sure, however a moderator of a discussion, except when playing devils advocate and supporting the weaker side, should attempt to control (or at least hide) their own bias. Or, at least, that's my opinion.
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The role of the moderator is to keep discussions moderate, and to keep a control over things, such as, but not limited to, abusive language, personal attack, dishonesty (reporting one post, making a public accusation, and when asked to quote the post in public, quoting a different post - rings a bell?).
Of course I remember when you accussed me of being dishonest. You asked me to quote you verbatim (one of the many terms you use that you clearly don't understand) about your claims that Poles were Nazis, which I did. You then called me a liar, semi-literate and banned me.
To be honest, I'm done with you.
I do have some vague sympathy for you and Hello10, as I myself have lived in a countries with strange cultures. But, the obstacles and misunderstanding I've faced in these countries have forced to improve myself and expand my mind and weren't the fault of those countries.
To repeat that: NOT THE FAULT OF THE COUNTRY I WAS LIVING IN.
There are millions of Indians who would love to be living in America (or Australia as Hello10) and then there is you...
Like I said, vague sympathy, but realistically you're a little Napolean, drunk on a smidgen of (online, virtual) power. Hello10's opinions were, at least, interesting, but yours are just half baked conspricacy's and your "knowledge" is either laughably wrong, or very dubious (or copy-pasted from wiki).
I've wasted too many valuable seconds of my life on you. I'm sticking you on my ignore list so I don't have to waste my time being exposed to anything you have to say.
Das Bidanja Obergruppenführer Pmaitra
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Taken as a trophy: 2 tanks T34
Awesomeness. Respect to the insurgents if they can get those to run and find(/make) ammunition for the gun.
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Hey...lets be fair and leave all the insecurity 'moderator role' crap........
BUT WAIT...YOU ARE ALSO A PART OF NATO !!!
This is one reason enough to ignore your rants. Perhaps you do not know why you automatically qualify to be ignored ?? Quite simple.....self-centeredness.
And the stupidity of Pro Russian commentators on this thread continues.
Since when has Australia been part of NATO? Do you know what the N, A, T and O stand for? Have you ever seen a map?
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As soon as i saw McCain in Maidan plaza everything was clear, nothing more to say. Mix it with a bit of Mittel-europe from german side and everything is ready, it is like seeing Croatia and the mark affair again.
Worse side of this is that we would have never let Ukraine inside EU . US must be really happy about their future petroleum export now that it is allowed(coincidence? no idea, lybia,syria,iraq ISIL look like a correlation but it doesn't mean there is casualty).
Some interesting tin foil hat stuff here. What was the "mark affair"? Could explain some about what you mean by petroleum export? Do you maybe mean US imports, instead?
While some commentators on this thread seem to, massively, misunderstand the EU, don't think the Ukriane's current government does. They must know they've totally screwed their chances (in the short/medium term) for EU membership. Suspect they've decided maintaining the Ukraine's territorial integrity is more important.
Did Merkel actually use the term Mitteleuropa?