Chaos, chaos, chaos...
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Chaos, chaos, chaos...
Civil war starting.
One of my good friends has dual citizenship. He just got a draft notice. He's either going to have to renounce his Ukraine citizenship, or lose everything he's worked for here...
Decisions, decisions, decisions...
Damn I'm glad I left that place. My uncle and my dad's best friend report that its business as usual for them and they could give a fuck who wins, one is almost retired, the other works for the Uki National Soccer team, which isn't going to be disbanded anytime soon.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...raine_election
We'll see what happens on the 26th. I think Yuschenko will get it this time. Personally, I don't know. I am from the east and have always considered myself russian, but its a different story for the young people who want their own national identity. So, fuck Putin, go EU, I don't know, its 6 of one, half-dozen of the other.........corruption is rampant in this country. Yuschenko was already fired as prime minister once.....
I'll leave the 'internal analysis' of the Ukranian election to experts like Katrina. However, on the "world stage" there is something more fundamental taking place (or at least there is speculation to that effect).
The premise goes like this. After the terrorist incident involving hundreds of school children and Chechen terrorists, Putin and the Russian gov't/military received a huge 'black eye' for leaving the Russian people so 'vulnerable' to terrorist actions. As a result, Putin began to crack down on future vulnerability to terrorism. However, it is speculated that the method Putin chose to keep the terrorists' heads down in the future was to increase Russian military presence and political control in remote areas and in 'satellite states' to eventually rival that of the former Soviet Union.
Thus it is speculated that the real issue behind the Ukranian election is the question of a de-facto reincorporation of a Ukrainian 'satellite state' into a de-facto neo Soviet Russia, versus establishing a truly independent Ukrainian nation which could be free of former Russian ties (but also potentially more vulnerable to terrorism, but also much more likely to form strong economic and political ties to the EU and 'West').
The issue actually goes even deeper than this, and involves the issue of Muslim populations in many of the 'satellite states' along Russia's southern border not wanting anything at all to do with Russia. The extreme example of Putin's worries in this regard is of course Chechnya, where the fear of 'external' terrorism is supplanted by 'internal' terrorism which is equally violent and extreme.