Just a reminder: George W. Bush tried to get Georgia and Ukraine into NATO, but the leftwingnuts in NATO refused to allow it.
Russia looks at Obama’s regime as inept, lacking guts, and incapable of decisive action.
It’s absolutely right.
The Ukraine president is kissing up to the oppressive politburo in Moscow, and the citizens of Ukraine don’t take kindly to that.
A rundown of key events in Ukraine’s political crisis:
Nov. 21: President Viktor Yanukovych’s government announces it is abandoning an agreement to strengthen ties with the European Union and is instead seeking closer co-operation with Moscow. Protesters take to the streets.
Nov. 30: Images of protesters bloodied by police truncheons spread quickly and galvanize public support for the demonstrations.
Dec. 1: A protest attracts around 300,000 people on Kyiv’s Independence Square, known as the Maidan, the largest since the 2004 Orange Revolution. Activists seize Kyiv City Hall.
Dec. 17: Russian President Vladimir Putin announces Moscow will buy $15 billion worth of Ukrainian government bonds and cut the price Ukrainians pay for Russian natural gas.
Jan. 22: Three protesters die during a confrontation between police and demonstrators manning barricades.
Jan. 28: In concessions to the opposition, the prime minister resigns and parliament repeals harsh anti-protest laws that set off the violence.
Feb. 16: Opposition activists end their occupation of Kyiv City Hall in exchange for the release of all 234 jailed protesters.
Feb. 18: Protesters attack police lines and set fires outside parliament after it stalls on a constitutional reform to limit presidential powers. Riot police respond to the violence by trying to push protesters off Independence Square. At least 26 people die and hundreds are injured.
Feb. 20: Hours after a truce is announced, violence resumes, with government snipers shooting protesters from the roofs. Most of the 82 deaths occur on this day.
Feb. 21: Under a European-mediated plan, protest leaders and Yanukovych agree to form a new government and hold an early election. Parliament slashes his powers and votes to free his rival, Yulia Tymoshenko, from prison. Yanukovych flees Kyiv after protesters take control.
Feb. 22: Parliament votes to remove Yanukovych and hold new elections. Tymoshenko is freed and addresses tens of thousands on the Maidan.
Feb. 23: Ukraine’s parliament assigns presidential powers to its new speaker, Oleksandr Turchinov, an ally of Tymoshenko. The new authorities ask the West for loans to avoid an imminent default. Pro-Russia protesters start rallying against the new authorities in Crimea, where Russia has a major naval base.
Feb. 24: Ukraine’s interim government draws up a warrant for Yanukovych’s arrest. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev derides the new leaders in Kyiv as “Kalashnikov-toting people in black masks.”
Feb. 26: Leaders of Ukraine’s protest movement propose legislator Arseniy Yatsenyuk as prime minister. In Moscow, Putin orders major military exercises just across the border.
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