Aww, why the referendum now, Yoshi? It's probably a good idea to actually understand a little bit better what's actually going on.
It was on Feb 20, 2014 when snipers opened fire at the protests in Kiev. Immediately people blamed Yanukovich for the attack but we know better now, don't we?
The snipers opened fire on the protesters
and police. The snipers fired on both sides. But who was responsible for that?
We know now that it was the new coalition government behind the shootings and the US and EU diplomats know this. On March 5, 2014 a phone conversation between EU foreign policy chief Cathy Ashton and Estonia's foreign minister Urmas Paet was leaked. Here is the transcript of that conversation-
Urmas Paet: "All the evidence shows that the people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among police men and people in the street, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides."
Cathy Ashton: "Well that's, yeah..."
Urmas Paet: "And she also showed me some photos and she said that has medical doctor, she can say that it is the same handwriting..."
Cathy Ashton: "Yeah..."
Urmas Paet: "Same type of bullets... and it's really disturbing that now the new coalition, that they don't want to investigate what exactly happened. So that there is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition."Now who would be so evil to do such a thing? The new government in Kiev won't investigate the shootings, so who is in this coalition government?
The most powerful contingent in the coalition government is Svoboda. These are extreme racist, neo nazi thugs, and that's no exaggeration, look into it yourself.
They want to cleanse Ukraine of Muscovite Jewry, their words.
The leader of Svoboda is Oleh Tyahnybok and has openly targeted Jews and Russians in Ukraine many times previously. In 2004 Tyahnybok was kicked out of Viktor Yushenko's government because Tyahnybok called for Ukrainians to rise up and drive the Muscovite Jewry from the country.
In 2005 Tyahnybok sent an open letter to the Ukraine leadership titled- "Stop the Criminal Activities of Organised Jewry". Look it up, you can read the letter for yourself if you like.
In 2012 the EU passed a resolution condemning Svoboda, as "racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic", but the US continues to back Svoboda. We know this is true because if you go back and listen to the leaked tape of Victoria Nulland saying "f*ck the EU". If you listen to the rest of the tape she's discussing putting Tyahnybok in power in the new government and that the US would back him.
The EU on the other hand, well, they did after all condemn Svoboda did they not? Hence "f*ck the EU" from Nulland as the EU balks at Svoboda.
The US thinks she can control these fuckers. We shall see I suppose, except Russia isn't going to take a chance on it.
Also to mention, Alexander Muzychko, whom Nulland can be heard favoring putting him into some high government position, has vowed to fight against "Jews, communists and Russian scum" for as long as he lives. No wonder the US is backing him! Can one start to see from Russia's POV yet? I would hope so, but lets go further, Yoshi.
In March the US put out this statement about Svoboda-
"Since entering the Ukrainian Parliament in October 2012, the Svoboda leadership has been working to take their party in a more moderate direction and to become a modern, European mainstream political party, The leadership has been much more vigilant about expelling or otherwise punishing individual members who engage in xenophobic behavior or rhetoric."The US had to say something, people have found out who is behind the "peaceful" protesters who burned Kiev square and seized power by the point of a bayonet. But we see that the US acknowledges that they are working with a known, extremist neo nazi party, but they're "getting better" so they say. Let's look into that, shall we?
And then there is Right Sektor, the largest far right political group in Ukraine. Between Right Sektor and Svoboda they hold five senior posts in the Ukraine coalition government, including the Deputy Prime Minister and Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of Right Sektor, is the Deputy Secretary of National Security.
These are extremists, racists, violent people who have it out for Jews, Russians and anyone not Ukrainian. It's no wonder that Crimea and the Eastern Ukraine fear these people.
Tyahnybok ran for President back in 2010, take a look at the results regarding him-
Crimea and the East don't like the guy at all. And he and his allies have taken over the government in Kiev, by force.
It's understanding who these people are, what they represent and who is opposed to them, then you start weeing exactly why Russia is pissed, why Crimea wants this referendum now, not in a year from now, not ten years ago, but now, because the situation for them has changed drastically. There are groups in power in Kiev that would have never won an election on their own because they are too radical, extreme and violent, they had to seize power.
You can look on the interwebz, good ole McCain the blubbering idiot met with Tyahnybok, I should post the pictures of him shaking hands with the racist asshole.
But we in the US (and Canada it appears) gets the watered down version of who these people are. But it's all in the public record. Look into Svoboda, it's leaders, Right Sektor and then come back and say "Yeah, I support those guys". Be sure to read all their anti Jew hate literature, don't forget to look into their calls to violently attack ethnic Russians in Ukraine. Don't forget to take a gander at the BBC's expose Svoboda back in 2012 along with the EU's official condemnation of the group who is the most powerful player in the new government in Kiev.
That's who you are backing, so just be sure you take ownership of backing racists bastards who preach killing Jews, Russians and anyone else who they feel in undesirable and don't belong in the Ukraine.
It's not like the US hasn't back terrorist extremists in the past <cough> Syria, Libya <cough>. It's the same MO as before, but this time is different. Yeah....right.....
Oh, and the original question I asked, who was responsible for those horrible sniper attacks on Feb 20, 2014 in Kiev? Svoboda and Right Sektor. All evidence points straight to them. But since they control the government in Kiev, they have little to fear from anyone and the crimes won't be investigated.
Nice. And that's who you are backing! Murdering scum!
83.5% voter turnout and 93% of them voted for merger with Russia, all western politicians can dream of such high voters percentage. Interesting but good part of nonRussians also voted for merger with Russia.
