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Ensiksi Janukovich oli Putinin mies jo 10-vuotta sitten ja myös Jenkeille tehtiin tämä selväksi : Russia has never accepted Ukraine's independence. Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrote in March this year about meeting Putin in 2004: “Vladimir Putin and I were standing in his office at the presidential dacha in late 2004 when (then-Prime Minister Viktor) Yanukovych suddenly appeared from a back room. Putin wanted to get to the point. He’s my man, Ukraine is ours — and don’t forget it."
Länsi mokasi kun ei saanut Eloveenatyttöä tuettua ja mukaan peliin:The first big mistake the West made was a failure to support Yulia Tymoshenko sufficiently in Ukraine's 2010 presidential elections and allow Yanukovych to sneak in. Whilst Tymoshenko has clearly made a fortune from politics, she was far less corrupt than Yanukovych and was making some reforms.
Pakotteet palvelevat Putinia ja hänen sielunmaisemaansa :
Russia is growing, getting stronger and is macho. It is important to understand this – it means that Putin sees sanctions as a test of Russia’s strength and also, as everywhere, allows his cronies to make even more money from overcoming the sanctions. More sanctions means Russia’s resistance to negotiations becomes stronger.
The West thinks there are some basic rules, but as Russian chess grandmaster and anti-Putin activist Garry Kasparov tweeted, "I was playing chess with my 4-year-old daughter and she got bored after four moves and put my queen in her mouth and said “I won.”
Putin’s nightmare would be a free and developing Ukraine as that would inevitably lead to a similar EuroMaidan Revolution in Russia, sooner or later. Putin these days sees Yanukovych as his biggest mistake and is encouraging him to fund the separatists, but will dump him when it'll be necessary.
http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/richard-rozwadowski-putin-is-not-going-to-stop-361144.html
