Re: [SycamoreCanyon] Fwd: Violent video: Ukraine TV boss beaten up, forced to resign by far-right Svoboda MPs

I think you're dead wrong, Sam, in consistently blaming Putin -- and, of course, I say this politely.  I think he and Russia have done well to safeguard Crimea, its people, and certainly the always critical warm water port

In fact, over the longer run, Putin's position may well have prevented a regional war.

In the last few weeks, ethnocentrists in the West have consistenly defamed Putin and Russia.  They're having a hard time dealing with a Force that can't be manipulated.  Their rush to endorse the Kiev government may prove embarrasing as the far right elements -- united  by fanaticism and single-minded zeal -- could  very possibly seize a dominant position in the Kiev government.

I certainly join you in wishing for the emergence of a viable Left in the Ukrainian situation.  I'd like to see some public evidence of it.

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  This may sHow the need to help the left there to fight the fascists. (Although maybe they will do it without any help.)



  It also may show how the Russian actions are strengthening the right wing and fascists in Ukraine and maybe the US as well as in Russia.

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