OK, people, something really strange just happened. I read a good, intelligent article in English about Ukraine. Does it mean I’m only thinking I have waken up and this is still just a dream?
Here is an excerpt from the article:
This crisis is not about an American power play in the former Soviet Union— indeed, it often seems as if President Barack Obama privately wishes Ukraine’s democracy revolution would just fade away. This is entirely about the Ukrainian people’s decision that they were no longer willing to live in an authoritarian kleptocracy—and the annexation and invasion of their territory that was the Kremlin’s response. Ukraine could only have avoided this struggle by not choosing democracy, or by failing in the effort to build it.
And it is well-written, too. What is happening all of a sudden? Of course, the author of the piece is a Canadian journalist who has a Ukrainian mother, but still it was published at Politico, which is a very popular resource. Might things not be as bad as I thought? Might there be not entirely brain-dead people outside of this blog?
Here is some more:
Ukraine’s second success is its unprecedented degree of national unity. That reality is obscured by the lazy shorthand that often frames the conflict in eastern Ukraine as a Yugoslav-style civil war, driven by ancient cultural, linguistic and religious divisions. In fact, the fight in Ukraine is almost entirely a political and even ideological struggle. This isn’t about Russian speakers vs. Ukrainian speakers—an absurd idea in a country so at ease with its nearly universal bilingualism that everything from television interviews to jokes to parliamentary debates are conducted in an easy back-and-forth between Ukrainian and Russian.
The dividing line in what Ukrainians call their “dignity revolution” is instead the choice between Western liberal democracy and the Kremlin’s neo-authoritarianism.
Thank God, and it has only taken forever to see a North American media outlet manage to find a journalist capable of writing intelligently about Ukraine. And this is a journalist who actually lived in Ukraine and speaks the language, unlike all of the little shits who can’t find the country on the map yet blab stupidly and incessantly like the vicious losers they are about matters they would never understand.
Of course, the comments to the piece are populated by illiterate Putinbots who get paid by the word to spam intelligent articles about Ukraine.
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