Ukraine Revolutionaries Bitter About Crimea Loss And Kiev Incompetence -- Jamie Dettmer, Daily Beast
As the Crimean military pulls out of Russian-occupied Ukraine, angry criticism targets the failures of the Kiev government.
KIEV, Ukraine—The new leaders in Ukraine are facing a public backlash over the country’s loss of Crimea even as concerns grow that the Maidan Revolution of 2014 could suffer the same the fate as the Orange Revolution of 2004, prelude to an orgy of looting, graft and manipulation by the powerful and privileged.
Elections meant to choose a new, more permanent government are still two months away, and by then the credibility of the revolution’s political leaders could be shot, leaving the United States and Europe with, at best, uncertain allies in their standoff with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
The loss of Crimea and the formal withdrawal of Ukrainian military forces from the strategic Black Sea peninsula already has forced the resignation of the country’s interim defense minister. Igor Tenyukh left office Tuesday amid charges that he had failed to issue clear instructions to troops, leaving it to individual army commanders and warship captains in Crimea to make their own decisions about how to handle the explosive standoffs with the Russian military and Kremlin-backed “self-defense forces.”
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My Comment: What makes them even more bitter is the realization that the mass majority of Ukrainians do not (and never did) support their nationalistic goals .... and in the elections that are now slated for May there is a growing consensus that they are only going to get a small fraction of the vote. As to the other issues .... how to handle eastern Ukraine, the culture of corruption that is now endemic in Ukraine, developing a sound political/economic/national security strategy .... this is all being left to the government that will be elected in May .... a two month delay that these revolutionaries are having trouble digesting.
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