The parallels are almost eerie. In both cases the elected president
(Yanukovych in Ukraine, Trump here) is regarded by the foreign policy
establishment as corrupt. In both cases the president's original
election was regarded as tainted--in Yanukovych's case by suspicions of
vote rigging, in Trump's case by charges of foreign meddling. In both
cases the villain is Russia. In both cases there is a big underlying
policy dispute that calls forth intense passions: In Ukraine, it was
whether the country would look West or East. In the US it's how
vigorously to resist aggressive Russian attempts to restore the former
Soviet empire in Ukraine and elsewhere.
And in both cases, victory means tossing aside the results of a
national vote. Ukraine’s "Revolution of Dignity" might not have been
legal under Ukraine’s constitution — but hey, that's why they call it a
revolution. Convulsions in foreign countries that bring better,
pro-Western rulers to power are rightly applauded by Americans.
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