"Protest leaders said Wednesday that they would propose Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the country's new prime minister."

translated: western backed parliamentary forces that falsely claim to represent the protestors have put forward an old, corrupt bureaucrat to establish a quasi puppet state.

what's going to be interesting is to see whether:

1) the right coalition can even win the upcoming election
2) if it's fair to begin with
3) if they do win and it's fair if it sets off a counter-protest
4) what kind of influence the smaller fascist parties play in the larger coalition.

'cause, if i was a crimean tatar, it would be the fourth of these things i'd be concerned about - and really the only reason i could see going out to protest, as an ethnic group.

whatever the oil princess' faults were, she was generally considered a kleptocratic neocon on the soft right. this new coalition is a different animal and produces some legitimate cause for concern.

do i think the western media would go that far? yes. i also think it could be that badly misinformed, by pure accident.

again: intuition, let's see what reports come in.

clearest precedent: georgian invasion. i think the western media still thinks the russians launched an attack, rather than responded to a provocation.

which of course is why the russian military is prowling. i think it's very unlikely they'd strike first. i think it's certain they'd take advantage of a provocation.