"we want democracy, like they have in america"

*sigh*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU68dGqLe0Q

what the report is doing is drawing attention to the false dichotomy that is presented in over-simplified news reports. it's not just in ukraine that we see this. we see it essentially anywhere there is public action. the media consistently wants to ignore the actual views of protestors on the ground by folding them into what the political opposition is dictating. the projected perception is that protests are organized by establishment groups in the opposition, in order to carry out their aims. the reality is usually that establishment groups co-opt the protests and use them as an excuse to ram through their already existing ideas.

this is exactly what's happened there. the government that has taken over is a coalition of nationalist extremists (svoboda) and the established conservative party, which is composed of eu-backed bankers and ukrainian oligarchs. they're taking advantage of the situation (in a shock doctrine sort of way) to ram through imf policies designed to loot the country and destroy the economy.

so, a popular revolution? hardly. if the republicans seized power from a democratic administration as a result of escalating street protests, that wouldn't be considered a revolution in america because nothing would have actually changed. likewise, what happened in ukraine was that power was handed over from the left-leaning section of the elite to the right-leaning section of it. the elite remain dominant.

so, what of the people? what do they think? where is their voice, in the crosstalk between factions of the ukrainian elite?

there's been almost complete media silence on the issue.