Robust (partial) response by the Ukraine
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Ukrainian police and interior ministry special forces evicted protesters from the Kharkiv regional administration on Tuesday in a bloodless dawn raid, arresting about 70 people.
But by nightfall separatists still held the regional administration building in Donetsk and the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) building in Luhansk, both of which have been fortified with barricades.
Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ate-chaos.html
Being WEIRD and PMR goes the Crimean way
Professor John Schindler has two excellent commentaries on current events on his invaluable blog site:http://20committee.com/
Yesterday 'Putinism and the Anti-WEIRD Coalition', ah what is WEIRD? In part:
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I’ll elaborate what Putinism actually is, but before I do, it’s important to understand why President Obama and countless other Westerners cannot see what is right before them. Putin and the Kremlin actively parrot their propaganda, they are doing anything but hide it, yet we still cannot make it out.
This is simply because we are WEIRD. That’s social science shorthand for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic – and nobody is WEIRDer than Americans. In the last several decades many Americans, and essentially all our elites, have internalized a worldview based on affluence, individualism, and secularism that makes us unique, globally speaking. So much so that we seem unable to comprehend that there actually are opposing viewpoints out there.
Link:http://20committee.com/2014/04/07/pu...ird-coalition/
Today he has an update on East Switzerland, a model country Transdniestria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR). OK get a map, I meant East Switzerland in jest.:eek::D
The real comment is entitled 'After Crimea, is Transdniestria Next?':http://20committee.com/2014/04/08/af...dnistria-next/
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