Ukraine's natural resources may be important to many,
Indeed, and I'll get to that below.
Russia's deal was a death sentence to Ukraine as a nation (and btw, the deal they accepted was from the EU not the US, but you said US because you like to pretend you're smart and know stuff).
The "deal" they took is with the IMF which is an instrument of US financial power. Russia was offering them a much better deal on their debts but the IMF has demanded extreme austerity as part of its loan package (which the Russian loan package did not demand) and will doubtless require natural resource concessions also as IMF loans often do. Being a basket case Ukraine didn't have good options, but the Russian bailout was definitely better than the terms the new government took on.
And as for your comment about the Nazis, well, it just helps burry your credibility that much more. [...] The claim that Kiev is run by Nazis is just as accurate as a claim that Russia is run by Nazis. The fact is that in the past presidential elections the right wing ultra nationalists got less than 2% of the vote making them less popular that what is typical in the rest of Europe.
Svoboda did much better than that. Yes, the party that started off as the "Social-National Party of Ukraine" gained 37 seats in the 2012 elections. After lending muscle to the Euromaiden riots the right wingers were rewared, like Andriy Parubiy, who lead the anti-government protests apparently and was a co-founder of The Social-Nationalist Party and was appointed Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (until his recent resignation). Ihor Miroshnychenko, who famously showed up in a video trying to smack a resignation out of the head of National Television in Ukraine got to be Deputy head of the Parliament's Committee on Freedom of Speech.
In December 2012, the European Parliament expressed concern regarding Svoboda's growing support, recalling "that racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic views go against the EU's fundamental values and principles," and appealed "to pro-democratic parties in the Verkhovna Rada not to associate with, endorse or form coalitions with" Svoboda.
Thirty members of the Israeli Knesset condemned the party in a signed letter addressed to the President of the European Parliament. In the letter the Israeli politicians accused Svoboda of "openly glorifying Nazi murder" and "Nazi war criminals". In May 2013 the World Jewish Congress labelled the party as "neo-Nazi" and called for European governments to ban them.
But since their great use in the toppling of the pro-Russian government the US has declared them much nicer now, thank you very much.
So why do you continue to refer to the government in Kiev as Nazis? Oh yeah, because you're a lying piece of garbage.
They don't form the whole government, but nor did Hitler's Nazi party, when he first got in. It was very much a minority party but they let Hitler get his hands on a little too much power and then ... well, we know what happened. Similarly the, OK, let's not call them neo-Nazis because they have all grown out of that by now, I'm sure, right? so let's just call them the far right or nationalists ... they managed to
get themselves into some power positions after the Maidan. Now there's been some cleanup after the fact like the liquidation of Muzychko and there have been some "resignations" as well.
We'll have to see what the 2015 elections bring. Will the pain from austerity increase the popularity of the radical right? Will the losses of forced conscripts in the war against the east sour the people on the nationalists?
(By the way, the UN acknowledges that the death toll in the east has
doubled in the last two weeks to 2000)
