Quote (Goomshill @ 22 Apr 2022 08:00)
What criminal power was that? The lawfully, freely and fairly elected legitimate democratic government? The one representing the will of the people and the interests of Ukrainian society? The one declared criminal by the autocratic regime that overthrew it in a foreign-backed coup d'etat, who ended national democracy in the country and then ended all democracy in the country, who banned the opposition and seized state media and employs actual Nazi death squads to kill journalists and dissidents?
For contrast, I'd say that ISIS had a more legitimate claim to governance than the Zelensky regime does right now. ISIS represented the legitimate will of the common people of Iraq and Syria, the majority of their population. They were formed by the revolution against undemocratic, autocratic powers that had suppressed the Sunni extremists. Once the yoke of the Ba'athists was removed, the average Iraqi and Syrian was happy to support a caliphate on the promise of sex slaves, butchering shias and kurds and yazidis and launching holy war against the west. ISIS didn't overthrow legitimate democracies, they overthrew dictators and foreign puppet governments. I'm sure if they ever held a truly free and fair election, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi would have won it. Until Delta Force send him a care package (in an operation supported by Russia, gee)
It was misguided idealists (charitable interpretation) who opened the door to regressive extremists in the mideast getting the representation they wanted after the Arab Spring. It took a cynical pragmatist to acknowledge that global society is better off with the boot on their neck. But what ideals were we pursuing when we backed 'all layers of society and protesters' from exclusively in the west of Ukraine to overthrow the democratic government elected by the more populous eastern oblasts, then plundered the country by replacing its russian oligarchy with a western oligarchy? We replaced their post-soviet corruption with our own, except this time around it wasn't a government they elected as a country, it was the fruit of insurrection. Maybe the French are okay with that, but I take a dim view of government at the barrel of a gun
Half of your post is flat out incorrect, could be that you are missing a lot of lexical knowledge on the subject.
It was not representing the will of the ukranian society, thats literally the point. Thats why the ppl overthrew it and elected a democratic leader instead of a russian puppet. Cant get much more democratic than that.
Zelensky was elected with the highest percentage of votes ever, that high is unprecedented in ukranian history, but even considering the whole eu its extremly rare.
And they didnt kill anyone, they just removed some russian paid fake news media as they should.