| > Violent protest is not the answer Too bad the old Ukrainian government didn’t know it, and started to use violence against it’s own people. > Millions of people have fled the country to work abroad The economy is global, air travel is cheap, Internet simplified things a lot. Ukraine is no exception. Globally, 258 million people, myself included, are living outside their country of birth. > Your graph displaying some growth "per capita growth", have a look at this graph showing the value of their currency That graph is in USD after adjustments for purchasing power. Currency exchange rates are irrelevant. > No one can afford to buy any import goods In 2018, Ukraine has imported goods worth 56 billion USD, smartphones alone were just under $1B: http://www.worldstopexports.com/ukraines-top-10-imports/ > There are dozens of reports of mass emigration There’s no mass emigration, net migration is around zero: https://blogs.elenasmodels.com/en/ukrstat-migration-statisti... > But it is not Russian Military doing the fighting Russians started the war, and they did the fighting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Strelkov_(officer) Their armed forces are still there. It doesn’t matter they deny that, way too much documentary evidence of their direct involvement, for instance read links from that article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_... |
Violent protest is always greeted with crowd control. In Every Country. You seem to be forgetting that the Ukrainian population caused a revolution, instead of waiting for the election for a few more months.
Have a look at the violence from protestors just before it all fell apart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stK3YPz6WTc
The people are worse off today than they were before. Not everyone supported their revolution, and you can deny that all you want, but, the people in the Donbass don't want to be a part of the circus that is Ukraine in its current state.
> Currency exchange rates are irrelevant.
Clearly I'm beating a dead horse. I don't know where to begin explaining to you that currency is not irrelevant.
About the mass emigration, these are people who have not filed for citizenship with other countries because in a lot of circumstances they cannot. No one is coming to Ukraine looking at it as a desirable place to live at the moment. There are less jobs in Ukraine, there is less trade in Ukraine, people have no choice but to work abroad.
Yes, I am also aware of the cases of some defected ex-Russian military helping the Donbass fighters, but, again you keep ignoring the fact that 99% of the population enlisted in fighting are citizens of the Donbass...
How can you honestly argue that the status quo is better than it was before the revolution? What are you even arguing?