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fuckedupseriously2
Menar du att presidenten är lagligen avsatt?
Legalistiska spetsfundigheter är fullständigt irrelevanta när en folklig omvälvning äger rum. Ingen revolt eller revolution har någonsin förlitat sig på knarriga ancien regime-juristers formella godkännande. Politisk makt handlar i grunden om våld, beredskap och kapacitet att utöva våld eller genomdriva politiska önskningar genom mer eller mindre explicit hot om våld, samt förmåga att skapa samförstånd och helst entusiasm hos breda lager inom ett folk. Ju bättre regimen lyckas skapa samförstånd, entusiasm, välstånd, tillfredsställelse, känsla av delaktighet och förmåga att påverka sitt öde, framtidstro, kulturell samhörighet, möjlighet till individuell frihet som inte skadar andra, desto mindre av allt som har med "våld" att göra behövs.
Det amerikanska självständighetskriget eller den franska revolutionen betraktades inte som "lagliga" fenomen av de som berövades sin makt, men upprorsmännen skapade nya lagar och genomdrev sin vilja i strid mot de reaktionära skikt som var färdiga att falla. Och i princip alla intellektuellt vakna människor i Europa och USA på den tiden bejakade det som ägde rum.
Vill man nödtvunget ägna sig åt juridiska suckar och handvridningar, som endast är av mögligt akademiskt intresse, så kan man säkert rätt väl argumentera mot att Janukovitj skulle vara "Ukrainas legitima president". Jag tror säkert att statsvetare, jurister och konstitutionsexperter skulle kunna dividera i dagar om detta, och ändå inte kunna enas:
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/03/222988.htm
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Mr. Putin says: Ukraine’s government is illegitimate. Yanukovych is still the legitimate leader of Ukraine.
The Facts: On March 4, President Putin himself acknowledged the reality that Yanukovych “has no political future.” After Yanukovych fled Ukraine, even his own Party of Regions turned against him, voting to confirm his withdrawal from office and to support the new government. Ukraine’s new government was approved by the democratically elected Ukrainian Parliament, with 371 votes – more than an 82% majority. The interim government of Ukraine is a government of the people, which will shepherd the country toward democratic elections on May 25th – elections that will allow all Ukrainians to have a voice in the future of their country.
Rysk GRU-spion gripen i Donetsk:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578160/Ukraines-fugitive-president-blasts-bandit-regime-says-country-heading-civil-war.html
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Today, Ukraine claimed it had arrested a Russian spy operating undercover in the city of Donetsk.
The alleged agent - from GRU military intelligence - was seized in a joint operation between Kiev's secret service, the SBU, and police, it was reported.
The arrest amounts to the first spy scandal of the tense conflict between the two ex-Soviet states following the seizure of Crimea by troops loyal to Vladimir Putin.
'In Donetsk on March 10 together with the SBU we detained a Russian GRU officer,' said Ukraine Interior Minister Arsen Avakov on Facebook.
He claimed that the detention was held 'in certain circumstances compromising to this special service'.
He did not give further details, saying the operation was being led by the SBU.
Russia is believed to have poured military intelligence agents and operatives from the FSB, its domestic counter-intelligence service, into Crimea, but this is the first time it has been claimed that an undercover officer has been detained on the Ukrainian mainland.
Ukraine has claimed that Russians with radical views or military training are being deployed in cities like Donetsk, in the east of the country.