“The Ukrainian Partisan Army was in the unlucky situation of having to fight the Nazis and the Communists at the same time.” They were pretty crappy at fighting the Nazis, if they tried at all. The link I posted talks about them being recruited by the Abwehr prior to Barbarossa. Yuschenko tried to make them national heroes of Ukraine dropping his popularity from 5% to 3%. But pointing these stats out is a ‘Putin’ thing, right?

And what makes you think Timoshenko is so independent? She wasn’t until she started losing elections but I think even in Washington they’re getting tired of her opportunism and long for a cleaner alternative. Ditto for a non-tie eater in Georgia.

Sharansky is a citizen of Israel now – which also has visa free travel to Russia

I’m sure buddy remembers that slogan, “everytime we have a Republican president we have a Depression, every time we have a Democrat president we have a war…(WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Kosovo).” There are some Dems who don’t mind the war president label for sure. I’m old enough to remember the anti-Serb propaganda in the 90s.