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Thread #75872   Message #1343171
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
30-Nov-04 - 09:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Ukraine
Subject: RE: BS: Ukraine
Because it was, Wolfgantg. But only in the sense that some of those topics you mentioned are part of what has been discussed here. That has also been the case in other media coverage that I have seen. What happens in the USA is inescapably a factor in what happens in many other parts of the world, and what happens in other parts of the world can affect how events in the USA are interpreted.

What would be wrong would be for people to see important events in other countries merely as occasione to carry on disputes about the USA, or to line up on how they understand these events in a pre-conceived partisan way. I don't think most people posting here have actually done this.

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It's starting to look as if some kind of re-run of the election is now on the cards. That sounds a fair way out of the situation, though I imagine it might be a pretty contentious campaign.      

Maybe Ukraine has something to teach allegedly more mature democracies about how to respond to well-founded allegations of electoral malpractice.