This is indeed a fall out of the Georgian affair even though Ukraine has been brewing for a while. Remember at least 50% of the population favours closer ties to Russia whilst an almost equal amount wish to see more ties with the west.
Yushenko like Sakashvilli is operating under the american orbit and is dependant on support from the US. The US wishes to draw the former soviet states into the western orbit whilst the Russians wish to maintain their influence within their orbit. It seems america is determined to forge ahead with her plan to break the russian influence in these former soviet states. However russia realises this and is working hard to undermine the american manouvers. Russia will and has threatened the europeans not to follow the US (Europe is dependant on Russian oil/gas - 30-40% now and set to grow to 70% by 2020) or else it cut off supplies. The recent european summit which had its aim of isolating russia failed becuase russia has succeeded in splitting the european powers. America has dispatched dick cheney to the region to shore up support for the american agents thus the timing of the collapse of the ukraine coalition was no coincidence -Tymoshenko has already switched her allegiance to the russians after seeing the devasting counter attack by the russian army on the georgian forces.
This is indeed a fall out of the Georgian affair even though Ukraine has been brewing for a while. Remember at least 50% of the population favours closer ties to Russia whilst an almost equal amount wish to see more ties with the west.
Yushenko like Sakashvilli is operating under the american orbit and is dependant on support from the US. The US wishes to draw the former soviet states into the western orbit whilst the Russians wish to maintain their influence within their orbit. It seems america is determined to forge ahead with her plan to break the russian influence in these former soviet states. However russia realises this and is working hard to undermine the american manouvers. Russia will and has threatened the europeans not to follow the US (Europe is dependant on Russian oil/gas - 30-40% now and set to grow to 70% by 2020) or else it cut off supplies. The recent european summit which had its aim of isolating russia failed becuase russia has succeeded in splitting the european powers. America has dispatched dick cheney to the region to shore up support for the american agents thus the timing of the collapse of the ukraine coalition was no coincidence -Tymoshenko has already switched her allegiance to the russians after seeing the devasting counter attack by the russian army on the georgian forces.