Reply #14: I'm quite aware of the strife it has caused in other lands

[liberalpragmatist]

I think the US should not be in the business of replacing regimes we don't like simply because we don't like them. I think other countries should have a government of their own choosing and the US should deal with the representatives of those governments rather than meddling and trying to engineer a government more to our liking. Iran is the perfect example, what with the removal of Prime Minister Mossadeq in the 1950s.

But I hardly see how this applies to Ukraine. Especially when it was the people of Ukraine that put reformers in office over massive fraud and a botched assassination attempt. And frankly, the results bear this out, as the pro-Russian faction got the largest faction but did not get a majority. The two reformist parties collectively got well over the 50% threshold. While his government may well be bad (a 13% return for his party signifies that Ukrainians are unhappy), it doesn't logically extend that it is bad because the US supports him.