@ hooligan & Zylesea

Yeah, it's worrying to see how fascists and ultra-nationalists starts to gain entrance to so many parliaments in Europe now. On the other hand, it doesn't necessarily mean they will gain real political influence. In Sweden, they are totally isolated by other political parties. In this case however, I agree that it is problematic that they are in the government, but supposedly, it's an Interim Government of limited life time, and there should be new elections soonish (which is the plan at least AFAIK). Of course, this new events may even boost support for ultra-nationalists even more, which would be unfortunate and yet another effect of the Russian aggression.

However, Ukraine is at the brink of bankruptcy. The country is in urgent and desperate need of a HUGE emergency financial injection into their economy to prevent a financial break down of Ukraine. *Then* can the mending of the economy start, which will take a long time, and they can't do it alone. So they must turn to either Russia or the EU, USA (and IMF etc). And for some reason, I think they no longer trust Russia. And with money from foreign tax payers comes often conditions and terms that has to be met by the receiving part, as with Greece and many other examples. So it remains to be seen what real-life impact those fascists can have on the politics. They will need to keep the givers happy, and the money stream from abroad open.



[ Edited by takemehomegrandma 07.03.2014 - 11:00 ]