russia had paid for his political rise and for his political party. they had worked to install him in power. they totally controlled him. he was their guy. that was how russia controlled ukraine. they controlled the ukrainian president. they installed him in power and told him what to do and he did it. and russia, of course, didn t want ukraine to have better economic ties to the west. they didn t want ukraine to have any ties to the west. they wanted ukraine to only be tied to russia. and so when ukraine had the opportunity to sign on to this pro-european trade deal, russia didn t want him to do it and russia s guy in ukraine, this very corrupt, very compromised pro-russian president said he wouldn t sign that trade deal with europe. he said instead he would sign a knew one with russia. people in ukraine did not want that. they wanted to stop looking east. they wanted to look west instead. so in response they started protesting. in november of 2013. and a few months into it,
flags. at least a rally against the u.s. supporting ukraine. and trying to stand up against the russian invasion of their country. this one tinive event, it was tall. it was a weird a semblage of americans. there were proud boys there. some of the white supremacist groups you would recognize from a few years ago. also represented prominently, the remains of the bizarre listenson la ruch cult. there were people with flags including the former soviet union. also at least one person who guest hosts for tucker carlson on the fox news channel was there as a featured speaker. there were antivaccine conspiracy theories, a lot of them. there were cryptocurrency promoters. it was a really weird group. it was a small rally and a weird one. but that s what it looks like. that is the a semblage of short straws and split ends and loose