In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce a former Ukrainian politician and president, Viktor Yanukovych. He’s best known for selling his country to Russia, trying to turn it into an authoritarian state, and eventually fleeing to Moscow once his plan failed. 1/22 - ThreadSky

vatniksoup.bsky.social • 87 days ago

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce a former Ukrainian politician and president, Viktor Yanukovych. He’s best known for selling his country to Russia, trying to turn it into an authoritarian state, and eventually fleeing to Moscow once his plan failed.

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miciobertoldo.bsky.social•86 days ago

This could be the next one that has to flee for Moskow...if only the Americans would start to realize what's going on...

vatniksoup.bsky.social•87 days ago

Now that Russia and the US are planning to replace president Zelenskyy with someone who’s more willing to sell the country to them (most probably Viktor Medvedchuk or one of his cronies), it’s a good time to remind people how Yanukovych and Putin almost took over Ukraine.

2/22

vatniksoup.bsky.social•87 days ago

Yanukovych’s first attempt at power came in 2004, when he “won” the Ukrainian presidential election through massive fraud. The rigged vote sparked the Orange Revolution, a wave of protests that forced the election to be re-run. His opponent, pro-Western candidate…

3/22

vatniksoup.bsky.social•87 days ago

…Viktor Yushchenko, ultimately won. Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin, a highly toxic chemical. His face became disfigured almost overnight. The timing was suspicious, as he was leading in the polls, and many suspect that Putin was behind the attack.

4/22

vatniksoup.bsky.social•87 days ago

After this, Yanukovych retreated from the spotlight for a while, but eventually made a political comeback. With support from Trump associates like Paul Manafort, he rebranded himself as a “moderate”, and, in 2010, narrowly won the presidency in a relatively fair election.

5/22

vatniksoup.bsky.social•87 days ago

Initially, Yanukovych was promoting economic modernisation & greater economic ties with the EU, but throughout the years he started shifting more towards authoritarianism. Recently, we saw the same happen in Georgia with Bidzina Ivanishvili & his Georgian Dream party.

6/22

vatniksoup.bsky.social•87 days ago

It is possible, that this strategy of luring in the voters with pro-EU and pro-Western sentiments and then turning towards Moscow originates from the Russian intelligence agencies, who are masters at deception and political maneuvering.

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ann-t-social.bsky.social•82 days ago

They'll stop at nothing to incapacitate or kill any dissenters, from "lowly" protesters to major opposition figures. Yushchenko, Navalny, Kara-Murza, Politkovskaya...and that WILL start happening in the U.S. under the Beta president.

fellamundi.bsky.social•86 days ago

https://radaronline.com/p/donald-trump-recruited-russian-spy-1987-ex-kgb-officer-alias-krasnov/

fellamundi.bsky.social•86 days ago

BREAKING NEWS

notgoingback2024.bsky.social•78 days ago

A comprehensive and stunning thread of events. Thank you!

emblues.bsky.social•87 days ago

📌

jemiaj.bsky.social•78 days ago

📌 Ukraine-Russia explainer

gberfieldusaua.bsky.social•87 days ago

Who was Yanu's campaign advisor.
Who was Donald Trump's campaign manager.
https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/

fitforpurpose.bsky.social•78 days ago

📌

captfreneynafo.bsky.social•87 days ago

He sounds like Trump - be great if President Musk & the Orange Apprentice ended up fleeing to 🇷🇺 😆

punkoff.bsky.social•86 days ago

Thank you again for making these soups, chef. Hope more people "taste" them.

ardmoreite.bsky.social•86 days ago

📌

fruitflies.bsky.social•86 days ago

With all respect to your work, I hope that you know what Yanukovich and Zelensky share in common.

notgoingback2024.bsky.social•78 days ago

???

fruitflies.bsky.social•77 days ago

And little Trump is the same thing as little Putin. While being a pro-EU populist-Zelensky was turning Ukraine into a little russia. Both through laws and trying to turn local public opinion against the west. He records the speech titled NATO LetUsJoin, but then refuses to pass the roadmap laws.

fruitflies.bsky.social•77 days ago

And then he using pocket media he blames “the west” for not letting Ukraine join EU/NATO, after he refuses to pass required (mostly anti corruption) laws.

fruitflies.bsky.social•77 days ago

To put it mildly - he’s Ukraine’s little Trump. I consider him to be the main obstacle for Ukraine winning against Russia. The guy before him was the best person for the job, but Zelensky and his Ukrainian overseers are so scared of him that he sanctioned him(which is against Ukrainian constitution)

keephelpingukraine.bsky.social•86 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/keephelpingukraine.bsky.social/post/3lirxkf3zbs2z

heepst.bsky.social•81 days ago

Have you covered Nigel Farage yet?

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