My Take on Ukraine

Consider this: 100,000 political dissenters stormed Kiev, Ukraine in protest, burning buildings, looting private property, flipping cars, and causing total civil unrest. That's 100,000 people in a country of over 45 million!

After the riots started, the Russian government released an audio recording of a phone call between Victoria Nuland (U.S. Assistant Secretary of State) and Geoffrey Pyatt (U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine) confirming the U.S. government’s involvement in the insurrection and regime change in the Ukraine. Referencing the EU’s lack of urgency in facilitating the coup, Nuland said “F**k the EU.”

“Shortly after “Ukraine-gate” broke, Sergei Glazyev, advisor to Russian president Putin claimed that the US was spending $20 million per week on the Ukrainian opposition, including supplying opposition with training and weapons.” –Daniel McAdams, Ron Paul Institute, via LewRockwell.com

In the aftermath of this embarrassing episode in U.S. foreign folly, President Obama issued a statement that any use of force against the protestors in Kiev would be met with a U.S. military reaction similar to Lybia.

So, let’s review: The U.S. government is caught red-handed funding, facilitating, and cheering on 100,000 protestors (in a country of 45 million) attempting the coup of a democratically elected president in a country 4,864 miles away from Washington, D.C. If President Yanukovych does anything to defend Ukraine’s capital city from inevitable destruction, Obama promises retaliation including – but not limited to – U.S. missile strikes.

Now, let’s put this shoe on the other foot. 

Imagine 100,000 Republican protestors stormed the streets of Washington D.C. after Obama’s election in 2008. The Republican’s are heavily armed, well trained, and professionally organized because of funding from the Japanese government. The Japanese government informs Obama that if he attempts to quell the riots with military force, Japan will launch missiles at the "aggressing" U.S. military forces. Canada decides to throw their support behind the democratically elected Obama and also draws condemnation and threats of war from Japan.

Three obvious questions arise here: 

1. Why can’t President Obama protect the capital from the protestors? 
2. Why is Japan even involved in American domestic policy? They’re on the opposite side of the Earth! And,
3. Why is Canada’s involvement in it’s nearest neighbor and closest ally’s domestic affairs any business of Japan?

Now let’s pose the same questions using the real situation instead of the hypothetical: 

1. Why can’t President Yanukovych stop a handful of rebels from burning the Ukraine’s capital city to the ground? 
2. Why is America involved in Ukrainian domestic affairs? The U.S. is located 4,800 miles away! And,
3. Why is Russia’s involvement in it’s nearest neighbor and ally’s domestic affairs any business of the U.S. government?

To answer these two sets of questions with any consistency would challenge the average American's worldview a great deal. 

Why are the united States allowed to treat other countries differently than they would want to be treated?

My answer: They're not.