Газета Гардиан или статья в Wikipedia, в расчет не принимались. Желтая пресса и все тут.
Хорошо. Вот еще несколько ссылок на источники, которые с трудом можно обвинить в пристрастии к одной из сторон революции 2004 г.
Washington’s Interest in Ukraine: Democracy or Energy Geopolitics? Советую прочитать статью до конца.
Вопрос 1. Кто является реальным плательщиком, прокачивающим свои средства через т.н. неправительственные организации ? И вот, что выясняется.
As far back as November 2001 Yushchenko was reportedly wined and dined in Washington by the Bush Administration, paid for by the US Congress-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Martin Foulner in the Glasgow Herald of November 26 reported the details of the meeting. The NED, it’s worth noting, was set up during the Reagan Administration by the US Congress, to “privatize” certain CIA operations, and allow Washington to claim clean hands in various foreign meddling. Ukraine is part of a wider US pattern of active “regime change” in eastern Europe and Central Asia.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib ... usaid.html
The four foundations involved included three funded by the U.S. government: The National Endowment for Democracy, which receives its money directly from Congress; the Eurasia Foundation, which receives money from the State Department, and the Renaissance Foundation, part of a network of charities funded by billionaire George Soros that receives money from the State Department. Other countries involved included Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4156
The answer to Yushchenko's question – "Who could finance the people on Independence Square for 17 days?" – is simple: the United States government (with a little help from George Soros). The U.S. Treasury is the banker and financier of first resort when it comes to spreading "democracy" worldwide: that, after all, is the declared foreign policy goal of George W. Bush. His "global democratic revolution" is a tactical subset of the Pentagon's worldwide military strategy, which is now focused on a dangerous and increasingly reckless new adventure: the encirclement and political isolation of the former Soviet Union.
Вопрос 2. Кто получатель ?
If Yushchenko is "tired" of "these legends," then Americans are surely tired of the arrogance of our foreign welfare clients, who challenge the ability of our own elected representatives to question the legitimacy of sub rosa disbursements in Ukraine. Where the money went, as Yushchenko well knows, is to funding the "exit polls" that proclaimed Yushchenko the "winner" – much as they declared Kerry the "winner" last month – and in paying the thousands of cadre necessary for such a mass mobilization in the streets.
The Ukraine “democratic youth” organization, Pora (“high time”) is a slick, USA-created entity. It is modeled on the Belgrade youth group, Otpor, which Miles also set up with help of the NED and Soros’ Open Society, US AID and similar friends. Pora was given a brand image for selling to the Western media, a slick logo of a black-white clenched fist. It even got a nifty name, the “chestnut revolution,” as in “chestnuts roasting on an open fire …”
Вопрос 3. Зачем это все надо ?
US policy, as Brzezinski openly stated in The Grand Chessboard, is to Balkanize Eurasia, and ensure that no possible stable economic or political region between Russia, the EU and China emerges in the future, that might challenge US global hegemony. This is the core idea of the September 2002 Bush Doctrine of “pre-emptive wars.”
In taking control of Ukraine, Washington would take a giant step to encircle Russia for the future. Russian moves to use its vast energy reserves to play for room in rebuilding its political role would be over. Chinese efforts to link with Russia to secure some independence from US energy control would also be over. Iran’s attempts to secure support from Russia against the Washington pressure would also end. Iran’s ability to enter into energy agreements with China would also likely end. Cuba and Venezuela would also likely fall prey to a pro-Washington regime change soon after.
Washington policy is to directly control the oil and gas flows from the Caspian including Turkmenistan, and to counter Russian regional influence from Georgia to Ukraine to Azerbaijan and Iran. The background issue is Washington’s unspoken recognition of the looming exhaustion of the world’s major sources of cheap high-quality oil, the problem of global oil depletion, or as the late American geologist, M. King Hubbard termed it, of peak oil.
А теперь, хотелось бы услышать мнение противоположной стороны. Только пожалуйста без ругани, обвинений в квасности, перевода дискусии в формат "дурак-сам дурак" и т.д.
Я вообще сомневаюсь, что существует сумма, гарантирующая победу на выборах президента в США.
только вот не надо думать, что люди на площадаях это статисты выполняющи работу за апельсины. Если принять такю логику, то России следовло потрать еще пару миллиардов из стабфонда (лучшей идеи для этих денег и придумать нельзя) и "перекупить Украину", а не лить горючие слезы и не прятаться за слова что нам "нужен был именно такой резутьтат".