“The war that these young men are fighting today is not only Ukraine’s war,” Petro Poroshenko told Congress. “It is Europe’s, and it is America’s war too.”…
He repeatedly emphasized a link between the revolution in Kiev in February that ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych and the American values of freedom and democracy, which he said had inspired it.Correction: Viktor Yanukovych was the democratically elected president overthrown by a putsch in which both the US and Ukrainian neo-Nazis were complicit and apparently cooperated.
He said the choice of whether to support Ukraine was a choice between “civilization or barbarism” that affected the whole world — an implicit rebuke of Obama’s comments that “geopolitically, what happens in Ukraine doesn’t pose a great threat to us,” made to donors last week.Noting like challenging the president of the country you are visiting on his own turf.
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