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    It seems like history repeats. Just like in the 1960′s when the original SDS formed foreign policy is a big issue of the time. US intervention in Vietnam drew people to SDS just like US intervention in other parts of the world is making people ask tough questions about what their nation is doing.

    Take the situation in Ukraine. TV talks about it, but you need to go back a few years to see where it began.

    The 2008 Ukraine political crisis began after the coalition group of President Viktor Yushchenko withdrew from the coalition government following a vote to limit the President’s powers. The bill, if it had been passed, would have meant that the president would seek the approval and consent of the Prime Minister before he can appoint or dismiss the Prosecutor General.

    The president would have limited powers to appoint the head of their state intelligence agency, reject a candidate for prime minister, and appoint local heads of government. President Yushchenko declared that negotiations in the parliament were only possible after the revocation of the constitutional laws adopted in 2008. She stated that the reason behind their clamor for negotiation was not to bring peace but to prepare for a coup and overthrow the government in power. Therefore she decided not to grant concession to the coalition party. Although the Georgian conflict was part of the cause of the 2008 crisis in Ukraine, the major cause has been identified as the inability of the ruling government and the coalition government to arrive at a truce regarding the sharing and separation of powers in the government. President Yushchenko claimed she was a neutral party that she doesn’t support or stand against any part, but her activities during the conflict showed she was more in support of the EU.

    The leader of the Civil Movement for People’s Self Defense, Yuri Lutsenko, reiterated that the breakup of the coalition that invariably led to the conflict was provoked by the secretary to the president. While several internal sources had their own reasons for the start of the crisis, foreign media equally have their own tale of the story. They reported that the political conflict was ignited by armed conflict between Georgia and Russia that began in August 2008. They equally stated that disagreement between Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and President Viktor Yushchenko regarding Ukraine’s reaction towards the dispute fuelled the crisis.

    A lot of political economists believe that if the attempted coalition was successful, their differences would have been settled. But the collapse of the coalition and the failure to recreate the coalition, and the subsequent dissolve of the parliament sparked the crisis even further.

    The crisis continued for several weeks and would have ended if the democratic coalition of LYTVVN, NUNS, and the BYUT blocs were successful. What is crazy is many of the Ukrainian elites took money out of the country and even did gold investing to protect themselves from currency turmoil.

    But the crises finally came to an end after the reformation of the Orange coalition government in December 2008 following the election of Volodymyr Lynn as the parliamentary speaker.

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