Color Revolution in Ukraine: America’s Post-Soviet New World Order | Global Research

Color Revolution in Ukraine: America’s Post-Soviet New World Order | Global Research

US plans for Egypt and Ukraine are falling apart and Russia is scrambling to pick up the pieces.

In the latest color revolution, it was not an army but a rump
parliament that pulled the plug on the elected president on a wave of
protest, pushing out Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovich on 22 February. He
apologized from exile in the Russian city of Rostov-on-the-Don for his
weakness during the uprising, but his fate was sealed when he was
disowned by his own Party of the Regions, the largest party in the
fractious parliament. The rump parliament unsurprisingly ordered the
release of Yanukovich’s arch rival, ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
from prison, a condition for Ukraine’s signing a European Union
Association Agreement.

The collapse of authority in Ukraine led to what appears to be the
breakaway of an already autonomous Crimea, now to be aligned with
Russia. The frigate Hetman Sahaydachniy (the flagship of the Ukrainian
Navy), on NATO maneuvers in the Gulf of Aden, refused to take orders
from Kiev and raised the Russian naval flag as it returned to
Simferopol. Simultaneously, Russian troops blocked three Crimean bases,
demanding Ukrainian forces surrender. Residents have announced they are
going to hold a referendum on 30 March to determine the fate of Crimea.