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The two candidates are drearily similar, and their agendas are no longer defined by the 2004 fantasies of full integration into Europe. Well, I stand corrected. From what I had understood a few weeks ago, I concluded that Tymoshenko would have a better chance in the run-off, but she has evidently been unable to win over the supporters of the minor candidates and Yanukovych seems set to be elected the new Ukrainian president tomorrow. It does not matter to America one way or the other who prevails, but it is worth reviewing some of the wailing being done by pro-Orange Westerners to remember the misguided enthusiasm and ideological mania that dominated Western views of events in Ukraine a little over five years ago.

The most comical expression of unadulterated pro-Orange propaganda comes from Taras Kuzio. Even amid the ruins of the Orange coalition, Kuzio is still flacking for their completely discredited cause. So desperate is he to find some significance in the run-off between Tymoshenko and Yanukovych that he is simply repeating the 2004 propaganda lines that the election represents is a battle between the future and the past, West vs. East, Europe vs. Russia, etc. Kuzio concludes:

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