[vinman]

(01-15-2015 09:10 PM)Easy_C Wrote:  

I find him entertaining, but he's still a demagogue in that he can be easily coaxed to support anything as long as it plays to his prejudices. For example he's recently been arguing in favor of militarized police because it's somehow necessary to protect us from the radical muslims. He also seemed utterly convinced that Ukraine was a "CIA plot" in spite of massive evidence that suggests they moved in only after the initial uprising(for starters, the rioters weren't using the fancy equipment usually found with CIA backed movements).

This is a conversation of the American Ambassador probably leaked by Putin.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26072281

Also one group of protestors was paid by NGO's to protest.