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To: sea_urchin who wrote (25834)	10/2/2007 8:49:48 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81105

Re: And the US-inspired, "Orange Revolutions" in the Baltic States, Ukraine, Belorus, Georgia, etc The Baltic States didn't go through "Orange Revolutions" because they were already full-fledged EU members (since May 2004) by the time the so-called orange revolutions broke out... As for Ukraine's orange revolution, I suspect the key factor that sparked it was the fact that about 300,000 Ukrainians left their homeland in the 1990s and resettled across Western Europe --over 200,000 in the Iberian Peninsula alone... That means that, over the past 15 years, 300,000 Ukrainian immigrants phoned, and/or travelled, back home telling their relatives about the wonders and opportunities they found in Western Europe. I believe it was such a grassroots feedback from Western Europe back into Ukraine that led a faction of Ukraine's rulers to openly call for joining the EU. The Western part of Ukraine whose inhabitants had all relatives or friends living in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Greece,..., started wondering themselves, "What the hell are we wasting our time with those Russky bums? While we could just join the European Union and make business in euros instead of rubles?" Gus