“During the heyday of the ‘Orange Revolution,’ Western money and other aid flowed into Yushchenko’s party coffers, and also in the direction of his ally at the time, Yulia Tymoshenko, the ‘gas princess’ whose anti-Russian rhetoric and fiery campaigning style made her the co-star in this Western-sponsored narrative of ‘We Beat the Russkies — On Their Own Doorstep!’ Now, however, Tymoshenko has turned against her former ally, blocked his power-grabbing schemes, and defied his order to dissolve parliament and call new elections. Significantly, the Yushchenko-Tymoshenko alliance was finally wrecked on the shoals of a foreign policy question: what stance to take in regard to the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia and Abkhazia? Yushchenko, who knows what side his bread is buttered on, unhesitatingly supported his fellow ‘revolutionist,’ Mikheil Saakashvili, whose reckless military assault on the defenseless Ossetian capital city of Tskhinvali was quickly beaten back by the Russians. Tymoshenko, on the other hand, took a neutral stance, averring that Ukraine has too many of its own problems to get involved in Georgia’s internal political troubles.” (10/13/08)