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Does US version of democracy look disturbing when looking from Europe? Yes.
Did Bush win with unfair tricks? No.
Is this all comparable with Ukraine? No.
Anyway, being rather interested about former Soviet countries (sometimes even "professionally") and living right next-door to Russia this isn't really very surprising and Ukraine isn't even the most worrying phenomenon in that area (for example knowing the good old rewriting of history into more patriotic form in Ukraine etc. Or the personality of Leonid Kutschma). I'd be more worried about other large countries like Belarus, Kazakstan and a number of other -stans slipping toward dictatorship (unless they already are, like Belarus) and noone really caring. For example EU is spewing money to Turkmenistan with Turkmenbashi the Great leading and USA didn't really feel any remorse cooperating militarily with Uzbekistan where political dissidents are being for example boiled alive.
Probably an example of the famous Realpolitik.
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