It's been a revolution for at least a month, if you ask the demonstrators. It's funny now how nobody in the west seemed to take those people seriously then. If it gets done with the casualties being in the low hundreds, historically speaking that's a low price.
There are not a lot of guarantees that this will actually improve the situation, and there's lots of talk about Ukraine perhaps splitting in two. A lot will happen in the next days, months and years.
Still, so far I'm actually happily surprised with the way it has gone. You have to be realistic about this stuff, this could have been much, much worse.
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