The rank and file of the regular army is embittered with their own sense of betrayal due to the poor leadership.
That leaves the local police, decimated after siding with ousted former president Yanukovich and the military leadership, not particularly popular with their troops or the fascist factions.
If the government falls, what will replace it?
Right Sector and the other fascist groups represent the worst possible outcome for the people of Ukraine and for the U.S. machinations behind the original protests and coup. A very public spectacle of a violent outcome to this latest foreign adventure and a purely fascist regime would be too much to bear.
A takeover by the regular military represents the only outcome that might not totally humiliate the White House and rabid factions of Congress supporting this effort. It might allow U.S. war party factions to say, Well, at least the place isn't run by outright Nazis.
The good news is that a violent eruption in Kiev and overthrow of the current government would very likely end the deviant and vicious effort of Ukraine's attack on its own people.
The reversal of military fortunes, poor planning and execution on the battle field, and collapsing Ukraine economy are forming a perfect storm for disaster. The ship of state may collapse into something like today's Libya, a constantly warring and lawless society. Or, Ukraine may become a failed state that is easy to forget while the transatlantic elite writes another chapter in the endless war. A new storyline is required to divert attention from the failed effort to put NATO missiles right on the Ukraine-Russian border.
Absent the eastern section of the country and Crimea, there isn't much left except the broken dreams of Ukrainian national glory and an expansion of the U.S. empire to Russia's doorstep.
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