JESSE WALKER DEBUNKS conspiracy theories about the Ukraine uprising (Best quote: You can’t simply parachute Karl Rove into a country and manufacture a revolution.”) He also observes:

Still, the very experience of overthrowing a government this way—of building independent institutions, diffusing power through civil society, and learning first-hand that it’s possible to say no to authority—unleashes something that’s hard for any politician to control. Those tent cities aren’t merely a demand for freedom. They’re acts of freedom themselves: of men and women voluntarily assembled both to defy the old order and to build something new.

Indeed.