I'm making no judgement on the corruption of the present government. If they want to get the protesters out of their buildings why not just surround them with military, cut off their utilities and supplies and wait for them to come out. No bloodshed anyway.

Kind of like walling them off and starving them?

http://www.ukrainianmuseum....enocidebyfamine.html

"The horrific event, known in Ukrainian as the Holodomor (literally, murder by starvation), took place in 1932-1933, less than twenty years after Ukraine was forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union. Determined to force all Ukrainian farmers onto collective farms, to crush the burgeoning national revival, and to forestall any calls for Ukraine's independence, the brutal Communist regime of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin embarked on a campaign to starve the Ukrainian people into submission.

The Soviet government confiscated all the grain produced by Ukrainian farmers, withheld other foodstuffs, executed anyone trying to obtain food, and punished those who attempted to flee. As a result, in the land called the Breadbasket of Europe, millions of men, women, and children were starved to death."

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Thanks for the history. I had assumed that when they got hungry or thirsty enough they would come out rather than starve, but with a history like that and an association with that event and my proposal I have to consider that my proposal could have a really negative outcome. Seemed so logical since they have already supplied the barricades that would be necessary to enforce my idea. Anyway it is far from clear to me which side I might want to support. Lots of propaganda on both sides. Whatever, I support a result that is what the populace desires.

Which populace?

That of the Donetsk People's Republic, Western Ukraine, Eastern Ukraine or that of Kiev?
(The people in Eastern Ukraine, Crimea, Mariupol, Donetsk, etc don't consider themselves to be Ukrainian)