Quote:
Originally Posted by FlameOn
How is it a US coup? The protesters won out and responded to the $15 billion Russia offered to Yanukovych. Sure you can say Yanukovych was forced out incorrectly following the original agreement, but his own party banished him and he fled. This wasn't the Svoboda that forced him out, this wasn't any of the protesters either. It was a result of the original agreement itself where he threw anyone not named Yanukovych under the bus for the actions during the protests. His allies in Kiev turned on him after that and he fled before the criminal charges came. It had much more to do with his own incompetence and self serving attitude than some US led coup against the government. Also his twisting of anti-protest laws as a justification for using live ammunition against protesters should rightly have led to his impeachment anyways.
Yes you could say this wasn't constitutionally correct, but the same thing could be said about Russia's installation of the new Crimea government under gunpoint. Two wrongs don't make a right.
|
I think it would be naive to suggest the US and other western countries didn't try to influence pro democracy protesters or pro democracy initiatives throughout the years in some way, and the same goes for Russians trying to influence Pro Russian supporters and initiatives. This happens in every unstable country. The US will benefit from having a Pro EU Ukraine and will work towards that goal however they can, and the Russians were working against that by keeping Yanukovych in power.
I wouldn't call it a coup, but I don't think it's correct to assume the uprising we saw was only accomplished by pro EU Ukraine supporters.