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In reply to the discussion: Wanted: Proof that what happened in Ukraine actually constituted a "western sponsored coup." [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(43,174 posts)Very knowledgeable in both past history and current events. I started reading Bloodlands yesterday, actually.
I guess the thing that upsets me most about people who so forcefully push the "western sponsored coup" theory is that there's a total ignorance and disregard for the Ukrainian people in all of it. It assumes they are too stupid to know what was going in their own country or have any input or say into it; that what happened was so big that it couldn't have been the Ukrainian people speaking out, that no, it was just the US up to its old tricks. And yet Maidan was real, and it was huge--hundreds of thousands of people physically there, with millions more supporting them. And Yanukoyvch left the country without a gun to his head, or being shot, or being arrested. It was regime change for sure, a revolution perhaps, but certainly no coup.