Triumph of the Ill - Ukraine Coup Leaders Turn on People

[Tommy_Carcetti]

110. No. By all means, go forth and analyze all you want.

I'm just saying without an attempt to at least understand the local perspective on the topic, your armchair analysation is going to carry very little weight to the people actually affected by the situation.

You insist that the fact that the United States may have given money to various NGOs over the past two decades is proof positive that the regime change in Ukraine was a US funded coup. That, my friend, is a Grand Canyon sized jump to conclusions. Throwing around the claim that the demonstrations were "partly funded by US meddling" and apparently further insinuating that thousands of Ukrainians would not have demonstrated but for such funding is simply wild and reckless speculation.

And while I'm sure leaving the country was not Yanukovych's preferred course of action, nonetheless he was not arrested. He was not forcibly removed and exiled. He was not dragged out and shot a la Ceausescu. He left under his own free will power, and ever since that, the only people still claiming he's the still the legitimate leader in Ukraine are the Russians and Yanukovych himself. Everyone else has moved on, including his own party.

Show me the actual proof from a reputable source that the change in power in Ukraine was brought about by the US. Don't just spout how we've given money to NGOs or that Nuland handed out cookies. Show me something actually concrete and not just rampant insinuations.