The IMF’s New Cold War Loan to Ukraine

[Tommy_Carcetti]

36. A mere appeal to authority is a fallacious position.

I don't need to be the President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends and be some Wall Street analyst to understand what I have seen and read on the news regarding the events in Ukraine in February 2014. It's all quite simple--demonstrable evidence shows that Victor Yanukovych left Ukraine voluntarily and under his own willpower, that it was his own calculated decision to leave. Hence, the label of a "coup" is highly inaccurate, given that the evidence does not conform to the accepted definition of the term.

If you are arguing that there was a coup, it is your burden to prove, not mine. You are the one pushing the conspiracy theory that the west conspired with ultranationalists and yada yada yada Yanukoych must have been forcibly removed from power. To date, all I've heard in support of this theory is that Valerie Nuland handed out cookies at Maidan, Valerie Nuland had a telephone conversation weeks before Yanukovych left Ukraine, and John McCain visited Kyiv months before Yanukovych left Ukraine. None of this in the least bit proves that he was forcibly removed from power against his will by a small, identifiable conspiring group.