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In reply to the discussion: Documents show how Russia's troll army hit America [View all]FairWinds
(1,717 posts)Why do you have to re-write history to make your points?
You wrote - "There was no US coup, and you need to knock that BS off."
Of course, as you well know, nobody said it was a "US coup." You made that up.
Were the US and NATO involved in the overthrow of an elected government?
Absolutely.
Then you compound your error by by using the old guilt by association trick,
writing that anyone who disagrees with you is a com-symp - opps, I mean Putin-symp.
And by the way, many of us saw this coming from a long way off and called for
a de-militarized zone in Central Europe back as far as the early 1990's.
We were ignored by the militarists in DC.
I'm a proud member of Veterans For Peace. Here is part of a recent statement
they issued on the Ukraine crisis. I support it fully and proudly.
(2014) "In February of this year, the U.S. government supported the violent overthrow of the elected president of Ukraine, after he decided against entering into an exclusive economic and political agreement with the European Union. Hundreds of thousands of people in western Ukraine were in the streets calling for the president to step down, for a variety of reasons including corruption. But extreme right-wing nationalist militias led the mob violence that sent the president packing, and neo-fascist leaders now hold key positions in the U.S.-backed government in Kiev, including overseeing the military and police. - See more at: http://www.veteransforpeace.org/our-work/position-statements/no-war-over-ukraine/#sthash.P7vYKZGP.dpuf