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218. So in short, your answer is no. No, you don't have any evidence to support....

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.....your claim that Ukraine underwent a US sponsored coup back in February 2014.

Thanks.

All you can offer me is soliloquies on "plausible deniability" and being unable to prove an unknown. (For a person who likes to call other people neo-cons, you sure sound a lot like Donald Rumsfeld. I'm just saying.)

I offered you video proof of events in the last three days of Yanukovych's rule in Ukraine, and you offer me nothing in return except talk about plausible deniability and how conspiracy theories are disparaged these days. And strawmans. Lots and lots of straw hominems ("one-sided propagandist and peddler of plausible deniability", "neocon sockpuppet&quot .

Well, it doesn't matter what you think about it, what you are pushing is still a conspiracy theory, a deviation from the generally accepted narrative. Which isn't a bad thing in and of itself, mind you. But the thing about conspiracy theories is that the burden to prove them is on the person espousing the conspiracy theory. Not the person they are trying to convince. Otherwise, you risk sounding like a nut and a fool.

The whole defense mechanism wherein you call anyone who doesn't agree with your alternate narrative on Ukraine a neo-con/CIA/IMF/whatever "sock puppet" after you've been unable to prove your claims--it's cute. It's really cute. But it won't take you anywhere.