Obama team announces $1 billion in aid to Ukraine

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63. I want to make something clear

I have a background in Latin American history. I'm well aware that the US has deposed more governments than we can easily count. However, I also know not every coup was plotted and carried out by the US. For example, the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende in Chile was very much a US plot, as scads of CIA documents and ITT memos make clear. The 1964 coup against Goulart in Brazil was not; the Brazilian military in fact declined assistance, though the US knew of the plans in advance. In that era, the US still saw Latin America as its uncontested sphere of influence in the Cold War.

I'm a member of the evidence based community. I'm not going to necessarily believe the US sponsored a coup just because people here suspect it. I need hard evidence, which is unlikely to be forthcoming in the near future. Most importantly, I don't see how the US benefits from this kind of confrontation with Russia, which even a child had to know would arise from this situation.