[Right_Wing_Madman]

Cowardly President Viktor Yanukovych fled his country in the middle of the night. There was no “violent coup”. This is just big lie Kremlin propaganda repeated over and over.

Even the far-left newspaper, The Guardian, who hates Putin more than anyone, admits it was a coup:

"Ukraine’s relations with Russia have been fraught since the toppling of the pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych in a coup in 2014."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/24/autonomy-eastern-ukraine-crisis-nato-russia-minsk

Or are you saying The Guardian is controlled by the Kremlin too?

[Zhang Fei]

[Even the far-left newspaper, The Guardian, who hates Putin more than anyone, admits it was a coup:

“Ukraine’s relations with Russia have been fraught since the toppling of the pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych in a coup in 2014.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/24/autonomy-eastern-ukraine-crisis-nato-russia-minsk

Or are you saying The Guardian is controlled by the Kremlin too?]

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To the extent it was a coup, it was a coup against a dictator. Now, the Guardian thinks Trump was involved in a coup attempt.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/03/explosive-testimony-suggest-trump-was-set-on-a-coup-that-evokes-americas-darkest-hour

So the Guardian has pretty flexible definitions of what a coup is. Yeltsin mounted a coup against Gorbachev, ending the Soviet Union. Was that a bad thing? Ultimately, against a dictator looking to entrench himself in power, you either mount a coup or a violent revolution. The idea that a change of government in Ukraine is a pretext to conquer and annex it would be like saying the coup in Grenada was a good reason for the US to conquer and annex it. Uncle Sam restored democracy and left. Russia is annexing land right and left.

[devere]

The Guardian publishes garbage. I don’t read them. do you? Or maybe you like CNN?

[dennisw]

Cowardly President Viktor Yanukovych was the POS traitor who handed over Crimea 2014 to Putin for huge bribe. He lives in Russia these days.