[WhiskeyX]

1. There was no coup.

2. The U.S. did broker an agreement between Yanukovych and the Ukrainian parliament to hold early elections, but the protestors rejected any such agreement for a delayed election.

3. Yanukovych tendered his resignation to the Ukrainian parliament. Yanukovych prepared to flee the Ukraine to avoid criminal prosecution for ordering the killings of protestors and for a number of earlier crimes involving government kidnapping, torture, and murder of opponents to his government’s corruption and criminal acts.

4. Yanukovych met with his Russian intelligence services handlers to make arrangements for his seeking asylum from criminal prosecution in the Ukraine. The Russian intelligence service informed Yanukovych his request for asylum could only be granted if Yanukovych falsely denied tendering his resignation to the Ukrainian parliament.

[logi_cal869]

I didn’t make the headline.

If the US manipulating other countries’ elections and power structure is ‘ok’, then them doing it to the US is ‘ok’ as well.

Oh, yeah...we got the Puppet.

/s

[Leaning Right]

I'll defer to your greater knowledge of the situation, and accept points 2, 3, and 4 from your post #11. But as your point 1, what business do we have brokering any kind of political deal in a country right on Russia's doorstep? Shouldn't that be a job for the UN, if anyone at all?

And how would the US feel if, say, Putin "brokered" a presidential election in Mexico that just happened to install his choice as president?

George Washington was right. Avoid foreign entanglements, especially ones that do not affect our security.

[Leaning Right]

Sorry, in my post #16 I meant to say that I'll accept points 1, 3, and 4 from your post #11. It's point 2 that concerns me.

[mac_truck]

Yanukovych tendered his resignation to the Ukrainian parliament.

False.