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Elon Musk calls 2014 Ukraine regime change a ‘coup’
Twitter ^ | 2/25/2023 | Elon Musk

Posted on 02/25/2023 3:56:18 PM PST by frithguild

That election was arguably dodgy, but no question that there was indeed a coup

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To: frithguild

Now call Biden “victory” and “administration” a coup.


21 posted on 02/25/2023 4:36:11 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: buwaya

Still cost spacex 100 million in free internet,as I recall the Ukraine whined that they had no internet anymore, please sent use the dishes, so he did, now musk is tired of carrying them..


22 posted on 02/25/2023 4:37:04 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: buwaya

Don’t forget - the election of Yanukovitch was not legitimate in 2014 because of “Russian meddling”. Hillary then imported that winning strategy after 2016.


23 posted on 02/25/2023 4:37:58 PM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: frithguild

You miss my point. All of these were righteous revolts. Allende and Marcos and Yanukevych were disasters. All of them were elected, and at one time were quite popular.

Democracy often throws up disasters, and there may not be constitutional means available to correct these mistakes.


24 posted on 02/25/2023 4:39:16 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: frithguild

This appears to be more recent info:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/switzerland-seeks-to-confiscate-assets-worth-more-than-131-million-euros-from-former-ukrainian-president-yanukovychs-entourage/ar-AA17x7lK


25 posted on 02/25/2023 4:41:12 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: buwaya

Sorry I missed your point. “Democracy often throws up disasters, and there may not be constitutional means available to correct these mistakes” - yes, including as in the US right now.


26 posted on 02/25/2023 4:42:23 PM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: Bobalu; C210N

Hard to trust much of anything with so many lying reprobates running things.


27 posted on 02/25/2023 4:48:11 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: markman46

The Starlink bill was picked up by the US DOD.

SpaceX/Starlink are of great interest to the DOD. That’s a good political protection for Musk. He has Pentagon friends, for understandable reasons.


28 posted on 02/25/2023 4:55:25 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: frithguild

Kinda what drives me nuts when people talk about saving Ukrainian democracy, they actually had an insurrection in 2014. Arranged by the west. Issue was Ukraine picking a Russian trade deal over an EU one. I think the west was also looking for revenge because Russia saved Assad in Syria. Give the western warmongers credit though, it worked. Then Minsk 1 and 2, Donbas, etc. Lots of folks can’t get past Putin bad though.

Pretty good Twitter thread here, covers Nuland and company.
https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1629150757235613701


29 posted on 02/25/2023 5:15:52 PM PST by teevolt
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To: frithguild

I’ve been saying that while it was in process...and we instigated it...well before 2014.


30 posted on 02/25/2023 5:18:59 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Williams

No...he said what he meant...for defense only.


31 posted on 02/25/2023 5:19:56 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: buwaya

“It is dirty pool to dismiss free elections on the grounds of being “brainwashed”. It permits anyone to reject any election for any reason.”

Don’t worry, Russia will clean up Ukraine.


32 posted on 02/25/2023 5:20:10 PM PST by BobL
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To: teevolt

I think that the “west” stupidly wanted an immediate crackdown in the Donbass, but the election of Trump rained on that parade. Their hubris in assessing Russian power is basically omnipresent. Using the Minsk accords as a canard was just Plan B.


33 posted on 02/25/2023 5:26:14 PM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: Sacajaweau
I’ve been saying that while it was in process...and we instigated it...well before 2014.

Laying claim to the Original Putin Puffer are we?

34 posted on 02/25/2023 5:28:50 PM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: frithguild

Toria Nuland is a war mongering troll.

She needs to become fixated on the demise of the CCP.


35 posted on 02/25/2023 5:29:16 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: frithguild

Corrupt Yanukovych was removed from office for betraying Ukraine for Putin. Parliament moved to impeach him, but he was prepared in advance and hightailed it to his masters in Russia.


36 posted on 02/25/2023 5:29:38 PM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: frithguild
Oh yeah? You dont say? /s

Watch Ukraine On Fire and decide for yourself...and get a really good history lesson in the process. *Spoiler alert...this historical documentary has Obama era major players in it including our Pretender in Chief joe biden and John McCain, and others. A really good watch!

Rumble.com video:Ukraine On Fire
37 posted on 02/25/2023 5:29:43 PM PST by know.your.why (Be not eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to THE most boring conformity)
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To: buwaya

2020 was a color revolution in America.


38 posted on 02/25/2023 5:30:59 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: frithguild

No, the 2010 election was not dodgy at all. It was crawling with international observers who declared it free and fair.
Yanukovych won fair and square.

I think Musk is thinking about the 2004 runoff election, which was dodgy. After the Orange Revolution, results of that election were tossed out and a new election held. Yanukovych lost the do-over.

Yes, the “regime change” in 2014 was a coup. Actually, it was an armed putsch.


39 posted on 02/25/2023 5:36:40 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: frithguild

Compliments of Obama and the CIA!


40 posted on 02/25/2023 5:41:54 PM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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