“Things like: engineering the 2014 coup in Ukraine...”
If the CIA helped the Ukrainian people in overthrowing Yanukovych, bully for them.
Yanukovych had explicitly endorsed a pro-Western, pro-EU policy that was overwhelmingly popular but then he ripped off his mask and ran to the embrace of Putin.
The word “corruption” is used freely in discussing Ukraine and Russia, but nowhere is it more accurately applied than when discussing Yanukovych.
From Wikipedia, here’s a description of his palace. Did Putin fund it? Any guesses:
Yanukovych abandoned his large estate, Mezhyhirya[178] when he fled the capital. The estate is located in a former forest preserve on the outskirts of Kyiv.
He had acquired the property in 2007, according to critics, through a convoluted series of companies and transactions. Yanukovych did not reveal the price he paid, although he called it a “very serious price”.[179] Mezhyhirya is estimated to have been sold for more than 75 million U.S. dollars.
In a feature with photos on Yanukovych’s Mezhyhirya mansion, Sergii Leshchenko notes “For most of [Yanukovych’s] career he was a public servant or parliament deputy, where his salary never exceeded 2000 US dollars per month.” Under a photo showing the new home’s ornate ceiling, Leschenko remarks, “In a country where 35% of the population live under poverty line, spending 100,000 dollars on each individual chandelier seems excessive, to say the least.” Crowned with a pure copper roof, the mansion was the largest wooden structure ever created by Finnish log home builder Honka, whose representative suggested to Yanukovych that it be nominated for the Guinness Book of Records.[9]
The property contained a private zoo, underground shooting range, 18-hole golf course, tennis, and bowling. After describing the mansion’s complicated ownership scheme, the article author noted, “The story of Viktor Yanukovych and his residence highlights a paradox. Having completely rejected such European values as human rights and democracy, the Ukrainian president uses Europe as a place to hide his dirty money with impunity.”[9]
Documents recovered from Yanukovych’s compound show among other expenses $800 medical treatment for fish, $14,500 spent on tablecloths, and a nearly 42 million dollar order for light fixtures. Also recovered were files on Yanukovych’s perceived enemies, especially media members, including beating victim Tetyana Chornovol. The cost of monitoring the mass media was reportedly $5.7 million just for the month of December 2010.[180]
When the former president departed, 35 cars and seven motorbikes were left behind. Kyiv’s District Court seized 27 vintage cars in 2016 from the fleet stationed at Mezhyhirya, some worth more than $US 1 million.
Yanukovych told BBC Newsnight (in June 2015) that stories that Mezhyhirya cost the Ukrainian taxpayer millions of dollars were “political technology and spin” and that the estate did not belong to him personally; he claimed that the ostriches in the residence’s petting zoo “just happened to be there”[181] and remarked “I supported the ostriches, what’s wrong with that?”.
“Things like: engineering the 2014 coup in Ukraine...”
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If the CIA helped the Ukrainian people in overthrowing Yanukovych, bully for them. ...
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It not “bully for them.” Unlike Biden, Yanukovitch was at least duly elected. Would you be saying the same thing if the Russians had staged a coup to overthrow the Biden regime? Wouldn’t it be up to Americans to do the overthrowing?
“From Wikipedia”
ok.