LOL, voters tossing out a corrupt president (who had a gold toilet) is a "coup". Okay
Posted on 01/13/2023 1:43:03 PM PST by USA-FRANCE
In November 2013, Yanukovych refused to sign the long-awaited Association Agreement with the European Union, shortly thereafter receiving a loan from the Kremlin.
His refusal to sign the agreement sparked protests all over the country, with the largest demonstration taking place in Kyiv on Independence Square, known in Ukrainian as Maidan Nezalezhnosti.
The protests would turn into a revolution that lasted until February 2014, ending with Yanukovych fleeing to Russia.
(Excerpt) Read more at kyivindependent.com ...
Coup against a legally elected government.
LOL, voters tossing out a corrupt president (who had a gold toilet) is a "coup". Okay
And Victoria Nuland was there, lying to Yanukovych the whole time during the Sochi Olympics, telling him they had it under control right up to his usurpation.
“1.a sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government.”
Especially when aided by outside government(s).
You can assign any moral perspective you wish, but to deny it was a coup is abject ignorance.
“Coup against a legally elected government.”
You must be joking right?
Yanukovych was part of the Kremlin junta. A Moscow puppet.
If you think Yanukovych was “legally” elected, then I presume you also think Biden was legally elected? Right?
The Democrats stole the election remember? It was cheating.
Yanukovych did the same. Cheating with Russias help.
Ukrainians didn’t want to go along with the cheating.
The cheater was pushed away by the people.
Later fair elections were organized and Petro Poroshenko
won a resounding victory.
I agree it was a coup, but against a legally elected government?
Was Biden’s win in 2020 legally elected?
Don’t voters vote politicians out of office?
“Yanukovych was elected president in 2010, defeating Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The election was judged free and fair by international observers.[5][6]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych
For what that’s worth, if anything.
Only the President fled, Ukrainian MPs in the Rada(Congress) stayed in power and voted to oust the President.
Ukrainian MPs vote to oust President Yanukovych
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26304842
“I agree it was a coup, but against a legally elected government?”
It was recognized by all other nations of the world. And the UN.
I don’t know if Yanukovych was legally elected or not, but I do believe the US engineered the revolution and Obama/Biden were the power brokers. The question is: should the US get involved in foreign entanglements?? I say, “NO!” What say ye??
Yanukovych ran and was elected on a platform of joining the EU. After meeting Putin, he announced that Ukraine would now join the Russian economic bloc CIS which started the maidan protests.
Aren't Sochis those weird little ice cream cookie thingies?
Yeah... that was the argument that has been repeatedly used by blind worshipers of the "HOLY ELECTION" TM even corrupt ones.
Sort of like the "if it isn't close they can't cheat" idiocy pushed by the GOP-e. It is, of course, a lie and it is meant that the blame is placed on the voter because, you didn't prevent this. It is the job of the politicians and the courts to prevent stolen elections by making sure the rules are fair and they are followed. But nah! Let's shove all the blame on Joe Blow and Jane Q Public. We, the elite who make the rules, had NOTHING to do with it.
And then when our corrupt murderous butts are righteously thrown out by the people we wanted to rule over we will cry to the international community about how the "HOLY ELECTION" TM was violated and we really should be placed back in power.
Occasionally, as with Chavez, this works and we can happily go back to murdering robbing and raping with out a care, and of course since WE count the ballots we will never be voted out.
I have no idea if this was a righteous butt kicking in this case or not but any time someone tries to sell me the "just vote them out" line I know that they are either terminally naive or totally sold out to evil.
Nothing had to be "engineered". Ukrainians wanted to join the EU, and have their standard of living vs joining some Russian-Banana/Stan Economic Bloc.
Victoria Nuland, John McCain and Chris Murphy were on stage at the Maidan Protest in December, urging on the Ukraine Right Sektor and Svoboda Party activists to occupy the Kiev Federal Government buildings.
What would Americans say if Xi Jinping showed up in DC on Jan. 6 2020 - and urged Americans to overthrow their corrupt government?
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