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PETER HITCHENS: Meet the liberals who condemn Trump's putsch-but happily condone a real one
DailyMail.com ^ | 8/6/2023 | Peter Hitchens

Posted on 08/07/2023 6:51:36 PM PDT by Nextrush

Donald Trump is a dangerous yahoo who may well destroy what is left of the USA's constitutional government before he is finished. I do not in any way defend him.

But there is something almost comically hypocritical about the establishment's shocked reaction to the January 2021 failed putsch which he is accused of inciting.

Once again I must point out that the same liberal elite types happily condone a much worse putsch, one which succeeded and has helped to drag Europe into its worst war for more than 70 years.

Mr. Trump is alleged to have sought to prevent the democratic outcome of the 2020 Presidential election. If he and his allies did so, this was a disgraceful thing. If you believe that power in free societies is decided by votes, then you cannot support such a thing. Your own politics cease to matter. It goes to the very root of law and power.

So why did major Western nations accept without protest the violent, lawless overthrow of Ukraine's elected President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014? This shameful event, achieved by a yelling mob, was led by people who make Mr. Trump's supporters look like Greenpeace and who openly threatened violence if they did not get their way...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: District of Columbia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; donatedonaldtrump; donatetrump; january6th; niger; trumppersecution; ukraine; ukrainenazis; victorianuland; zelenskyqs
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Peter Hitchens is no fan of Donald Trump but he sees clearly the hypocrisy of the liberal elites regarding Trump linking it to the real insurrection in Ukraine in 2014 that led us to where Ukraine is today.

Mr. Hitchens tells you the story of the Ukranazi Coup in Ukraine in 2014.

The one that US State Department official Victoria Nuland who visited Niger today was actively involved in supporting back then.

The insurrection-coup in Ukraine in 2014 led to Russia annexing Crimea and the fighting in eastern Ukraine that led to Russia's "invasion" of Ukraine in 2022.

1 posted on 08/07/2023 6:51:36 PM PDT by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush
So why did major Western nations accept without protest the violent, lawless overthrow of Ukraine's elected President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014?

Uhhh, because they planned supported and abetted it?

2 posted on 08/07/2023 6:57:01 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88
You're just saying that because it's true.   
3 posted on 08/07/2023 6:57:56 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Nextrush
If you believe that power in free societies is decided by votes

Peter, Peter, Peter... it’s not the number votes, it’s the number of real live voters that keep a society free.

Peter want to hear a joke? Ready? 2020, Joe Biden never left his basement to campaign for President but got 81 million votes! 🧐

4 posted on 08/07/2023 7:00:48 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Nextrush

I would like to ask Hitchens if Europe has dropbox and unsolicited mail-in ballot elections. No voter ID involved, just politicians mailing out ballots “where they need to go”


5 posted on 08/07/2023 7:02:14 PM PDT by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: Nextrush
Donald Trump is a dangerous yahoo who may well destroy what is left of the USA's constitutional government before he is finished. I do not in any way defend him.

This guy is a POS, why would I give a crap what he has to say?
6 posted on 08/07/2023 7:02:35 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: Nextrush
“Donald Trump is a dangerous yahoo who may well destroy what is left of the USA's constitutional government before he is finished.”
Pure unadulterated crap. What nonsense!!!!!
7 posted on 08/07/2023 7:05:30 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Lockbox

If Don T. Orchestrated a pustsch. It damn well would
Have been successful..

With only a few
Mush mouth
Leftists hanging from lampoles. Or scurrying down
Capital sewers like the rats
They are...

Heads on pikes. To enthuse
The others !!!!

Now THAT would be a Insurrection

....


8 posted on 08/07/2023 7:20:05 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Nextrush
Was Viktor Yanukovych elected, or was he selected?

Pretty clearly an awful lot of native Ukrainians thought he was illegitimate enough to depose him. No amount of "western interference" would create that sentiment. He was pretty clearly selling out Ukraine to Putin, and they didn't like it. Any more than Americans like what JoeBama is doing to us.

9 posted on 08/07/2023 7:24:15 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Nextrush

This is the guy that thinks Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a really terrible person.

Freegards


10 posted on 08/07/2023 7:26:48 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Maybe they thought he was illegitimate just because they didn’t vote for him. Western propaganda did do a lot to spread the idea that his election was fraudulent.

The other half of the country may have thought that his opponent wanted to sell the country out to the West. We don’t have clean hands and shouldn’t have gotten involved.


11 posted on 08/07/2023 7:39:10 PM PDT by x
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To: Nextrush

A putsch. A bunch of people wandering around taking selfies is a putsch?


12 posted on 08/07/2023 7:44:29 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rxh4n1

An insurrection without weapons. First time ever.
The whole J6 thing is a farce, but a dangerous one. The First Amendment is being cancelled without the constitutional procedure of repeal. Just like that, thrown in the trash can.


13 posted on 08/07/2023 7:54:07 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Ransomed

that was his brother, Christopher.


14 posted on 08/07/2023 8:28:26 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: rxh4n1

A putsch. A bunch of people wandering around taking selfies is a putsch?

****************

The hyperbole over the January 6 protest, that had some suspicious riot behavior is disgusting.

Yet the people that believe the propagandists just keep on marching to their retarded drummers.


15 posted on 08/07/2023 8:32:30 PM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of scoundrel)
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To: Nextrush

Hitchens is an idiot.

The demonstrations started as a result of the massive corruption within the Yanukovych government, his going back on his word to allow more economic ties with the EU, AND his jailing of political opponents.

The violence was on the part of the government when Yanukovych sent the secret police (bolstered by Russian FSB and Spetsnaz) out to attack the protesters and put down the demonstrations.


16 posted on 08/07/2023 9:49:57 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: Fungi
Peter Hitchens is a smug, atheist git who recently became an American citizen.

There aren't enough words in the English language to describe how much I hate this wanker. As far as I'm concerned he can take his atheistic arse back across the pond.

17 posted on 08/07/2023 11:01:54 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Ransomed

No, that was.another guy who died. I can’t remember his name, but he really hated Christians.


18 posted on 08/07/2023 11:07:59 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ("Our hearts are restless, Oh Lord, until they rest in thee"- St. Augustine)
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To: Trump_Triumphant

Christopher, not Peter.


19 posted on 08/08/2023 1:01:02 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: 2CAVTrooper

Was all that you talk about with the government side shooting back and killing the opponents a description of a real incident or a false flag in the genre of January 6th.


20 posted on 08/08/2023 6:09:13 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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