“The root of this problem goes back to the US interfering in Ukraine in 2014. The deep state launched a regime change in that country via a coup. That coup is called the Maidan Revolution.”
Er... Your timeline is wrong, and the regime change was approved by Putin’s man in Ukraine hours before he absconded to Moscow with over s billion dollars that he’d looted.
The actual chain of events was this:
On 17th December 2013 Putin met with Yanukovych (the then Ukrainian president.)
Yanukovych had spent the previous ten months working on the preliminaries for an EU Free Trade Association. Ukraine are the time was flat broke and was in danger of defaulting on its payments to Russia for its fuel. Putin had a solution. Bin the EU deal and join Russia.
Even that proposal violated the Budapest Memorandum.
Yanukovych was from the Donbass, so was always quite pro-Russian. But even our Russian friends who escaped Eastern Ukraine say, he handed Ukraine’s sovereignty over to Moscow.
Yanukovych was expected to sign the EU paperwork, purely for better trade. He had a big majority in Parliament, across parties and even from Russian MPs, supporting that arrangement.
With absolutely no warning he decided not to sign it. No debate.
Then the MPs and media found out that he’d actually done a deal with Putin that effectively addressed the debt issue by giving the Kremlin a hand in the management of Ukraine’s finances.
To understand Euromaidan, you need to understand that this outraged just about every Ukrainian who wasn’t a pro Putin separatist.
Imagine Biden formally handing over the Treasury directly to Soros, on Soros’ orders, despite a written contract in the public domain sauing “I, Soros, will never try to buy or bribe an American President.”
If that happened in America, forget peaceful protests outside the Capitol. You’d have a massive revolt on your hands.
And so, Euromaidan was what Ukraine’s free people did when they realised Yanokovych had literally sold the country out.
Can anyone call the Jan 6th protests an insurrection, and expect to be taken seriously by any patriot? Course not. And that is why Euromaidan needs a far more balanced view.
There is one person who’d really love it if more people did delegitimise Euromaidan though: Putin. He just doesn’t like being told by free patriots that he doesn’t own them.
“What, specifically, was Russia afraid of that justified that invasion?”
So you left off a couple of significant points.
1) If it was free people making the decision why were the Nazi Asov sniper goons shooting innocent people in the streets in the Maidan revolution?
2) Why was Victoria Neuland with our State Department on a recorded call during the revolution okaying the decision for the new Uke leader? This was a regime change move by the US like we regime changed Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and a whole host of other countries — and most recently Pakistan. Why heck, Xiden even publicly advocated for regime changing Russia.